Iron_Dreamer

Look who I ran across today!

Happy birthday, we'll cheers in Austin!

It's a Japanese curry X-mas eve!

Happy belated, Haj!

Was surprised and thrilled to see this guy walk into the room this morning:

Tapatalk no worky worky here either.

That was f/16 on a Nikon 50/1.8G

Thanks everyone! Off to have an appropriately d-_-b approved day of food and drink across LA! And happy birthday to Carl, who just received a large print of this photo to commemorate he and Bonnie's journeys to MOA4 earlier this year!

And to begin the coming onslaught of photos from my Colorado trip:

This, assuming it doesn't overlap with a european audio show

For those of you not on FB or G+, I have posted a bunch of photos to my blog from my recent travels through Colorado. I've got a lot better stuff coming in the pipeline from this trip, so what you see is just a tip of the iceberg to give people an idea of conditions out here. Enjoy: http://www.pbjames.com/blog

Hey, I had to make up for missing the official Michigan beer tour a couple years back. So I did what I could in 22 hours

Thanks for coming out and providing great company, it was fantastic to finally meet you in person! Here are a few pics from that, and my travels through Grand Rapids the night before, as I now wait at FTW.

Got our tix as well!

Beer centric works for me! Justin is up for whatever

Bummer, Tyll, get better in time for London!

Sounds like Justin and I are up for coming to DC tomorrow, Jeff. Any thoughts on what to do? Dusty, would you be up for it?

Cool, good to know my old D700 is still out there doing good work! The wedding I shot recently, I was able to get away with just using the Sigma 35 and Nikon 85 for pretty much the whole thing. I can see how a 70-200 would be convenient if I were doing that sort of work a lot, though, as it would have cut down on some of the foot-zooming needed with the 85, albeit at the cost of weight and lack of f/1.8. There's just something about the look of those primes for low-DOF people shots! I'll be excited to see if Sigma gets an 85 Art out at some point, as the 35 and 50 I've tried are both spectacular.

Saw this while watching last night's ballgame...Thought of Al and Mikey

See ya there, boys. BTW Ric, the laptop is running vastly better now after a clean install and Yosemite upgrade.

I've always disliked the LR user interface, so have been using Bridge and ACR with Photoshop instead for years. Every time I try LR again, I still hate the interface, and it just feels more productive to go back to what works for me.

I will probably be installing sooner than later.

I'll see you guys there, you should know where to find me by now

So I had some time to compare the beta and production HE1000's on the GS-X MkII today. Both headphones have at least 150 hours of playback on them at this point. I did not hear any major sonic differences that struck me as being repeatable within a margin of error. The only major difference is that the production headphone is a tick more efficient than the beta headphone, enough to need about one click less volume from the GS-X's stepped attenuator, on high gain. Once the volume difference was controlled for, the two headphones sounded largely indistinguishable. I also compared balanced versus single-ended drive, and found the difference to be relatively minor, but discernable, mostly as it pertained to soundstage depth and layering, as well as a better sense of resolution on very low-volume sections of music. The balanced drive certainly has a bit of extra finesse, and sounds more refined as a result, but it's certainly a last-few-percentage-points worth of sonic improvement, when compared to single-ended drive from an amp already so competent. This is consistent with my experience of the HE1000 being a fairly well-behaved load that sounds good even from some lesser amplifiers, so long as the output impedance is low (coughPonocough). The HE1000 certainly doesn't seem quite as demanding of amplification as the HE6, K1000, or 300-ohm Sennheisers, but it is still no LCD-X, and will take a decently high voltage at a low output impedance to reach full-volume happiness.