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No spam involved, just good food.

Jim, as far as I understand it. Although I'm sending something your way anyway.

Had class for a bit over 8hrs, came back to the hotel and sat out on the balcony and did homework for another hour plus. Just grabbed dinner at a local mexican place which was quite good and now I'm pleasantly plump and winding down for the night.

12V, mother frack, good luck using that with any headphone amp. Let us hope that the digital attenuation does not adversely affect things or that there is a setting to bypass whatever provides that much gain on the output side. I mean sweet Jebus, I have issues with 2V single-ended sources, not to mention 6V.

I can't believe that I just witnessed Mike talking someone out of a hardware purchase. That said, the SSD for nums might have other benefits like better battery life but that's hard to say for sure. I know I'd have an awfully hard time justifying dropping a $600 drive in any of my computers. I'm still waiting for prices to come down further.

Don't rule out something stuck to the undercarriage of you car, like fragments of road kill. Otherwise a bad Catalytic Converter can smell an awful lot like rotten eggs or sulfur although it sounds to me like you are describing something else.

Today was the one real day off of the week here so Ian and I (he's on this training trip as well, what a racket) toured most of O'ahu via car and then swung by Ford Island which is where our class is being held. We decided to see if the 'Mo was still open and we got in just in time for a quick half-hour guided tour which was great. I originally wanted to do the Arizona tour as well but they say to budget at least 4hrs for that for both the tour and just waiting to do the tour which isn't an option given the compressed schedule the rest of the week. The drive around the island was definitely a good call, the break on the North Shore today was running 15+ and was incredibly impressive.

Flew, a lot. Currently sitting in a Marriott in Honolulu for a week of classes at Pearl Harbor. So far so good, Teddy's Bigger Burgers is probably a place that Justin would like. Now if I could just get past the idea that my head thinks it's almost 1AM but the clock says 7:45pm...

I benched Tom Brady this week since he was playing the Steelers. He promptly passed for 350, 3TDs and rushed for 4th. My luck continues...

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.