HeadphoneAddict

It's just that she's a brainy geek, and shy. Cute, but a geek nevertheless. She'd also rather I bought a horse than a car. The horse doesn't agree. My 14 year old on the other hand is a precocious social butterfly that thrives on being in all the cliques and at all the school dances.

Bought one just like in the photo - 2005 Subaru Impreza 2.5RS (only 39K miles). I miss my 2004 STi and was gonna make my 16 year old drive the 2006 Tribeca to school, but my wife thinks my daughter will be more popular if she drives this one instead. I get to drive it for another month until my daughter has her license.

Yeah - dropping FW on some mac models was a mistake. That's why when I was looking at getting the 13" macbook with lighted keyboard in January I felt that I had to spring for the extra $400 to get the 15" Macbook Pro with firewire. But I hate that if I forget to bring a FW 800 > 400 cable with me or I can't use it. I also hate that they dropped expresscard from the 15" Macbook Pro. Mine was the last version to have the card slot, and I was always hoping that someone like Apogee would make a nice 24/96 or 24/192 DAC amp for the card slot. But now that only the 17" Macbook Pro have it I wonder if express card will be dead for mac soon.

Absolutely, I have one of his 12v Sigma 11 for my Mini-DAC and it is very well done.

I've been using the Audioengine A2 for a few weeks with my Macbook Pro, and I am happy with them. They have a 1/8" input and an RCA input, with a volume control on the back in case your source does not adjust volume. They definitely improve using some kind of stand to get them up above the desktop. And they sound nice with my iMod/PVcap dock as well, or at least better than using a pair of Velodyne Deco satellites via a Travagans Green 5 watt amp. The bass is not bad although I would like a little more treble presence - but for the $170 that I paid I am pleased.

Nevermind, the last post wrecked what I had typed about Pre while that one was being posted.

My customs are the only IEM's that DON'T make my ear canals itch.

What's wrong with imbedded youtube links not working? I can't even rename the link to "Bull Wins".

My cat who is named "Boo" says, "Hapi burf dai"

Any news about ALAC support yet?

Check this guy out. I almost thought he plays a normal right handed guitar in left handed position and just doesn't re-string the guitar for left handed. So the strings look upside down. But, when I looked again I see that he just strings the guitar the opposite way vs normal, since the volume and tone knobs are still near the bottom of the guitar. I wonder if he learned to play using the wrong handed guitar, and now he is stuck having to leave the strings that way? He is pretty good too.

Thanks! Here's another one: Amazon.com: Analekta: Classical Gems: Free Sampler: Various Artists: MP3 Downloads

It was more of a "I wonder if it is put together well enough to give my father-in-law without feeling like it came out of a cracker jack box." I'm not expecting much, but if it's more like a $20 watch than a $5 watch then we'll both be happy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFWIzoxYQ4s I feel sorry for these guys...

Bought it too, but I wonder how well made they are...

I got back from RMAF a week ago but the only full size headphone I have unpacked from the trip are my K1000, and that was only to test the EHHA vs the ZDT for a couple of hours. The rest of the time I have been listening to the JH13Pro.

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One big improvement was in the bass, there is much better impact - with the EF1 and Black Eyes Peas the bass is almost visceral. They also seem to play louder with the EF1 amp than they could at CanJam, maybe because the 28-30 ohm load is easier for the amp to supply enough current. The earpads are nicer velour, like those off the Proline 2500 or K702. I thought the pads were a bit stiff and hard, but should soften up with some use. If they used the JMoney leather pads like the LCD-2 that would be nice.

He's already done the one wearing the hat...

I loved that poem.

Slightly off topic but in-line with this discussion of the EHHA at RMAF. I have the EHHA here on loan, and while it still isn't perfect with the K1000 it is clearly better with the K1000 over the ZDT in a few areas. (1) the bass is tighter and more defined with the EHHA and K1000, with not as much of a bass cloud although still a little muddy vs the HD800 tight bass, (2) The mids are not as forward or over-present as they are with the ZDT and it's less colored, and (3) the treble with the EHHA has a slight increased sparkle over the ZDT with the K1000, although the ZDT treble improves as it heats up for a couple of hours. I am going to try rolling some 12AX7/5751 tubes in the ZDT and see what that does. The GE grey plate 5751 in the ZDT right now is perfect with the HD800/600 RS-1/HF-2 and LA7000, while the stock Mullard re-issue was a little brighter and edgier and this one is smoother and softer. I have a GE black plate 5751, a couple of Tung Sol 5751, a Telefunken smooth plate 12AX7, and the old 12BZ7 from the GES that Craig says is okay to use. He said my Mullard 12AU7 or Siemens ECC82 wont bias right.

That's great, but too bad about having to re-rip stuff. I am going through the same thing. I have been adding music to iTunes since 2003, and I would rip CD at 160K so I could know which songs were not iTunes purchases. I only used the music on iPods, not with a outboard DAC, so I didn't think I needed to go higher. By early 2007 I was ripping CDs in 320K because with my new E4C and C700 IEM I could hear the improvement. I started ripping lossless 2 years ago after I joined head-fi and bought an iBasso D1 DAC/amp, in addition to ripping the 320K version that I still do for smaller iPods. That was when I discovered the joys of listening to my Macbook as a digital music server and hearing the music in CD quality without having to pull the CD off the shelf and load them up one at a time. I now have about 600 albums in iTunes and about 200 are lossless. I still have about 300 older CDs that I need to add to iTunes.

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My caption when I posted that in my MobileMe Gallery was, "My Favorite Martian".

Where are the fire trucks?