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My headphones have feelings, and you just hurt all of them. Do you have any idea how long its going to take to console them? I can see my HD800 and R10 crying on each others shoulders in the corner now. Its terrible. Grados are manly headphones so they dont cry, but I can see them holding it back. The Stax collection is donning its samurai garb to defend the honor of their family.

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Is it bad that I find that slightly arousing?

The lego archetecture you have displayed is too awesome.

Does anyone else feel empathy (sympathy?) for Patrick? I certainly do. Have you watched his pool videos? Going from someone who can shoot pool like that to someone like he is now is a pathetic waste of talent. I hope for his sake that he pulls through whatever he is up against now and can can shoot pool again. His videos portray him as being freakishly good at it.

I ordered some parts from parts conexion. The power went out EXACTLY 10 seconds before I was about to transmit, for exactly long enough for my computer to shut off. Its like the fuckers at the power company planned it that way.

Happy Birthday David!

I also like the style of writing. Too much stuff is too uptight and rigid. icky. A very simple SS amp? Try it! I am curious about why he didnt specify the gain. His description makes it sound like he is trying NOT to say that the SS amp is a buffer. Im totally OK with that, and think its an awesome niche for an amp but he should say it if thats what it is. I have no idea whats going on in the tube amp, but it could also be totally cool.

My usual method is to try it and see what happens I have done what you describe (2 things chained off of RCA, 1 on XLR) to get a bunch of amps to run on my Esound E5at meets.

DR. Mead Killion, The founder of Etymotic

I had a great time with all of you in Chicago. I particularly enjoyed listening to Digger945's Dynamite and the Audeez LCD-2. The KGT2 was also an outstanding listen.

I dont know either, but I wonder if Superman enjoys Batman's wonderful toys.

Both of my headphones which were tested came up with flipped polarity. Previous tests of one of my headphones (The sony MDR-cd900st) indicate that they are in fact in proper polarity (a positive pulse causes the drivers to move towards the listener=proper polarity). With at least a dozen places where the polarity of the test equipment could have gotten flipped it should be no surprise that they measured 180* out. Quick glances at several other headphones which were tested came up with the results in flipped polarity. What I find amazingly shitty is that nobody has taken the 2 seconds to comment on the flatness of the phase VS frequency compared to the other headphones measured. Ooh, right, people are too busy dumping all over the audeez because of what is at worst (and I dont even know if it even is, considering how well the headphone rumor mill grinds this stuff up) a simple wiring error by a hack cable guy. People bitch and moan about phase shift when you drop a transformer in the signal path because they shift a few degrees at 20Khz..... The Audeez had very very flat phase response. Do you have dcumentation supporting audibility of speaker polarity (IE, whether the driver moves towards or away from the listener on a rising electrical signal)? If the drivers are wired out of phase (left Vs right) you would need to be deaf to not hear it but polarity is totally different.

Your conclusion tells you that either of 2 scenarios has played out. The first is that your pot has a balance issue. The second is that your ears are not matched as well as the drivers. Both things are quite common. Unless you tweaked the white balance to make those look as white as paper, they are as white as paper.

I think you are supposed to actually crimp the shield between those 2 parts when using a coax cable to achieve 100% shielding from end to end. They sort of do and sort of dont say that The "absolute best right way to do it" only applies to balanced interconnects because that is simply the best and right way to send signal any more than 3 meters. Below 3M you are probably not going to have a problem with noise pickup in even a consumer "standard" 2v nominal signal no mater how you connect the shield - even if you dont have one at all! When you *need* an interconnect longer than 3M things start to get weird for any number of reasons, and that is where having the rane article is key. To add, the rane article la-la-loves transformers to isolate various pieces of single ended gear which makes sense because transformers are awesome and so is whoever wrote that article. Too much awesome simply does not exist. Anyways, if you look at the "not so right ways to do things, but how its going to be because the world is an imperfect place and you have to hook that piece of crap Rane didnt build to some shit someone else from Rane built" chart at the bottom of the page they say hook the shield up at both ends in certain cases, but not others. The general theme is that if there is only 1 conductor you make do with what you have and use the shield as signal ground. If there are 2 dedicated signal conductors the shield is connected at only 1 end if floating the shield like that solves a problem. If the 2 ends are of similar termination (balanced to balanced) the shield is connected at the source end when problems arise. Im not sure why they dont touch on what to do with twisted pair cables for RCA-RCA use but other people do hook the shield up at the source end only.

Someone loaned me their T1 and I am very thankful for that. I guess I should post what I think about them. Components of my system that may be relevant are: A small transformer coupled SS amp that is on loan to me. Im not sure what its called, but it sounds awesome. Behringer SRC2496 doing its thing to convert to 24/96, and DEQ2496 as DAC. No EQ is applied. I volume matched the 2 headphones to within 1db using a cheap SPL meter with both a 440hz tone and white noise. Conclusions: Overall both headphones sound great and IMO deserve their flagship status. They are both similarly balanced from the lower midrange up although they do deviate slightly in the very low end with the T1 having just a touch more bass. The sound stage of these 2 headphones is another place they both differ somewhat. The HD800 has a very large although somewhat “bowl” shaped sound stage where the T1 has a slightly flatter although smaller sound stage to my ears. By “bowl shaped” I mean that if the recording has sound panned hard left/right the HD800 plays hard left/right and everything curves to fit like on a fisheye lens. The T1 tends to push sounds on the very far left/right forwards to be more like its in front of you rather than to the direct side like a rectillnear lens. I think this is a slightly more natural presentation although it may not technically be true to the recording. On that note, are recordings with anything hard panned true to LIFE? I would not classify either headphone as distant or forwards: they both put instruments/musicians which are near the center of the recording at about the same place front to back. I think the HD800 has a slight edge for front to back placement on things that are really far back or forwards, but the T1 still shows depth layering well. Probably the best way to explain it is that the T1 compresses sound stage without loosing detail/layering. Sounds coming from the back of the stage are still at the back of the stage, and the front is still the front, they are just closer together. Like anyone cares what my opinion is, and at the risk of an opinion during the honey-moon phase of headphone ownership (or on a loan) I actually prefer the way the T1 does things. Weird, right? Its at least as good as most other headphones with regards to sound stage (where it looses out to the HD800) and I think its relative weakness compared to the HD800 here is a benefit in recordings that the HD800 portrays as being annoyingly mixed. Some quick listening impressions Track 1: Album: The sound track from the movie Garden state Artist: Remmy zero Song: Fair Both headphones put the singer direclty above the guitar, in the same plane front to back. Very nice! The tambourine also sounds like its coming from about the same place front to back on both headphones. Im not sure why but the sonar blip sounds like it is coming from further in the backround on the HD800. Track2: Album: The fat of the land Artist: Prodigy Song: smack my bitch up Both headphones catch the “windy” sound around the deep bass hit well although the T1 sound like they go a hair deeper. Track 3: Artist: Regina Spector Album: Laughing with Song: Folding chair This song starts off with an electric Piano/synth and a close miked piano that seems to stretch from left to right across the whole soundstage. I would like to extend my speshul thanks to whoever decided that close mic'ing a piano to achieve this effect was “good”. Congratulations, your a retard. Anyways, the lower notes are all stacked up on the right ear. On the HD800 they sound like they are coming from exactly right of me. The effect is like I am sitting in the piano which is how I immagine the recording was done. On the T1 the sound comes from somewhere in front of me. It is still clearly far right, but about 30* in front of the line drawn between my ears.

Yes, there are services for that. You could also get into doing your own processing & scanning. For B&W processes its easier than most people think.

Could you elaborate on that? I disagree, and would say they are both built to the same standards.

Happy Birthday Brent!

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