HeadphoneAddict

I got my pre-order done through ATT using the upgrade option within my account. Pages were loading slow, but I got it done. Article about system being down: http://www.macrumors.com/2010/06/15/iphone-4-pre-orders-bring-down-servers-and-generate-long-lines/

Still can't get a pre-order through due to it timing out.

I will be pre-ordering as soon as allowed.

Sweet. Someday I'll need to get one. For now my PM9 or S&W 637 are pretty small and easy to carry with me.

I had to take one of our Macbooks to the the Apple Genius Bar today after it got stuck in optical digital output mode and wont play sound through the speakers. Headphones would work fine, but when unplugging the phones it switches back to optical output instead of internal speakers. I tried resetting the PRAM with no help, and the Apple genius reset the SMC with no results either; so they ordered a new logic board for it. We bought this one in Feb or March of last year for my eldest teen daughter for school, so it's a good thing I had bought the Apple Care for it or we'd be screwed. Also, if you guys have to leave your Mac with Apple for service, don't forget to de-authorize it from the iTunes store so the old logic board doesn't continue to count against one of your 5 allowed computers.

I am also impressed with the HM-801's sound, and I posted a similar wish-list review as yours in my 801. The HM-602 wasn't an option for me because I wanted the 24/96 playback. The 801 is especially good with my ES3X and HD800 and reminds me a bit of the Slim when using those phones, but with more power (and worse volume control). I didn't realize the 32Gb limit is a hardware limitation. I assumed a future software update would allow higher capacity cards. Doh, that sucks! I already had about 50 Gb of FLAC music split between 16 bit and 24 bit, which I saved even though I had converted it all to ALAC for iTunes and my iMod. I have an additional 80 Gb of ALAC that I ripped myself that I could convert to FLAC, but I don't have enough SD storage right now.

Now for the jokes - you guys can now all come to CanJam dressed like this next year: (sorry, but I can't recall where I found this)

I'm glad that everyone here can accept you as you are, and make you feel comfortable in your journey through life. I know it's a real load off your backs to come out to people that you care about who didn't know personal and private things about you, and how important it is to have supportive friends and family. My brother had a very hard time before he came out in college, and prior to that had resorted to violence, alcohol and drugs to sooth himself instead. After he came out he still hated who he was and would have been dead before 30 if he hadn't found a great guy to love him. He's been with his partner for about 20 years now, who turned him around and set him on the right path that wasn't hell-bent on self-destruction. My brother's partner was the best thing that ever happened to him. My cousin in San Francisco seems to have had an easier time coming out, and she and her long-term partner have a wonderful adopted child whom they are raising together. I have always been 100% hetero and into girls only, but when I was in high school in the late 70's my best friend Byron was gay (he called himself "queer as a 3-dollar bill"). We'd go underage drinking at the gay bars where he would hook me up with girls that he called "fag hags", or girls that hung around the gay bars looking for a one night stand and no commitment. I always hated that term, but it seemed that even they were okay with being called that back then. I got more action hanging out with him than any other time. At that time my step-father owned a busy gay gym/spa in Houston, and we'd go there to get a tan and lift weights. So, I was never threatened by gays and was comfortable with my sexuality. But my brother would constantly give our step-dad hell for owning a gay spa, or to me for hanging out with a gay friend, likely because he couldn't admit that he wanted to be hanging out at the spa too. One would think that knowing our mom was okay being married to a gay spa owner, and that I was okay having a gay friend, that maybe we'd accept him for who he was. But I think he wanted society's acceptance too. I was also working in a hospital laboratory around the same time, when we started to hear about this "new" deadly virus passed between gays. That ended up being HIV and it was a scary unknown thing (still scary). I think that the emergence of HIV (and maybe some of the excess promiscuity of the late 70's) may have ended up leading to more prejudice and shunning of gays than if HIV had never come to be. This made it even harder for my brother to come out, but that was 30 years ago. Somehow you'd think that it would be easier now, but it's hard when you're singled out as being different and "against the norm". While I was born and raised an orthodox jew, I later became a christian when I was 31 and became very conservative (like my mom and younger brother who also became jews for jesus). I still have a hard time re-defining marriage as anything but between a man and a woman because it has historically always been that way, but I have always been 100% in favor of civil unions with all the benefits of a marriage. But then I look at my brother and his significant other, or my cousin and her's, and it makes me feel guilty about the whole marriage thing. The only difference between a marriage and a civil union is what you call it, but maybe at that point it doesn't matter what you call it. If it makes them happy to call it a marriage, then I guess why not. But that's a whole 'nother shootin match we don't need to go into right now. So, I wish all of you well in this short time we all have on this planet, and do it with peace in your hearts.

Hi Spritzer - What is it about the HE-5 that you don't like, other than they are brighter than the O2, the mids are not as full and rich, the soundstage is a little nebulous or disconnected, and they are very demanding on amplification like an O2? I think the HE-5 LE improved on the originals in all of those areas except demand for power; and although they are still not better than my O2 I'd take them over just about any under $700 phone I have owned or tried (maybe including the SR-404LE but can't say without comparing them).

I agree the HD800 are finicky about amp pairing, but less so with a better cable. The improvements with cables are usually very small with most headphones like my HD600, but my HD800 responded nicely to my Locus-Design "Hyperion" copper cable. The HD800 sounded warm and full with the loaner Luxman P-1u from TTVJ recently, and nothing like the "bright and thin" that you described. I still have amps around the house that make the HD800 sound thinner and brighter, but with the stock cable those amps were unlistenable and now they are tolerable. With my WA6 or ZDT it was never a problem.

Thanks, I forwarded that to him.

Yeah, but I'm not sure the iPad camera kit can support 24 bit, since it doesn't work with a couple of my 24 bit USB DACs. I'm thinking the only drivers the iPad has are for the common 16 bit USB receiver chips. I also don't understand why they can't sell a cable for people with the JHA-3A that includes the passive crossover in the cable. That would be good for the occasions where one would like to amp their modded JHA IEM with a normal amp like right out of their iPhone.

Ultimately leading to one of those "Oh Crap!" moments for some people.

I feel bad for a friend of mine who went to the Apple store to buy a 3G iPad over three weeks ago, but he couldn't figure out how to activate the 3G data after he got it. Finally he had me come over tonight to help him set it up so he could be grandfathered into the $30 unlimited instead of a 2Gb data limit, only to find out that they sold him the WiFi-only model. It was after 6PM and the Apple store was closed when I discovered this. He's bummed because he doesn't know if they will let him sign up for the unlimited data plan on 6/7/10 if he buys the right one tomorrow (plans to sell his original one if Apple wont take it back). He felt better when I told him I have not ever broken 1Gb with heavy use yet on my iPad or iPhone. He's a really busy person, so he didn't even use the iPad for the first 2 weeks, but I'm surprised that he didn't notice the price difference when he bought it.

It's only $99 for a Nuforce uDAC USB > S/PDIF coax converter. That would put digital right into your JHA-3A.

I cheap'd out and just bought an 8Gb SDHC card to listen to FLAC with the HM-801 that Fang recently sent me to try out. I was able to fit 7 hi-res 24/96 albums downloaded from HDtracks.com onto that card (with 2 more albums on the internal memory). So far after just 2 days I like the 801 enough to seriously replacing my iMod and portable Vcap dock with it. I also don't hear a big treble roll-off as reported by dfkt, but I'm 48 years old and can't hear above 16K if my life depended on it. The problem is that I just don't use a large portable rig anymore; so while the 801 is great as a 24/96 portable DAP, it's still fanny pack sized and I prefer to carry a 5G Nano > Pico Slim in my pants pocket. I can see how this would make a nice office desk rig though - you can easily lock it up when you leave, or take it home.

My 3G iPad just reported 1196 Kbps when I checked with speedtest a moment ago. (13,155 Kbps with Comcast cable)

My Wife is the only one who uses less that 200 mb consistently since we went on the family plan in Feb. Since we have the MiFi for tethering we'll likely leave everyone at the current plans.

A medium or medium-well cooked dry aged steak should be safer than raw oysters or sushi while pregnant. It the medium rare part that is more of a problem than the dry aged part (speaking as a pediatrician): Pregnancy nutrition: Foods to avoid during pregnancy - MayoClinic.com

That's $10 less than Apple for a refurb, but Woot only offers a 90 day warranty vs Apple offering a 1 year warranty.

I believe that I heard an Airbow at the Colorado '08 meet which was woodied by Headphile, and listened through my GES and SRM-1 Mk2 Pro. I posted that the mids sounded a bit recessed to me and the phones were a little on the bright side, which reminded me more of an SR-Lambda Pro. That was in comparison to my SR-Lambda. Did those belong to anyone here? Maybe Elephas? I don't think those sounded anything like the SR-404LE that I bought last year, which were a little darker with smoother mids than my SR-Lambda (less etch). While I didn't compare them directly, I've compared both to the same pair of SR-Lambda as my reference. Did the Headphile mods cause that much of a change in the sound, that it no longer sounded like a 404LE?

Have you tried a nice short one word SSID name?

I want to clarify a little. My K1000 sound just like the other pair I heard, and I believe I have a "bass heavy pair" as is often said about those with an early SN. The bass is not all that bad, but it's just not as well defined or localized as I would like. The K1000 mids and highs + soundstage are so good that I have not wanted to part with them up to this point, allowing me to sell my recabled RS-1 before the K1000. And, they clearly respond with improvement if I select the right amp for them - I've tried a ZDT, EHHA, SAC KH1000, WA5, WA22, Beta 22, and three different inexpensive 5-12 watt speaker amps. The balanced Beta 22 was the best with them. Of the amps I own, the SAC is the best with them. I think it's just the recent hype of the LCD-2 that has me seriously considering parting with the K1000 to acquire a pair of the Audeze, but I don't want to be disappointed and then have to look for another K1000 again. So any help in this decision would be appreciated. I suppose I could just find another way to finance the LCD-2 without giving up the K1000.

I think my PS Audio PWD is better with my O2/WES than my Digital Link iii which sounded like a DA100 clone to me. You can find them new for $2150 if you look. (Ron Buffington at Liquid HiFi)

Thanks miguel, but my K1000 sounded just like Sherwood's K1000 did at RMAF. It's likely that with a 300B amp or RWA 30.2 that I'd be happier with them like you and Ron. Asr's WA22 also did better with them than my ZDT at RMAF, but my SAC amp is also better than ZDT and EHHA with them. You'll likely get yours back sooner if I do sell mine to Aaron. I'm about 90% convinced, but a Beta 22 or BA might solve my problem too.