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But I'm impatient to progress from obsessing about the headphones themselves to obsessing about whether I'm driving them optimally!

Did Craig make HD 25s in any appreciable quantity, Ryan?

Gomez -- In Our Gun These guys are way underrated.

Are we sure the $12 Bloodshot LP is the special edition and not the original pressing? It doesn't really say so explicitly anywhere, though I agree it's implied by the text in the sidebar.

Three words. Need el drop! The CD has quite a lot of background noise.

Yes, you've been getting behind on your pimping lately.

Still hanging in there. If they're not for me, I'll take my lumps on resale and move on to stats. A swift, substantial street price drop would get me muttering, though I don't think it's likely.

Warren Zevon -- Warren Zevon (Rhino) Warren Zevon -- The Envoy (Rhino) Echo and the Bunnymen -- Ocean Rain The Pogues -- Rum, Sodomy and the Lash Brian Wilson -- Smile Bob Dylan -- Love and Theft (SACD) Led Zeppelin -- How The West Was Won Tom Waits -- Orphans, Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards (Box Set)

Saw that in the flesh at the NY meet. It's extremely butch in person. Looks like it wants to wants to leap up off the table and eat your face.

Elvis Costello and the Attractions -- Blood & Chocolate

Can I piggyback on this thread to ask a general mini3 question, please? I just ordered a gamma lite/mini3 combo from Marshall for a friend. He'll be using it in a static computer rig with The Monkey's old HD-25-1s to start with and who knows what else down the road once the bug bites. What gain setting should I specify?

Me three.

Scotch eggs FTW.

Pink Floyd -- Meddle MFSL SACD

Ryan Adams -- Heartbreaker Anyone else heard of this guy? He's really quite good.

Gen. 1 is USB-only where Gen. 2 has Firewire 800?

Those made me happy!

Kids, eh? Bless 'em.

Yeah, here's some appropriate music to not be able to listen to right now.

Here's Tyll's own stack, from the other site.

Did the previous Desktop series run hot? The only problem I see is that if I got one of these I'd probably want to pop for the DPS, too, and that strikes me as pretty steep at $500.

Hope your dog is OK, Ian! I had no idea. My mutt often cleans up the kids' breakfast oatmeal leftovers. Luckily they've been picking out most of the raisins, I guess.

This definitely puts the whole Audiophile Desktop arrangement back on my ever-growing wishlist. Wonder how the Ultra amp would drive a pair of balanced HD800s?

Aztec Camera -- Dreamland