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I never really got into Bjork. Timbaland is great though.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-GRADO-HP-1000-AUDIOPHILE-HEADPHONE-HP-2_W0QQitemZ190101384730QQihZ009QQcategoryZ40137QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Whats the deal with this seller? I know he had an auction up for this exact same pair of HP-2s a couple weeks back or so. Scam?

bass for yo' face london, everybody in the house make some noise!!!!

Lies!

SPOILER ALERT! I would like to think it is Odama. Remember oh so many episodes ago, in season 1, when that Cylon, the model that in season 2 tried to make starbuck fall in love with him, grabbed laura right before she through him in the airlock and said "odama's a cylon"? That was always explained away as just more cylon lies. but then again how the hell could he know when the other cylons don't know who the other 5 are? anyway, could just be there to prove cylons lie, or it could be a plot line that went nowhere. SPOILER ALERT!

For years I have been listening to the cable news talking heads and NPR say that the next/current "big thing" are all-in-one handheld entertainment/utility devices, like when everyone in America shit their pants when the first cell phone/mp3 player came out. Even when I was a big iPod guy, I never got this. I never had a desire to even own a phone that did anything else except make phone calls. No camera phones, no internet, no mp3 player. I'd rather have a nice phone, a nice camera, and a nice DAP, all separately, rather then an all-in-one device with a crappy camera and a crappy DAP. I also don't want to surf the web on a tiny screen. Though I am sure quality has increased in recent years, such a product still doesn't hold much fascination for me. Looking at the mass market, I could understand how just a few gadget loving consumers could enjoy such a product, but surely not enough people for these products to really be viable? Well, apparently I really didn't have my finger on the pulse of this one, because now everyone at least has a camera phone, if not a video phone, or a phone that plays MP3s. But I do have some positive expectations for the iPhone. I've never really owned a cellphone I would describe as overly complicated, but I have never handled one for which all the functions are intuitive. I hate having to dig around a bunch of similarly named menus just to turn my ringer down, or put the phone in manner mode. I'm hoping the iPhone will have a super slick and super easy to use design that will hopefully inspire other cell phone makers to work on their own designs. Basically, I want a design so intuitive, that my mother could pick it up and have a grasp of all of its functions in a short amount of time.

did you ever sell your Apollo?

Still jealous. If today I was forced at gunpoint to buy a strictly redbook player in this price range, it would be a Saturn. Glad you are still enjoying it.

Thanks for sharing your experiences, I'll take this advice and apply it. The 6sn7 was definitely not new, probably had many hundreds of hours on it (it came with the amp, was used by previous owner). The 5687s were newer, but I'd been using them for about three weeks, so around 50 hours, give or take. Newb question: when you say burn in the tubes for 100 hours at full current before use, do you mean playing music through them, or just leaving them on with some cans plugged in, with the volume turned up?

Right on, thanks for the feedback. So far, it hasn't blown any of the Senns, and it sounds fine. I'm using different tubes now, but the tubes I had in before had been fine for a good month, great sound, no splodin' grados. Is it possible that a tube that had been operating fine could suddenly "do some wonky shit" all of the sudden, to use aerius's terms? anyway, gtg, just got a great offer on myspace to check out nude pics of this hot chick. man, she must be real pissed at her ex-boyfriend!!

Are these the replacement modules I've read about? In a recent thread over at HF, a recent buyer of the GS-1 said Justin would provide these modules free to him when they were released. $175 value, IIRC. Pretty sweet way to keep sales up. I like that the GS-1 has two inputs as well. This is a must have feature for me now that I use two sources regularly.

I didn't think I was much of a horror guy until I watched Saw. I'd enjoyed horror flicks before, but Saw really turned me onto the whole genre. Too bad there just isn't too much quality horror out there. Saw I is great, probably the best realized of the series. Saw II is highly entertaining, and essential to the trilogy as whole, but the acting on the part of the main character-cop is atrocious, on par with those softcore porno guys on Cinemax late night. Saw III, while not as tightly directed and as fully realized as Saw I, is my favorite out of them all. Really outstanding throughout, beautiful ending. I really really like the character Jigsaw, as well as the actor who plays him. Anyway sounds like you wouldn't like them.

Breaking character from Jigsaw a moment: No manufacturer really makes a dynahi anymore though, right? Strictly a DIY thing? And isn't a GS-1 essentially a dynalo? I've been making extensive use of the search engine over at HF and reading a lot of posts to try to learn about the whole dynaXX thing. I like the idea of an amp design that has been well proven by time. I'm not really in the market for a new amp, but the driver explosion on the RS-1 freaked me out a tad, so I'm just fishing for information & opinions, exploring all my options.

I've never listened to any solo Lennon, aside from of course the single "Imagine". I am hoping to explore his music further, and am looking into picking up Plastic Ono, Mind Games, and Imagine. There is much debate over at SH forums as to whether the MFSL Gold CD versions are acceptable, since they are remixes. An eBay seller (CD LTD) has tons of copies of all three for around $25 apiece shipped. Feelings on remixes aside, I was wondering how folks here felt about the sound/sonics of the MFSL versions of the above three albums. If not the MFSLs, I'll probably hunt down some inexpensive vinyl versions. Or the new MFSL vinyls, but I heard new MFSL vinyl is noisy.

And you will have to Come Pick Him Up, and take him out, fuck him up, steal his records, despite the best of your abilities to do otherwise.

The choice is yours: music with solid state amplification, or no music at all. What will you decide, bhd812?

First, no. You can't rewrite the rules to this game. Second, yes, its sadistic. Astute observation.

Not an option!! You are in a room, yet another victim of one of Jigsaw's devious plots to teach those who don't appreciate what they have a lesson.

You've lived your whole life as an audiophile experiencing the natural goodness tubes bring to headphone amplification. While others sought refuge in new technologies, in solid state design, you were content to relish in the warmth of heated glass, ignoring any design that did not implement your selfish, no, sinful obsession, with hot, glowing metal through sometimes tinted glass. But what will you do when all the NOS tubes are gone? What will you do when Sovtek 6sn7s go for $750 a pair? Today, this is a lesson you must learn. Look around you. All around this room are popular solid state amp designs in the $1000 dollar or less range, maybe a bit more if you can stretch the wallet. They are all attached to quality mid-fi sources with copies of the MFSL Ryan Adams "Heartbreaker" SACD inside them. The Grado RS-1s stapled to your head cannot be removed. If you cannot choose a solid state amp that at least approaches the warmth, impact, and smooth clarity of your coveted tubes both drivers will explode, and you will never be able to hear again. You have one hour. Or there will be blood.

Thanks for the input big and aerius, I'll definitely stop pulling and plugging in RCAs, and might as well stop switching headphones while the amp is on, just to be safe. The tubes might have done something wonky, but these are tubes I'd used before many times, and they've never done this before. Kind of makes me want to go solid state just to avoid the hassle, I just don't know if a solid state amp exists that can be as satisfying as tubes.

Actually thats a good point. But I honestly don't know whether to blame the amp or the headphones. And if it is the amp, I don't know if this is just something intrinsic to PPX3's, Slams, Singlepowers, or if there is just something wrong with my specific amp. Here are a couple of things I do regularly. Somebody tell me if any of these are "bad": 1. I unplug and plug in RCAs while the amp is on (to change sources) 2. I unplug and plug in different headphones while the amp is on. I stop the music and turn the volume knob down all the way when I do this. 3. The only time headphones are not plugged into the amp are the few seconds when I do #2. I keep headphones plugged in when the amp is off, when the amp is on, when turning the amp off, when turning the amp on.

What are you running again n_maher? Is it the 3910?

:'(