HeadphoneAddict

That zombie vajayjay was something I didn't need to see.

"Fool us twice and get the Tice"

D-link 8-port and 5-port gigabit switches. I'm getting some parts of the house wired for ethernet tomorrow. We really should have done this when we built the house (stupid). I have a friend who owns the company doing the wiring, and so it will be cheaper than installing AC powerline networking adapters all around the house. And with the job I'll get an intercom between the kitchen and basement theater room as well, so we don't have to scream at the kids to come up when we need them. I'm looking forward to faster transfers between computers, NAS and our 1st gen Apple TVs. Even the PS3 and Xbox 360 should see an improvement when streaming video from my NAS or Twonky on the iMac. Our WiFi router is two floors away from the game systems, and we still get stuttering video even with an Airport Express as an extender. I'll now be able to move one of our Airport Extremes to the basement as an access point, and connect it to the 8-port switch so we'll have strong and fast WiFi down there.

x2 on the Thermos linked above. I bought one from Amazon last winter, and it would keep my tea hot all day in the car while freezing outside. Okay, so both are Thermos, it's this one http://www.amazon.com/Thermos-JMW500P6-16-Ounce-Stainless-Steel-Backpack/dp/B000K604P0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1320849517&sr=8-1

What would have to happen to get get dust in the driver? Isn't there a dust barrier that's integral with the driver? You mean don't rip it, or does the barrier come off when you open the headphone?

And the translation... https://plus.google.com/u/0/105568760052131786383/posts/cZhgv5Vsi43

Yum, snake oil does taste good though.

I'm not sure I have the skills to rectify the situation - what you you recommend if neither I nor Sennheiser can do the job right?

I'll have to also look into Pure Music and Decibel I guess, but can't hurt to try BitPerfect at just $4.99 I heard that Amarra Mini may be updated soon. I'll have to try to dig out their last newsletter.

Thanks!

I've been holding off on the Lion update because of reported issues with Amarra Mini skipping, but I can't update to iCloud until I get Lion (if I still want to sync my contacts, calendar and stuff like I do with MobileMe). If I had my way it would still be called dot Mac and it would work with the last couple of versions of the Mac OS...

Have you posted the HE-60 measurements yet? Thanks for doing those.

With the 4S you can't even voice dial anymore without a network connection. At least I couldn't today. And I couldn't dictate my text messages either.

Happy birthday

I picked up my son's 5 year old Macbook Pro after getting the cooling fans replaced. Sure is nice to not hear the fans rattling all the time anymore, just wish it wasn't $149 to get it done. And so far I've lost about 10 lbs in 12 days with the SP Cleanse diet and some mild exercise every day on my stationary bike. Only 40 more pounds to go, but the loss has slowed down now as I stabilize on the new diet...

Anyone else having trouble with Siri connecting to the network today? UPDATE - I read that if you reset network setting and turn Siri off and back on it would fix it. I just tried it and it worked. Haven't been able to use Siri all day until I reset network settings. Earlier I only tried turning Siri off and rebooting.

Where did you buy yours, if I might ask?

Why was I under the impression that it only had maps for the UK and such? Edit - This is why:

Thanks for the link. I missed it by an hour I guess.

Thanks for that one, I bit.

I'm sorry to hear all this, and hope everything works out for the best.

The original Duet also had hiss with IEM, but it wasn't too severe although easily noticed.

Not for me, I'm too stupid to make them work. I have a couple of pairs of contacts in my drawer that are impossible to install without them wrapping around the tip of my finger instead. Plus I have an overactive blink reflex, aka "GTF out of my eye!"

I hope this is relevant to the current discussion. When I first started posting reviews on HF four years ago, it really wasn't for attention but simply to try to share my feelings about some of the new gear I'd bought that I was excited about. It seemed that on HF it was expected for people to share their thoughts, and it was fun at first. Later it was to gain access to more gear to try out in my journey towards audio nirvana, and just a little bit for the attention. During that time I found that I'm just not motivated to take the time to fully review something that I didn't like. I did post impressions of gear I didn't like in the various threads if the subject came up, but a full review wasn't warranted (it's a hobby not a job). I'm not sure we really know what Skylab's motivation for doing reviews is, but we don't have to always assume the worst of someone (attention, sucking up, or kissing butt). Some people like Skylab (and myself) enjoy a wide range of sound signatures, and liking one thing doesn't preclude our liking a different sounding one as well. That can lead to a lot of reviews with a positive slant to the conclusion. Or, like me, Skylab may not like to waste a lot of time fully reviewing something that he didn't like, so fewer of the completed reviews are negative. I do believe it's important for people to be critical of reviews, and to use their own judgement and experience to guide them. As Asr pointed out, it's ridiculous for some people to to hold out on buying something until the review comes out, and then to entirely base their purchase decision on the review alone. I also think that it's helpful when being critical of some parts of the review to also note the areas where you do agree with the reviewer (if there are any). It motivates the reviewer to try to do a better job, rather than just close their ears and wish you to go away. When I started out I didn't have a high enough benchmark to compare gear. So when I first bought my Ultrasone HFI-700DVD four years ago I thought things couldn't get any better than that, coming from the Bose Quiet Comfort II. A couple of weeks later the HD600 arrived and they eclipsed the Ultrasone. In that manner I find that one's taste in audio gear matures with experience, after being exposed to a wider variety of gear over time. My tastes eventually matured to phones like HP-1000, K-1000, Omega 2, HE-60, HD800, and more recently the LCD-2 and HE-6/HE-500. Yet there is still room occasionally for "fun phones" like D7000 or HF-2. My journey seems similar to how Skylab went from enjoying Darth Beyers to selling all of them when he got better gear (although I disliked the Darth Beyer from the beginning, and posted as much when I got my first pair). It seems like he's moved on from those early days, but I could be wrong as I have not looked into his current inventory at all. I also agree that reviews are really hard to do right. I don't think many of my reviews were pretty, as I struggled to bring together into one place what I thought were too many points of consideration to make sense. I admit that I don't have enough technical expertise to be a professional reviewer either. I've just been trying to share my impressions, and by doing it in a different way, usually by adding more comparisons vs other gear that people may already be familiar with. I think it gives people of good frame of reference, and it seemed like more people agreed with my impressions than not. I found that it's much easier to do a comparative review than by simply describing the sound on it's own merits. I admit that's a shortcut that I often take, but sometimes it works. My favorite comparative review was my flagship custom IEM review, but it took me over 2 months to put that together. That's just too much work for something like that. Because they're such a pain to do, once I was happy with my own gear I cut back a good bit on "reviews". I've been ignoring opportunities to get review samples if it was something I wouldn't buy for myself. Basically, if I don't see a place for it in my own gear inventory I've lost interest in reviewing it. Also, lately I prefer posting impressions of new gear inside their "appreciation threads", instead of posting fresh threads. I think it helps keep the information all in one relevant place, and it doesn't split the attention on the gear across multiple threads. If there is no appreciation or discussion thread then I'm okay with starting one, but with people like Skylab around I feel like I can sit back and enjoy the forums more without the pressure to do a full review.