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I wear a 17 year old Disney watch with the crystal that has a 3D hologram in it.

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Good DACs to pair with Woo for the Grados above, which I have actually heard with the Woo and Grados - and keeping your budget in consideration: Apogee mini-DAC Stello DA100 PS Audio Digital Link III

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You may find going to a balanced amp with the HD650 could do that for you, something like a Headroom Balanced Desktop amp, or a Beta 22. Sometimes a more powerful single ended amp could do the trick, like maybe a Woo WA6SE or Beta 22 that aren't balanced (the WA6 non-SE version is not my choice for HD650 and needs more power, but is great with HD600/800 which I prefer more than the 650). Or, you could get rid of the D2000 for some D7000 and re-cable them to bring out the detail and extension, or add some Grado HF-2, or sell the D2000 and DT990 and put the money towards some Grado PS-1000.

I saw that. You also said that your Plinius was malfunctioning, so I was simply offering to loan you a source for CanJam @ RMAF because of that. I'll try to be more clear next time.

Until you confirm the email change to show that your account wasn't hacked, it probably makes sense to lower your privileges. But, unless the confirmation goes to the old email address how do they know the new one is yours too?

Absolutely understand. PS: If you don't like the Cary as the source, I could loan you my Apogee mini-DAC with sigma 11 PSU (n_maher built s11) if you think it might be even slightly better in terms of synergy.

I want to add that they were congested and muddy out of the box, with a little edge/roughness in the highs - I put them in the box and ran music through them for 3 - 3.5 days straight before posting initial impressions. They don't get a good seal without holding them on, so I may have to bend the headband a little to get the cups at the correct angle. They definitely sound better when I press the ear cups onto my head tighter/closer. So far in addition to comparing to the HD25-1 which are better, my son's Alessandro MS-1 and my UF-30 also sound more open than the Zebra Wood phones after 100 hours. But, the zebra wood phones don't suck, they just sound different. The $60 is not wasted, but the other 3 phones can be had for $80-100 and sound better so far. So I would say that the original $199 price was not worth it. With better closed cans to listen to (LA7000, ESW10JPN, HD25-1 and HFI-700DVD) I'm not sure these will get much use. My son wanted some closed cans, so I'm going to pass these on to him after I put another 100 hours on them and see if that helps. I gave away my last set of 120 ohm SFI drivers towards Alex Cavalli's appreciation gifts (along with cable, 1/8" plug and felt), so I'm not making a fosterfone right now.

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Your journey should be just about over then - Congrats! Now you can focus on the music. Will you have this at the CanJam @ RMAF? I would love to hear it, as would others. You should let Sherwood know if you are so he can get you table space. I'll be there with the ZDT and GES running off the PS Audio DAC, with 1-3 dynamic phones and 1-3 stats, and either a Macbook or CD5001 as transport (well, I will bring HEV70 for Dinan to compare to the GES with HE60).

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Mine have smoothed out a bit after 75 hours of break-in, and I think they are definitely worth the $60 sale price or maybe even $100. I am not sure if I would have been happy to pay the $199 original price. Probably not, as the HD25-1 II have a better frequency response for $99 if you find a good deal on them. Like the HD25-1 or Ultrasone HFI-780, they have a 1/8" plug with a 1/4" adapter that screws onto threads built into the 1/8" plug. There is a little bit of that "closed" lower mids echoey coloration. Detail is not bad, and guitars seem sharp enough and not blurred. Bass is not lacking or overdone, and not muddy, but it's not as powerful as the Denons. Mids are a little forward and not recessed. There is no sibilance like the HFI-780, but the HFI-780 was still a more exciting or fun phone. Soundstage is not much better than my HD25-1 despite being circumaural, because the inside of the ear cups is so small that my ears barely fit inside and the drivers are still very close to my ears. After 20 minutes my ears already feel hot. So far I have only tried them out of the mini-DAC headphone out (CD5001 transport) and my iBasso D10 out of the Macbook Pro during burn-in. The sound signature pairs up better with my Apogee than the D10 which makes them sound a little darker (but the D10 is tuned to sound best with my custom IEMs). I'll report back later if I can.

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I was reading to my son at night and we had just finished the Peter and the Starcatchcers series of books, when switching to Tolkein was a shock/big leap in terms of being very hard to read out loud if you are a person with lung disease and are not able to go for long periods without taking a breath, as I always pause at a comma for a breath at the wrong place, and have to read the sentence/paragraph over for it to make sense. ^ try reading that out loud in one breath.

Blutarsky's Melos SHA Gold sounded fantastic (as good as a Zana Deux, maybe slightly better) with the Siemens tubes. I haven't heard it with any of the others, so I can't comment. This was listening with my APS V3 cabled RS-1 which are much more detailed than stock ones, and with flats my recabled RS-1 sound very similar to my old HP-1000 (HP-2) that I sold Blutarsky. Not only did this Melos sound good with these two, but also good with HP-1000 (HP-1) with SAA Equinox cable, HF-1 Jenna Labs cable/wood cups, stock PS-1, and PS-1 in an HF-1 wood body and SR-325 metal cups with Silver Dragon Cable.

I wish I was this guy:

Too bad it's fake.

Not new - Blutarsky had one for a while and we listened to it - the sound was not bad, nothing special but on par with other $150 amps. I posted some blurb about it on the other forum a few months ago, and I recall it sounded better with some phones than others. I think I liked the CTH, EF1 and Travagans amps a little better. If I recall it also didn't like to drive two low impedance phones at the same time, like my Sq Wave (but the Amphora can do it no problem).

I've had my mini-DAC since Peter (Iron_Dreamer) sold it to me in Feb 2008, and I am still pretty happy with it. So, I hope you get many years of happiness from yours. However, the O2 Mk2 are a good example of a phone that sounded better with plaidplatypus's DA10 than it did with my Mini-DAC (using maxed Woo GES). They were just too forward and rolled off sounding with the Apogee, even after rolling in some brighter tubes. My PS Audio DLIII and Pico DAC-only also work better with the Stax O2 rig than the mini-DAC. For everything else I have been very pleased with the Apogee as my source.

They've been modded once by RK 15 yr ago, which helps nearsightedness but not presbyopia.

I read that as 1,800 ma using 47 year old eyes in a dark room.