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Happy Birthday!

Comfort for me is slightly different. Part of the earpads rest on my ears, I can't get them over it 100% so it seems. I also have a short height from ears to the top of my head, and it's not a perfect fit that way either. But still comfy enough to wear for several hours of listening during the day. As for isolation, especially when playing: several folks have said it takes "more" to get my attention when they stop by my cube. However, there is concrete flooring outside my cube, and I still heard hard heels on it as people walk by. Certainly muted, but still audible even with music playing at reasonable volume. But I agree with much if not all Ryan says about sound, it's really quite good, especially some decent soundstage for a closed phone.

Echo all the above, hope all is/gets well soon.....

Happy Birthday!

Visited an Open house at a stereo store today (Fidelis for those in MA/NH who care; they moved from Derry NH to northern Nashua NH). Got to hear some nice gear, heard some lovely vinyl, met some very nice people, and a few industry folks: Vinnie from Red Wine, Yoshi Segoshi from Sakura Systems (imports the 47 Labs gear to US), a well-educated gent named Paul from Bricasti (they make an expensive but nice DAC, as well as a bunch of professional gear). A bit of live entertainment, guitar and flute from a couple of nice Jewish ladies. All in all a good time, and I actually didn't spend any money! They had the Audeze LCD-3 there, and I heard it from an Auralic Taurus amp as well as Vinnie's Isabellina amp/dac. Pretty nice, even very nice, but I still preferred my Stax and Senn 800's more. Off tonight to meet my mother-in-law a sister-in-law/family who are up visiting.

You cannot BE eloquent at -35C! Stay warm and safe Iain!

Do these count as "WTF China?" Severed hand temporarily attached to foot to keep it alive And, a Forehead Nose

Brent REALLY likes holiday music!

The ADH Ring replacement will give it a much more relaxed presentation. Not jittery, and doesn't skip songs every 30 seconds or so......

I...errr....Tri-cor.......

I caught a bit of that on the news here, the link above lent a more personal note to it.....glad he's OK. Someone has to have MAJOR issues to do that shit......

Al and Peter said it best.....big congrats Wayne, doing good and doing well! And also jealous for the lamb.....sounds delicious, especially in that location.

Happy and festive Birthdays!

Koss ESP-950 are $700 on Massdrop....

Very nice indeed, doing some initial listening, will likely pick it up.....

Oh, that was weird, I saw December 25 as the date started, and was a bit confused....then I noticed 2012. Yes, Merry Christmas and all that is celebrated!

Happy Birthday!

Very nice Larry, good luck with introductions.....!

Wayne, nice stuff on the more "personal" visits. That much more meaningful for you, and that much more special for the kids..... Lightly related: My wife, son and I volunteered at a local Boys & Girls club for their "holiday" dinner. Hot dogs and hamburgers for ~700 kids, mostly of Latino descent. A herculean effort to put it together, but amazingly well done. Kudos to the people that run this place, and kudos to 2 local 99 Restaurants for donating all the food. They had a Santa line there as well, but the "elves" were passing out the gifts instead of Santa himself (couldn't have all 700 kids sitting on Santa's lap). Still, it brought tears to my eyes to see the kids light up so much. Just made me very thankful for all I have.....

Happy Birthday! Your present is a Geek Pulse! Wait for it....................

Nice pixels, Brent! Sounds like a great event.

Good overview Ric. I too am keeping the Geek Out order due mainly to the already-out prototypes and comments about the existence and sound potential But having a Benchmark DAC 2D already, there's no need for the Pulse for me. And I'm glad I never got caught up in the Pulse mess.....

96, that's amazing. I never realized she was the only lead actor or actress to win an Academy Award for a Hitchcock film.... RIP Grand Lady

One of the greats, could take any part and make it special.....aside from the couple mentioned already, there was a little-known and silly film named Creator that I liked a lot....

You did with Ultrasone, Tyll......but that was Ultrasone. Usually AKG is cooler that that......I'd still say the truth needs to be told.....