n_maher

I've heard too many stories of Paypal siding with the buyer (go read about the engagement ring that got stolen on Head-Fi) to want to even have to worry about under-declaring, under-insuring, etc. Sorry if that rubs some folks across the pond the wrong way.

Vincent, If you're serious about NAS I'd start looking at preconfigured NAS devices that you can stuff with the drives of your choice. Pre-built 2TB systems appear to run ~$1000 based on some very quick searching.

And I have to option of not being a party to your circumvention of those laws and regulations, especially when it puts me at risk of not being able to properly insure a package.

For a bit less $$$ you might have a look at the toaster MPX3 that is also listed on Head-Fi. It's listed by cantsleep, who've I dealt with before, and would be worth a PM to get more details.

Yeah, I saw shillymcshills little "i may sell it, but i might not because it sounds so good" comment earlier.

No grudge, but I'm not beating this to death anymore either.

If you don't see that I'm trying to help you I guess I'll stop trying. Continue your worthless posting at will.

Perhaps you should have completed the statement then and not assumed that everyone knew exactly what you were talking about? And I didn't say anything about the two products I was comparing sounding the same either.

I'm not sure I'd say (based on my limited experience) that the W5000 is necessarily a can that scales well but rather is very particular about what it will and won't sound good with. It could just be one of those headphones that likes what it likes and hates everything else. All I do know for sure is that I heard them on two distinctly different amps and they sounded vastly different.

A single chip does not a product make. My Wadia uses the lowly BUF634 on its outputs so by your logic it's the same as something like a PIMETA which uses the same chip.

I'd second to get a stock 650 cable reterminated to balanced, Headroom can help with that as well and it'll save you $200.

Indeed, I'm loving it so far. I just don't want to pull a Deadwood and go through it too quickly.

Nursing my way through season 1 still, don't want to rush it since it looks like there'll be a distinct lack of good TV this winter.

Mr. Chalk, If you're serious about trying the W5000's this is as cheap as I've ever seen a pair listed.

I caught that for sale listing the other day. Nothing like pulling a trose, shilling the heck out of something and then selling it. At least mark didn't jack the price way up.

If you prefer to keep things simple one possibility would be the Headroom Balanced Desktop w/ the Home/Home module options -> balanced HD600 or 650. I'm pretty sure you could get into that and that it would sound significantly better than your current rig (based on my impression of the ED9s in better rigs). Otherwise, if you want to keep your components separate there's way to many choices to run through. My only advice would be to budget equal parts for both your source and your amp, going overboard on either one never makes any sense to me. And I tend to spend the least amount of $$ on the headphone part of the equation, there are lots of good headphones under $400 and I have yet to hear twice the performance from the next tier.

I'm pretty sure that Ultrasone uses the same headband as the HD 280 for just about all their headphones, regardless of price.

Your assignment was more BSG.

I wasn't really going for the fit comparison, more wondering if they shared more components with the Stagg's than just the headband?

I find that comparison offensive.

Vicki, correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't that headband look exactly like the Equations?

Young, just use the "sup" tag. Example (remove* to make work) mini[sup*]3[/sup*] mini3 However, ASCII support beyond stuff like that was discussed and I think it's a forum software issue and not likely to change. I never used ascii for anything other than superscript numbers so I find this solution more than acceptable.

Something like that might have occurred to me...

I tried to find a kitty that described how I felt about Ed's post. I failed in that regard but came across this little gem, which got me laughing so hard I had to post it...

I refuse to support a sport (the NHL) that is actively trying to kill itself off. College hockey, hell yeah.