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I haven't seen an update lately, but since ATT added LTE to Colorado Springs in the past week we've gotten poor service (me and son). Our iPhone 5s frequently switch back and forth between LTE, 4G, 3G, E and o We often can't use data without going to airplane mode and back to get it to lock onto some kind of data for a while.

It wasn't too ruthless with the stock PSU, and never ran for long with the S22 I had built for it when the stock one died, so I haven't heard this side of the Sq Wave XL before. It always seemed to smooth out the sound and make bright phones more tolerable with it's smooth and buttery warmth.

The Apex Pinnacle was quite good with HD800 at the last RMAF as well. I really enjoy the ZDT with the HD800, and it's a shame they were a limitted run. The Luxman P-1u sounds quite similar to my ZDT with partial silver transformers, and was excellent with the HD800.

Well, if it's better than their Icon mobile that would be a plus. Some of their higher end stuff is pretty good - the CDP-8 is a fantastic sounding CD player, and I mean it's quite good and beat my Apogee mini-DAC when compared side by side as a source. And the DAC-100/HAP-100 are an excellent match for driving the picky HD800. The HAP-100 by itself is very competitive with my Maxed Woo WA6 and upgraded tubes, which cost 2x as much. Their iDo is a good iPod > COAX S/PDIF converter, and it's RCA output from the built-in DAC is still pretty decent (although the built-in headphone amp is not nearly as good). Their new STA-100 speaker amp is pretty nice too, and I'll be reporting on that one in a bit.

JH13/16

x2 I married a non-Jew, and eventually became a Christian myself, and my family came to terms with it. My first marriage to a "nice jewish girl" lasted only 2 years, with 18 months of that in marriage counceling. This August we reach our 21st anniversary...

Helped my son with his Eagle Scout project today, rejuvenating the playground and gardens at the local Ronald McDonald House Charity. We spread 10 tons of pea gravel and 4 yards of mulch, after replacing all the edging. We also painted the railings along the porch and wheelchair ramp. My wife and I feel like we died and don't know it yet. Zombies...

I think both watches are very nice. The Zenith El Primero VPH 36,000 is on my wish list at Amazon, but the Carrera still has a respectable movement as well (I.e. not an off the shelf movement like an ETA). In my case I'm partial to SS bracelets rather than leather straps, but both of those watches are well suited for a leather strap. One thing I like more are luminous hands and markers, and I think you get that with the Carerra but not the Zenith.

I'm partial to the Citizen Eco-Drive Diver as an homage to the Submariner with an added bonus of the phallic minute and hour hands. I'm still trying to figure out how they open the watch from the front to service it, since the case is a one-piece unit with a screw down crown and no removable back. It shouldn't need much servicing since the solar-charged battery lasts over 20 years, but I suppose the gasket around the screw down crown can wear out every few years. The SS bracelet is a low-cost replacement for the rubber strap that came with it, and the watch shop had just the right parts for matching the band to the watch. I think it turned out perfect with the bracelet. My son will use the Victorinox Dive Master 500 when he goes scuba diving again. The luminous hands are very bright with both watches after just a 15 second charge with a flashlight (or just sunlight for a few minutes) although the Citizen glows a little brighter. But he's less likely to scratch the sapphire crystal on the Dive Master, and leaving the rubber strap means it will fit him with or without a wetsuit. He wanted a Citizen WR200 dive watch (Scuba Fin model) but I think this will make a better reward for finishing up his work toward Eagle Scout this summer.

Sound quality isn't terrible but isn't great either, but what we like the most is being able to not lose stations when we travel out of range, like with FM. I think we use ch 2 Hits 1, ch 3 20 on 20, ch 15 Pulse, ch 60 Outlaw Radio and ch 59 The Highway and one other country channel, as well as ch 63 The Message christian music, ch 66 jazz, ch 68 new age jazz, and ch 114 fox news the most. I have an old Sirius radio from 2006 I was using with an account I set up around 2004. And last month I was able to get them to merge that old account with my newer XM radio account that I have my Infiniti and Subaru on. The old Sirius account number actually absorbed the newer XM radio account, and the newer account went away. They also sent me a free XM radio to replace the one that I bought 7 years ago. So, I am getting the multi-radio discounts, and I'm still using the old sirius radio since I haven't had a chance to activate the new XM radio that's replacing it. So Sirius and XM are playing nice together here.

I'm using the final version of the Nuforce HD Player, and the HP-800 sound pretty nice unamped with the iPhone or iPad when using the HD player set to "correct" the HP-800's response. I still haven't bothered to dig out the MDR-V6 again, but since the HD Player does more than EQ it might not work well with them. I am told that this is more than just an EQ for iPhone, and that the HD Player actually actively counteracts or suppresses driver ring and distortion. They put up some graphs on their web site showing actual measurements. http://www.nuforce.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=37 The effect with and without the HD Player is pretty amazing. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't heard it for myself. Here is more info about what it does: http://www.nuforce.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=36&Itemid=2576 With the iPhone and iPad the HP-800's faults stand out more than with my Macbook Pro > Amarra Music Player > Nuforce DAC-100 > Nuforce HAP-100 amp. The Mac rig with software and upgraded DAC/amp clearly beats the stock music player on iPad/iPhone, but the Nuforce HD Player brings the enjoyment out of the unamped iPhone much closer to the level of the computer rig! With some songs I might actually enjoy the iDevice/HP-800 via Nuforce HD player more.

looking forward to Arrested Development season 4, and season 2 of Veep as well.

Happy Belated B-day!

I don't think there is a good answer to that question. If the iPhone had a full battery and and went dark shortly after the alert and lost phone message, then I think somebody decided to keep it for themselves. Did you call the cab company ASAP while it was still moving back to the airport, to make sure they knew that you knew the cab driver still had it. I don't know how long it will take someone to hack your lock password, but if you have data in the phone that others shouldn't see (email accounts or passwords to social media) then now is probably a good time to remote wipe it. Unfortunately that means your message with the hotel and phone number will go away, and you can't track it any more. At least with iOS 6 they can't access your new iMessages after they restore the phone themselves like iOS 5 allowed. With the luck I have, the person with my phone would debate with themselves for a couple of hours, and then go to the phone to get my number, and find that I'd already wiped it, so they'd get to keep it because I got scared (the old "report the lost credit card only to find the wallet 3 minutes later" routine).

My favorite is my SR-009 with KGBH built by Marc.

The perspective is making my eyes crossed.

That last 10 lbs is a bitch...

Jerry told me that the 3A does improve further on the phase alignment, but that the FreqPhase was closer to the 3A results than he'd initially expected. He can still adjust the timing/phase of the amps and drivers via programming, just no active crossover anymore. I still find the universal fit demos of any custom IEM difficult to seal, and they don't give me consistent sound quality with too much change in sound as I shift them and try to get them in a better position with a seal. So, I found it hard to compare the JH16-3A to the JH13 or JH16 FreqPhase at RMAF 2012. I could not honestly say how much better the 3A was to the non-3A JH16Pro at RMAF, but overall I was slightly more immersed in the sound with the 3A rig. It may have been placebo, or it may have changed if I'd gone back and refitted the non-3A JH16 again for a better seal the next time around. The main thing I liked the most about the 3A demo was that the bass level control could crank up the bass impact quite a bit without hurting the proper blending of the mid and upper-bass into the lower midrange. The frequency that the 3A bass control was centered around wasn't too low (like JH13 50Hz hump) or too high (like UE11Pro upper bass hump). In the end, I wanted my custom IEM to be truly portable, and the 3A with it's extra bulk and short battery life wasn't what I was looking for. Having to use a bulky cable adapter on the cable to go directly out of an iPhone in a phone case wasn't going to work either. EDIT to add that my custom fit JH16 FreqPhase sound quite a bit better than the demo set did at RMAF, even though I enjoyed the demos. I may actually have preferred my JH13 original sauce to either of the FreqPhase demos due to the better seal and isolation.

Jacob, I only just finished reading all the posts since Monday that I hadn't seen yet. Things will get better, but there will always be ups and downs - that's the nature of the illness. But at least with the Rx adjustments and maybe adding something like Abilify the ups and downs can become "hills and troughs" not "mountains and valleys". Having the diagnosis right is half the way to treating mental illness, but I'm pretty sure meds alone are not enough for most mental health disorders and that therapy is usually indicated as an adjunct even when stable on meds. Some people don't get diagnosed, and are just treated as if they just have a personality disorder. I was in that situation for a while about 22-24 years ago. My 1st wife and I got married after only 6 months of engagement, and within 2 months of marriage she was beating on me. We did 22 months of marriage counseling but the therapist started seeing the ex by herself after the 1st month or so. Nobody would tell me what was going on, and it wasn't until after we split up after 2 years did I find out that she'd been molested by her father when she was a child and was having un-diagnosed and un-treated issues. I'm pretty sure she never got meds to help her deal with the issues while we were together, and I never learned if there was any additional underlying diagnosis, but she could sure act bipolar at times. Maybe if she'd been medicated she would have improved, as therapy alone will not treat some of these issues either.

Tonight my teenage daughter informs me that she hasn't seen her wallet since 6:45PM Wednesday, and first noticed it wasn't in her purse when she got to school this morning (Thurs). She thought she'd find it at home, but after she gets home she looked everywhere for it and couldn't find it. She manages to freak out and sit in her room for hours in panic mode before telling me. First thing I did was search her car for it, and then go online to make sure nobody was using her debit card or my MasterCard that she uses for gas or groceries. But because she is studying for finals she's too upset about her AP Statistics test tomorrow to let me search her room because she can't concentrate, and she's still freaked out. I lieu of a room search I then get sent on a wild goose chase to the gas station where she may have left it, but no luck. So I back off for a little while and order the paperwork online for replacing her driver's license. I also call MasterCard to cancel my card but hang up, and call back, and hang up, over and over about 5 times because I'm worried I'll cancel prematurely. I really wanted to wait until I can search her room and convince myself that her wallet is really gone before canceling the cards. After 2 more hours of intermittent begging that I need to search her room, I give up and cancel her debit card and my MasterCard. So, MasterCard has to send all five of us a new card but it wont be here till next week (stupid cards all have the same #). This is just 2 weeks after my VISA card # was stolen, forcing me to go into all my online accounts and change the billing to another card - and now I have to do it all over again. I hang up the phone with the bank at 11:22PM and at 11:25PM my daughter announces to me that she found her wallet inside her blankets at the foot of her bed when she was going to bed. At least she doesn't need a new driver's license.

Steve, that really sucks. RIP Jim.

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