HeadphoneAddict

I've only seen three SR-5NB go up for sale, and I bought two of them (one for me, one for my son). Later I sold one of them (fabric covered round cable to SACDman) when I replaced my son's with an SR-Lambda. Kept the one with the flat ribbon cable.

I agree, but the SR-5NB Gold Edition would be a nice choice too.

Right, Blutarsky is going to CanJam with my son and I, and he is a head-case member, but only so he can watch you guys crucify me and offer his condolences... He owes me a few scotches now.

Wow, that sounds just like the mashed potatoes and gravy with halibut I had on a previous flight!

Mmmmm... Turtle soup!

I went back to look at my old SubaruPlanet.com website, and the new owner has left my old blog, mods and photos pages up as a tribute I guess. I thought it was cool that parts of the site still have all my old ramblings, as I re-read my articles on the Detroit Auto Show and the Subaru Ride and Drive event. On the photo page it mentions where I used my Harley as a trade-in for my Miata - I sure miss both! On topic - I bought a 160gb Apple TV this weekend.

Exactly - I used driving shoes when I was doing SCCA autocross with my turbocharged Subaru (Impreza RS with aftermarket turbo 233whp and upgraded suspension and brakes). I was 2nd place rookie in CO my first year, and the next year 2nd place State in Street Mod category. Then I got too sick to do it anymore after I coughed up a quart of blood at my last race in 2001. Up until that time I was sole proprietor of SubaruPlanet.com which I eventually had to give up too (which was a nice side job for extra income and sponsored my racing). But the shoes REALLY helped, although some nice Hoosier race tires and coil-overs helped more. The scary part is how fast the stock Miatas with Hoosiers were - most of the time they beat everyone out there because of the handling. I was beating Corvettes and BMW M3 but half the time the Miatas were faster than me. I sometimes wished I hadn't sold my 1993 Miata. Once I did win the 1000 point top score against 47 other cars, including the Miatas, but the weather was dumping icy rainy sleet on the course at the time and with AWD it was like taking candy from a baby...

I also enjoy both the Mk1 and Mk2, depending on my mood or the music/source/amp. But when I first got the Mk2 I hated the mids which were too forward and they drilled into my head. Gave me a real headache they did. With about 200 hours on them and Spritzer's ear-pad spring mod they improved noticeably and became useable. If not for that mod and breaking them in I might not still have the Mk2. Interestingly, sometimes I feel the Mk2 may be closer to my Jade than to my Mk1 - maybe due to the forward mids and smaller soundstage vs the Mk1. Nevertheless, the Mk1 are getting all my ear time and I haven't listened to the Mk2 since a few days after I got Naamanf's Mk1 from Blutarsky (who switched to my old ESP950). I have also listened to my HE60 and Smegma Pro more recently than I have with my Mk2, but the Mk2 aren't bad - just redundant. So, I can't explain why I haven't sold them yet. Pack-rat mentality I suppose. I know I could use the money for the second half of my ZDT or my HD800 pre-order...

Movie - Eurotrip. Character Scotty goes to Germany to meet his female penpal and has an adventure. Song by Lustra - "Scotty Doesn't Know" made popular by movie.

Say hi to Scotty for me, or does he not know?

Nice. I look forward to seeing it at CanJam and meeting DNA.

How is the HD600 coming along?

Weird, because my second pair of HD600 hardly changed at all with burn-in, same with my ESW10JPN.

Good job!

I should clarify. I have an Airport Extreme already that was set up for a mixed 802.11g/n network at 2.4Ghz using WPA/PSK encryption. I wanted to change to a 5Ghz 802.11n network but I have too much wireless stuff like iPhone, Wii, Nintendo DS, XV6800 pda phone etc that wont work on 5Ghz (but have 5 macs, an ATV and AP Express that will). Blutarsky loaned me the second extreme when he got the dual radio version, and this will replace the Ativa. So one Extreme will be set to run 5Ghz 802.11n for all the new Macs + Apple TV + the newer Airport Express; and one will be set to 2.4Ghz mixed n+g for the older Airport Express, iPhone, Wii, DS, and Verizon XV6800. One will be used as the router and one will be the access point plugged into the back of the router. I will have all the gear on the 5Ghz network fall back to the 2.4Ghz network if the macbooks stray too far from the 5Ghz signal. The plan was if I liked the setup I could trade him for the spare Extreme, or I could sell my old Extreme, return his, and fork over $195 after taxes for a dual radio version. He already has 6 tubes of mine on loan that are worth over $100 but he wasn't sure he wanted to trade for all the tubes, so I might have to put up more trade or cash in addition to the tubes that he'd like. Since I paid for the hotel room, he can pay me cash or pay me with an Extreme.

And a nice rant it was.

I'm looking at $440 for two plane tickets and $203 for the room for 2 nights + food, but I'll get part of the room's cost back from Bluto. Or I'll try to trade the room cost plus a pair of my 12AU7 Bugle Boys in order to keep Bluto's old airport extreme, which I'll turn into a 5Ghz 801.11n access point. (he upgraded to the new dual radio version)

Well, I am booked for Canjam with my 11 year old son, and we're flying up and splitting a room with Blutarsky. Hopefully all goes well, and Bluto doesn't mug me...

It's just a shame there has to be safe and not-safe places anywhere, not just in CA or CO. Something is broken with society. Too much coddling and not enough consequences, along with a general lack of respect for life in some of the newer members of society.

Happy birthday!

That sucks that there has to be "safe" areas and not so safe areas. Still makes me wonder why my Colorado Concealed Firearm Permit can't be used in CA when my CO driver's license can (had permit since 1994 and haven't gone postal yet).

Also likely from Mikhail's choice of music which I did not like. Although when I complained that the Lambda Signature sounded better than the O2 Mk1 he got busy changing the tubes to see if it could sound better. He never got it quite there, and seemed to be fiddling with different tubes much of the time.

That option (to take the whole family) was in my first post, but it is also the most expensive and I'm still trying to pay off Xmas '08 in Maui.

I was not "wowed!" by the HE90 via Elephas's ES-1 but I found them to be very enjoyable, fast and tight sounding. I didn't get enough time with them to decide how good they were, but I didn't hear anything about them that I didn't like during my brief audition. If they are easier to drive than other headphones (i.e. O2) then maybe the A-10 does do a good job driving them for Jude; and maybe it could drive the Jade, ESP950 or Lambda series well too. Maybe it's just the O2 Mk1 that it wont have enough power to drive properly. Just a thought.

Why do you think I haven't taken off the Mk2 pads a second time to do the port mod on the O2 Mk2 yet?