Dusty Chalk

helios multi. On sh.tv, I like Darth Vader more than Black Gold.

vinyl records are made and [url= (those of us who hang out at sh.tv can ignore -- it's the same ones he posted) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poGTK5CSENY&mode=related&search= -- music video by Karl Bartos This is how I picture the head-case logo -- look at the guys in the audience, something simplified like that. Just like the main character, except with outlines on the arms. And wearing headphones. And a straightjacket. In the shape of a pretzel. Godamn, I wish I knew how to do graphics.

Time to get new equipment.

Thank you. And thank you Todd.

And I'll be urinating in the hamper. Where THEFUCK is my white text on black background?!?!? Never mind, found it. I'll go throw the laundry in the washer and start it up.

Honestly, I don't know. Yes. But there are only certain places and ways one can do it. You can do it in the DAC, because it is done in the digital realm. You can do it at the speakers -- but not if they're electrostatics -- because there is no "ground" per se. You can do it in the preamp, but only if the preamp lets you, you don't want to do it yourself between, e.g., the preamp and the power amp, or between the source and the pre, because they might be sharing a ground, etc. It's just a matter of swapping the + and the -, I.E. changing the phase of the angle 180 degrees.

Dude, that's the whole point of this place. It's like the island of misfit toys -- those who get banned on Head-Fi come here to brag about it. You really are new here, and don't know how things work! dialup?

!!! Really?!?!? I like the HE60, the interest in this just bumped up a notch.

He specifically asked in the context of headphones.

Anyone heard these? How do they compare to the Stax? At US$600, I'm almost tempted to try them, but I should save up for the 4070's that I'm going to get...

Strongbad is awesome. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0ipsbB1OYQ&search=strongbad .

Two: and Gorillaz Live Note: those are cartoons. I love the mix of fake CGI characters and realistic lighting and shading (in the latter vid) and angle shots (former).

Well, if you had HP-1's, it would be as simple as switching two switches, and if you had the Audio Alchemy DDE v3.0 (which I do), it would be as simple as pressing a button. More on what it would do later, but the only place it should be important is on the initial transient, and whether or not the soundwave starts with a localized pressure peak or valley. The other way just shouldn't sound "right", but because of the mind's ability to adjust, it would still sound "mostly right" (or, in the case of those of us without golden ears, "right" [and I include myself in that category]).

Disregard my comment -- every time I read GS-1, I think GS-1000. The GS-1 won't need returning, I don't think. GS-1 == amp; GS-1000 == headphones -- you would think I would be able to tell them apart, even in ASCII.

It should have gone under 'Miscellaneous'. That was the whole point to that forum. Things like synergy and polarity and how moving one's jack causes your DAC to go out of whack.

Make sure you can return it.

Very informative thread.

No. Unless you're listening to binaural recordings (and for that matter, binaural recordings of which you know the phase), you're not going to be able to hear the difference. And even in that 1% of the time where a recording is binaural, you may not be able to tell the difference. Absolute phase only matters for imaging, and since headphones screw up imaging in 99% of recordings (which are recorded to image well on speakers, if they are recorded to image at all, which most of them are not). Not only does phase vary from track to track, but it can vary on different tracks of a multi-track master, to which you don't have access. Here's a test that you might have access to: Cowboy Junkies, Trinity Sessions. Listen to it on headphones, try flipping the phase. If you can tell the difference -- and you have a preference and the preference is not arbitrary (I.E. you can tell which is correct, not just that you have a preference for one or the other) -- then congratulations, you should care for this recording.

I heard these recently, they don't suck. Image pretty nicely, with their dual-concentric drivers. And at US$50/pair, they're cheap. I've heard that they like to be well amped, but I only heard them on one amp. I'm tempted to just get like three pairs and mount them in a hexagonical circle and call them my new omnidirectional speakers. But then I would need an amp that goes down to like 2.667 ohms. I'm thinking MF A300^CR (I know it can handle it). That would be funny -- driving US$150 worth of speakers with US$1500 worth of amp.

I found it! It wasn't Martin-Logan, it was Magnepan, and the link is here. And it's planar, not electrostatic.

I call it the BRA-1.

I thought the impressions of the lasagna was an obvious redirect. And by mean, I mean funny mean, not :evil: mean.

You guys are mean. You should also mention weather conditions. Yes, there was weather. No, I don't remember what it was. Here it is, for those of you even lazier than I.

Cute, but what are they (company/manufacturer)? I need a black or dark blurple one.

12.99? I paid 13.99...at Tower, no less... ( Well, no, of course go get it as cheap as you can. Just go to amazon.com for the review. )