Dusty Chalk

Mystified, Hellwaste and Narcotic Basement -- damnbient, glorious damnbient -- in anticipation of the new one...

Fourteen?!?!? I don't think I could name fourteen condiments...

I was viewing the pics at home -- I actually thought there was something wrong with my monitor. Now that I'm seeing it at work (monitor is set brighter)...mmm...there's...uh..."lots of glue all over the place"...which is quite embarassing, because there are other people here at work...and I can't wait for the laser engraving, I'm a big fan of laser engraving...I got a HP LightScribe just because I like the way it looks...

Of course, if it was the McCain one, they'd show him holding a cane instead of a gun. I like the rock'n'roll one.

Yeezh. Sympathies to you both.

Don't you need to save money for moving?

Are we getting time-slipping again? Icarium's response quoting Elephas is listed as several hours before Elephas'.

Thanks, you have totally ruined me, I can't look at something now without wondering...just going through the deals at amazon: Microfiber...neoprene...cashmere...batting... ...of course, in my case, it's with complete lack of experience, so I guess I just gotta get in there and start trying stuff. Because although although you guys are tweaking the stuff based on the frequency response stuff, I have to wonder if the small enclosures aren't still a problem in terms of the waveform coming off the back, and reflecting back past the driver into the ear, combining with the waveform coming off the front won't have some sort of comb-filtering effect as well, so I'm thinking something has to minimize the amount of reflection, no? Or are you just assuming the extant design (whatever the original manufacturer has done to minimize reflection) keeps it from doing so (combined with the driver not letting a lot of information past it)?

Thanks for taking the time to explain that to me.

Actually, NXT almost exclusively licensed their technology as far as I know (maybe they were some sort of subsidiary to one or the other? I dono): Sonic Impact: link link NEC: link Toyota: link Logitech: link Lots more: link google Obviously, they would come in a variety of qualities with that sort of (quantity) output. I don't have high hopes for the speakers built into the CD cases to sound any good, so the question was more along the lines of the higher end ones -- the $300 ones disguised as works of art, etc. Or if there were any manifestations that were any good. I'm very curious about the Cyrus ones. (And I actually wrote to the company to find out who made that rack in that one picture.)

Anyone heard any of the NXT-based planar speakers? How do they compare?

What changed?

That sounds good right about now.

I shouldn't laugh -- I think I was the fortunate recipient of one of his wanes of affection. (Am I remembering that correctly?)

Just keep watching eBay and the like. There were once a pair posted that the owner didn't even specify that they were Grados -- he just called them "retro headphones" or something. They were like NOS. Unfortunately, they'll probably be posted on Head-Fi like that. I'd entertain south of $1,500...but admittedly not by much. You got a sister? Perhaps we could work something out. Do you even know what they sound like? Their sound is not for everyone. Or just by a lot of stock now, while the economy is bottomed out. You should be able to afford a pair in a year or four.

I don't know, I think I'd prefer to be banned, myself.

Nik B

Quoted for awesomeness.

Yeah, that makes sense -- reduces resonance by acting as a braking mechanism.

Those are my favorite two, but the whole album is good. Some of the stories from that album are particularly interesting -- Alex standing on a boat in the middle of a lake to get that just right wind-whipped sound during "Red Barchetta" is a favorite.

Okay, I have to add Timeout Drawer (specifically the album Nowonmai) to my list of favorite tones. When they go into full on rock mode, I just get these wonderful little feelings of bliss. Cases in point, "Blue-Eyed and Full of Horror" and "What Looked Like Morning was the Beginning of Endless Night" and the track that can be found on their MySpace and a bunch of other places, "Bursting with Tears, I Commit to Destroying You". I think they're doubling the guitar with some Moog, that's part of why I heart so much.

This coincides exactly with what my thought exercise of superimposing a sloped filter on a the frequency response you've described is. If you start the slope too high, you thin out the bass too much; if you start the slope too low, you accomplish nothing; one basically wants to shoot for a "sweet spot" of attenuation of the peak you described with the slope, but before the slope gets too high (as with lowering frequencies) and attenuates too much bass. If I remember correctly, this is the same sort of thing that bass reflex math yields. So which would it have more of an effect on -- the 40's (closed design) or the 50's (open design)? That's the main reason I got both. I'm more of a closed design guy, but if the 50's yield better sound, I'll stick with those.

Scrap all of those, I just let the Mac roll on down to Timeout Drawer.