Sherwood

Side note: that cat looks like it is about to push a watermelon out of a lake.

Isn't the best way to find out who has a piece of gear just to post a negative review of it and see who responds?

I got the figure from Jerry Harvey, who told me he added a 4dB bump at 60hz to accentuate the kick drum. By 115hz it's completely flat again, and more or less maintains that for the rest of the spectrum. Honestly, I just took his word on it. I assume he's told the same story to others.

^^ Exactly.

"Perfect" is not necessarily "flat" in all cases. After all, the bump is deliberate.

I think the cords are mass-produced, but I know how to solder, and lots of other folks do here as well.

I figured you weren't able to catch the mailman what with your advanced years, so I am ready to make the best of it.

Don't give her an address, Chris.

amen to that. My moth is back on speaker/grado duty where it belongs today.

not to mention way hotter

no need to be sorry, Larry, but I have witnesses to you saying you preferred your k1k on the moth at the show. What changed?

I'd have bought two. Well, I did that, so I'd have bought two more.

it also makes it possible to get all the way up to 20khz, which seems to be more important than I would have thought. Maybe not, but something is going on.

If it makes you all feel better, I was given a free t-shirt for selling you all out.

I asked Jerry just this, and I tried hard to remember exactly what he told me. This is the first three-way designed with every driver doubled, and apparently doubling the drivers is extremely important. Doubling them halves their distortion in some important characteristic, and lowers the transient response time of each driver. The JH13 are twice as fast as the JH11, which is less than twice as fast as the JH5. There's magic in driver doubling. So, to your question, line array might not be a bad way to think about it.

Well they're running a sub 1-week wait right now, as per Jaime, so hopefully that day will come sooner than later.

That sounds like something of a win/win.

Relapse? Doug, did you forget how they sounded? You're +1 DAC right now, man. This opportunity has been dropped in your lap.

My friend, any time. It was worth it for me just to have you provide independent verification of my heterosexuality here on this forum.

Alas, the F1 and the B22 were not there, but the moth was. The EHHA is better than the Moth at effectively everything with the k1000, and plenty with the Grado. The speed, dynamics, power and tone were dead spot on. If they cost the same amount of money and I was only using the Grados, I'd get the Moth. As it is, the EHHA is $500 of parts to the $1500 Moth, and doesn't require periodic tube replacements to run. It's a no-brainer. From aural memory, I feel comfortable stating that the EHHA is a better match for the K1000s than the F1 will ever be. They both exert a surprising amount of control over the drivers, but the F1 is not really designed for high-impedance headphones. I expect the Moth and the F1 to outperform the EHHA on my cicadas, however. In any case, I should very much like to test that theory. Seriously, though, guys, the EHHA has gobs of power, just stupid amounts. Bill's build is a BJT version, rather than Mosfet, and it's also balanced. I'm sure that accounts for part of the power, but it was really remarkable.

I loved it, Greg. Forget about the rest of them.

x5

The k1000s were better out of the 2a3, as was the Grado. I preferred the stax transformer out of it as well, but I didn't do that head to head. The ZDT might have the edge with the new Audeze LCD-2, but I don't own that. It was very close, in any case, and if they were both through the same source I think the ZDT might have taken it. JP#s also made the claim that the EC2a3 was the ultimate JH13 amp, which seems akin to saying that a SCRamjet is the ultimate mode of commute, but since I foolishly own both now, I shall test it out.

Aight, as promised, JH5 vs. JH13. This comparison was done on Jerry's balanced rig, which is an Electrocompaniet EMP-1 into an RSA apache. The same hacked aviation cable was used for both. Keep in mind, these were both universals, so neither sounds as good as they would in a custom shell, but both are evenly handicapped. Brent, you want the JH13. You'd love to save money and get the JH5, but you won't, because they're not as good. They both share the JH bass boost, which is about +4db at around 60hz according to Jerry (though those figures are divergent in many places) to emphasize kick drum. That is why they are "danceable", or course. You are all likely to know that the JH13 is a three way that doubles every driver, which is why they're so magical (again, according to Jerry). The JH5 is a two-way with singles for low and mid/high. The JH5 is very, very good. If I was in the market for a pair of Westone 3, I would definitely give them a shot. The bass is tight and enjoyable, and the frequency spectrum transitions nicely and seamlessly between drivers, so the crossover is well made. The similar sound signature makes them enjoyable, since the bass sounds great. That being said, they're not JH13s. They're not even "baby" JH13s, they're just well make dual-driver customs. They might be the kings of their price point, but they're not comparable to the 13s, to my ears. What the JH13s have above the 5s is an incredible sense of realism. I don't know if it comes from the frequency extension, the dual drivers, or the pixie dust, but there are many layers of midrange haze missing from the JH13 that are present in the 5. The soundstage felt much bigger, and everything was much more immediate. That immediacy is what set the JH13s apart from every other IEM I've heard, and it's what wrenched $999 out of my pocket.

Rowr