Dusty Chalk

NP: The Maid We Messed, Matt Elliott as Third Eye Foundation OD: Keith Jarrett or Boris Berman, don't know, maybe Helene Grimaud.

Mine is/are outdated and silly. And so is my hair.

And you can tell they're huddled together for warmth.

Pic post fail.

I wouldn't.

Alright, so to test my understanding: it's not to absorb acoustic backwave, but to act as sort of a broad "notch" filter? Except that wouldn't wind resistance continue to go up with lower frequencies (I.E. wouldn't it act as a broad sloped filter)?

Thanks, I'll wait until all signs of whatever I have has passed before I do so, just to be on the safe side.

I put this under a separate thread with the understanding that the audience for this thread might be a 100% exclusive union with the orthodynamic thread, because it's really a separate issue, and is not necessarily an issue indigenous to orthodynamics. blah blah blah future audience growth potential blah blah blah So without preface, let me start with my fundamental question: Why felt? I mean, there are other materials that are flexible and dense at the same time -- corduroy, for example, or perhaps certain dense weaves such as linens or velvet. And I ask not to question felt's supremacy, but rather as a learning exercise. What is it about felt that makes it superior? Is it its chaotic nature (no weave implies no consistent surfaces to reflect any one particular frequency)? Would I want felt with a backing or not? Alright, yes, I went to G Street Fabrics (for those not from this area, G Street is a high end fabric store -- they have, or can get, anything and everything) and looked around. Found some nice...uh, something, might be felt, might not, not sure, didn't ask. Price was less than $3 so I bought it. Worst case, I can fix any holes in my pea coat with it. But while I was there I (uh) "felt" a bunch of other materials that I couldn't imagine would be any worse. I mean, felt just seems so acoustically transparent compared to some of these things. What is the goal? 100% absorption, zero reflection would be the ideal towards which we strive, right? In a more realistic world: high, frequency-independent absorption, low -- yet still frequency-independent -- reflection would be the characteristics we seek, right? I mean, we want to reduce the backwave as much as possible (except in the rare cases of bass reflex), and the worst offenders are the bass frequencies, right? Or in the small enclosures of headphones, do priorities shift, do we suddenly become more interested in higher frequencies as well? So...enlighten me, I'm all ears. I do intend to start with the orthos, but there are other headphones that I'd be interested in doing interesting things with, perhaps putting some ribbons in some sealed enclosures... I still haven't gotten together with Justin to feel his uberfelt, but I didn't want to expose him unnecessarily. So I can't compare what I got with what he has, or even get his opinion on it. PS Should I wash it? It was in the scraps heap, so there are lots of loose threads and dust on it.

Are you serious? LOLlers. PS Good thing they are really good headphones.

I'm feeling like that, too. And: go back and look, it was indeed a different "Dusty" (though I don't think Salt Peanuts goes by that).

"My other ride is a TIE Fighter."

I live in the DC area, I NEED the machine gun. But...nice thought, though...shared...

DO WANT. Especially the not-jamming part.

Hmmm...

Different Dusty?

I think you missed his point.

I slept through it. :\

Does not come in black == fail. They didn't even bother taking a picture of the silver ones, because they're so shiny, they probably reflect. No, seriously, I like Nuforce, and have high hopes for this headphone, but the bright colors are just ludicrous.

Didn't he already say he'd fly it out to you once?

Yeah, they could have called them iGrado's or something. iCary? iXciter? Alright, maybe not, but it's a close call.

But why would it repeat? One would think that once one got rid of the contradicting charge, that it would be gone. Unless it's a static parasitic charge that isn't so much "gotten rid of" as "sufficiently counter-balanced with the appropriate electrical charge"...that was supposed to be a question.

One more that is most probably going in my top X: Matt Elliott, Howling Songs -- disturbing, I didn't see this as the logical conclusion to Drinking Songs and Failing Songs, but there's something in there that just demands attention. No-one uses noise musically the way he does. Except maybe Portishead.

(beat) (beat) (beat) LOL!

Less visible entropy. And by that, I don't mean bullshit. It's probably got -- proportionately -- the same amount of bullshit as head-fi, if not more. The difference is, it's easier to see here, because there's less of it. There's also less wisdom, but that, too, is easier to see. Welcome to head-case, and duck a lot.