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The HA5000 got hot to me. There is about 25 watts full time coming off it.

I have already found something to go under my tree next year.

So for anyone noting my comments in the future please consider that it is in this context that the limits of my resolution have been essentially meet with the system I have now. I can tell differences in some things but not others. For example: Lavry DA10 --> Virtual Dynamics Nite cables RCA ---> Yamamoto HA-02 sounds much like and I can tell no essential difference from this: iMod 5.5g --> ALO Auricap Doc ---> Yamamoto HA-02 while listening with my Ultrasone Edition 9 headphones. I listened to SK138s Asur 840c against the Lavry and heard differences like more detail but this was not that significant to me. So my point of diminishing returns has been found.

Hello I am interested to see if any of you think that there are limits to your resolution. That is, your ability to determine if one thing is better than another when you very well know it should be?

One more post on Steve Hoffman's web site: Thread named: Great Article on the Disaster of Digital Music from a guy DrJ: I'm not anti-CD...in fact as a vintage jazz fan, the CD jazz reissue boom of the 90s was an unbelievable treasure trove. Tons of great boxed sets, alternative takes and unreleased tracks that were really, really worth hearing, very obscure records finally seeing light of day again after 40 or more years of out of print status...it was a high time, in the sense of being able to hear the stuff. We had access to more of the jazz canon than had ever been available up to that point, 1920s on. The deluge has slowed in the 2000s for sure but we're still getting some heretofore amazingly rare stuff. It's very, very nice to live in this time. But still, as I've returned to vinyl, and this time high end playback through quality tube systems, I can't help but feel cheated as well. I feel I could have had all that great music I talked about above PLUS phenomenal sound, but in the vast majority of cases I feel I got all that music with fair to downright poor sound. There are obviously a few remastering engineers - Steve, Malcolm Addey (who does some phenomenal work now for Blue Note and Mosaic), Doug Sax, a couple more - who do CD right. Those I listen to all the time. Anyone who listens to, say, the DCC RAM and ISN'T drawn in just can't be listening! But most CD releases are frankly embarrassing, sonically, stemming from all kinds of bad decisions in the production chain...Xth generation source tapes, noise reduction, EQ twiddling, compression, etc etc. I'm preaching to the choir, I know, but THAT comedy of errors is the real problem with CD that increases the distance between listener and music...it's NOT an inherent media problem. Yes I know redbook isn't perfect, but neither is SACD, neither is vinyl, neither is any format. They all have their flaws. But at least back in the glory era of vinyl, the "well done to poorly done" ratio for records was quite high. The same ratio for CD I would say is dismally low. _________________

I decided to go over to the Steve Hoffman web site and search for Mosaic mastering and see what I get. I found a thread titled: How Good Is The Sound Of Mosaic CD/LP sets A usernamed Mike V? says this: First post: I love these sets myself. I have the Miles/Coltrane set, and the sound is very good. I haven't listened in a while, but I much prefer the mastering of the tracks from Kind Of Blue to the most recent reissue from Classic (those are the only 2 I have for comparisons). Expect quiet, but not silent pressings. They are pressed at RTI, but for whatever reason, I find these to be the most problematic RTI pressings I've had. In particular, there were tiny (barely visible) blisters that were very audible (pops, ticks) that radiated generally in one direction from the center of the disc, usually about an 2 inches beyond the label. Half the discs had this problem, but Mosaic is super duper cool about replacing problem discs. Second post: Oh, one more note. On the Miles Quintet box (with Wayne Shorter, Herbie H & crew), the "Circle In The Round" track has been slightly compressed and some bass was sucked out. It's in the liner notes. Apparently, at around 30 minutes, they had to do this to keep the track on 1 side. Even still, it's a great sounding transfer and an awesome track (IMO). Just not well suited to LP for time reasons alone. Thought you'd like to know! Another guy says this; I've gotta say that I really enjoy Mosaic's handiwork. I have the T-Bone Walker, Django Reinhardt & Otis Spann box sets and love the quality work they put into them. I put them right along side of Bear Family. ------- So they are sensitive enough to note when compression is going on. Which I good I think. Who is the "Bear Family?" There were several other threads that suggests that this label may be doing things right.

I sent Mosaic a question from their web site contact info here is their fast response: These are newly remastered CDs generally in 24 bit; the highest audio quality.

In Jamato8's thread on the Predator he has become a shill for it from my view. An update post on its burn-in ever eight hours. Give me a break. This just keeps that thread into view is all it is doing.

Let me know what you thing: http://audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=135050 For those that can't sign in: << "white glove" delivery, coast to coast... After reading through the horror stories in this section, thought I'd pass along a little tip I've learned from dealing with UPS for 30+ years. Would you pay an extra $26.95 above the base shipping fee to ensure your precious doesn't travel in the back of the big brown truck? To ensure that when the truck reached the package depot that the dock apes never got near your precious, but that the driver personally handed it to a center manager, who would then place it under lock & key until he personally saw it loaded in to the outbound cargo pod? And, when that pod reaches its destination, another center manager will take charge of your precious, place it under lock and key, until he hands it off to the actual delivery driver who will give your precious a special spot on his truck and treat it with kid gloves. Sound like a good deal for those special shipments? Any package insured for $5000.00 (or more) with UPS receives the special treatment outlined above. Doesn't matter what the actual value of the item you are shipping is, you can still declare and pay for $5000 of insurance. I've used this High Value service on several incoming turntables when I wasn't over confident in the shippers packing ability - the cartons have arrived without any of the all too familiar distress we've seen on cartons that went thru "the system". I also do this on critical shipments to my customers when I need to ensure that their carton doesn't get "misrouted" (this happens more than you'd think) and thus arrive late. Personal attention, white glove service - an option for when you need it 49 x DV100 units x .55 = 26.95.>>

Has anyone got any CDs from here and if so are they worth getting due to compression issues? http://www.mosaiccontemporary.com/recommend.asp They have some great artist so this may be a good source for some music for me it they do a good job. I have purchased to many CDs lately that are poor sounding.

I have a set of these: This is the first image in the first post. Maybe mine is a first edition of these, I am not sure. I am now using a set of Virtual Dynamics Nite RCA-RCA cables with the Cardas Rhodium adapters XLR-RCA to interface my Lavry and my Yamamoto.

I suspect that he is cutting shipping cost right now and I also suspect that you are right as well. Justin's pre-order list makes this very easy.

SB3 for ~280 plus the Lavry for ~ 925 is much less than a Transporter from what I have seen.

Congrats! on making it this far.

Good stuff here, thanks.

Duggeh Can you see the image in my last post..I captured the image that I originally linked to so this issue is no longer a problem I hoped?

Anti-climatically here it is:

You guys can't see this? I am sorry about that, I did not know. It shows in my thread above this post. Maybe it is cause I have the right cookie on my computer. If needed I can capture this and place in into the gallery here.

Link here: http://audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=141196

But you don't know all the people that were trampled and never will listen to their headphones again...or how many kitty's will never have their servants to care for them again....

I seldom get my directions that mixed up but sometimes in preparation for a proper calibration....

immtbiker for his work on the National.

Waiting your impressions...I think you are right that we both can remember that well. Thanks

Will you have two pair so that you can compare the UE9 against itself? Otherwise, how will you know if anything is wrong with that single pair? I will have to agree with everyone who says the UE9 does not scale like some other headphones but in my opinion it makes almost everything I have used them with sound good, to which I don't take as a fault.