grawk

love that movie

condolences to your parents

I like the first more than the second

no postwhore is a person

No, that's postwhore

I'm pretty sure he's a troll

Is there a cd player that does have usb?

Just build a flexy, jacob

you're white, so I don't believe you

No, colin's an overworked college student who does favors for me, basically. Other than giving him a little grief, I'm happy with the tradeoffs.

Bought a 2900 Gave it to colin to upgrade (in April, haven't gotten it back yet) Bought ESP950s Blowed up my m3 (in August, gave it to colin to repair, ahven't gotten it back yet). Bought a turntable Bought another turntable Bought another turntable Bought a phonostage Bought 580s Sold 580s Bought 600s Sold 600s Bought 650s Sold 650s Bought 650s back Got a pair of ESW9s for Christmas

Given that you're comparing apples to oranges (cassettes to "lossless files"), that you're using "lossless files" doesn't have much meaning. You're finding the sound from the imod->iqube->ultrasones to sound thin and slow. "(more matter, more dynamic, more low and high)" The only way that's possible is if something is doing something wrong. Cassettes are limited at both the low and high end and have noticable other flaws.

Can't you see? Those are "air wired"

We already established what level of digital player I think bests a WM D6. An ipod. Your results with an ipod suggest you're doing something wrong. Either using lousy source files, headphones that are a mismatch with the amp, or something else equally glaringly wrong.

There's more to music than how an "impulse" is reproduced, tho.

Good digital: Well recorded music stored in digital format, without glaring errors in recording or analog to digital conversion. My budget isn't that high, but I was fairly involved in live music recording in the early to mid 90s. Until good portable analog to digital converters were affordable, I used portable cassette recorders. The only one I really liked was the PMD-430.

The trick is you're testing with tones, instead of with music. Music is affected by how the speaker transitions from one frequency to another. You need to pick a challenging piece of music, and plot it over time to get the whole picture.

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No, the Nak 550 was a full sized cassette deck, made portable. The PMD430 was stereo, wtih DBX. I've owned all 3 of these portable cassettes, and good digital is still worlds better. If what you're hearing from your ipod is thin and lifeless, then the problem isn't the ipod, it's somewhere else.

I was amused by that one. I think xkcd is occassionally funny in that it mirrors how I think. The classic example is

So you'll be selling the GS-X in favor of the AE2? How good a deal will you give me?

It only misses the point if the only thing impacting how headphones sound is frequency response.

We'll just have to disagree. The inherent problems in cassette aren't improved with a D6 (yes, I've owned a few), and an ipod with good source material can sound a hell of a lot better than anything the D6 can manage. The only "portable" cassette that comes close is the Nak 550, and well. That thing was a monster. The Marantz PMD430 can sound VERY good, but it's still not going to outperform an ipod with good source material.