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Cock wart. OK, I'm bored and trawled around a bit. Here's what Gordon Rankin has to say about testing different USB cables and why their physical design might make a difference. Please note I'm not advocating for this position, so kindly don't throw feces at me. He seems to have changed his mind about ferrites after actually testing them, though, as I found this from a year later.

Think it was Gordon Rankin. He says they can cause protocol errors.

Steve Jansen & Richard Barbieri -- Other Worlds In A Small Room

Freudian slip, young pachyderm? I think Andy may have bought some of these from Jack Woo at the meet this weekend. Never got to hear what he thought of them, though.

I've read somewhere that the one thing you should probably avoid are ferrites. But who knows? Personally, I recommend purple cables.

Pretty cool. He says elsewhere they'll probably give it away for free in the end. I'll post a link if that happens. I can think of some places where it might be able to do quite a bit of good! Audio Musings by Sean Olive: Harman's "How to Listen" - A New Computer-based Listener Training Program

Dude, she needed to take a shower afterward! Congrats!

Nah. It's not like it's choking you or anything. It's just ... shorter than you'd think. Minor quibble, really.

Just took this with my iPhone, from the car, while driving by at 45mph -- so forgive the composition.

One thing I didn't greatly care for with the cable is the rather short "bridle" (what do you call the section of the cable where it splits from single to dual-entry at the ear cups?), which isn't ideal for the bigger-headed (more horse-jawed?) of us.

We were loaded, and you weren't.

Paper covers rock, scissors cut paper, rock breaks scissors, shovel buries dot.

The HeadRoom batch is shipping out to customers today.

I'm very sorry I missed this. After briefly meeting Donald on Friday, I never ran into him again.

Prince -- Purple Rain 24/96 rip of the Kevin Gray vinyl. Sounds absolutely epic.

Looking at the considerate way they've upholstered those rear ports, you could probably even consummate your love if you chose to.

No worries. I'm not emotionally invested in it and don't own one. I have no idea at this point what the fact of the matter is. It would be pretty strange, though, for them to so explicitly state things that simply weren't true, would it not?

Azazel, I'm sorry but I think you are incorrect in this case. The 1796 is, I believe, employed only in the transmission of DSD over HDMI. When the player's analog outputs are used, the converters are Sony's own SA-DAC chips, according to some product literature I was able to dig up.

What have I got? Some crappy iPhone pix and some first-class memories. Krell, Headroom, balanced HD800s and Dreadhead's sipping pounding rum. Good combo. Audez'e ortho waterfall plot. Dan's version of the Shakti -- the Plini. I thought it added a noticeable hoppiness to the musical presentation. Mike finds his bliss and gets his ears molded. Great meeting everyone. Thanks for being so welcoming. It was a blast and the organization was superb. Well done Cali!

My understanding is that the custom Sony part is the DSD DAC and that the 1796 would be there for CD playback, if that makes sense?

I has about a half hour with it and a pair of HF-2s. Would have happily sat there listening for much longer, but JP came by and took the transport for use at one of the seminars. I think it sounds as good as it looks. Great job!

Just bumped into Brooke Shields at LAX.* She said she was mad that she missed CanJam.** * Really. ** Not really.

Sorry, I don't know. It was a very complicated set-up with an Amarra and two Transporters and though I made sure it was the Alpha switched in, I did not take note of which connection was in use. I'd also broaden my previous impression to include trafo-coupled tube amps doing well with the 800s. The 307A, obviously, but the Woo 6 SE did great too. I don't think I'm alone in feeling that OTL is not necessarily the way to go with these particular Senns.

I thought it was excellent.