Dusty Chalk

Green tea. Basically, it's my own take on the Arizona Iced Green Tea that they have. I've been using the Bodum 5500. I am just in the process of buying another one, as soon as they answer my question about whether or not shipping is free. Notice their shipping rates between $19.99 and $350:shipping rates -- it's a little weird. I'll probably give the one from Adagio Teas a try later in the year. I've never had a problem with plastic-ky taste, but I'll ask my housemate about it -- she makes exactly that -- french press coffee -- with it. We rinse it out with a vinegar/water mix every once in a while. The vinegar smell afterwards is much stronger than the taste, and only lasts for a couple iterations -- it goes away fairly quickly. If you're really worried about it, get a metal one. I don't know if the Adagio Teas one is lined, but now that I think about it, I would think that they would have to be, to avoid electrocution.

I am definitely a fan. Spiders!

What mods, besides the obvious (cable)?

We don't like vague "I've heard" type statements.

An electric kettle -- mine has been acting up, and it finally bit the dust tonight, so I'm going to have to do without my homemade for a couple days. ARRGH!!!1!

We had a problem with flies recently, they were everywhere. I hadn't noticed, but recently they had gone away. I stumbled upon what happened to them -- a spider happened to them. It was like the stereotypical scene in most horror movies where the girl stumbles upon the bodies like an abattoir. Except for flies. I cheered the spider.

You should put them up on stands like the Headroom ones. Or at least Mopads.

So I came to the meet in my black-on-black Katatonia T-shirt (it basically looks like this one, only in black, and on the back, it says, "I'll stop wearing black when they come out with something darker"). Dan was going around taking pictures, and he said that he thought I should be wearing my "dusty special" black-on-black head-case T-shirt, so I put one on over top. So, at that point, I was basically wearing black-on-black on black-on-black. I had out-black-on-blacked myself.

I <3 spiders.

Hard Times Chili...mac, w/onions and maters.

I believe you'll have to get in line behind me (which probably won't make any difference, because I'll be like, "damn, I want it, but I just don't have the funds for it right now"...).

Awesome.

Well, I did ask how to engage and disengage the EQ (and you did help), but now that I think about it, the first headphone I tried was the ESW9's, which just was not working in your setup, and the combined frustration I was feeling with listening to the ESW9's and not figuring out the DEQ2496 ...by that time, I just said, fuck it. The R10's were StevieO's. He might just take you up on that offer, since it's Virginia and not Maryland, but ... you sure you want to do that? Welcome to Head-Case, sorry about your thin skin.

I only watched the pilot. Meh. I love Yancy Butler, but...meh.

I heard it (St. Anger) in a store without knowing what it was, and didn't mind it as much as other people did. It is not -- contrary to popular belief -- universally despised. Just mostly so. I actually believe that Load and Another Load* were worse, music-wise. I'd love to hear what Luis could do with it. Now that would be a test of his ...erm... mettle. *as in "dropping"

Congratulations?

Hooters has take-out. Why?

I bet iTunes would have played it as well.

Juan -- that processor was the Behringer DEQ2496. It's a popular favorite in the audiophile community for those that are not averse to EQ, mostly because it can be utilized entirely in the digital realm. No, I think it was out of Juan's modified EarMax Pro...? I have no doubt it would have at least adequate bass out of pretty much any half-way decent amp. Not a bass monster, mind you, but at least it was there. Unfortunately, I forgot to go back and listen to hear if it still had the detail as the others I've heard (I've heard it doesn't), so I have no idea where it ranks in Dusty's Headphone Canon, but it's definitely already higher than the other one, just for getting some amount of bass right. Oh, and yeah, I agree with Juan about the Darkvoice/K701 combination -- they sounded really good together. Oh, and yeah, thanks to grawk for organizing it -- he really did make it look effortless and did a wonderful job -- I don't think I heard a single complaint. The room was perfect.

Oh, okay, thanks for that. Hey, Dan -- why are half your pictures too dark, but all of the ones with me in it came out fine? I would have thought that I had that effect on film, virtual or otherwise. Like everyone else said, Justin's BHSE is just absolutely mind-blowingly good. He really accomplished that realistic clean sound that I love, took it to the next level (his electrostatic amps are already top-tier). I've heard Hirsch's ES-1 before, in fact, I've heard it's sound evolve, so I'm probably a little too close to that one to even know how good it is. But as Aaron said, it sounds really good. And no, he was not being anti-social, as he was being very social both before and after, he really was absolutely entranced by the ES-1/Orpheus/Denon system. I'm going to go out on a limb and say I fucking hated the ESW9's. You guys were talking about mud on the Oppo? You don't know the meaning of the word until you hear what I've heard. Fucking swamp-like. Audibly rolled off. Sorry Vicki et al -- just not a sound for me. Might've been the amplification, I wasn't listening to it in its indigenous system. Oh, and screw the NDA's -- I'm coming out of the closet. I heard bass out of an R10. It's a pretty good headphone. I don't know if it's a -- how much are they going for these days, $5K? -- I don't know if it's even a $3K headphone, but it's pretty fucking good. Once I heard the bass, I had to take them off and give StevieO a hard time for not telling me there were a pair of perfectly good, non-broken, R10's that had bass in the DC area (I.E. his). I'm not saying Hirsch's are broken, but they sound like completely different headphones. I hearby officially tender my resignation from the "R10's have no bass" club. I didn't get dreadhead's system working right away, so I won't comment on that. Wouldn't have minded giving that more time, as I am seriously thinking about a DEQ2496, but at the time I was just frustrated with the learning curve (ahem). Hirsch's portable Stax system sounded really fucking good. I could live with that. More later.

Wait, you were there? Which one were you? (Sorry, I was being shy about asking names yesterday, for some reason.)

...and yes, that's a mullet.

I love that movie. Me: bagels imported from New York and commercial cream cheese w/chives & onions.