Tyll Hertsens

I talked to Gunter Weidemann at CES (beyer's cheif designer) and he mentioned that they changed the foam in the earpads. I had significant difficulty getting them to seal and deliver bass when I measured them because the previous earpar cushioning material was a bit stiff. Also, I'm a big dissbeliever in the idea that headphone makers have "house sounds" as a general rule. Most makers don't have the technical chops and control of the end product's sound to target a particular response. There are exceptions to the rule, IMHO, however. Grado has a house sound, but only because they take zero risk in developing new product. Adding an "i" and fat cables doesn't constitute product development, I reckon. AT is pretty consistently fast and thin sounding. It seems to me the beyer does to some extent, with a little warmer sound than AT. I think Gunter is a good engineer and can hit his target fairly well, but I think he does set his target a bit too far on the bright side. I don't quite know why. If Sennheiser has a house sound, it's right down the middle, but just like everyone else, they miss the mark and wobble around thier some. For example, the 650 is a bit too warm, and the 800 is a bit too thin. I'm going to need to spend moar time with the T1 before I call it overpriced, but I'd rather listen to a T1 than an 800, but I'd take an LCD2 over both.

Even go want moar far!? Sweet!

I've got the Droid Incredible, a moderately large phone, and I like its size. I even wish it was a tiny bit bigger...typing on it sux even though I find the keyboarding more accurate than my iTouch. My though has always been that I want a display as big as possible, but still comfortable fits in a front pants pocket.

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FTMFW. Limited convergence sucks. Posting at 4:20 and with moar beer, finally.

The iPod was sucessful because Steve knew you just wanted magic picutures in your hand. Edit: sorry, the iTouc and phone were. The ipod was successful because he knew people wanted magic access to their music.

^^^ This. Once you've got screens that do everything that fit in your pocket,sit on your desk, and a tablet thingy to fulfil your geekly desires (and we're getting there), it's the services and interoperability that count. See the OP.

Hm. Never thought about them doing that. Pretty tricky.

You rock, Bonnie. The t-shirts are nothing, it's those death defying conversational skills that are really impressive. But thanks for the shirts anyway.

Hey! Yeah, I'm here. Vegas sucks. I'm going on 20 years at this carnival.

Hey! Yeah, I'm here. Vegas sucks. I'm going on 20 years at this carnival.

Having started this thread, I think I should report that living in Appleland for the past few days on my macBook, iTouch, and iPad has been extreemely pleasurable. Extreemely.

This thread makes me happy. Oh, I have a simple little digital Tek scope and it's sweet for basic stuff. I want one of these ... that disappears when I'm not using it.

Good grief! Those people must have a PR firm from hell; they've been all over the news on teh interwebs for about a week now. Expensive, but they look good to me.

Phase might be 180 out, but since you're within a 1/2 wavelength I don't think dispersion is an issue. You're basically pressurizing the passenger compartment on and off at a controlled rate. I think blowing a windshied or an eardrum out is the big issue.

Now there's a fucking idea: subjective listening test between all headphones endorsed by rappers. Test CD Reference System

Looks like Im gonna have my work cut out for me checking in on all these at CES. Ill let you know how they sound. Im actually encouraged by all this noise. Sorta like the joke that ends "with all this horse shit there has to be a pony in here somewhere." I can only hope that somewhere along the line these folks will actually have to start competing on the basis of something real ... say "sound quality." Now there's an idea! I've been reading a lot of the news stories out there on this genre of cans, and the hatred for Monster and their approach to marketing headphones is stunning. Somewhere along the line there will be some backlash, and I'm hoping it will be in the form of exposing how wretched Monster cans sound, and how many better headphones there are out there. For example: how cool would it be to find out the Sleek cans sound great and recommending them over Monsters might swing a lot of business in their direction. Putting Monsters marketing blitz results in some elses pockets,like Sleek, would give Sleek the money to RD better and better products. To be truthful, I really hope Monster gets their shit together and uses their profits to improve the sound performance of their products. Doesnt seem very likely to me though.

Friggen drunk double post on the iPad. Sorry.

Says the topologist. i rest my case.

Yup, this. I think the lcd2 is THE story of the year 2010 for Headphondom.

Not sure how many have, really. Apple? Amazon?

Feeling a little jittery, are we?

Sweet! Makes me horny.

So that's my chioce, eh? My money to either Bill or Steve? Fucking rich fuckers.