Dusty Chalk

Thanks for reminding me: Crystalroc blings up Sennheiser headphones.

According to the ad copy, K530LTD == K530 + shiny black; K530 == K300 Xtra + updates. And I don't know about K300, so that tells me nothing.

Anyone?

Yeah, it must be just some headphones (Leatherheads; R10's, IIRC; DT770's).

I just liked the imagery.

Again, it's the amp that's balanced, the headphone driver still doesn't know whether or not it's being driven by a single-ended amp, a balanced amp, or a really big battery and someone who's really fast on an resistor...erm...potentiometer.* *Or one can think of the electrical equivalent of Maxwell's Demon -- call him Prisekin's Demon -- who lets current through at a rate subject to the whim of the demon, and which just so happens to be musical and corresponds to Bach's Two-Part Inventions.

Stephen left himself logged in at home. That's either his wife or his cat.

Nice. At first glance, it looked like a coathanger-sized headphone rack. Which is what I'm going to end up needing. Does anyone have any ideas on the problem of pads touching at the bottom, or being flattened against the headphone stand? I was thinking a little brace that may angle in, so that the farther back you push the headphones on it's "rung", they are pushed apart slightly more. That way, one can push them back just to the point where they're not touching, but no more. Has anyone tried anything like this?

Agreed. The transition as vocalist was seamless. The first x-many times I heard "More Fool Me", I thought it was Peter Gabriel. And on that live album, Collins does a wonderful job covering vocal duties for songs that were originally sung by Peter.

The Peter Gabriel-era Genesis is overshadowed by four albums: Foxtrot, Nursery Cryme, Selling England by the Pound and And the Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. I kind of really like the quartet period of Genesis the most: A Trick of the Tail, Wind & Wuthering and Seconds Out (seconded as a recommendation of "if you're only going to get one, get this one -- not only does it capture the live Genesis energy well, it's a nice cross-section of their music from both periods).

A speaker amp with a common ground? Methinks you were just backpedaling. And no, you just hate being in the wrong, and if someone doesn't capitulate, you start in with the antisocial comments. Fuck you (hey, you going to find me guilty of being antisocial, I might as well live up to it). I cited that example because I think it's a perfect example of meeting the requirements for what qualifies as "balanced headphones", and yet clearly is not. If I misunderstood the requirements for a balanced headphone, someone please reiterate it in a way that clearly explains how my example does not meet the criteria.

Again, I am unfamiliar with your premise, I'm going to have to wander off and figure out what dual voice coils are -- are they around each other? Opposing (I guess this is a matter of which way you connect their inputs)? What separates them? Do they otherwise have the same specs (sensitivity, etc.)? I'm not sure I understand what you mean by series or parallel -- there should be 4 possible wirings, neh? You could swap the + and - terminals in both your series and parallel wirings. But a couple of those configurations are going to end up pitting the voice coils against each other, so I presume two of those wirings don't make sense? I'm thinking out loud here, so feel free to correct me.

No, you didn't. You said that you would if, which is not the same as stating you are. No shit! Well I never... No, that's exactly my point -- it is nonsensical (except in this case of KG's dual-voice-coil subwoofer), which is why I don't think it's appropriate terminology. In some electrostatics, it makes perfect sense to have balanced -- including the reference ground, since they're powered. And "balanced" isn't theory, it's engineering. I have, and you state your position with great verve when you're talking one way, and with great qualification when you're talking the other (and sometimes not at all). So you'll excuse me if I don't hear you when you're talking out of the side of your mouth. You want people to understand you, speak clearly. EDIT: translation -- if you are not part of they, then please reiterate your position, under the assumption that I have not been paying attention. And yes, the "they" I was referring to was the "everyone else except you" that you yourself referred to.

No, not really.

It is if you use the speaker terminals, which is why I specified speaker amp and stock wiring.

I have a Pioneer SX-5590 that I've had upgraded with black gates. Thing sounded friggin' sweet. I left it on during a thunderstorm, and it got hit -- I still have to get it repaired, but my guy who does work on it is optimistic it isn't as bad as it seems.

If I saw people with Stax's in an airport -- much less a black, full-size pair -- I think I'd have a stroke/heart attack/aneurysm/episode/seizure/some combination of the above.

So I shouldn't have let mine go?

Why the 1600 in particular?

You should wear it on a chain around your neck. That thing is friggin' huge.

Saratoga: Monaco (a skeleton with black parts!): from Naked Watch (they also have a tourbillon). From Debaufre, the Air Force White and Orange watches:

Well, as you said before, the load does not know if it's being driven by a balanced amplifier or not, so I stand by what I said before. Nothing you're saying is making the headphones balanced, even if the amp that you drive them with is balanced. My dad always said that most arguments can be concluded by defining your terms, so: what do you mean by "it" in "is it balanced?" The "reference" that you refer to in your last sentence is not "seen" by the headphones. And: Are you insane? (Rhetorical question.) Why would you want to tie the outputs of two amplifiers together? Other than to prove a point. And: why do you need ground cheaters? (I think I know the answer to this, but am very not sure about it.) Dan -- exactly. And yet, by their definitions, they're trying to say that 4 connectors == balanced.

Pop quiz: K1000, stock cable, driven out of a single-ended stereo speaker amp -- balanced, or no?

I was thinking that!