Dusty Chalk

Contender for album of the year (the other being Katatonia's The Great Cold Distance)

Nope, still special, monkey-droppings-boy.

Is it possible? Team "source first" is wrong? Perhaps their downstream components are masking any differences?

What, you don't carry a live meter with you at all times?!?!? That's okay, neither do I.

You know, your name-calling and trash-talking don't bother me near as much as your fucking misspellings. It's delicacy, teabaggee.

Still rhymes with... ..."maggot".

It should definitely have "007" somewhere in there. And why not another leatherhead? That was one of their more successful models, IMHO.

We need to add that to the canon of icons. Here, go wank off to some pictures of that Saved by the Bell chick (NSFW).

Not as gay as having a picture of Bob Saget in one's avatar.

If you're thinking of the Mickey Mouse pic, I think you mean KG, but...whatever...

Trick question.

...or posting only SFW images... [conundrum machine]If being against double-negatives is, in itself, a double-negative, what's the alternative?[/conundrum machine]

First of all, it's YOU'RE, not YOUR. (I fixed your post in my quote, if you want to see how it's done [monkey see monkey do?]).) Secondly -- no, that would make me the conundrum machine.

Well, it's a double-edged sword. Since, when they invoke the rules, you won't be able to go back and edit your posts, you have to abide by these unknown rules now. It's a bit of a conundrum.

There are rules? Someone forgot to tell me... Hiya, what do you make?, what're your favourite recordings?, etc.

[marlin] It's like he's trying to speak to me, I know it.[/marlin]

No, that's not a typo, but no, I don't truly mean "at any price" greater than US$200, I just mean this: I recently put my speaker rig back together. The Manley Stingray -- at 12 tubes, 8 of them power tubes -- is just way too warm for a closed room in the summer. I am seriously considering getting this amp as my "summer amp". What is the next step up from that? Obviously, it doesn't have any competition at the US$200 price point, but is there something in the "not much more" category that I should be considering? It'd be nice if it was a pretty strong amp (I.E. ~> 50 Wpc). The Dynaudios suck current like a Greek sucks down souvlaki. (With apologies to any Greeks out there -- that was a Slowdive reference.) I looked on audiogon, but I didn't see anything that struck my fancy... PS I couldn't decide if this goes in the speakers category or miscellaneous, so feel free to move it if this is an inappropriate venue.

Dagnabit, I left my copy at home.

Oh, you weren't counting the shield when you said, "4"? Never mind then.

Yeah. I read an article a couple years ago that said that the porn industry was probably going to decide the hi-def wars.

Technically, you would need 6 for a balanced operation -- but no headphone is truly balanced.

DT831 is the headphone I use with my Radii HAP-02.

I've actually recently settled on a best headphone/best amp pairs of my collection: DT770/600 is the best headphone for my Radii HAP-03 I been using my DT770/250 with my Singlepower Supra/SDS/WE at home, and it's a veryfine match (but so is the HP-2) The DT770/250 also goes well with the Wheatfield HA-2. I forget what headphone I have been using with my Radii HAP-02 at work, it's another Beyer. What can I say? I'm a Beyer nut. Another couple of synergistic combinations comes from the Hirsch collection: He used to have a pair of non-woodied CD3000's that he ran from an old X-CANS (modded -- caps, and possibly op-amps) that was a wonderful combination. Also, the Fisher/Fischer/?sp driving the K1000's have always done it for me. He had a chintzy little standalone CD-ROM drive as the source -- not even transport into some sort of upgrade DAC, but the analog outs were the actual source! -- that he ran through some sort of analog harmonizer/excitifier or some such bullshit that raised the db passively or something -- and that combination sounded SWEET! I think upgrading the cables on the K1000 is crucial to get rid of its criticisms (harsh highs).

You can get a new MSB Link DAC III for US$359, I think -- used should be even less. The nice thing about that setup is, you can upgrade piecemeal. You can get a P1000 power supply later...then an upsampling upgrade...then the half nelson (or full nelson)...etc.

Could you describe the rooms? I think there was something wrong in the first case, because your description of the 72SE doesn't sound like what I heard -- but I heard them in a dedicated dealer's showroom.