HeadphoneAddict

We kept giving out candy to the teens that came later as well, several who know my oldest daughter and visited with her a little. Probably saw 50 kids total tonight. I had just enough candy, with a bunch of left over tootsie rolls.

Be patient and wait for used HF-2 to come up for sale.

We're at 245Gb this month, but usually stay under 200Gb.

That's wild, to be Santa on your DL.

Well, even with 0.2.10 I could play 24/96 HDTracks FLAC files fine, and I'm on 0.2.12 now with no issues. I would contact "Dennis at PS Audio dot com"

I have an RMAF book you can have. PM me an address to mail it.

Yeah, your NAS might have new firmware, but doesn't explain why it quit working. Were your FLAC working before, and now don't, or is it only recent downloads? I haven't bought any recent albums from HDTracks, wonder of they did something to their files. The set up is simply configuring the name of the NAS and IP address, and setting up an administrator and PW. Seems like you've done that already for use with your computer. If the NAS has a uPNP or DLNA server on it then the PS Audio eLyric software for iDevices will find the NAS and the music on it, and it will see your Bridge as a place to send the audio to (assuming everything is on the same network).

Yes, it does once you've set up the NAS with your computer. I can have my computers all off and play 24/96 FLAC from HDTracks.com, but need an iPhone or iPad to control the playback.

Well, nook for iPad. I sold the nook, but have 100 eBooks for nook so i'm sticking with that format for now.

After high school I only applied to two universities in Texas where I grew up, and was accepted to both. I chose TAMU which had a better pre-med program than UT (couldn't afford private schools). I applied to 4 medical schools in Texas and was accepted to 3, and put on the wait list for the 4th. So I got to pick Baylor College of Medicine, which I think was the best of the ones in Texas. At first they subsidized the tuition for in-state students to ridiculously low levels (same price as UT med schools), but then the tuition doubled each year after my first year when that went away. At least I never paid the full $10K per year (a lot in 1984).

I still have a TomTom as backup for my iPhone and Navigon. Haven't used it in 2 years.

Does anyone make an app (like Navigon for iPhone) that doesn't require cellular data to use GPS and maps?

I bought Steve Jobs for nook. But need to finish a Heinlen book first.

Strange, it looked like there was a lot of interest for info that I left out in my first posts, but it wasn't really wanted. swt61 must be right.

Happy birthday! (when was it?)

Thanks! I sprung for the Apple lossless version.

Just to clarify things I posted here before, and not to take this off topic again, I add this. But I'm not going to go back and forth with rebuttals and defenses to more accusations here. This will remain the LCD-3 topic, although it's understood that comparing them to other phones Is perfectly acceptable. I'm taking the time to write this because I have 2 hours to kill with my iPad while having my car serviced. I saw that all the stat amps at RMAF were driven balanced from their sources via XLR except for the BHSE, which I didn't look at the connections. I would assume Justin would drive it balanced, but no promises. I don't know if my Apogee mini-DAC set for "11" on the volume has the same output levels as the Woo DAC, or Boulder, or Oppo, or Sony that were used at RMAF. But I've read elsewhere that the Apogee that I brought to RMAF has hot outputs, closer to 5v than 4. I've searched just now and can't find the actual numbers in the first few hits I got. I know that any amp has a ceiling in its output power which is different depending on the design, and reaching that ceiling can come sooner or later depending on the source's output voltage and the amp's gain. I'm not stupid or ignorant about that. I know that balanced XLR is usually double the output voltage of single ended. I always use my Apogee or Perfectwave DAC via XLR outputs for my stat amps, with the source output volumes at max. In fact, my WES and KGSS don't even have single ended inputs, and the RCA inputs on my eXStatA are never used in my setup. The HEV-70 I mentioned before is SE only, as was the SRM-1 mk2 Pro. The 717 I heard with 007 and HE-60 before was via balanced XLR. The T1 I heard was via XLR > ISOmax transformers to convert the signal to SE, so I could feed my GES via RCA from the same DAC and do quick comparisons. When I'm saying that the Cavalli drove the 007 very well and very loud, loud wasn't the only thing it did well. And loud isn't my only gauge of how well the 007 are "driven". But most of the amps I've tried with the 007 will not play cleanly at volumes that resemble those of a live performance. The BHSE and CLL were able to achieve those volumes. There was no distortion, graininess or fatigue associate with loud volumes. The CLL/007 sound was extended, full and present, fast, dynamic, powerful with good body, good timbre/tone and frequency balance, detailed and spacious, clean and smooth with great air, ambience and space (which I think reflects good micro-detail). I could not appreciate them in their fullest because of noise and meet conditions, but I was able to overfocus on the headphones and tune out the surrounding noise as best as I could. Both amps seemed to be in the same tier of performance to me, in most of these areas. My only concern with the BHSE and 007 is that the mids still sound recessed and less vivid to me with 007, offering a deeper but less intimate soundstage than the Cavalli. I first posted this finding back in 2009 after RMAF, and got blasted for it (putting flame suit on). What was most striking was the superb transparency offered by the Cavalli and BHSE, where everything combined well to make the headphones almost disappear. Although that can also be a reflection of the quality of the source, if the amp isn't good enough you may not be able to appreciate everything the source has to offer. With any of my amps I might not have wanted to keep keep my 007 for the long run, even though my KGSS with my PWD DAC is a little better than my WES when using the 007. But it still is not enough for them to be driven the way these other amps can do it, and I still find the 007 mids and highs to feel recessed with it. That's why I've been using my HE-60 more. Before RMAF I planned on getting the 009 if they made the grade, but in comparison to my HE-60 they were only a little better, mostly in the area of a more solid foundation and weight to the instruments. They were also maybe a little smoother and more refined sounding. But the speed, delicacy, and and sondstage were similar. This could very well be different with different sources, amps, and listening environment. So I haven't made any final assessments. It should be assumed without saying that anything I posted would only be valid for the listening conditions at RMAF. Like I said, it felt like if I could mix what I like about the 007 with HE-60 I'd have an 009, but it might also include the things I don't like about the HE-60 (picking apart the music, fatiguing at high volumes which could be amp related, still not enough weight and foundation in the bottom end). But knowing what the 007 can do now makes me want to keep them and just drive them better. I haven't posted much impressions of my KGSS before, due to having my posts picked apart in the past, but I did send my impressions to Marc after I had it for a week. I got no encouragement to post them, so I didn't. Many of you are just too demanding about how my impressions should be posted, and don't often apply those standards to other members of the forum (except the 1 post newbies). When I postthe my brief 009 vs LCD-3 impressions here, any omissions of fact doesn't mean I didn't consider it, but rather that it didn't seem necessary to add more details to my post. I'm constantly berated for putting too much fluff in my posts, but then when I trim the fat I get blasted and acused of not considering important things - can't win for losing. The fact still remains that with the 007 I have not heard an amp drive them as close to my expectations as the BHSE or the CLL. Since I'd prefer solid state and single chasis, and the way the CLL presents the mids, I'm leaning towards the CLL. I'll try to get an opportunity to hear these more in the future before I decide. I'm also considering having Woo upgrade my WES to the current revision, which sounded wonderful with the 009. PS: I'm fully expecting someone to grasp onto at least ONE incorrect fact above, and let me know about it while completely ignoring anything else that I said. If I'm lucky they'll find several things to rip apart. It seems to be expected here (puts on thick skin again).

Yes. I sent them to Sennheiser summer of 2009 for new drivers, o-rings, ear pads, and headband pad. I bought them from Kees with the Stax plug already done, and a 6" pigtail to let me use the HEV-70 if I wanted. I slso had to replace the PSU at the same time with Sennheiser. They did all the refurb work for about $550 + shipping (incl PSU). [edit iPad auto correct]

Spent some quality time with my 16 yr old daughter today and took her to lunch, then bought her a nice haircut, and stopped by the rocky mountain chocolate factory before coming home.

Well, based on what I posted and what KG has recently posted, it wouldn't be unreasonable for me to expect an apology here. Even without KG posting I should have been offered an apology. Of course nobody actually expects that to ever happen. I made reasonable posts and impressions, and I just read all of them again to be sure - and in the context that they were posted I still would NOT change anything that I wrote. It's a shame that any useful impressions of LCD-3, 009, or Cavalli amp that I made are lost in the turmoil of the alligators fighting over their prey. It seems to be more fun here to ridicule and reduce "lesser folk" to ashes than to accept anything useful they have to offer, old or new members. I know - thick skin and all. But, for Christ's sake you guys are like playing with wild animals that look nice and pretty when you're petting them, but will rip your head off when you're not looking. Every time I start to feel welcome here I get a clear reminder than I am not one of you. And I'm hoping that if I start to become like some of you that someone will call me on my bullshit and tell me to straighten up and stop being an asshole. And the next person who posts a photo of a Whaaambulance can be that asshole.

I gave Tyll my Sennheiser HE-60 at RMAF, to take with him and measure for the database since they are Stax terminated. I also gave him a pair of Smeggy SFI pucks (120 ohm orthos) to measure, which were one of his earliest pairs of custom SFI orthos (before he turned pro).

Happy Birthday!

With 007 about as loud as a live jazz performance, for 20 seconds, and that was enough. I enjoyed the bass impact and dynamics that I don't normally experience with them, even at more normal/safe listening levels. The LCD-3 on the Liquid Fire was also superb, with even better impact and visceral punch, although I thought the 007 had more finesse. Neither of these was particularly fatiguing at these volumes, and it was without grain or harshness.

No, I've been off my Paxil since 10/9 due to a drug interaction, and I'm feeling really irritable right now. It chaps my ass when I say (write) something and instead of staying on topic "someone" feels the need to jump in and dissect something trivial and re-direct the conversation elsewhere. I was talking about how I felt the Cavalli and BHSE drive the 007 better than any other amps I've heard, and how Cavalli says it does 1300v P2P but that I thought it was more. Next thing I know I'm getting a lecture on power, telling me it's voltage not power that matters with stats, and that any stat amp can achieve ear splitting levels with the 007. I don't care if it's got more power or more voltage, but said it's got more of whatever it needs to drive the 007 than any other amp I've tried, except the BHSE. And I commented that in my experience that none of those other amps that I listed could achieve ear splitting levels without severe distortion, unlike these two. I didn't use the word "clipping" once, but then I'm told I don't even know what clipping is, or gain, or power, and I don't need that shit right now. So, a whole bunch of crap is being made up about me based on my use of the word power instead of voltage, when in context I was talking about voltage swing. I'd really like the conversation to get back on topic. I initially made a very brief comparison between 009 and LCD-3 in relation to the 007, HE-60, HE-6 and LCD-2; and I made my preference for LCD-3 over 009 known, so I'm sticking with that topic in this thread from this point on if we can.