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All I was doing was correcting misstatement by another user that macs are the standard when they are decidedly not so. I have spent a lot of time looking through gear lists at various studios around the world and I know what they are using, for example I don't believe that there is any DSD mastering software for mac . It does appear that many of those guys do post to Gearslutz but hey instead let's make snide and again baseless statements. Fun Fun. You want another big player and one that appears to be entirely PC: Pyramix.

My correction was correct. It is in fact not the default. Spend some time on gearslutz and you will see that a large majority of the protools guys use windows. The fact that protools is available for mac in no way undermines my believeability. I guess I could have been clearer that it was available for both. Holy overreaction bat man.

Again? I thought it was just a Can Jam romance .....

It is in no way the default for pro apps. Protools is Windows most everything else is windows. Amarra and sonic studio are pretty much the biggest players in the mac world because they are one of the few to support it.

My comparison was on a GS-X running SE thought so should be nearly identical to the GS-1. Apparently my now balanced HD800s sound amazing out of a Beta22 as well thought I have to wait until the weekend to hear them out of my GS-X. My ES amp was a brand new KGSS.

Forgot about this thread. For me the answer is HD800

Dusty, I agree if I was keeping my electrostats I would likely buy 4070 too but alas I am not.

I really liked both of them with the KGSS. Really liked. It was sort of an embarrassment of riches.

He's considering being a mac user so I wanted to make is simple and so it required a limited amount of thought

If you are going into engineering (other than possibly CE) get a PC or you will end up dual booting anyway for CAD software and other tools.

yup. It's very similar in character to the HD800 Stretch at least to my ear.

I didn't even hear it out of the BH My impressions were the KGSS.

Happy Birthday to you both!

For me the 4070 were the winner of the electrostatics (comfort aside). If I was going to keep my electrostatic rig then I will look for Lambda Pros and also see if I can find 4070 to replate my O2. As far as BH vs KGSS I did not do straight comparison with the same source but my impression after walking back and forth with the 4070 and O2 was that they are very very similar sounding (which all amps should be in my opinion). I would need more time with it but in each case the BH has impressed me for sounding entirely un-tubey. The Orpheus are really lovely when playing classical. They really do make the music come alive. That said I think that the 800s and 4070 have the same level of detail with better extension on the low end (which won't be noticed really in classical). I would say overall though that the HD800s out of a GS-X are my winner: there is nothing missing and the distortion is so non-existent it is possible to correct to anything else. The higher end phones (R10, L3000, Orpheus) are enjoyable headphones but are too colored for me (at least for R10 I had measurements to back that up). *** All views are my own. YMMV ***

If only....

Well here are some pictures Rugby is my dog He has very keen ears (for food cans or bags) Note the entirely stock wiring to the SRD7

I made the mistake of taking pictures in raw and I'm working on converting them on this laptop...... I would say my favorite is......

Got up, went to gym, welcomed guys to my house, went to five guys, watched electrostats fight to the death, lent my HD800s to Vlad for balancing, typed this message....

I thought today was amazing. I really don't see Contador as particularly self serving. Did lance slow down the split so that Contador could catch up in the early stages? No. Did anyone give him shit? No actually they gave Contador shit for not keeping up. Seems to me if Lance had done identical things all would be forgiven. As far as that attack can see Contador not particularly wanting to listen to Johan since Johan didn't even have the nuts to go with the guy who was the stronger rider from the beginning. Today Contador rode a perfect team mates race and even paced Lance up once or twice. I just hope these Contador doping accusations are entirely false. It's too bad that this in this sport everyone lives under a cloud.

It looks like he bought his system from this guy: Asylum Trader - Sound Lab Majestic 945 Full Range Electrostatic Panels

It is quite noticeable when switched on and off in Al's setup at CJ. I am not a fan of it at all. I personally found it rounded the edges off stuff for me but I would not describe it as euphonic. The fact that they admit it's not the most correct thing to do may have predisposed me though so who knows. I am certainly not in any position to come out against DSP. I have one theory that people are so caught up in the live experience they fail to notice fact that it's not as smooth or alive or etc as they think. When you're in the room with an orchestra you don't really mind the etch on some stuff, but then if you listen to an exact (or very close) reproduction you notice all sorts of stuff. It's like watching a movie for the 1st time vs the 15th. I personally have no problem overlooking these things in a recording but they drive a lot of people nuts. Just a theory YMMV

It makes your digital recording sound "better" by applying proprietary DSP to the digital signal. It can be summed up with the quote along the lines "the correct math is not the best sounding math" (can't find the original on their website anymore). At that point I lost all interest.

Try your own: Amazon.com: Boxed: Eurythmics: Music

Radiohead - OK Computer

A fucking dongle? Are you shitting me? What the fuck is wrong with flexLM or some equivalent. Dongles are crap.:palm: