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Happy Birthday, Doug!!!!

After listening to the last Andy Summers release (who I've just learned that is 74 years old) titled Triboluminescence Now listening to his 1999 release Green Chimneys dedicated to Thelonious Monk

Happy Birthday, Duggeh!!! I wish you were here more often, we miss you.

I guess he was aware that the US and UK aren't going to fight the global warming anymore, so most likely weather will be BBQ friendly in the UK in no time.

I didn't try the olive foam mod, but being that the first approach to a DIY resonator, it's rather likely that the SDR takes it a step further. I'm not keeping them all the time into their box, but the places where I hang or drop them aren't much exposed to daylight, not in the dark either, but far from brightly illuminated, so forget about direct sunlight. They started to feel tacky like one year ago, perhaps a bit more, but the shedding is a new development. Not bad for six or seven years old earpads, I was an early HD800 adopter. The headpad is a bit sticky, but not shedding yet.

I got the SDR from Sorrodje, just a bit more expensive than the Ebay's, that arrived yesterday. My HD800 had my personal (read as in "what I have around") felt-foam-adhesive mod, which had been in place for about 5 years, since Tyll published the video on Youtube. It controlled pretty well the harshness in the treble, which I didn't find annoying but with some recordings, although at the price of some bass quality, not as much the depth as its "texture" and slam. I happen to be more sensitive to peaks at 7-8KHz than at 5-6, so I didn't have much trouble listening to the HD800 on stock form. I wasn't as much aware of the issues in the bass with the former mod until I performed some (not blind) listening tests yesterday comparing my mod to the stock and the SDR. Definitely the SDR is well worth a try by anyone wanting to tame a bit the HD800's treble without much sacrifice of anything else. TBH they sound more interesting now, not sure if for being less fatiguing or just righter, getting less in the way of the music. BTW the damn HD800 earpads are delivering a lot of black powder reminiscing of the one the Grado pads dust when self-destroying. Still not changing them at 78€/pair

It's nice to see, for a difference, that Mercedes now must take care of tactics

Sure, I get it, that's why I said "kind of" paradoxical. As I understand it, considering my very low knowledge, you want your electrostatic field to be perfectly controlled in intensity, to be the same on both drivers, and to be kept within the strict size of the material. An isolating layer can be very helpful to achieve that. Is the problem in the 009 losing its balance between channels related to this?

Thanks! It's kind of paradoxical using an anti-static cleaner to coat electrostatic drivers.

What did you use for the recoat?

I only have the iPhone and rather shitty light, but hopefully the fine polishing can be appreciated Did I ever post this pic when Jacob asked for it at some other thread? This forum software is kind of weird. I like what Omega is releasing, the 60th anniversary issue of the Speedmaster, Trainmaster and Seamaster looks great too

what's wrong with this thread?

Congratulations, Mike. Family milestone

Happy Birthday, Al!!! I wish you have a great day. ¡Feliz día!

From what I read elsewhere, the headphones could have been of the headband type, perhaps noise cancelling like Bose QuietComfort, using larger rechargeable batteries of the AA or AAA type. I've used this type of batteries of Chinese make and are very very poor quality, nothing to do with the quality of the OEM batteries being used in Apple and other reputed brands products. The fault wasn't on the headphones and their brand, but on the batteries.

I think you've been behaving more chilly than shilly.

Maybe I've missed what exactly the SDR is. What I read following the link to SABF just mentions the half Shure tips mod, which seems rather easy and safe to perform, but I must recognize I didn't read the whole 31 pages. On a more thorough search I've found Tyll's post describing how the "plug" is constructed. In its current version the plug is more complex and different from what a silicon tip would do. Thanks for your reply. I've also found an italian guy selling plugs on ebay. I guess this has nothing to do with you, just a smartass fellow taking profit of the idea.

RIP Chuck.

I purchased a Pono player at the Kickstarter phase. The damn thing sounds really good, I guess the Hansen engineering had something to do, but other than the couple of Herbie Hancock albums this edition had loaded, I haven't been tempted to buy any of the Pono's music. Since it has a big capacity due to the support of microSD cards up to 128GB, I use it when away from home for a few days. Not using it on daily commutes, the shape is just nuts and very impractical. I wish they had made it in a regular flat prism shape.

It looks interesting and makes a lot of sense. I'm rather happy with the Anaxilus mod on mine, but TBH I'm not listening much with headphones, and most of the times I do on commute with IEMs, or with Stax at home. Sorrodje, have you ever tried the silicon tips of the Klipsch IEMs? I'm curious if you chose the Shure ones for some favorable difference over the Klipsch or Comply ones.

Best wishes, Nate, and all the northern pals.

Thundercat - Drunk I was expecting a lot more from a "genius" behind the success of Kendrick Lamar. I can't help experiencing that sort of "heard it all before" feeling in a Doobie Brothers-Stevie Wonder kind of way.

Happy Birthday, Laura!!! we miss you.

Happy Birthday, Bonnie!

Phronesis - Parallax (2016) This album is also available at Bandcamp. I've enjoyed it a lot.