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(makes mental note to try and remember where VTGs are)

You realize you can't use it PerfectLy well without the corresponding transport, right?

Chick Fil-A charbroiled chicken sandwich and half & half (half unsweetened iced tea, half regular lemonade) -- I need to remember to ask for 1/3 lemonade, 2/3 ice tea.

If you're really curious about the W5000, then go for it, but the consistent thing I've heard about the W5000 (and I've experienced it myself) is that they fit funny on many heads. You should not trade your VTG's for anything. If anything, you should sell the HD650 and see if you can track down an 11JPN.

Very simply: because it can. The only way to prevent it is in the software, which is what he's doing. It's just a big iTouch, yes.

No worries. I sometimes err on the side of too much information, myself. It's laziness, you see, because then I don't have to respond twice. Oh really? I missed that, I thought it was the same chip.

VTG's are really a completely different headphone, but just as lovable as the L3000. Definitely get a pair, with at least the intention of long-term in-home-system audition. Worst thing that happens is, if you don't like it, you turn around and sell them for little to no loss, financially.

I bet we did alright, lining it up by ear. But no, the hard part was...when you're doing A/B type comparisons, you want them to be the same level. Well, if one of them is at 100%, and the other is at 40%, then the one at 40% is at a disadvantage, because it's doing attenuation in the digital domain, which can be good or bad, but is almost always worse than no attenuation in the digital domain, which is what Mr. 100% had. Optimal situation would be both at 100% into a pre that has individual attenuation on the inputs (such as the McIntoshes) into the same amp & drivers, or both into the same model amp & drivers. We'll see what we can come up with, but I'm not going to worry about it too much, I'm just going to listen to (and watch) it(s output). Hirsch actually couldn't come up with two of the same of anything.

^ That.

Thoughts went like this: Mmm...purple guitar...mmm...black leather coat...oh hey, that's Katie Melua!

Haunted?

I posted them (my impressions of the BDP-83-SE, not necessarily the chip) somewhere. Synopsis: worth it for channel separation alone -- it's like listening from the same room vs. listening from the next room. Which, for me, who mostly listens on headphones...worth it right there. Had to dial down the volume to 40% (!) to match the non-SE BDP-83, so not sure if that had something to do with the other differences we noticed. Bass is a tad less pronounced on the -SE, but not so you'd notice unless you were a/b-ing them (couldn't even hear the difference on the T40's, only on the Denon 7000's). A little harsher -- the sort of thing that, if you believed in burn-in, might make it go away. Need to revisit with either two of the same amps and speakers/earspeakers/headphones hooked up to them (between you and Hirsch, I'm thinking Stax, but not sure where we're going to get the non-SE version, as Hirsch has sent his in for mods already...my boss has one, but not sure he'd let me take it home), or a preamp that allows you to channel match between inputs (we had nothing of the sort). Okay, that's more of a rehash than a synopsis.

Unrelated: Yes, it's a watch. That looks like a turntable. No, I didn't buy one. Yeah, made me think of prank wars, too (forgot to mention that).

Don't know if this is real or not: Video: Prank goes awry when coach hits blindfolded shot - Y! Sports Blogs - Yahoo! Sports

Yes. EDIT: No. Er...maybe. Maybe not. I don't know. I changed my answer because when we did the Oppo BDP-83 vs. ...-SE comparison, we had to turn it way down, and we do not know whether or not that was the cause of some of the harshness (it was just a tad harsher, not a lot). And it uses the sabre-tooth dac chip, so could well be using that.

Let's just bypass all this other crap -- please do, and report back. The big difference is usually whether or not it's in the digital domain at 16 bits or not, but not always. Best way to tell is to just listen to it and report back. Please, and thank you.

I think the question boils down to this -- will it come from the iTouch route, wherein you can only technically get software on it via the App Store? Or is it going to be a "real" mac, with a CD drive? I.E. is it going to be the main computer, or an accessory? The iTouch -- although it has a variant of the same operating system -- is conceptually an accessory. I'm thinking I should probably read that engadget/gizmodo/whatever article, it probably approaches all these questions.

They attributed your posts to Ari.

I don't remember them being midbass-heavy. Just sayin'. You may want to try them out of a couple different amp/sources if at all possible. Boy that etching is really clear, you can really read the typo well.

What the fuck do you need colors for? Black is just fine. For some reason I am in the mood for sherbert. Is it just me, or is this snappy as all? I mean like an order of magnitude faster than before?

Would like a better translation -- does "without a digital signal withdrawal" mean that they do not use the digital signal, and substitute a better DAC? Or does it mean that you'll have withdrawals when you don't listen to this iPod/Dock/Headamp?

You tried both flats and bowels?

No, the weird ones are the ones who like it. (looks around guiltily; whistles) Oh, and damn, I just won the lottery, what can I get for $5?!?!? (waits for, "a cookie and tree-fiddy change" response)

I'm thinking you confused "country of residence" with "being a rock musician".