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Let's just say the reason you don't see idiots posting here is because we abused them until they left. Here, you can call a jackass a cocksucking donkey fucker and not have the sentence get censored. It's great.

There's conflicting research on this, in recent years some studies have shown that a bit more fat in middle to old age can be good thing, but the jury's still out. What they're also doing is using the exceptions to prove the rule, and confusing cause & effect, or rather, ignoring & deliberately confusing the issues. Of course that's about par for the course for what is basically a fat-ass sympathizer site. In any case, if you're overweight but otherwise healthy you're probably fine, if you're overweight and suffering from health problems it's probably a good idea to drop a few pounds. If you're a 500 pound lardass who's confined to a bed, then losing a few hundred pounds will save your life.

Every sizable city will have an escort service of some sort, and failing that, there's always the brothels in Nevada. If you can afford headphone gear, you can afford a trip to Nevada for a good suck & fuck session.

Let us never speak of this again, and instead move on to discussing the joys of receiving wicked blowjobs from a hot naked woman.

It should say "time", smartass. My hands don't have names, but my penis does, but that's besides the point.

If your amp has limited power, you should get these dinky little mediocre efficiency bookshelf speakers which have no bass. I've struggled for years to figure that one out, and still can't. Small bookshelf speakers tend to have mediocre to half-decent efficiency which doesn't really help if the amp has limited power. I don't know about you but if I got stuck with a 10W amp I'm getting a big pair of horn speakers so I can fill my room with big badass sound.

Well, knock yourself out then, it's your right to do so. I'm going to go fondle my GF's tits because frankly it's a much better use of my tim.

I'm siding with tkam and Grawk on the "censorship" issue. If you want to argue semantics and technicalities, yes, locking a thread is censorship. Fine, big fucking deal. I admit like ripping into the Head-fi Nazis and assholes as much as anyone else, but let's face it, it gets repetitive after a while, and when you're down to whining about low-grade morons like Skyline889 you are definitely scraping the bottom of the barrel. Yes he's a worthless twat, but he's just another one of the 1001 dickwads at the bottom of the pile, do you really think it's worth it to cry about every last insignificant twat on Head-fi? There really are more important things to do than whining & crying about dime a dozen idiots and arguing about your rights to bitch about said idiots.

Unfortunately my only experience with under $1000 speakers is the Energy C3 & C1 bookshelf speakers, and it was also quite some time ago so I can't remember them all that well. But in terms of room setup, you're not nearly as badly off as you think. The Decware site has an article on setting up crappy rooms, and strange as it sounds the diagonal setup really does work. Do a search on Head-fi using "room" as keyword, "gopher" as the user, and select "amplification" in the forums to search. The thread you're looking for was started by Gopher with 14 replies, it's about setting up a room.

Actually I don't think you'd even need an UHB cable, I find that stock Grado cables are a lot worse than popularly accepted and even something like Cat-5e or Cat-6 network cable is a big improvement. I briefly had Cat-6 cable on my 225 and it was a big improvement in treble smoothness, yes it's still a bit on the bright side but it's no longer sibilant. But since I needed that cable for my K340 I ended up putting Biggie's old PS-1 cable on my 225. It's somewhere in between, but closer to the stock 225 cable. Cat-6, some heat-shrink tubing, teflon tape, and techflex (or shoelaces for the cheap) and you're good to go. Might as well do them balanced while you're at it. Another possibility is to get a used RS-1, they're best with tubes IMO and since you already have a bunch of those you should be good to go.

I admit that Ass-raping the head-fi morons is starting to get old, which is why I haven't done it in a while. RSA however, deserves every bit of abuse he's getting. His designs, if we can be generous enough to call them that, are flawed at best and a goddamn safety hazard to boot. Combined with his questionable business practices he deserves to be exposed and ridiculed at every opportunity. I can't speak for others, but I know we're better than Head-fi, the content is there and it's slowly building itself. It'll take time though, Rome wasn't built in a day afterall. The bitching stays in the Casino and RSA threads and most of the rest is pretty much good content. Take a look through the Headphone forum, the Amp forum, Speakers, DIY, Sources, it's all filled with good stuff. Now go look on Head-fi, same fucking threads for the 10 millionth time, over & over & over, getting worse with each day. "Best $50 headphone", "I just got a XXXXXX and it's the best shit ever!", "I want an amp for my HD-650", "I need a $200 DAC", "where do I get OPA627's?", same shit every day for the last year or two. Not to mention the fucktards & shills. Great signal to noise there. I'm lucky if I can find a single worthwhile thread on the first page over there. I'm working on it. I like to think I've contributed some good stuff, but there's always room for improvement.

Or the myths which people like to parrot to the point where they've become accepted "fact". 1) Grados don't really need an amp and don't benefit all that much from one. While it's true that Grados will sound pretty decent straight out of a PCDP or iPod, they improve a hell of a lot when driven off a good amp. A 225 is pretty listenable out of my Walkman, but gets a fair bit better out of my Gilmore Lite, and it's better still on Biggie's pimped out tube amp. I'd argue that a Grado will scale as nicely as any other headphone. 2) The "tube sound" myth. Tube amps have rolled off highs & lows, rounded off transients, lacking dynamics, fuzzy imaging, but great midrange. Congratulations, you've described the typical shitty design of 95% of production tube amps. I can't blame people too much though, since not too many have heard a properly designed tube amp. Like the one I have which is +/-0.5dB from 10Hz-40kHz, and which has all the best attributes of tube & solidstate. 3) It'll be better once it's broken in. Maybe, maybe not. I never tire of bringing up the Senn 650 case, where people complained that the damn thing got worse after it was broken in. So what are your favourite myths, favourite as in everytime you hear someone say it you feel like beating some sense into them with a ball bat.

Experience is definitely a factor, but ownership ain't everything. For instance about 3 years ago the best I had was a Senn 580, but I'd heard a lot of other headphones many of which were better. My general rule of thumb is that the person should have some experience with gear that's a level up on what he's commenting on, it gives a much better idea of the strengths and especially the weaknesses of the gear in question. If I'm reviewing an SR-60 it would be nice to have a 225 so that my review is more balanced and doesn't end up being a masturbatory gushfest. Of course this isn't always possible since some of us are going off into unexplored ground, the EC Zana Deux and higher power Singlepower variations come to mind, but it's still nice to get a comparison with similarly priced gear from other makers.

Another idea would be to change a few resistors & wires around and plop in a 5687, wouldn't have to do a single chassis mod.

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Bingo. At that age the baby's not even eating solid food, how the fuck is it going to lay a turd like that with no solids? At 19 weeks the best the baby's gonna do is have some semi-liquid shits and diarrhea, there's no way it can lay a log.

The AKG K340, $130 plus another $20 in mods and it kills anything short of an RS-1. Squashes all current production Senns & AKG's like a bug. The Denon DN650F pro audio CD player. Uses the nice PCM1700 18-bit DAC and a super simple output stage. Rip out the generic film & electrolytic coupling caps in the output and replace them with silver mica and polycarb or polyprop caps and the performance goes up a lot. Replace the generic diode bridge with Schottkey diodes for a blacker background. I got mine off ebay for about $40 shipped, but I've seen them being sold for about $200 or so. Modded it'll give the Eastsound E5 a really good run for the money if not beat it. 6BL7 & 6BX7 tubes. I bought some at the local surplus store to try out, liked them ever since. Huge dynamics and soundstage on these tubes, and once the operating point's dialed in the tone's pretty good too. But the best? 1633 tubes. The 25V version of the grey glass RCA 6SN7. At $4-5 a pop I can buy tens of them for the price of a decent 6SN7. I've hoarded a nice boxfull of these tubes.

Gotta agree with that one, of all the digital amps I've heard the original $99 Teac Tripath is the only one I can tolerate, and even then it takes good speaker matching due to the limited power. Panasonic, blech, dry digital sounding, Rotel, bleh, same as Panasonic but not as bad, BelCanto, nothing to write home about, haven't heard CI yet but not expecting much either. Personally I like the Class? sound, haven't heard their older models in a long time but the new Delta series is damn nice. Chord's new CPM series is pretty nice too, similar to the Delta series but a bit more tubey sounding and maybe lacking a tad of refinement & detail.

Never? What if someone says that the Omega II is piercingly bright, and the brightest headphone he's ever heard, and in the next sentence says the SA5000 is rolled off and dull with less treble than an Senn 650? What if he then goes on to contradict himself multiple times in multiple ways? Would it then be appropriate to say that he's completely full of shit, and that his opinion is worth less than the turd I crapped out this morning? How does one deal with a grade A dumbass like the above?

Think of it as the META42 or PiMeta of hybrid tube amps and you're not too far off. As an inexpensive easy to build amp it sounds pretty nice, but it's not going to challenge the big boys. I built one last month before stripping it for parts for my in progress 12W6 amp.

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I think we can all agree that audio is a pretty subjective hobby, and that we all have different tastes and preferences, not to mention that we hear differently as well. With that out of the way, we move on to what happens when we start debating the merits of various gear, I may think "gear x" sucks while someone else says it's the best damn thing since the invention of modern contraceptives. So far I think we're still in the region where it's all just opinion, and everyone's viewpoint has equal or almost equal validity to it. But what happens when someone makes a clearly unsupportable statement and claims that it's just his opinion and that his word is worth as much as anyone elses? For instance, what if some guy says that the Grado SR60 is the best headphone ever, and that it's clearer and more detailed than a Stax Omega II? And when asked to support his claim, he says "well that's my opinion and it's as valid as anyone else's? What then? What I'm trying to get at is this, are all opinions really equally valid, and where do we start drawing the line between subjective opinions and verifiable facts? Where's the point where you start going "look, you're a dumbass and you're full of shit"?

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He's obviously taken lessons from the Microsoft school of business, there's profit to be made in selling a bugfix as an upgrade.

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