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Yep that's it. Great stuff.

Jesus yours broke like that? Here I was worrying about the shitty cable.

I can understand that.

You do know that its going to be a screw-on dildo with a head-case logo right?

I don't know where to put this, so I figured I'd try posting it here. I'm sure its not news to some of you. I did some research into where the 'Claus' part fit into Saint Nicholas to make Santa Claus and was a little befuddled by this 500 year old Dutch tradition of Sinterklaas's (Santa Claus) being followed by his helping hand Zwarte Piet (Black Pete) who seems to obviously be a racial depiction, though surely there is something to be said about us using elves. Black Pete comes down the chimney and legend has it that he puts bad children in rucksacks with roaches and carries them to Spain where they become servants and possibly Black Petes themselves if I'm not mistaken. zwarte piet - Google Images I know, I'm American and I'm going through culture shock. Its a 500 year old tradition that is older then my country that hails back to when the Dutch were heavily involved in transporting slaves. Seeing the dolls and the figures on their chocolate bars and window ornaments was unbelievable. I read a story from a 14 year old boy living in the Netherlands for the past two and a half who is black and was not happy when a few Dutch people called him Black Pete and kids ask their parents to go talk to him. Around Christmas he has been asked to participate in the school plays because he "wouldn't have to dress up". He wrote a petition to not have Black Pete in the school play and got over 200 signatures before his teacher supposedly took it away for "ruining other's fun". Its a sensitive subject to be sure. Now you know where to go to see parades of people in black face and lots of red lipstick wearing woolly wigs at Christmas. Sorry if I seem a little thin skinned here, it reminds me of Sambo's restaurants signs and racist comics that seem to dehumanize other races which I can be sensitive to when its a nationwide scenario.

Did you see this?

Sure, I'm interested, though I'm still planning on Steve to make the stand for my O2 whenever I get him the info he needs.

I get to be the first to say that I've shot, killed, cleaned, and eaten a squirrel here? Sweet. P.S. I don't care for hunting.

Happy to hear that Bugsey is going to be safe and sound.

Congrats Carl.

It may be the opposite, it could be that Elephas grew up to be this way because he was denied pop music as an infant.

About the same price as 30 shovels.

Maybe seeing his costume will help make it clearer.

I got my package from Steve Wednesday evening. It is a great one too.

Moisture is common in IEMs, luckily it doesn't seem to do nearly as much damage as the expansion of moisture in small spaces when freezing seems like it could. Maybe a little lab grade alcohol on the cleaning tool would do the trick to help get out moisture as well as helping to sterilize them in that environment. Just don't let it get on your skin in that cold environment unless you like your skin dry and cracked to the point of pain.

See. This is why I tell people that they should shove them up their bum. Its for your own good.

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Congrats. I love the T1 with Lambdas, I bet it sounds great. Those are your first Stax? Your profile says you also have an O2 (well, of course you would, cause you should and will at some point).

The moisture getting into your phones from your ear canal might freeze and cause damage when not in your ears possibly?

I'm quickly pasting over my impressions from head-fi. Sorry about the lateness, I'm still being kept busy. The Qualia actually turned out to be my favorite phone of the meet. Out of the exemplar modded 2900 and Vicki's extreme, the Qualia sounded great, I was enamored with that rig. I like the R10, but not in love with it. It sounds great, but I get caught on that IMO it hides some details. I did some more testing with the HD800 mostly with an after-market cable. Out of 1117 (Alex's) Exemplar modded Denon 2900 and Luxman, I actually preferred the HD600. Its made songs sound fuller and the reverberation was there and more intoxicating. Out of the SP MPX3 using NightWoundsTime (Matt's) Denon turntable listening to Porcupine Tree (lightbulb sun album I think), the HD800 actually rocked, I mean rawked. Still not a phone I feel I "need-to-have", but it was awesome to see that it can get an attitude with the right equipment and I can see someone being really happy with that sound. Alex's HP series phones sounded great as well with the Luxman, I should have found more time with them. HE-5 also could change its face pretty well. On the WA6 with power supply (forget what DAC, maybe Audio Aero Prima?), I did not find it to be all that great in highs or lows. On the Cayin, it became very romantic with a smooth lush bassy sound. On the SPUD and Adcom with cetoole's discrete output stage, it was balanced, fast and clean sounding. I didn't fall in love with them, though they were not bad phones. Asr's Woo 22 setup with the AD2000 sounded good as well. I enjoyed listening to a few tracks, that is also a really nice looking amp. I loved Gene's (agile_one) K1000 with the Accuphase sounded really great. Every time I hear these phones at meets, regardless of setup, I have really liked them. I need to get a pair. I've heard Vicki's BHSE with the O2 before, they sound great. Interesting the difference that I and some others seemed to hear between the O2 mk1 and the O2 mk1BL. I assume it has to do with differences in the pad. I ended up preferring the brown O2 mk1 more, but I may be biased. The SR-404LE! Finally got to hear these, Steve (ASR) was nice enough to swing by with them. They are really good. I will not be trading my O2 mk1 for them, but I did enjoy listening to them. If I could get the LNS and 404LE at the same price, it would be a hard decision. I listened to many other phones, HF-2, Lambda pro, etc. It was a great meet, the people are what make it even more special then the phones. Thank you so much to Mike and to all of team SoFla that made my weekend. It was great seeing people again and meeting others for the first time and I hope to see you all again in the future.

I have put olives on the triple.fi before. Its a hell of a stretch, I used a leather punch to stretch them. I did end up ruining a few after a few changes. Its near impossible to over stretch these for the triple.fi, its an insanely tight fit, I had to cut them off sometimes to replace them. I also put on a Westone cable after filing down the pins. Sounded pretty good but had to adjust for phase. I think I'm keeping mine stock now and using the small rubber tips and complys.

Difference for me was that I regularly had aches from regular pillows before I used the memory foam pillow though. They aren't even expensive anymore. I now use a 2.5 inch thick memory foam bed pad on my mattress. It transformed a stiff cheap (free actually) mattress into my most comfortable bed I've had.

Happy Belated, I hope it was a good one.