HeadphoneAddict

We got about 7-8" of snow with the storm last Wednesday, which came up to our dog's belly when she'd go outside, but we only got about 2-3" last night. So nothing major here yet, not even a snow day for the kid's school.

Fortunately all of our 4S are running great with good battery life. We upgraded one of the 3GS to iOS 5 and it was running fine for a few days before we put it in storage for a rainy day. And we restored all of ours from backups and didn't set them up as fresh phones, which could potentially cause issues because the backups were from jail-broken phones. If I had battery trouble that might be the first place I'd look, trying to set it up as a new phone without restoring.

Well, so far I've only read the review but not any of the comments in that thread. It seems like a reasonable review to me, considering his minimal experience with stats (which he acknowledges). I think the biggest turn-off for some people will be if it's ruthlessly revealing with bad recordings, which is my biggest complaint with my HE-60. I was concerned the SR-009 would be the same way, based on my brief experience at RMAF. It would be nice to spend a lot of time with both of those phones some day, to get a better feeling for them.

Wow, 7 pages in 12 hours?!? I might read it eventually...

Good costume, but he didn't line up the holes well...

I hate when that happens. Get Well!

We kept giving out candy to the teens that came later as well, several who know my oldest daughter and visited with her a little. Probably saw 50 kids total tonight. I had just enough candy, with a bunch of left over tootsie rolls.

Be patient and wait for used HF-2 to come up for sale.

We're at 245Gb this month, but usually stay under 200Gb.

That's wild, to be Santa on your DL.

Well, even with 0.2.10 I could play 24/96 HDTracks FLAC files fine, and I'm on 0.2.12 now with no issues. I would contact "Dennis at PS Audio dot com"

I have an RMAF book you can have. PM me an address to mail it.

Yeah, your NAS might have new firmware, but doesn't explain why it quit working. Were your FLAC working before, and now don't, or is it only recent downloads? I haven't bought any recent albums from HDTracks, wonder of they did something to their files. The set up is simply configuring the name of the NAS and IP address, and setting up an administrator and PW. Seems like you've done that already for use with your computer. If the NAS has a uPNP or DLNA server on it then the PS Audio eLyric software for iDevices will find the NAS and the music on it, and it will see your Bridge as a place to send the audio to (assuming everything is on the same network).

Yes, it does once you've set up the NAS with your computer. I can have my computers all off and play 24/96 FLAC from HDTracks.com, but need an iPhone or iPad to control the playback.

Well, nook for iPad. I sold the nook, but have 100 eBooks for nook so i'm sticking with that format for now.

After high school I only applied to two universities in Texas where I grew up, and was accepted to both. I chose TAMU which had a better pre-med program than UT (couldn't afford private schools). I applied to 4 medical schools in Texas and was accepted to 3, and put on the wait list for the 4th. So I got to pick Baylor College of Medicine, which I think was the best of the ones in Texas. At first they subsidized the tuition for in-state students to ridiculously low levels (same price as UT med schools), but then the tuition doubled each year after my first year when that went away. At least I never paid the full $10K per year (a lot in 1984).

I still have a TomTom as backup for my iPhone and Navigon. Haven't used it in 2 years.

Does anyone make an app (like Navigon for iPhone) that doesn't require cellular data to use GPS and maps?

I bought Steve Jobs for nook. But need to finish a Heinlen book first.

Strange, it looked like there was a lot of interest for info that I left out in my first posts, but it wasn't really wanted. swt61 must be right.

Happy birthday! (when was it?)

Thanks! I sprung for the Apple lossless version.

Just to clarify things I posted here before, and not to take this off topic again, I add this. But I'm not going to go back and forth with rebuttals and defenses to more accusations here. This will remain the LCD-3 topic, although it's understood that comparing them to other phones Is perfectly acceptable. I'm taking the time to write this because I have 2 hours to kill with my iPad while having my car serviced. I saw that all the stat amps at RMAF were driven balanced from their sources via XLR except for the BHSE, which I didn't look at the connections. I would assume Justin would drive it balanced, but no promises. I don't know if my Apogee mini-DAC set for "11" on the volume has the same output levels as the Woo DAC, or Boulder, or Oppo, or Sony that were used at RMAF. But I've read elsewhere that the Apogee that I brought to RMAF has hot outputs, closer to 5v than 4. I've searched just now and can't find the actual numbers in the first few hits I got. I know that any amp has a ceiling in its output power which is different depending on the design, and reaching that ceiling can come sooner or later depending on the source's output voltage and the amp's gain. I'm not stupid or ignorant about that. I know that balanced XLR is usually double the output voltage of single ended. I always use my Apogee or Perfectwave DAC via XLR outputs for my stat amps, with the source output volumes at max. In fact, my WES and KGSS don't even have single ended inputs, and the RCA inputs on my eXStatA are never used in my setup. The HEV-70 I mentioned before is SE only, as was the SRM-1 mk2 Pro. The 717 I heard with 007 and HE-60 before was via balanced XLR. The T1 I heard was via XLR > ISOmax transformers to convert the signal to SE, so I could feed my GES via RCA from the same DAC and do quick comparisons. When I'm saying that the Cavalli drove the 007 very well and very loud, loud wasn't the only thing it did well. And loud isn't my only gauge of how well the 007 are "driven". But most of the amps I've tried with the 007 will not play cleanly at volumes that resemble those of a live performance. The BHSE and CLL were able to achieve those volumes. There was no distortion, graininess or fatigue associate with loud volumes. The CLL/007 sound was extended, full and present, fast, dynamic, powerful with good body, good timbre/tone and frequency balance, detailed and spacious, clean and smooth with great air, ambience and space (which I think reflects good micro-detail). I could not appreciate them in their fullest because of noise and meet conditions, but I was able to overfocus on the headphones and tune out the surrounding noise as best as I could. Both amps seemed to be in the same tier of performance to me, in most of these areas. My only concern with the BHSE and 007 is that the mids still sound recessed and less vivid to me with 007, offering a deeper but less intimate soundstage than the Cavalli. I first posted this finding back in 2009 after RMAF, and got blasted for it (putting flame suit on). What was most striking was the superb transparency offered by the Cavalli and BHSE, where everything combined well to make the headphones almost disappear. Although that can also be a reflection of the quality of the source, if the amp isn't good enough you may not be able to appreciate everything the source has to offer. With any of my amps I might not have wanted to keep keep my 007 for the long run, even though my KGSS with my PWD DAC is a little better than my WES when using the 007. But it still is not enough for them to be driven the way these other amps can do it, and I still find the 007 mids and highs to feel recessed with it. That's why I've been using my HE-60 more. Before RMAF I planned on getting the 009 if they made the grade, but in comparison to my HE-60 they were only a little better, mostly in the area of a more solid foundation and weight to the instruments. They were also maybe a little smoother and more refined sounding. But the speed, delicacy, and and sondstage were similar. This could very well be different with different sources, amps, and listening environment. So I haven't made any final assessments. It should be assumed without saying that anything I posted would only be valid for the listening conditions at RMAF. Like I said, it felt like if I could mix what I like about the 007 with HE-60 I'd have an 009, but it might also include the things I don't like about the HE-60 (picking apart the music, fatiguing at high volumes which could be amp related, still not enough weight and foundation in the bottom end). But knowing what the 007 can do now makes me want to keep them and just drive them better. I haven't posted much impressions of my KGSS before, due to having my posts picked apart in the past, but I did send my impressions to Marc after I had it for a week. I got no encouragement to post them, so I didn't. Many of you are just too demanding about how my impressions should be posted, and don't often apply those standards to other members of the forum (except the 1 post newbies). When I postthe my brief 009 vs LCD-3 impressions here, any omissions of fact doesn't mean I didn't consider it, but rather that it didn't seem necessary to add more details to my post. I'm constantly berated for putting too much fluff in my posts, but then when I trim the fat I get blasted and acused of not considering important things - can't win for losing. The fact still remains that with the 007 I have not heard an amp drive them as close to my expectations as the BHSE or the CLL. Since I'd prefer solid state and single chasis, and the way the CLL presents the mids, I'm leaning towards the CLL. I'll try to get an opportunity to hear these more in the future before I decide. I'm also considering having Woo upgrade my WES to the current revision, which sounded wonderful with the 009. PS: I'm fully expecting someone to grasp onto at least ONE incorrect fact above, and let me know about it while completely ignoring anything else that I said. If I'm lucky they'll find several things to rip apart. It seems to be expected here (puts on thick skin again).

Yes. I sent them to Sennheiser summer of 2009 for new drivers, o-rings, ear pads, and headband pad. I bought them from Kees with the Stax plug already done, and a 6" pigtail to let me use the HEV-70 if I wanted. I slso had to replace the PSU at the same time with Sennheiser. They did all the refurb work for about $550 + shipping (incl PSU). [edit iPad auto correct]