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I thought it was going to be a reference to GTR:

You forgot: Denon W5000 = poor man's L3000

So you can listen to the speakers, but you can't listen to music on the speakers! Argh! :defenestration:

'tis. Or a whammy bar! Or that lever that Conan pulls for Walker Texas Ranger clips. Actually, piano black is really easy to hide fingerprints on just by not lighting them directly. In ambient lighting, they just disappear.

Welcome to Head-Case! Greatest second post ever. Alright, maybe not, but greatest one that I remember. Sorry about your thin skin and all that, but I suspect that will come later. I don't think you're going to get any crap for anything you've posted so far. Nope. I love my toaster-style enclosure.

I've got two words for you: dew eat. And then after a couple months of trying to match an amp to it (it's weirdly fickle), sell it to me. The schematic to the HA-2 is widely available, you can always build yourself another one.

Kick drum You got any you find amusing?

Yeah, it took me a couple of tries, but I finally got it right. The trick is to use the actual address of the UPS site at which you want to pick it up. And yeah, that's pretty much the reason I wanted it that way, too. That, and being able to pick it up at my convenience. USPS will also do this, believe it or not, but of course they're not going to make the information easy to find, since they'd rather you rent a box. The only downside is, it'll only work for UPS. I believe FedEx has the same service, but you would have to verify with them. UPS link The alternative is to rent a box at one of those stores, I forget which one, I think it's Mailboxes Etc., which actually let you provide a street address to shipping companies like FedEx and UPS.

I don't know how DHL does it, but with UPS, you can reroute a package -- I used to usually have them "hold for pickup" at the UPS site -- it was actually easier for me. Eventually, I just started giving them the address of the UPS store itself, give them my name, and "hold for pickup". I found that easier than anything else. Oh, and: bummer!

For some reason I thought this was the "detangle your headphones" thread.

It's missing a couple: [ame= Abduction[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFmgsydpA_U]first aid[/ame]

Think of it as self-defecatingdeprecating humour.

Yup, looks really real, but he's right about it not being a straight line, so that's my wonderment, too. I'm also curious how he kept the cat from swallowing them for 24 hours, and then allowing it to be pulled through at the end of that 24 hours. Prosthetic asshole? Also, kind of non-practical -- I'd never want to stick those in my ears ever again ever. Gives new meaning to "earworm". My take: it has to be faked, but I don't know how.

Since I saw all the New Order love here (I love them too), I thought I'd start this in a new thread. http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2007/08/control-soundtrack-tracklist-leaks-via.html 01. New Order - "Exit" 02. The Velvet Underground - "What Goes On" 03. The Killers - "Shadowplay" (Joy Division Cover) 04. The Buzzcocks - "Boredom" (live) 05. Joy Division - "Dead Souls" 06. Supersister - "She Was Naked" 07. Iggy Pop - "Sister Midnight" 08. Joy Division - "Love Will Tear Us Apart" 09. Sex Pistols - "Problems" (live) 10. New Order - "Hypnosis" 11. David Bowie - "Drive In Saturday" 12. John Cooper Clarke - "Evidently Chickentown" 13. Roxy Music - "2H.B." 14. Joy Division - "Transmission" (Cast Version) 15. Kraftwerk - "Autobahn" 16. Joy Division - "Atmosphere" 17. David Bowie - "Warszawa" 18. New Order - "Get Out" Those three New Order tracks are new instrumentals recorded before they broke up. Hey, PS, does anyone have the long version of Elegia from the early versions of the boxset?

Really? Okay. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm not the biggest Jim Carrey fan in the world, but he has his moments, and I thought Liar Liar was one of them. And The Mask was just bril.

Dude, I've got two words for you: Liar Liar.

Thank you for succinctly making the point I was trying to make.

Anyone who bans you is out of their fucking mind.

-10 audiophile points.

NERDS!!!1!

And...they're monoblocks. Monoblocks == less crosstalk == better separation == better soundstage.

OMG, that was hilarious. "'WTF', I don't even know what that means." " stands for sex." "Windows, make your icons larger." "That thing, I thought it was a magnifying glass, it doesn't magnify anything." ...and I haven't even finished watching it yet.

No, I think I'm going to still dispute that. I was leaving source out of the equation as well. You can get a MF A3.2 pre and power and the K1000 and be pretty much done. Or maybe an integrated. There's lots of options that so few people have tried with the K1000, because it can be driven by speaker amps. The Pass Labs amp is merely one that people have actually heard, but I don't think the K1000 has even remotely been tapped yet with all its synergistic possibilities. EDIT: Saw your second response: No, I wasn't talking about great values, I was talking about synergy. Just because you spend more money does not mean it's going to be better. I'm going to leave Orpheus out of this, because the Orpheus itself is a great headphone, but it's already expensive, and an amp/Orpheus combo will be more expensive than a K1000/amp combo. I own a Singlepower Supra++/SDS-- (it does not have all the upgrades a SDS has), and to my ears, it's not -- as is, mind you -- as good as the combo I heard with the Earmax Pro (I forget which version -- if it was a modded one, or the anniversary one, or what). For the L3000. Now, I don't think it was as good as tkam's Dragon rig, but I didn't have the two next to each other to compare. But from memory, it was comparable. And yes, the Pass Labs was a synergistic amp with the K1000's -- no doubt. Whether or not one could find something equally synergistic is up to debate. I'm just saying they're on the same order. So maybe you're right -- at US$1000-ish, the K1000 could be cheaper than the others, but you still have to put a decent preamp in there (the Pass Labs is a power amp, right? Not an integrated?). I just don't think it's clear-cut that one would be better. When you're getting into that level of sound, you'll never get a room of 20 audiophiles to agree about anything -- L, there's three of us that meet on a regular basis, and we don't agree about everything (just talking), because we have different things that interest us. Except I do think we agreed that the Pass Labs sounded pretty damn good with the K1000's. And I think we're just going to have to agree to disagree about the KGSS -- I thought the KGSS and Blue Hawaii were the best I've ever heard the O2. I think they were maxed out with black gates and silver internal wiring, so yeah, we're getting into the multi-thousand dollar territory. But that compares it with K1000 + power amp + pre amp, so I think you're at least as cheap, if not cheaper.

I think that right there is the flaw in your premise. The KGSS, for example, starts at US$1499. And that's pretty much the best sound I've heard out of the O2 (although I don't think the KGSS was stock). The L3000 can sound pretty darn good with an Earmax Pro -- that's some of the best sound out of that one I've heard, although I suspect it will improve with the recabling.

The 2000 is supposed to be a little bit better, but if you're going to be using whichever one you get just as a transport, then I'd get the earlier one, because (a) it should save you at least a hundred; and ( I've had one, and can guarantee it is an excellent transport. I actually really like it's sound, but I understand it doesn't have the best detail. But certainly plenty of prat. We did an A/B (nonblind) actually directly on the Rega 2000 vs. Rega 2000->Benchmark, and I couldn't tell the difference. Hirsch ended up liking the Benchmark better (or so he claims), and I think Dave liked the Rega by itself better (I think because he couldn't tell the difference either). IIRC.