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Thats the firs time I've seen a dynamic Jecklin Float with the silver strip. Nice.

I agree entirely with the product issues being beyond the pale in such an expensive product, no matter how big a company is, it should get things right for the sort of monies involved here. I have no link to the company beyond the fact that Mr Takei has agreed to let me review his products to the best of my ability. I also try to be 100% honest. And that's why I'll be saying that the use of the H2 drivers in the WHD configuration is basically a waste of time when I write up the review.

I've been listening a lot to the second set of drivers I've been sent for comparison and theres not been any issues of crackle at all. I've also never had the noise re-appear in the first set of drivers after the intial listening period I had with them (which I still think was a grattle issue). It is dissapointing though that other people have had these problems. The beta testing comment is an unfair sword. The company is never going to reach the market size of Grado or Stax nevermind AKG or Sennheiser, even if TakeT comes up with a cheaper sheet film offering so the product, I suppose like a Morgan car is always going to be boutique. I don't know how many have been sold since the Head-Fi buy offer, but I would be interested to know of those sold how many have had any of these issues. The headphone has already been through one major and one (from what I am hearing here) one very minor revision. While there are many things that can (coudl) be done to improve things at the performance end from a design perspective still, I don't think that many of them would be cost effective for the company. (wooden housings, Stax type cabling, complicated headband mechanism (and a complicated one would be needed because I'm still reserving judgement on these thick pads)). Not to try and brush aside these issues there have been, because frankly, they are important for a company in this stage of market acquisition (if they are getting things wrong they should certainly be getting them right at the service end because the inconvenience is not good) to come over as enthusiastic and able and profuse in its desire to satisfy. The most paramount issue, beyond such concerns as these, from a performance perspective, is the availability of an amplification solution which does away with the need for the TR-2 though. Im sorry if any of that didn't mesh, i've had an awful lot to drink tonight.

Really really bad luck there old stick, let us know how you get on with the repair.

I've now got a set of the revised drivers here so I'll be able to comment on exactly how much the sound has changed with the tweeter tweak. Also got a set of the new thick pads and a pair of BATPRO.

If you want interesting Elephas, you should watch QI, not internet forums.

Putin was too busy pulling the legs off small european countries to listen to vinyl.

20 feet and i could wear my headphones in the living room. 30 and i could keep them on while I go make a sandwich.

Stranded copper thats been immersed in a solution containing particles of the magic force which powers Nintendo 64s.

I sit about 7 feet away, chair and speakers as close as convenient to an equal triangle. When the quads are toed right in like monitors they are certainly too bright. I just kept inching them outwards until I went "that sounds good" and left it.

How much toe-in do you use and how far are you sitting? I found my 21L a little too bright and with worse imaging when they were toed in too far.

I'd rather have 3 feet snaked on the floor than have to move my chair 3 inches. Measure the distance between your amp and your listening positions, and then add more to allow for slack and play. Does having a few more feet of cable really make that much difference sonically compared to not having it ergonomically? I'd want more than 6 feet personally. 8 or 10 is good. Odd given that my speaker cable runs are only 4.

Mr Takei is sending me some bits and pieces, including the new pads design and the WHD adapter. I'm looking forward to seeing how the H2 drivers work in that capacity as a speaker enhancement. Good to hear you're enjoying the H2 more with your shiny new amps!

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Ah how many to pick? What ones to pick? I think that the simplest thing to do is pick 5 and not think about it too hard. Its hardly as though this is somehow definitive after all. Best not to take the fun out of it. 1st then: Mike Oldfield - Amarok. It?s an album that I just can't seem to sell to people despite the fact that it's arguably the single greatest recording in the history of mankind. Mike Oldfields big goodbye to Virgin Records (Heavens Open is perhaps best forgotten) is in many ways the sequel to Ommadawn, his third album. That at least is how the album started off. But it evolved far beyond such a *simple* starting point. The records producer, convincing Oldfield that he should stay away from computers, that none of the album should be developed based on samples, and that Oldfield should use his musicianship and imagination to the fullest, playing all of the instruments manually. The end result is a resplendent journey through a nine-dimensional, multi-faceted universe of sound, on a rollercoaster built out of layer upon layer of music, and at first notice, some much more random noise. Sounds of Oldfield stamping around the studio, making a cup of tea, using a Hoover, a Margaret Thatcher impersonator to act almost like a master of ceremonies during the peaks of the African passages, ridiculous bursts of rapid guitar and sudden explosions of noise just when you think there?s going to be a quiet passage, the entire album was constructed so that it would be impossible to pull a single from it, indeed, the Whole CD is one, single sixty minute track. As part of the publicity drive when the album was released Oldfield offered a prize to whoever could find the *Secret Message* hidden in the album (fuck RB [RB=Richard Branson]) This album is such glorious, mad, progressive fart of an album. Its pace, its themes, its tone and its dynamic range jumps all over the place. Unlike albums which are so nose high in this regard (like Captain Beefhearts Trout Mask Replica) though, its not actually cocophonic. Its a myriad of swirling interconnected little worlds and I love it to pieces. Arguably Oldfields REAL magnum opus. Jean-Michel Jarre - Chronologie For me, it is not Oxygene or Equinoxe which represents the "true" Jarre sound. Those albums, while the two that all of his other works tend to be judged by, much like Oldfield with Tubular Bells are in my opinion fabulous, but Chronologie is better it runs that cold soaring electronic sound through the mangle into something slightly more intricate and slightly less sterile. He would lose it again with Oxygene 7-13 though. Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star If Amarok is a myriad hybrid of world music themes then A Wizard, A True Star is the rock equivalent. Less frenetic, but just as crazy its a real woven album of the DSOTM kind, songs blur into one another with little destination in transition despite their change in tone. Hugely energetic and fabulously fun and Rundgren did the entire thing himself including the album art. R. Cajun & the Zydeco Brothers - No Known Cure A finger snapping, banjo strumming, castanet clicking, accordion squeezing, fiddle fiddling, harmonica wheezing, cymbal rapping, see-you-later-alligatoring journey to a mud shack on stilts in the middle of some Floridian swamp. That's how No Known Cure hit me, I'd never heard anything quite, like it, in a very loose sense, it was kind of like acoustic Creedence, yet that's a really bad analogy so just ignore it. This is swamp rock I guess and its quite fabulous in its energy. Good luck finding a copy though. Hank Shizzoe - Low Budget This is THE steel guitar album. The sound quality is just astonishing and the music itself could not fail to be loved by anyone with any taste. The closest parallel I can think of is Brothers In Arms. In fact, I've bloody typed enough and I'm going to go listen to this right now.

To answer the thread question: Used Arcam CDP and Lambda based Stax.

Make sure to use a decent tonic and a fresh slice of cucumber with that.

New tonearm counterweight for heavier cartridges. New belt. Record puck.

Eiffel 65 and Bloom 06.

The phrases that imply the Cell chip was designed for the PS3 are inaccurate. The PS3 was simply the first product to use the chip, that was not the end aim of the design though.

We have a pretty crappy router that BT gave us, and I cant even replace it with something better because getting into it to even find out all of the proprietary settings involves installing a software suite that makes the AOL browser look as small footprint, simple and stable as notepad. I have 4 housemates with 5 or 6 computers between them and they all run wireless and all like to download and file share, besides the router is literally on the hall table outside my bedroom door, so running the cable wasnt difficult.

I ended up having to wire an ethernet cable for mine because FLAC wouldn't stream properly over the wireless. Damn housemates and their stupid laptops.

What about sexual favours?

Hippitty Burpdai!

You'll love the little thing I'm sure. It's just so small and perfectly formed, youll want to stroke it when you get it. Although whispering "precious" would be worrying. All of the last things I bought (Audio Technica 440MLa cart, Tubular Bells 200gram LP and replacement Ergo AMT headband and foams) arrived today. Replacing an Ergo headband is NOT an undertaking that is even readily possible, nevermind easy. They simply shouldn't sell people new headbands when its this difficult. The assembly of the headphone itself it fiddly enough but removing the wires that run to the right side from the groove in the band is simply not achievable without destroying them. So I made a hole in the right side and rewired them to dual entry. They don't tug as much now either. And I have missed having those rear foam pads, left replacing those far too long.