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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.

My neighbors Jeff and Steve get their 5 seconds of fame on the news. Violent storms roll through New England | NECN

New definition of overkill!

Well, Kris's forum sig is "If it's not in HD, I'm not buying it." So he's probably something of an outlier.

Very good write up of the OPPO in Home Theater mag this week by Kris Deering, who is one of the handful of reviewers worth listening to on the video side. Home Theater: OPPO BDP-83 Universal Blu-ray Player

That one's mine. Sexton rawks. And, of course, he got his start busking in Harvard Square. EDIT: So suck it, Ken!

Shane MacGowan and the Popes -- The Snake

Isn't it? Feel obliged to point out they were Massholes. Holyoke/Northampton represent!

Thanks guys. We were very lucky. It was a strong microburst, but didn't make it into a tornado. If it had, given that it went straight down our street ... We have a couple of trees down, my neighbor's gazebo was blown away taking his back deck with it and all the houses are absolutely plastered with shredded leaves, which I imagine will take power washing to remove. Could have been a lot worse, though I think we got hit the hardest in our area as all the local news trucks are setting up down the street. Some more pictures attached.

Fake Steve was pretty good on this today. I'm glad he's back, with the new organs and all.