Hopstretch

This might come in handy, once it stabilizes a bit.

Plymouth Navy Strength is worth a try. Do be judicious with the dosage, though.

Ultravox -- Vienna Apart from the title track, which is pretty much all anyone remembers, there is a ton of good stuff on here. A punk band going new wave with the help of Conny Plank's krautrock chops. Also sounds really great for a (very) early eighties production.

Good enough motivation for me!

I'll take two, please.

Morrissey -- Years Of Refusal

Under $1,000 -- Headamp GS-1.

It's a loop out. Pity they didn't go the extra mile and make it a pre.

Morrissey -- Bona Drag

Massive Attack -- 100th Window

That is some very interesting stuff. Thank you. I am definitely one of the people who finds the HD800, for all its other virtues, somewhat on the harsh side, particularly in the presentation of vocals. One reason for that, I suspect, is that I like to listen louder than most and the 800s really don't seem to like being cranked up. I guess Senn's sweet spot and my own are a few dB apart.

Verizon HATE wifi.

Mazzy Star -- So Tonight That I Might See

Neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerds!

Neil Young -- Live At Massey Hall 1971 Like being there. Whoa.

Also very nice? Bit of an embarrassment of riches right now thanks to the good offices of New Hampshire's own ever-generous Dark Knight, who also threw in some really good toobs for it. It takes the edge off the HD800s a little bit, but the GS-1 still has it beat for top-to-bottom competence to my ear. The HP4 seems to be in a different class to both, again purely in my own limited experience thus far.

Anytime! Wife got home from her business trip and is wrangling kids, so relaxing a bit here. Little Craig and Tim have been playing very nicely together. And I just cracked a new bottle of that orange stuff.

Clench. Unclench. Clench. Clench. Unclench.

Sin

It's funny. I am PC Audio all the way on the sound side. But I still like my physical media for video. HTPCs are still way, way too fiddly for me and -- as a finicky viewer -- downloads involve too many resolution/compression compromises at this point and probably will for a while yet. An it-just-works Mac solution might see me drifting to the dark side, though.

Preliminary conclusion: HD800 enjoy considerable synergy with HP4.

Crowded House -- Time On Earth

Introduced these two. I do hope they'll get on!

One more for the grist mill. PLAYBACK 22: Sennheiser HD 800 Headphones | AVguide He thought they weren't aggressive and were sucked out in the upper mids. Definitely hears them differently from most.