Dusty Chalk

Don't know. Not sure I ever will.

Yeezh.

XA5400ES?

"100/100"?

Jury still out, over here.

Thanks, Todd! Time travel, again? That would have been funny if this post was before the other one.

It's a golden ears thing -- those of us who aren't super-sensitive to sibilance (yes, "us" means including me, meaning that I'm not sensitive to sibilance, not that I'm a golden-ears) like airiness and detail. And yes, I agree bright, and a shift towards treble can induce an illusion of air and detail, but think about the converse of that statement as well -- a pair of cans that do have gobs of air and detail will sound like they are shifted towards the bright and treble-y, too, although it won't necessarily be an illusion. Yes, agreed. Uh...no. The GS1K -- although by far the most comfortable Grado headphone in the stable -- just wasn't anywhere near what I want to spend time listening to, that I have absolutely zero intention of ever listening to that headphone ever again. Although I'm still dying of curiosity of what an accurate frequency spectrum measurement of it would look like. Also, I'm not joking, although I wouldn't argue with the stance -- in addition to what you said -- that there's quite a bit of variance among these. I believe one could get used to them, then all other headphones would sound bizarre.

Fellow n00b here, so non-n00bs, feel free to confirm or deny -- two pieces of advice I've received: - try to be symmetrical about it, if you're going to use a higher wattage resister in one place on the left channel, try and use a higher wattage resister in the same place on the right channel; - as to whether or not one sounds better or not -- heck, try it for yourself, and see if you can hear a difference -- I doubt it in the case of only one, so the real test would be to swap them all out (this one is not advice I've heard, but rather, a conclusion I've seen several people come to on their own); - there are better places to use higher wattage resistors -- try and find out what they are (perhaps by asking).

I so hope this is real. If so, you are way cool.

(30 minutes later, plus a trip to the bathroom, plus waiting to get home to even start) So it's some sort of confectionery?

Who the hell are you, and welcome to head-case...I think? What? Do you have a prototype pair? What amp are you driving them with? I have found the GS1000's (production) to be bizarrely colored. I have heard (second-hand) that the prototypes weren't as bad, but I did not hear them for myself.

Sony Walkman? Current model? Which one? Still: over-rated -- I went through a lot of trouble finding one several years ago (when I was still on head-fi)...now I'm all about the ESW-10. ESW-10 + iPod + impedance matching ==

LOL @: 4-pin headphone jack sockets not interrupted by any knobs single-ended headphone jack It's almost like he was reading the Woo Audio thread, only I know this had to have been in the works long before that.

Genesis Box Set #3, 1970-1975 on SACD -- it's not that bad! But then again, I am totally over SACD.

It's T-shirt material.

WTH is "bathing in blancmange"?

Thanks for reminding me to go back through the archives, I ran across this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t3FbYBXWDw

Happy Birthday, Al! (resists temptation to try to post a better "Voltron" pic than everyone else)

"Don't taze me, bro!"

Okay, I'm an idiot. Ring around the ball == scroll wheel.

Hippy Boarder!

Welcome to 11 hours ago Billy (try scrolling up the page).

I love Tannoys "old school" line of speakers. That said, I'd never own them. Are they corner loaded? I forget...