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Yeah the box will likely go in my attic for me. Where can I get one of those nice lucite headphone stands?

Me

They'll do in pinch

Well at least from the diffuse field response curve it looks like that's (un-HD650) what they were aiming for.

I thought that was funny too. But at the meet I had people raving about the Ayre when it was actually my $300-400 DEQ that was doing DAC duty. Perception is a lot in this world unfortunately.

Yeah all that function is going to do is now when someone writes a review that differs from the other guy they'll blame the differences on a inaudible .25db shift in the frequency response.

People around here and over at HF mock the DAC1 way to much. The thing is very very good and puts out what's recorded. That's the problem for a lot of people. I had the USB for several months and really liked it. Sure it's harsh to bad recordings but that's by design as best as I can tell.

Another measurements guy? YAY!!!! I'm not alone.

What are you talking about?

I get free 2 day from Amazon and I did not discuss it with HR but I'll probably talk them into the same thing. In the end both HR and Amazon will give whatever price they end up selling for as I have confirmed with HR and Amazon has in their user policy. I'm excited about these since I've been dying for Qualias and the look like they could be a worth replacement. As long as they didn't do the HD650 sound to them. But to be honest if the THD is as low as they claim then my correction will work so well it will not really matter. I figure then I can get rid of my 650s, D5000s and stockpile another pair maybe though there is no talk of them being limited run. That said the market for high end is not doing well and a lot of statement products are dropping out of production.

I also placed a pre-order with Headroom. They are far more informative and expect the first shipment mid-Feb with Tyll apparently getting a demo pair at the end of the month. I figure if they do suck I can still sell them within a month for what I bought them for In the end this is still a lot cheaper than my electrostatic experiment.

I figure screw it and I pre-ordered with Amazon.

I entirely agree. Also the fact that won't have to worry about breaking them every time I put them on is a huge plus for me.

My lawyer is my wife so I'd be doubly screwed

We shall see. It's all conjecture on both sides at this point. At least the headphones are real

Amazon sells 8k cameras and other expensive stuff that's not "mass market" so I find that one a rather weak argument. That said Nates "rumor" may come from Tyll and then be right. I'm just really surprised that Amazon would put up a pre-order with a stock photo they got from someone (Sennheiser maybe?) and not actually sell the product.

Agreed. Especially if he can get us a better price. They are getting bought by me now I'm haggling about price

They have them for pre-order which means that I would think they would have already discussed this, they certainly don't put up preorder on every new high end lens that comes out only the ones they will sell. If they have to cancel the orders of people for a product they believe they are getting I think they might be pissed. But as you say the price range is different.

I find that hard to believe to be honest. Sennheiser would probably piss off a source of a lot of sales for them if they pulled that with Amazon. I could be wrong though. I'm almost tempted to pre-order from them.

Did you see the additional pictures? Sennheiser HD800 cable on Flickr - Photo Sharing! They are showing them at CES with Benchmark as DAC and heaphone amp for a Meitner. I love it. Jude say's the Meitner it source and the DAC1 is an amp but that's a plain Jane DAC1 so that's impossible. My wife has already agreed. She's awesome.

I must agree that's downright impressive

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I'm thinking he's in receivership (government or investor based) and he needs the cash now. Probably wrong though just a guess.

please make him a lot fatter though; those speakers need some separation.

I highly doubt you dropped to 1300 calories, that's my "my god I need to make weight for a regatta" intake. 1200 is the minumum that they ever recommend and is not a "healthy" intake. Congrats on the weight loss though.