I've been beating the bag out of my Makita for the last 5 years and it still works great. Personally, anything bigger than 12 or 14.4V is absurd unless you're a contractor.
Live wire specs, straight from the man'f:
Drivers: Dual balanced armatures (Tweeter / Woofer) Frequency Response: 20Hz – 18KHz Sensitivity (at 1 kHz): ~126 dB/mW Impedance: 22 ohms Isolation: 25-28 dB (depending on accuracy of impressions) Max Input Power: 150mW Distortion: Less than 0.3%
I must admit that the sensitivity seems pretty damn high and perhaps detrimentally so.
I'd say Nikon doesn't care is the real reason. Post processing in the digital age seems to have made primes all but obsolete for anyone other than the purists. So they concentrate their efforts on making the best multi-use glass they can rather than on lenses they'll sell very limited numbers of.
I don't know about you but he lost me with no caps, inappropriate or just plain lacking punctuation and the general ADD format of his posts. All it needed really was a HAI GUYS to start it all off and ensure it's lack of value.
Please just shoot Vincent an email, I know he was seriously pissed to have missed it the first time around and he's not able to check the boards very often from work.
Some of this has been posted in the WAYLTRN thread but I figured I'd put it here for completeness' sake. If you like this album at all but are incredibly frustrated by the absolutely horrid production I would suggest tracking down the "Guitar Hero" rip of the album. Evidently it was released to the game manufacturer prior to final processing and is so far and away better than the commercial releas it's absurd. It's still not perfect, but leaps and bounds better. Ultimate for whoever the engineer was who did the final mastering/production.
For me the Macbook is as small as I need to go. The screen is big enough for just about everything, the chassis is small enough to be highly portable and the battery life is great.
I want something super low profile, and custom are the only way to get that. Regular IEMs are bad enough, add custom tips and they usually get even worse in terms of how much projects out beyond your ear.
Yeah, I can't find shit either. But for me it's not that big a deal really since odds are I'll be using them in an environment with so much ambient noise that the hiss will be the least of my worries.
If you have both amps on at the same time your source will have to drive both at the same time and that could cause problems depending on the abilities of the source's output stage.
I'm not as much concerned about impedance as I am with sensitivity. Where are you guys finding specs for the Livewires? I must have missed them if they're on the site.