Dusty Chalk

'appy belated!

Who did?

I think deepak and I are VdGG fans, too.

It depends on the driver -- if it goes through the kmixer, my understanding is yes, it does. Someone feel free to correct me.

I don't know, I went straight to the model I use. More difficult to dislodge?

That's not presence. You can talk about "visceral" impact, but that's not presence. Admittedly, presence doesn't have that specific a meaning when talking audio, but that's so far from what I would term as presence that I have to disagree with you -- it's merely one element. I have heard headphone reproduction so good -- with the exception of feeling it with my body -- that I did not miss the visceral impact, it was that good. It had presence, that feeling of the music being right there in front of me, alive, and lively and whatever other pseudo-synonyms you want to throw in there. Maybe it's just me -- though I kind of doubt it, although I won't argue that we're in the minority -- but once you get beyond a certain threshold of headphone music reproduction, you stop getting distracted by it's lack of impacting anything other than your ears. Those people who continue to get distracted by that are just stubborn in my opinion. I don't know if it's a subconscious stubbornness or what, but that's the best word I can come up with for it.

I will officially not be in attendance.

Alright, maybe not full face, but it's not just the just-nostril thing as was pictured above. It does sound like Darth Vader's assisted breathing apparatus thingy, though.

Awesome.

I have a full-face mask, myself.

MOTS MOTS MOTS MOTS MOTS MOTS MOTS MOTS MOTS MOTS

Incorrect.

I agree, it would be nice if we could submit some music recommendation to them. 4th movement of Dvorak's 9th or something similarly bombastic -- albeit well-recorded bombast -- would be an excellent choice (especially since it's one of my favorite pieces ever, anyway).

How is that his fault?

Healthy Choice Chicken Margherita -- less the chicken, so Healthy Choice Margherita spaghetti, basically.

Both good points about AudioCubes, wish I'd remembered to mention them.

I got -33db with the two tone, but only -24db with the pop vocals

Absolutely, I've purchased from them before.

Yeah, but knowing you, it's probably really good. I love Stroganoff. (drums fingers, waits for someone to make the inevitable "I love strokin' off"/FTFY joke, limbers up the eye-roll muscles)

WHAT?!?!? Sorry, someone was going to make that joke sooner or later, might as well be me.

My thoughts almost exactly. I wouldqualify, though, that the best Beta22 represents top of the line, since there's more variance in Beta22 builds. I wouldn't get just any Beta22. I'd probably get the Zana Deux, too, even though I haven't heard it, just because it is so universally well regarded. And because I am unabashedly a tube-head.

Yeah, one of my favorites from that year.

I recently received an email from Barney's of New York that they're going to be carrying them, so perhaps once the weather gets warmer I'll wander across the bridge and see if I can listen to a pair.

Dude, that sucks!

Did you break the dish rack by putting the teakettle in it?