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Chocolate malt for me please!

I always wanted to try a balanced phono stage. That looks quite nice. Will wait to hear your thoughts. Is a balanced tonearm cable easy enough to come by?

My newish system is an HD580, Torpedo amp and Pico DAC (most provided by Shelly), and I really love this system. It still shocks me at how good it sounds for what is a relatively low cost system. I have no plans to creep upward.

Oh, if only your neurosis were so easy to label.

Looks pretty spiffy too.

^ That is a great album. She has such an ethereal quality.

No need to be sorry. One of our favorite members here also has Asperger syndrome. I think it took a while for him to feel comfortable around us, but now he is a beloved friend to all that know him. I should actually say him/her, as I believe he/she to be transitioning. Just slow down a bit and don't try too hard. I'll do my part by trying to be more understanding.

I understand what you're saying Justin, but as an old dude I remember when improved technology escalated in price by regular increments. Jumping from a $600 HD650 to a $1,400 HD800 is quite a leap. I don't think that leap had as much to do with the cost of research as it did with what Sennheiser thought the market would bare. The market did bare that price, so now every new headphone introduced is at a profit margin way above what was once the norm.

Ethical is overrated, just ask our Presidential candidates.

While it does seem an interesting approach, I also would wonder if it would introduce more issues that it would resolve.

First: I mocked you, and you came back with a humorous and self deprecating response. Point for you, which I pointed out by stating you may fit in well here. Then the very next post you made a gay joke. I'm perfectly OK with gay jokes when I recognize that no malice is involved. Hell I tell the best gay jokes! Problem is I don't know you, and I have no way to judge if that remark was a gay smear or a lighthearted quip, so I questioned whether or not I judged you correctly. You then decide to take it up several notches and respond in a manner that made me feel like a beauty pageant queen trapped in a room with Donald Trump. Again, perfectly acceptable and even humorous if I knew you and knew your personality, but very fucking weird when I do not. So I play it off with more humor. I have no idea when you think I lost my cool, but I can assure you that there'd be no mistaking it if I did. So here's the rub as I see it... You come into our space as an unknown, and you proceed to banter with us as though you've known us for years. That doesn't work. You obviously do not understand this group at all. But for the record, I was not the least bit offended by you until this post of yours that I've just quoted. Maybe there's something lost in translation or maybe you've just read me wrong. Either way I don't understand your indignation. You do seem to have a sense of humor, so I'll just mark this down as a misunderstanding. Your future here is completely in your own hands.

I completely agree.

Have a fantastic day, and drop by more often. We miss you!

Just to be clear, I don't find them attractive, but I know how to work them in. Use a slow night in a gay bar as an analogy.

^ That's the way my heart tells me to vote!

Wait a minute, what the hell...

Dude! I was creeped out, so I damn well know that you were creeped out.

You don't want to hold that in too long. You need to let loose and have a gastronomic ejaculation.

Uhm, OK I think we're done here.

Oh, well that's pretty cool!

Congrat Robert Allen Zimmerman!

BTW I am gay!!! Did I judge your character too soon?

Your response says a lot about you. You seem to have the sense of humor needed to do well here. Well played Sir!

Secret is now a relative term, when 50,000,000,000 Russians know how you voted before you exit the voting booth. So you snapped some Turkish Legos together and hung some headphones on them? Gold star Timmy! Did you finish your homework before posting on Head Case?

^ I'm Dr. Wood, and I approve this message!