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Yeah, wtf is up with that dude? I fly 3000 miles and you avoid me like the plague. Semi-brief impressions since I'm running on 3-1/2 hours of sleep. Upon arrival Friday I had a little time to run by the hotel and grabbed one of Tyll's HD800s and promptly sat down for a little 20min+ listening sessions with the Balanced HD800s. Whoever is saying these cans lack low end is listening to them on something other than good gear. Honestly, they didn't lack anything for me and sound outstanding. I'd love to own them but can't see affording them any time soon. Friday I spent with my little sister and her fiance in downtown LA. Got so good south American food, a few excellent mojitos. Then watched some movie being filmed in the street, it was a chase scene with an Audi R8 after a cab with some dude climbing up the hood of the cab. Pretty funny to watch multiple takes of it and so very LA. Got up Saturday, ate breakfast, headed to the hotel. Grabbed Dan's HF2s and a pair of Todd's HD800s and set about reterminating cables with what was quite possibly the worst toolset imaginable. There is nothing quite like stripping wires on a $150 stock cable with scissors. An hour and a half later (after helping thrice with some work he was doing and he helping me) I finally got to get down to the business of listening to a few things. Notable setups - I spent about a half hour each with the Woo Stat amp and O2MKII's and the WA6SE and HD800s. Flip a coin folks, either one of these rigs could satisfy someone for a long, long time. While certainly different in their presentations (I didn't take notes, don't ask me to recall particulars) they were both what I would classify as "reference" class listening experiences. Next up was the Blue Note talk, too f'ing cool is how I'd describe that. If you ever have the opportunity to here either of these guys speak, do it. After that I tracked down Frank Cooter and got a chance to talk shop with him and also listen to his new Stat amp with Vicki's O2 MKI's. Sweet mama, well done Frank. Another top shelf listen, wish I had this guys design and wood working skills. Finally I got a chance to check on the Pico Slim with my ER4Ps. This thing rocks and the volume adjustment range is staggering. I can't wait to see the finished product and have no doubt that this is going to be a very popular item. I'm also excited to see how the tech gets potentially integrated into other products, that's all I'm saying. Then it was time for pizza and beer, toss in a cigar, then some burbon, then some late night listening to Al's SDS XLR with the balanced HD800s. Unfortunately it was all over too soon and at 1am LA time (4am to my body) I simply had to crash. I was back up at 5 and headed to the airport and on the ground in Boston at 4pm EST. Heck of a way to spend a weekend and certainly glad that I did it. As is almost always the case I spent way more time catching up with folks and casually checking out rigs than I did critically listening. One final thing, my hat is off to the LA crew. They did an outstanding job with this meet from soup to nuts.

Have fun Dinny, PM me your cell # so I can harass you later.

I have my O2MKII's (which I think Dinny is familiar with ) and I'll try to do something in the way of a BHSE/O2MKII and XXX/HD800. I'd love to do it on Todd's 307A setup and may get the chance since I'm probably going to balance a pair of HD800s for Todd tomorrow morning.

Agreed, I waited for 25.

Bulllllshit. Maybe compared to the DT770, but who wants to compare anything to that.

Arrived ~11:30am, made it over to the hotel, promptly sat down in the Headroom room and after giving the Senn rep a short ration of shit about his shipping priorities I checked out the HD800s for 20 min or so on the new Balanced Ultra DAC and what I believe was the MAX balanced amp. The 800s are seriously good as was everything upstream. I'm going to try and spend more time with this setup tomorrow. Then I ran into Dan, Vicki, Nums, Jacob, Jeff, Mike and Dom and had a short visit with them before leaving to hang out with my little sister. A double-double animal style has been consumed, now time to chill and give my liver some rest before tomorrow.

I think we need to sick our class action lawyer on Apple. The location of the moisture sensor in the dock connector is insane and the fact that sweaty palms are enough to void your entire warranty just can't be legal. The next gen Iphone better have improved upon this. Apple's Rules for Correctly Using Your Iphone: #1. Do not touch your Iphone, it'll void the warranty. #2. Do not breathe on your Iphone, it'll void the warranty.

Emmeline "The Shadow" - Head-Fi: Covering Headphones, Earphones and Portable Audio Not going to offer much competition for Slim.

Wuhoo! There's a better than slight chance I'll be swinging by the hotel ~1pm on Friday, anyone going to be around? If so look for the tall, pasty white guy sucking down drinks in the bar.

Lots do on their full sized gear, which in particular are you wishing did?

Which finger?

25 years, man you're harsh.

If you want to bring it that would be great. I'll be using whatever is provided on site.

Todd is supposed to have a pair in his room. And that's a pretty big kick in the nuts to Headroom that Todd has his now and HR has orders in for hundreds of units.

You should have had them sent to the hotel, duh!

Yeah, and the practice makes no sense to me given the current price of jet fuel. A quick check says that the price is down over 60% from a year ago when the hidden fee madness began.

I will be unable to help as I will be too busy cutting off the stock connectors and reterminating cables.

Nice! I'm pretty nervous about packing since all I'll be bringing is a carry on.

DIY FTMFW

I suppose it all comes down to how early you want to go to bed. Sure, if you want to nod off a 8 pm you might pull that off. Of course you'll feel like you have zero life but it might work. And no offense to your friend but sleep math is not normal math and in this case 3+3+3 does NOT = 9. And I still say that one day I'm going to write a book on parenting and it's going to be called "Life as a Series of Naps". Lily rarely, if ever during the first 6 months slept for longer than 2 or 3 hours at a time. We eventually split shifted the night so that we each got ~5 hours of semi-peaceful sleep.

You're not serious are you? I don't think that anyone is going to sit around taking notes as Todd passes them out.

And still 3 months from now you'll be longing to sleep as late as 5am! I'm finally far enough removed from it that I actually miss feeding Lily at 2am, well occassionally anyway.

You and Ray Samuels need to meet Smeggy.

Moon Audio will have one at CanJam, allegedly it's the first to ship in the US and will be coupled to the matching transport.

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