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I haven't heard the DA10, but own the DA11. It's a nice DAC which sounds better than I expected. The headphone output works fine with low impedance cans, but I don't like it very much with the Senns, though it sounds clean, maybe "too much". IMO it sounds more "natural" than analytical, it doesn't seem a pro unit. In addition it sounds quite consistent no matter if you feed it using Toslink, AES/EBU, SPDIF or USB. I find it listenable even using the optical connection, so go figure. Mr Monkey, I think you might enjoy it, but you already have many good DACs. I'm not very sure it will "outperform" them though I'm quite sure you won't find it grossly inferior.

Maybe you shouldn't DEW IT!!!!!

Working now. Thanks mates

The AES link isn't working for me

While watching the Nadal vs Blake tennis match: Raul Midon - State of Mind Then starting this The Rolling Stones - 40 Licks

Listening to it on Spotify right now. I didn't know the band. First tune is promising

Sorry for your finger and you Nate. I hope it's just a cut needing a few stitches. Get well

I'm currently listening to Lisa Stansfield's "All around the World", a tune that has a strong power to rise my spirits. In fact most of her first album can do that. There are many others, no matter how tough conditions are, that may help me to feel a bit happier. I suppose you have your own and may you like to share them. Some other Prozac tunes of mine Art Blakey - Moanin' Charlie Mingus - Moanin' Bob Marley - Three little birds Kool & The Gang - Celebration LV Beethoven - 4th movement of his 9th Stevie Wonder - Isn't she lovely

I'm very happy for you mate, enjoy that wonderful system

Until this transcendent moment you must have been thinking that most O2 lovers were nuts

Happy Bday!!!! I hope you have a great one

Quincy Jones - Early Jazz Years

Sex Mob - Din of Inequity

Morphine - At your service

Oh yes, happy Bday

I agree. I have the impression that many people outside the US is interested in JH phones, but all the customization process is holding them up to get a pair. If they were available "plug&play" I think they'd get many overseas orders. Maybe if the sales of customs drops they explore that market. Do the universals sound significantly different from the customs? I suppose there are isolation differences, and maybe less bass...

I have commented some of those reasons before. They mostly have to do with two things, the impracticality of having the IEMs made in the USA and living in Europe, which makes any fitting issues, repairs, etc an expensive and time consuming affair, and hygienic reasons. I've seen at work all long term complications that hearing aids (using the same type of in ear molds the customs have) produce. Supposing I'm careful and I clean the molds frequently, and never fit the phones if the ear canals are wet or suffering the slightest condition, still those hard devices, despite comfy, stimulate wax production and act in the same way as Qtips do, they push the wax way into the canal, close to the drum. Though I have many otologists at work who could clean my ears with good care, I still prefer not to need that. Soft tips and a more external fit, would prevent those issues, hence my preference for universals albeit I know they won't isolate the same, and possibly won't give the same performance. Then there's the curiosity for knowing how good they are... Anyway, I don't think JH will make them in an universal format, since at his site he seems to be stick to the benefits of custom fit. We'll see

So much funboyism from people with accredited knowledge and good taste in sound reproduction make those things desirable. However I'm not into the customs thing for many reasons. Anyone knows if at some point they'll be released in universal form factor?

The xls file is a good format. The "problem" would be having it hosted in a way that after any of us edits and adds/removes gear, the updated file is saved automatically in the same place. It'd be possible that two people updating the DB at the same moment, produced a file which won't keep the changes of both if the file once updated has to be actively uploaded.

It had been cheaper fixing the car :rollyes: Hopefully it will work fine for years to come

Very nice

One of these by any chance?

Hehehehe, yes, if you really want something, finding the way to have it is just a matter of time. Thing is that what I want is the O2 better powered than with the SRM-717. It's quite likely that in the future that is possible with SS alternatives to the BHSE. Who knows. Meanwhile I can live quite happy with the 717/O2 combo, though I don't know for how long

Big power SS for the O2 Don't get me wrong, I love good tube amps, and I already am using them to power the speakers, but the heat generation and size of amps like the BHSE do make them quite impractical to me. Otherwise I'd probably own a BH or would be waiting for a BHSE at this point. Were there a SS amp to drive the O2 with a convenient size and lower heat production, but that managed to drive them like the BH/BHSE (power and sound wise), I'd be ordering one right away.

Happy Bday!