Dreadhead

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

Wiring to the back corner of my yard for my hot tub Damn I want this landscaping done with.

^ You will burn....

Yes. I would think so.

Happy Birthday Dan! Keeping it a ninja birthday?

Saw him in concert in Ann Arbor a few years ago. Really was awesome.

Finally someone understands me

I have already observed measured performance differences in the high part of the frequency range between the KGSS and the SRM that I have had. The plot is around here somewhere. Down low I didn't see anything.

Sorry you're asking the wrong person. I have never heard the GES and I'm not a tube guy, hence the KGSS. That said the BHSE sounded amazing and totally neutral with no tube sound to me. It depends on what you're looking for. I'm looking for repeatability mostly.

Who's the lucky bugger with that?

Dinny, Use switch box with the connectors I mentioned above minus the the rca connectors.

It sounds great and works well with my O2 and ESP950. I have to give it a proper listen etc but I'm pretty happy. It will be a fun month or so until I make up my mind. Haven't done any comparisons with the HD800s/GS-X as yet.

Good point. I have my doubts that headphones require a speaker switch but I'm not sure of the power handling capability of those switches. So instead of the Kramer use a speaker switch box.

Very much so (thought if you press 2 buttons at the same time you might be able to force it) also all things are switched (at least in my balanced one) so no chance for shorting that I can see. Though you might end up with one amp apply voltage to the outputs of the other.

Kramer RCA Switcher: VS-81A - Single Output Switchers - Kramer Electronics Male TRS to male RCA connectors (1 for each amp) Female TRS to male RCA connector (1 to go to headphones) Yay!

I has this now

Ok. Well the other pair that I know of should come (the owner is coming though I haven't confirmed if he will bring them). We can even plug them both at the same time into the GS-X and off we go.

Well it's supposed to be an electrostat showdown but there are at least 2 pairs of HD800s available for the micro mini meet at my house this weekend (if everyone shows up).

Blind testing. Hell yes

Ok lets be clear that these plots while they are marketing are not bullshit. The standard equalization for diffuse field ends somewhere around 100Hz on the low end and around 16kHz on the high end. (I can't even hear beyond 15kHz if I am listening to a pure sinusoidal signal that doesn't have any spurious harmonic content). The vetical scale is a bit large but to be honest isn't too large to figure anything out. Most people have a hard time discerning 1db changes to the equalization of an audio system so it is well within that. The only thing that annoys me is that they do not give their target curve for the diffuse field equalization (which represents a standard room) and I wish they did. Then I would know how these phones do against free-field response (anechoic chamber). I asume they are not using the IEC standard or they would say it somewhere. If you're interested both the Neumann KU100 website (in particular: http://www.neumann.com/download.php?download=docu0009.PDF) and the Head Acoustics website (in particular this document, http://www.head-acoustics.de/downloads/eng/application_notes/Equalization_brochure.pdf) have lots of good info. It looks the the SR-LAmbda is about as ideal as it gets for diffuse field response at least according to the Neumann document.

Me too. I like the VeloNews Live tracker though. Gets the point across.

Well that range covers probably well over 95% of all information in a recording so useless is probably a bit strong

Holy crap. Andy is making this a race

Got my graph for my new pair yesterday. I guess I should post a pic.

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