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Middle age crisis? Seven year itch? Whatever it is, if you love your wife, kill your instincts and have that part of your brain cauterized. It's not about lying yourself, it's about being able to keep the things you appreciate safe and clean.

Some have reported tightening of the bass, but I find it rather tight already, maybe they just got accustomed to their "bass heaviness", and also smoothing in the treble, but it's not harsh IMO. Probably the best surprise for me has been the quality of the voices. Too early to say though, I haven't listened to "my girls" yet. Promising nonetheless.

Oh guys, you have an attic

I'm quite impressed for the tonal balance, a bit bass heavier than neutral, but more than acceptable in the midrange and treble. Overly smooth and pretty natural. For the price I had wished a stronger wire, I find it a bit thin for portables which aren't IEM. We'll see how the shape after some burn-in, but not really wishing they go profound changes, I like them as is.

Went to work, taught a resident how to make a couple of surgeries, got back home and in the way bought some milk, yogurt and Coke, ate delicious "coca" (kind of pizza without mozzarella and way more stuffed), received the new ESW10 and been listening to them for the most part of the rest of the day, paid the Sonny Rollins gold disc I bought from Deepak, listened to my brother in law's radio show while chatting with him and other station staff, dinned "ensaimada" (a delicious cake stuffed with truffle chocolate cream and threaded sweetmeat), watched a couple of Frasier old episodes with wife, now giving the last round to the forums. Busy day huh?

Welcome SD. Here you will feel like at home once you learn about the peculiarities of the gang. Great people nevertheless. Just avoid the void and you'll be fine

Happy Birthday!!!!

^ LOL, keep dreaming!

Maybe Nate can assist with some sort of receipt of his work and parts value. Good luck CJ Ooopss I missed a lot of replies that came before this one. Glad to see Nate coming to the rescue

Trying to probe my thin skin? hehehe Sorry to read that, I had chosen a very nice CD to send to my gift-pal Which by the way, I've been able to get and perhaps, only perhaps, even signed by the artist.

IME tube dampers help a little with tubes that are very slightly microphonic, and in some tube models, change sound when there's no microphony at all, but once you have a tube converting a finger tap in clear audible "thump" they're completely useless. Replace those tubes, hopefully the same one being microphonic is the one about dying and causing the rest of problems.

Glad to participate. I already know what CD I'll be sending if I can get it, so mate me with someone appreciating vocal jazz. No problems sending Worldwide.

They seem to be stuck in the prejudiced notion that second and in general even harmonics produce warmth and fuller body on the sound. That's false or in the least not completely true -in any case not the absolute truth I'm afraid-. I read an old paper some time ago (sorry I can't give the reference) presented at the AES showing that no distortion is perceived as better sounding and more natural than ANY kind of distortion, but that if you introduced distortion then it sounded better when being of even order. I've found myself that very good tube gear and very good SS one tends to sound very very alike, and that very good digital systems can be very analogue sounding, though I'm not sure that completely indistinguishable from good analogue. The question IMO is more what kind of sound makes you enjoy the most, than trying to set a standard of absolute sound or what should be the right one. Modern digital recordings of commercial music sound like crap, probably not for the use of digital gear to master them, but for the huge amount of compression used. On the right digital system some of the first CD releases which weren't compressed nor remastered, sound damn good to me.

Very welcome mate. Wonderful you arrived safe and those little presents got there in time for your enjoyment

Paraphrasing others, fuck a lot on your happy birthday

have a great one Billy

Maybe not acidic but just rich in cetane, or perhaps sugar and you get bacterias doing the rest of the job. Who knows, whatever it is, it probably is related to your sweat considering you just use the phones at the gym.

Terrific news Luis, I'm glad you're such a lucky man Maybe you've spent your dose of good luck for this year, however you might want to check it further by buying some lottery tickets hehehehe. Big hugs mate

Maybe it's your sweat damaging the wire sheath. I knew a man whose sweat corroded the paper clips he touched with his fingers a few days after doing so. It was so "strong" that mosquitoes never bit him unless he was just coming out from water. Fortunately it wasn't fetid hehehehe.

9 hours to go and still at 2600$... I don't think they end at that price

You put a lot of courage to save your dog Luis, my sincere admiration. Keep us posted, I wish your apartment wasn't among those 50 and you still have your belongings awaiting you there. Otherwise, no worries mate, they're just things and although some might be irreplaceable, you and yours are safe

This looks like a user-IEM incompatibility issue. I have three mates using those same IEMs and none had the slightest problem However I'd get something else anyway hahaha

Yep, one of the best anti resonant enclosures available. They also make wonderful weighty pieces of gear, which many people seems to love.

Whose nick here is? hehehe, I'm sorry for my ignorance