Craig Sawyers

Yes indeed - a sad day. He almost singlehandedly reinvented football/soccer in the early/mid '70s. RIP Johan

Well, I did win for UKP62 - or about $90. It has a pair of Koss replacement ear pads, so I'll get a chance to see how bad the foam filled ones are. I've already ordered Brainwavz ones (in black!) for a venerable old pair of PRO-4AA's which they apparently also fit. The original fluid filled ones were as hard as a rock and of course empty.

Nice to see you on head-case Per Anders - you are doing a fine thing for affordable DIY audio modules.

Quite a guy - RIP Grove.

I have two stacked 4 channel power amps (self build - but think in terms of two Emotiva XPA5 in size and power). Damned cat has taken to sleeping on top because it is warm. Took lid off to find the inside covered in a thick layer of ginger cat fur. Hoovered it out as a precaution, but the amps hadn't missed a beat even with a mat of cat on the circuit boards.

Woah - good luck!

I'm in the UK - and maybe it is not as humid as Florida, say, but for a decent part of the year we are close to the triple point of water. No problems with any electronics I have had ever. Including BH (non-SE) and T2. Outside currently 10C and 67%RH

OK - I totally understand that! The founder of Oxford Instruments, Sir Martin Wood used his mechanical watch (no idea which one it was) to find where the 1000 Gauss contours of a magnet were. At that field the second hand would stall. So whereas the test lab would use technology to measure the 1000 Gauss stray field Martin would just use his watch.

Digital Deck Covers *is* in the US

Understood Shelly. Did you see my earlier post about Digital Deck Covers? Quilted black looks good (that is what I bought for my Thorens record deck), but you can have a range of colours and any custom size you specify..

I'm not a watch buff, but used to work at Oxford Instruments, where one of our product lines were superconducting magnets. 15,000 Gauss in new money is 1.5 Tesla, which is the fringe field of an exceptionally serious magnet. It is more than enough to erase every credit card in your wallet (got the badge on that several times). It is also the centre field in many MRI scanners. So unless you work in an advanced physics lab or particle accelerator, or want to tell the time while you are having an MRI scan.... I've read about the technology that is in there, and the use of advanced materials, and and exceptional it is too - I just don't see the point in everyday life. But hey - I've spent shed loads of money an audio gear over the years, which is just as nutty an obsession in pursuit of perfection!

Have a great day Al

Probably a daft question Shelly - but why not put the BHSE on the top shelf? Just looked at custom plastic covers (like for a record deck) - less expensive than I thought they would be. http://www.sora-shop.com/Customized-Products/Custom-Turntable-Cover.html put in 50cm x 40cm x 20cm with no base just for laughs and got 56 Euro - or about $65. I'm not suggesting for one instant that you buy in Europe and ship to the US - but there must be similar outfits locally that do the same sort of thing for not much money.

There is a possibility that PRO4AA pads fit the ESP6 - apparently they do for the ESP9. Dirt cheap from Koss https://www.koss.com/accessories/cushions/pro4aa-ear-cushion . Just seen a pair of ESP9's on UK eBay that I might well spring for.

I used these guys for a dust cover for my deck https://www.digitaldeckcovers.com/ and very nice it is too

Just dipping into this particular thread for the first time. I can listen to the SR007 and old normal bias Lambda's (1986) side by side, because I have the T2-klone set up with high bias and normal bias sockets. Much to my surprise, I actually prefer the old Lambdas to the SR007. Much to my financial puzzlement too given how much I paid for the 007's - but there it is. Way way back (late 70's) I had a pair of Koss ESP6, which was my introduction to electrostatic phones. Sounded great, but you needed perseverance - they weighed a ton (given the transformer and voltage multiplier in each cup, and the substantial construction) and it was like having your head in a vice.

I've also taken to oven cooking bacon, pretty recently. Very shallow tray with grease proof paper, fan oven on 200C for 15 to 20 minutes. Yummy.

Butter is better than batter, and that's banter

I love you guys - sometimes the banter just makes my day

Oh dear, how sad.

I'd quite forgotten that he started HeadWize. That was how I got my intro to headphone listening - via building KG's triode electrostatic phone amp (which I still have). And let's not forget the the original Blue Hawaii got its first airing on Headwize too. Which I built and still have. He was a man who singlehandedly kicked the whole HeadWize, Head-fi and Head-Case thing off, when the web was young. RIP Chu, a man with a vision.

Unless anyone has any specific advice, take the lid off and photograph what you see and post it. Or try head-fi rather than head-case.

That's sad - RIP Frank Jr