Tyll Hertsens

No, I'm not going to send either of you a free Desktop Portable.

One more, a good one. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aksce4oJsU]YouTube - OOP BOP SH' BAM.Dizzy Gillespie.[/ame] If we get to $25 mil I might not have to draw much of a salary, and live on the dividends work part time, and just ride around on my bike mostly. It's also the satisfactory point in terms od dividend distribution as ROI for the investors. I'd say it's 15-20 years away. I better be healthy at 70; and I'll be riding a big trike. Geebus, I just summed up my life. Take heed youngins, life goes by quick. Stay in school and work hard because the chances of having some time to have fun at the end is a tricky sumbitch.

Ooo eee, ooo ah ah, bing, bang, walla-walla bing-bang. Ooo eee, ooo ah ah, bing-bang walla-walla bing-bang.

Most companies are run by selfish, fearfull, idiots in suits! I don't wear a suit.

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I'll just repost a comment here that I posted in our forum area. Given the state of the economy, I'd say a 'hold' recommendation is pretty good. Okay, seriously, great question, let me do you the honor of a serious answer. There are a number of issues here, and I'll address them in brief from an 'outside looking in' point of view, but I'll add there are numerous internal resource management issues, I won't bore you with, that adds various weights to the scale. Discontinuing the Max and Home. We feel that a statement product isn't of too much use once the statement has been fully made and the technologies therein have been moved to lower cost products. It's now time for us to do a fairly long development project to make the next statement. This is something we were going to do more in the early 09 time frame, but due to the economy and soft sales in Oct/Nov we took the opportunity to 'cash out' the remaining inventory of Max and Homes in order to finance our Christmas season without tapping our credit line, and to reduce the inventory future labor requirements to support the line in order to enter next year---which is very likely to continue to be economically soft---a little leaner and meaner. Desktop Audiophile. First, I'll make a little argument that stretching a product line is a good thing: When we introduced the first BlockHead and the concept of balanced amps, there was ZERO demand for such a product as there were ZERO people who had balanced headphones. Well, long story short, that turned out pretty good and today I'd guess at least 10% of our dollar sales are attributable to balanced headphone related products. The link to the Desktop Audiophile, I would argue, may be more direct. Once you make something like the current Desktop Amp you realize that you've made a promise to customers. The Desktop Amp is---and eventually will be---better called something like a Desktop Preamp. As we struggled to convey all the versatility to customers we found ourselves up against a conceptual wall: people just didn't understand what it does. (I'm not talking about you guys, but about the average audiophile who is savvy about normal audio gear but not about headphone gear.) If you tell someone, "this gizmo is the center of a desktop audio system, well, you've got to show them a desktop audio system someway or another. Now, here's the tricky bit: We could either spend a whole lot of time slapping people upside the head with a whole bunch of words (which mostly don't get read in an ad) and get them to understand that a Desktop Amp is basically a preamp on your desk, or we could simply show them a picture that made it possible to make some assumptions based on their understanding of big stereo systems. Show audiophiles this picture: and they 'get it.' Then there's the fact as mentioned above, that technically, it was a fairly easy development. Then there's this little slap of reality: HeadRoom has to continue to grow to at least five times it current size. There are enough audiophiles to support that, but they DON'T LIKE HEADPHONES, they like speakers. You can scream and shout all you want (and I have) but you can't escape that fact. Doing the Audiophile Desktop is a broadening of the brand that allows audiophiles to identify with our products much more strongly. Lastly, this is important but a bit too complex to go into in any depth, HeadRoom is a bootstrap operation. It is hard as hell to get the wiggle room needed to finance furthering developments. If I had a big wad of cash in my pocket, sure, I'd keep the Max for longer and I'd discontinue it only six months before the introduction of the next flagship. (It's important that there be that time off with the flagship product so you don't piss of recent purchasers.) But I don't, so I can't. You see, your initial premise is wrong right from the start: HeadRoom is not a vehicle for outside investors. It's a bootstrap development for a couple of VC guys who invested a very small amount to see if it could turn into an "American Dream" project with a long term cash cow payoff. The goal is to get there from here eventually and with no addition need for cash. And that, amazingly and slowly, we're doing. Now for Head-Case let me add: That's an option. Shhh. After talking with our team of lawyers at the NY branch office, the wording is that you can say anything you want as long as you have six ping-pong balls in your mouth and only say things once. No limitations on how slowly you talk.

Actooly, we've got these big fat hypodermic needle looking things up here called a "cow trocar." You just punch it into the side of a bloated cow to let the gas out. Whaddaya think? Just lift your shirt a little there, Dan. (Sometimes I think I'm too gross for my own good.)

Sorry guys, we did sell more than we expected. We're working on an accounting system that will attach the web with the accounting and inventory systems to prevent this type of thing, but at the moment it's manual, and everybody was eating turkey while the site was getting hammered for K601 sales. Lame? Maybe. It's costing about $50,000 to upgrade our accounting software so it could easily be compared to a medical issue. Personally, I'd prefer, "fucking bummer" but it's your keyboard.

No way, dude! Did the amps really blow? Please let me know and I'll see if there's something we can do for you.

What the hell! Does everybody have birfdays here, or sumpin'? Happy birthday, Vincent!

Oh, geez, I didn't have time to get a cake for you Jay. Hope this will do for ya, eh.

Damn, I'm a day late to the party. Happy Birfday anyway, Billy.

Sorry Al, anything else I can cut you a little deal on? Call me.

Thanks man, wasn't really sure since it wasn't really a new product announcement. I'll put ANY vendor shit in here from now on. Sorry, I really should have figured...oughta spend more time here......

I'm a total dumbshit about where this needs to go here on HeadCase, so please feel free to move it. Okie Dokie, Tyrion, we're putting our amps and speaker stands on sale! Buy either the Desktop Stereo Amp or the Desktop MonoBlock Amps and a pair of Desktop Speaker Stands and get 25% off! Just put the products in the shopping cart and use the coupon code "mydesk" P.S. Sorry, Mike, I just figure out since you already have the stands this doesn't help you much. (Call me, Mike, I'll do sumpin' for you. )

Okie dokie.

Anytime you old fart. And Billy, The Chicago national didn't happen because I was an idiot and decided to think you might be able to keep your shit together ... which you subsequently proved to be a ridiculous assumption.

Meh. Not going to read the thread. No need to go over the last fucking two year yet again. just going to say: Fuck yeah! Now, let's get back to innovation and productivity, and get this fucking economy back on its feet.

Got three. Yamy TW200 Daisy, my '85 BMW R80G/S and my '05 Yamaha FJR1300 How about the 650 V-Strom like Old Pa has above? A great bike, cheap too. Upright seating position, not like a bent over sport bike at all. It's a lot more nimble that the Vulcan. Take you a hell of a lot more places, more safely than a cruiser.

Thanks, mang! They 'knew' you because you just radiate headphone enthusiasm!

The people behind me have a lot more to worry about than that! (Hey mods! I'm a bit of a n00b here wrt the rulz, do I need to change the to a link? Sorry, couldn't resist.) Come on up to our room, Luminette, I think we'll display the dash.

Yeah, whut he said. Well, sort of: the output from the mixer goes to the amp, and then the output from the amp goes to a shot 1/8 inch headphone extension cable that goes under the tank bag. Then I plug my headphones into that. I used the Q-Jays because they are so small they don't interfere with putting the helmet on and off. I tried my UE11s and found I couldn't get the helmet on and off without dislodging them enough to unseat them and break the seal, and it's impossible to get my fingers in there to re-fit them with my helmet on. A good fitting helmet is VERY snug. Lot's of motorcyclists use ER6 IEMs, but frankly I'm surprised they can successfully use them inside helmets. Q-Jays with ER6 baby blue tips seems the way to go for riders, it seems to me.

I saw a comment on another site about that bike, something like, "If you Armorall that thing and slam on the breaks you'd end up in the back seat of the car in front of you."

The Micro Portable has a built in DAC. And no, I'm not half fast, I'm full fast.

I've been having sooooo much fun putting together a 100mph audio system I just couldn't resist posting it up for your viewing pleasure before it starts moving too fast to see. You see, I bought me a super slab gobbler (highway bike) and I had to rig up some music. This is what it looked like when I bought it. A week later it looked like this. Didn't really have to take it apart that far just to install the gear, but I wanted to see what was under the hood. (BTW, what's under the hood is a 1300cc, 140hp, 100ft/lb torque screaming Yama-mill.) Then I did a bunch of this shit. And now it looks like this: Guess how I'm getting to the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest next week? Mua ha ha ha ha ha! If you're interested in the whole thread, visit here.