Tyll Hertsens

HBD Mike!

HBD big guy! Have fun!

He he he he he. My FJR keeps me in there by the skin of my teeth.

BTW Steve, let me introduce you to ADVrider.com. That link takes you to the photo roll, all pictures taken by inmates, most photos are simply stunning. ADVrider (Adventure Rider) is a forum for people who do long distance motorcycling adventures. ADV is just a bit smaller than Head-Fi... so it's a big place. The crown jewel of the site is Ride Reports...there's some AWESOME adventures reported there. But the site has some GREAT sub-forums for all sorts of things. Jo Momma is a big off-topic area, but you can't see it unless you sign up. I used to mod in Old's Cool where people worked on old bikes. The bike forums on ADV are probably the best one-stop technical forums around. Anyway, despite great consternation and rebellion when it was established (I was a mod there for a while) ADV does have a Scooter forum. I think you'll find all sorts of good info there from people who really know how to put miles on a machine, know their way around a bike, and know when something's a piece of shit and aren't afraid to say it. BTW, the place is surprisingly open minded and gay friendly. Most folks there love to get out and meet people around the world so I think you can feel quite comfortable about expressing yourself as openly as you'd like.

HBD Greg!

+1 on getting gear. Prolly a cup as well...need to protect the TICE!!!

You've got to be shitting me? That's a production unit!?

I have one in the house. Haven't turned it on yet, but will sometime this week. Measurements and review sometime soon. Fingers crossed.

Don't know too much about the subject, Steve, but have heard a lot of good things about the Suzuki Burgman scooters. Knew a guy who rode one to Alaska. Put a car tire on the back, got a jillion miles out of it.

HBD Justin. It's been a pleasure to watch you march forward all these years. All the best!

They're already off to Joker for consideration. The best iteration of these I heard were at RMAF a couple of years ago. The current ones aren't quite as good to my ears, but decent. My biggest gripe is that I don't think George has really understood how and why people need headphones. It's strongly based on ergonomics. Unfortunately the EM5813 is not ergonomically correct for what IEMs are typically designed to do. The 5813 is heavy; comes with only two ear-tips both the same size (one has a hole in it to tune the bass lower), and both too big for me; they're heavy; they don't isolate particularly well; and the cables are too thick and heavy. Basically they're not very useful for what most want IEMs for. If, however, you just want to use them at your desk, I'd say they're okay...but then why not use a regular over-ear headphone. No, George really did design these from the ground up, as best as I can tell.

HBD David! You going to the LA meet in July?

I can hear my arteries hardening.

Well, microphones (at least those not powered) deliver fairly low level signals. Any RF interference could be problematic. But the RF induced voltage/current into the mike cable would have the same polarity on both conductors. In other words the received radio signal is in-phase on both wires, or is in common-mode. If the mike is a balanced emitter of signal into a differential amp on the receiving end (or the primary of a transformer), then that differential amp input is only seeing the difference in voltage between the two conductors. The common-mode (in the same polarity on both conductors) RF signal is rejected by the differential input of the amp. (Common-mode rejection) So, mikes use blanced signal trasmition for is common-mode rejection capability to rid signal of induced noise on long cable runs. (Not only RF from radio, but RF from flourescent lights and refridgerator motors as well.) But with headphones, the high signal levels and low output impedance of the amp make developing an RF signal on the wire much less of a problem. Balanced is use on headphones so that you can rid yourself of cross-talk from the common ground with normal headphone wiring. Also because you have two amps slewing in opposite directions, you effectively double the slew rate of your electronics. Unfortunately, it also doubles the output impedance of the amp, so it lowers the damping factor. Lastly, it tends to cancel out some of the even order harmonic distortion products of the amp. To me that's why it's kind of stupid to build tube balanced amps that have amp stages for both + and - channels. But we're getting way off topic now.

Mostly when you do have a ground available, you should attach it to the shield of the cable on the amp end only. This is often called a "drain wire", and allows the shield to work better to isolate the signal from RF interference.

Okay. I'll try to flip the switch and turn it on.

Amazing! It seems Knucks has passed another milestone in his attempt to fill up the internet. Well done!

Uh oh. Wonder where I put my tether.

Happy Father's Day! (Sorry about your wallet.)

Here you go, Dusty.

HD700 capsule review: Yuck!

WHEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!