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Better than the ipod/toilet bowl AKGs, that's for damn sure.

Potayto, Potahto my friend. If we all liked the same stuff life would be pretty boring.

Eh, I kinda dig it - of course I tend to favor industrial over polished to a certain degree. And I'm sure it doesn't hurt with heat dissipation.

Unless it's a certain video of Olivia Mojica I'm with you. And I've never watched a single episode, live or otherwise.

Go for it.

About $200 worth of knobs from THL. Jebus I wish there was a stateside place that had half the selection that they do.

NICE! You going to use a separate DAC or just use the analog outputs?

Happy Birthday, Ian.

Proof once again that there really is an idiot born every minute.

Holy poop this seems cheap! http://www.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=255711

Good call, downloading now! I heart Rapidshare.

I must admit that I'm a bit partial to my HF-1s, which now sport a real leather headband. (mine are the near pair, Ian's in the back ground)

Yeah, it got a good recommendation from a friend for being a still reasonably priced transconductance tester. I'm currently watching another, similar unit and may pick that up as well and sell whichever I like less. I need something though, I had a tube that I thought was bad and had to drive an hour to have it tested, ugh!

Again, I'd love to see inside that mini connector to know how the f he's soldering those giant strands to tiny pads. Maybe Furutech makes allowances for 18ga conductors with their mini plugs?

You're too kind. Honestly I'm tempted to buy them only so that I can ensure their destruction. Jebus those are hideous.

At $337 each I think I'll have to pass.

You can multi quote as soon as you hit reply. Next to each of the messages below the reply box there is an option to "insert quote". Also, I'd suggest that your preference of the W5000 is probably in large measure due to what you're driving them with and less a reflection on the two headphones.

Overall I'm pretty impressed with it. I don't do all that much critical listening at my HT rig but the anticables certainly don't do anything objectionable. They replaced a pair of MIT Terminator 3's which were probably triple their price so I'd say as a "value" the anticables more than hold their own. My only complaint, and it's not much of one, is that they are pretty stiff regardless of what Paul says. Sure, they're able to be maneuvered easily enough but they take a bit more setting up than typical cables. In the same vein you can pretty much tailor them to look however you want since they hold a shape. One other thing, if I were to do it again I'd just have Paul make them up - it was a bit of a fussy process to measure, cut, coil, crimp, etc.

I agree, with the gain that low 24 steps should be ok, it would somewhat depend on your source output level but odds are it'd be alright.

Catch up Dusty, you're behind the times...

My favorite trick, when not using the slinky is to shrink around the clamp at the back of the RCA to create a strain relief. This also works very nicely with Cardas 1/4" TRS plugs that otherwise have no strain relief. Of course you could always cover the slinky in shrink if you wanted.

I've posted the two biggest atrocities here, although to be perfectly honest it's his sig that pisses me off more than anything. It just screams, "LOOK AT ME, I'M AN ASSHOLE!!!!1!" EDIT: Reks is my friggen hero!

So far so f'ing sweet. I've spent quite a bit of time with it now with the HA-2 and I'm liking it a lot, it's still going through some burn in I'm sure so I'm trying not to nit pick at this point. It's certainly got some bottom end. So much so that I rolled a leaner tube (5998) into the HA-2 to compensate which has worked quite nicely. I'm really looking forward to setting it up in Boston where basically no one knows what it is. I'm counting on Salty and Ian to keep the secret.