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I've got a couple pretty much like that kicking around that Shure had sent for a meet we had. recstar24, if that's suitable PM your address to me and I'll send one to you.

I'm in the mood for some demented fun The Tiger Lillies - Urine Palace

If you like it get their first self-titled album as well, it's just as good, maybe even better.

Happy Birthday Dan! hope you have a great day.

LCD-2's just showed up... Oh my...

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A complete change of pace for me, I don't usually like this type of thing but something about the his voice and the harmonies I quite like when the mood strikes. David Francey - Skating Rink

Thanks guys, I ship out the 13Pro's tomorrow (holiday here today) and it looks like from the tracking I should be getting the LCD-2's tomorrow as well, that should help ease the disappointment. It kind of sucks that I won't have the SQ at work I had hoped for but in the long run I don't really get to listen very critically there anymore. manaox2, did you end up having to sell customs as well? Ric, I wish you the best of luck with the refit, I really hope it works out for you this time.

I'm sad to say my 13Pro/custom IEM dream has come to an end, I finally had to admit defeat and sold them on HF yesterday. I feel like I should relate the story and reasons to those who might be interested, sorry if it's too lengthy. Last summer when I first got the 13Pro's it seemed like I was only in need of a minor refit, unfortunately that was not to be. After my 3rd refit I believe it was, I found I had a channel imbalance with the low bass and at the same time I developed a bad case of TMJ that has been causing quite a bit of pain in my left ear around where the first bend is. The TMJ related pain was a concern but I had been hopeful that because the left IEM was a bit short and didn't quite reach the area that was painful that I'd be able to get away with using them. Despite the fact that under certain conditions like opening my mouth wide or a certain way I would push them in that I was able to get the balance right, even after a few more refits and testing the imbalance persisted. The last time they were there Jerry said they tested fine and suggested that I look at getting new impressions because he felt the solution was to make them longer. I didn't really feel that was an option because, for one, I was only ever able to find one local audiologist who would do the impressions and at a premium charge at that, so to get new ones from someone different I'd have to go to the mainland with an expected cost in the region of a few hundred dollars. Also, while getting new impressions may very well have been the answer I really didn't think my ear would be able to handle anything longer that would be hitting up against the part of my ear that has been so bothersome. It was about this point my frustration with the process and the amount of money I had been sinking into them took over and I seriously started to contemplate cutting my losses. When I expressed these concerns with getting new impressions Jerry suggested I try some sort of Comply wrap to see if that helped. After 3 weeks of not seeing anything in the mail I emailed to see if they had been sent, coincidentally they just got them back in stock and sent them out that day. In frustration I decided to put them up for sale, I hadn't totally written off the idea of finding a solution but figured if I found someone to buy them it might be for the best as I was really starting to resent them and the whole process. I got the "wraps" about a week later and while isolation increased they didn't do anything to solve the balance issue I was having. I emailed Jerry with these findings, to which asked about the rest of my system and wondered if it might be cables. I replied that I didn't think it was cables because I had initially been using a Pico DAC/Amp between home and work with different USB cables and was now using a separate Pico Slim and Pico DAC with the same results. In addition they had already replaced a faulty IEM cable which didn't help the balance problem. Despite there being multiple recipients to that email I never got a reply. When I was able to get the 13Pro's to work for me I absolutely loved them and they would have been the perfect solution for me. If it wasn't for the pain in my left ear I might have pursued getting new impressions but I'm honestly not sure, after over six months and a couple of hundred in shipping costs, regardless of my ear, I was feeling rather frustrated with the whole process and reluctant about starting it over again and having to sink a lot more money into them. Maybe in the future if I can get my ear problems to subside I'll look at customs again, for now I'm going to have to stick with shallower insertion universals like my Triple.Fi's and instead of high-end customs I'm looking at building a home rig again. It's too bad that JH Audio doesn't have some sort of high-end universal, even with an expected reduction in sound quality I think a universal 13Pro and/or 16Pro could potentially be a killer product. It seems like the universal 13Pro they send out would be close but it would need some refinement in ergonomics to make it more user friendly and so users could get a more consistent fit.

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Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Mutations

The most recent game I worked on, NBA Jam, recently came out on the iPhone and has been receiving great reviews, go pick it up.

My thoughts exactly!

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Brotherhood Of Sleep - Dark As Light Bloody awesome!

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I don't see why a Macbook Pro wouldn't suffice, you could add on a second monitor for your desktop and have dual displays at the office, this is what I do with my 17" laptop at home. You could also do a dual boot so you could have both Windows and OSX on the same machine. I just poked around Apple's website, I'd suggest getting the 17", bulkier to carry but if it's going to be used predominately on a desktop then the extra screen real estate will be worth it. Upgrade the hard drive to the faster 7200 RPM drive and get the anti-glare screen as well, if you can afford to max out the ram I'd say go for it. If you were to go dual displays and could afford it, the Apple Cinema displays are really nice. I have two older 21"'s at work that I use on a PC that I absolutely love, it's a bit of a letdown coming home to my laptop screen and 21" LG monitor. As far as networks go I haven't set one up myself recently and I don't have a whole lot of experience but at work we probably have a 50/50 split of windows and mac machines on our network without much issue.

Yet very appropriate.

The Shure 530's were my other favorite that stayed with me for quite awhile, I don't think I ever would have sold them if it wasn't for the cable issues they had. That's a moot point now that the new breed have detachable cables though. If I hadn't gone custom I might actually have been tempted to try the new 535's. Ironically I always had minor issues with the fit of the Shures, whereas once I got used to the Triple.Fi's and started using them with Comply's I find them quite comfortable albeit still somewhat ergonomically challenged, why they would make them stick out like that is beyond me.

I quite like the Triple.Fi's, it took a bit for me to come around to them, I think mainly the Comply tips are what did it for me in both sound and comfort. They're not the be all or end end all but I've tried quite a few universal IEM's in my time and the Triple.Fi's are the ones that have stuck round the longest. When I got 13Pro's I briefly debated selling them but decided to hold on to them for back up purposes and I'm glad I did considering the 13Pro's have spent less time in my possession than in transit or with JH Audio. I haven't heard the newer Ety's models but I personally prefer the Triple.Fi's to the 4P/S's.