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As far as I know there's only one size of foamies in the Ety world. I've always just used the stock black ones. I'll see how the "modified" foamies work and let you know, thanks for the offer either way.

I find triflanges painful when I wear them for a long time. I do have one pair of the smaller blue colored ones that will serve as my backup tips on this trip. I've also always gotten better isolation with the foamies.

I fail at describing this situation without profanity. But I may give it a shot anyway...

Thanks Haj, I depart tomorrow morning on a 14 hour flight to Honolulu for work so I had to come up with something workable but I may take you up on that when I get back. The semi-solution, push the protrusion out of the blocked tips with a toothpick and re-glue the tube back in. None of the tips would have survived more than one use, all I had to do was apply slight pressure to the tube and it would come right out of the foam. Epic fail. Here's a shot of one of the blockages removed. Here's the collection of crap that I removed from the batch of tips that I got. Apologies for the blurry pic, the only way to make the semi-transparent stuff show up was to shoot hand-held with natural light. It does appear that using some superglue gel will bond the tubes to the foam enough for me to not have to worry about tips stuck in my ears at 20,000 feet for the next few days but I didn't read anything on the package about that being a requirement prior to using the tips.

So a few weeks ago I used my last pair of foamies for my long-loved ER4Ps. No big deal, I think, and march off to Amazon to order a bag to make sure they'd get here in time for the 30hrs of plane flights that I have in the next week. So the new tips arrive and I immediately notice that the foam is different and the inner tube is now thicker. But whatever, what difference can it make. I toss a pair on and head down stairs to workout with some tunes... WTF is this? :mad: They sounded like shit, seriously congested, muffled and so far from their crystal clear selves that I knew something had to be wrong. But eff it, I'm in the middle of a half hour ride and I might as well finish before farting around with the headphones. So I get done with my ride, hope off and attempt to remove the IEMs. Crap. One plug sticks inside my ear. Oh well, that's happened before, no big deal. Upstairs, tweezers, removal. Then I look at that tip, the plastic tube has separated from the foam and is still attached to the earpiece. Shit, that's one worthless tip. But ok, I have more, not a big deal. Then I notice that the plastic tube looks different, yup, they now have an internal flange inside the tube to keep you from pushing the tip too far onto the earpiece. That's new. So I take the other tip off of the right ear piece (which survived removal) and look through the tube to see if the flange is in this tube as well. It is, and what's better, the tube is completely blocked by a thin layer of plastic as a result of casting in that flange. No wonder these sounded terrible and now I'm down two tips after one use, not good. Then I selected two more tips out of the bag, checked them for blockages (nope) and popped them on for future use and decided that Ety deserved an email for this. So I send a pretty calm message letting them know of my experience, their reply was pretty precious.

Sazerac 18 (got the last bottle) George T. Stagg

Happy Birthday, Dinny!

This strikes me as a project that I would be interested in as well.

effing sweet haul Colin. I just looked and NH just got their stock of the 18yr Sazerac in, which is one of my all time favorites. I'll be headed to at least one store tomorrow to grab multiple bottles @ $55.99.

As Todd said, thanks to all that are currently and have served.

I'd second Todd's recommendation that you get them direct from Fidelis. Much closer if you ever havean issue an great folks.

Deepak, I don't blame the economy, really, for the situation that Headroom is faced with. The primary investor decided to take the company in a different direction which was in direct conflict with the way that Tyll liked to do business and run the company. Is it a wrong direction, heck I don't know, but it's decidedly different from how things were run up until about 2-1/2 years ago. So the resentment/distrust/dislike that some might be feeling might be related to that, if I had to offer my opinion. Headroom used to be a home-grown, mostly family run business with a specific interest in both catering to the highest of the highend headphone listener but also, designing and manufacturing their own gear. Now I'll give you that Tyll may already have been starting down a road away from the in-house stuff but I can tell you for damn sure that he wasn't going to pull a Meier and farm the whole works out to overseas cheap labor and manufacturing. Headroom also now appears more intent on being a headphone specific Amazon, a game that I think they'll find almost impossible. I don't wish Headroom any ill will but I also won't pay a premium to shop there anymore.

I trust Harbeth to have done an acceptable job manipulating wood to the task.

It's highly likely that the knob you purchased was intended to be able to be used with a new door, which is to say one that would require all of its bits. Yours, already having some bits, didn't need all of them. If it works, it works.

On the Triumph I'd occasionally touch triple digits on a lonely on-ramp or deserted highway, but not often. Life happens too fast at those speeds and I find that the older I get the more keenly aware of my mortality I become. Nice ride, Aaron.

This. I spent some time in CO a decade ago and those pictures really took me back.

The injuries coupled with the 12 team league talent suck has proven to be very frustrating indeed. And at least the name change has proven appropriate.

I have six fucking players listed as questionable this week.

Nice, Mike.

It's not booze, it's "cleaning fluid". Seriously, just ship ground and claim ignorance.

Honestly, and I'm not just whining, I'll be surprised if I win another game this year. Every decent player that I had is injured with the exception of Brady who is barely shaping up to be an average QB this year. I'm so not enjoying this.

I haven't had a chance to look yet today but I wonder if I will break 30?

Worked. 5hrs in with no end in sight, but hopefully by 5.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU I want a GF2 bad.

Doug, I like the sound of everything that you changed. The only item on my wish list would be a 2 pcb, 2 chassis version.