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Wow! Congrats!

Happy Birthday Marc! Hope it was a great one!

Really. Go to head-fi, more specifically http://www.head-fi.org/f/4/headphones-full-size, and ask there. Some inane little twat should be able to give you some useful advice there. Really. You'll thank me for that later. Oh yeah... you should have gotten a PM when you joined here. I'd read it if I were you.

Yeah, new gear of sorts always helps. I see a pair of Sidis in my future

^ So you get service up there, eh? Came home after work and rode 17 miles. Almost at 1000 miles for the year, which I'm sure is nothing for Chris (dreadhead) or Augsberger, but not bad for me, being of the old, fat and slow persuasion Less than last year, but I've only averaged riding 2 times a week this year, but doing longer rides per. Missed my goal of 100 miles a week (by quite a bit); there's always next year.

I think you would heal up faster than what I had done Shelly, but then again, I'm not a doctor (even if I play one on TV... oh wait...). Met John (jvlgato) for lunch today to return his LCD-2s (yes, the infamous Chicago travel pair) to him. We were joined by one of John's college buddies and had an enjoyable lunch and chat. And I broke with tradition and had a delicious German beer (name escapes me). I am sure I have met John at least briefly at a meet (CJ maybe?), but wanted to thank him again for his most generous loan of these cans. I enjoyed them a lot, and will miss them.

Shelly, I was out for 6 weeks both times, though I did work from home after the first week or two. I was pretty much off of the vicodin after the first couple of weeks both times IIRC as well. These were both total hip replacements, so probably similar in terms of muscle rebuild, etc., though I would hope that yours would be less involved (since you would not be getting chopped and channeled, so to speak ). The more work you do beforehand will help out both during the surgery, and after, as it is much easier for them to separate muscle when the fat content is low, and the surgery will be less invasive because of that. One of the surgical assistants commented to me on how easy the 2nd one was, though I should have been in similar shape for the first.

Kevin, Nice post... thanks for taking the time to explain stat requirements to the unwashed. Curious as to whether you have listened to the LCD-2s on your original Dyanhi, which IIRC was single ended (not balanced)? Listening to a borrowed pair on both my Dynalo and Dynahi didn't reveal much difference, or scaling, based on amp power. Maybe balanced changes this?

Best wishes Al! And Shelly! I would go for the surgery as well. Since it is only one side, I would think you would be down to a single crutch in a short time? Can't remember if that was easier for me or not. Didn't matter cuz the ortho kept me out of work the whole time anyhow If it is your left hip/leg, you should be cleared to drive faster.

^ Grahame FTMFW

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TV series pimper/reviewer on comcast I think thought that the season premier showed some real signs of character development... dunno, only watched part of it.

See post 64...

I listened to the same MTT/SFO Mahler 3 on the pair of LCD2 rev1 that I am borrowing and quite liked them. This was redbook layer, driven by a Dynahi (SE). I haven't noticed much difference, if any, between driving these with my Dynalo or the Dynahi, and they seem pretty easy to drive, but I have not heard them balanced. I have also not heard either the rev2s, nor much Stax gear, so YMMV. I would not say that the LCD2 put bass where it is not in the recording, and it does seem to be well defined and not boomy whatsoever. I really enjoyed listening to the Dutoit/Montreal recording of The Planets on these as there is a considerable amount of low bass present on that recording.

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I see I've been playing golf with the wrong partners

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Happy Birthday Vicky!

Great, I'll be down with $100 to take that junk off your hands and properly dispose of it Nice score!

Condolences on the loss of your friend Wayne. Nice writeup of your thoughts regarding him, and an interesting read. RIP Hope you get over your health problems HPA.

Yep, congrats to Karen (and you for supporting her)! Awesome accomplishment, and a very deserving cause.

Since they still are triamping, doesn't an active (or passive) crossover have to occur before the amp stage(s)? Or are they just driving all of the amps full range and letting the passive crossover components take care of it?

I wonder if this is really JH's IP (from UE), or were others at UE involved in whatever it is they got the patent(s) for? I suppose technically anything that JH conceived of while at UE is their property, but it still doesn't seem right if it was his original IP...

Yes, perhaps. I hadn't taken it that way, as I assumed everyone would at least check matching.