Dusty Chalk

Ravel, Jarvi, SACD

I think it's because you started that thread. I'm not sure I want to know what that says about me that I know how to think like him.

Ah. Thanks.

I don't know -- that third one looked just like your old avatar. "M&P"?

It could translate everyone's posts into Billy-speak. And then we could fix it.

No. I changed my post to show Headroom's plot, but the HD800 is in the current issue of Stereophile, so it's not online yet. It's on p. 89 of the orange-framed issue with a Boulder device on the cover. The phase is really mild -- I don't think it strays more than 15 degrees. I can attempt to describe the impedance plot verbally: there's a peak at 100 Hz, but the peak is at 310, the minimums appear to be at 210 (starting at 10 Hz, and another swale around 1.1kHz-1.4kHz), and then slowly going up again, to about 300 @ 50kHz. You can look around the Stereophile site, or check Audio Asylum -- I think he posts there, there might be some discussion, I don't know.

Here is John Atkinson's response:

And don't touch the soldering iron to the backs of any bullets.

You have the best taste in music -- your own.

LAGQ's Guitar Heroes, SACD

You should have bought two pair and left one in the box.

Yeezh.

I liked the K701 when I heard it, it didn't seem to do anything wrong, but it didn't seem to do anything that any of my other headphones did, neither, plus it wasn't a sound I "go after" (L3000/VTG/PS-1/etc.). Also, way too white.

Their measurements don't have that same peak -- it only goes up to 310 on theirs. I just wrote John Atkinson and pointed it out and asked him to conjecture as to why the measurements would be different. I'd ask Tyll the same thing -- Tyll?

I suspect that this is it exactly. And also to make them sought-after.

He got a new one, and this is his first excursion away from it.

Jarvi, Berlioz, SACD

What amp are you using? That's a big deal with the HD800's.

So they're the next house over?

Okay, now read up on capitalization.

Looks like he's ... <deleted> ... so hard that her head is popping off.

Self-rectifying? Not likely.

Jesus. Actually, I wouldn't mind hearing The Birth of the Cool bleeped out.

I constantly confuse Jim White and Joseph Arthur. And now that you mention Leonard Cohen, I hear that, too. Don't know what you're talking about on the other part, though. It's not part of any album, if that's what you mean -- it was a standalone single. I'll have to hear some Mark Lanegan...

Looks photoshopped.