Dusty Chalk

Awesome.

And if it's underpowered, it's going to show a different frequency response -- extreme example would be the RSA Raptor trying to drive a low impedance headphone vs. a high impedance headphone -- it's not just the amplitude that falters, the whole frequency response goes down the crapper, no matter how much you turn it up. That's not just distortion. That's impedance mismatch between amp and headphones. If they're acting like resistors, then they're going to increase the effective impedance. LRC circuit theory sez that that will change the frequency response based on the amp. Do you remember what amp you did this comparison on? Was it the MicroZOTL?

Wouldn't that depend on the amp?

That sounds more likely than the Phil Joel song (formerly Newsboys, seriously Christian lyrics -- NTTAWT, but that just ain't me). EDIT: Thank you! Yes, that was it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfxcq77FkdE

I've got something stuck in my head, and I don't know what it is. It's not George Clinton, "Atomic Dog" ("Bow-wow-wow yippee-yo yippee-yay...") and it's not Hooked on a Feeling ("Ooga chaka..."), but it's got a similarly catchy nonsense phrase -- "Boom-chaka-laka-laka boom-chaka-laka-laka boom-chaka-laka-laka boom" -- anyone have any idea what it is? I'm thinking Parliament/Funkadelic, or something like that, but I could be somewhere else entirely.

You should have a doctor look at that cough. Oh, wait...

The opening foray (Jaws) is still the best.

It brings the impedance up, I believe is the intention. (I.E. OTL amps typically need higher impedance loads, this gives it to them, but then you can plug a lower impedance headphone like a Grado or an AT into it.)

I thought it was established that the secret ingredient was kitty litter? Or am I thinking of something else?

Justified my existence. Whee!

I think the difference is largely psychological -- you know there's those switches in the signal path on the ones that aren't on the twos, so you want to hear a difference, but I don't know if it's actually there.

It certainly can be done, though historically it just plain hasn't.

Baby got subwoofer?

Karin Dreijer Andersson as Fever Ray

Awesome avatar is awesome.

Yes. Or rather, 'awesomest'.

Wilsons -- pfff. You want to get expensive, you do one of the following: Focal Grande Utopia EM's MBL 101 X-treme Magico V5

You know Fever Ray is half of The Knife, right?

:\ Wishing healthy, positive, healing thoughts in your general direction.

I still have no idea where mine (ER-6i's) are.

Once more with feeling: "Mmm...Key Lime Pie!"

Makings for moar beer... ...and Guiness.

That sucks, Monkey-man. Comsat used to have their annual lay-offs right around Thanksgiving, too. My dad espoused the theory that it would save in their holiday party budget as well as everything else end-of-year -related.

Historically, as soon as people get theirs, they stop posting for a while, and then when they return, it's never as much as they used to, so...please post every once in a while to let us know you're still alive.