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CES in 8 hours is a nutty idea, it turns out. Good times with Naaman, Dave, Tyll, Jude and Drew and especially at the Senn booth. HD800 is the real deal. Plenty of pics tomorrow but no computer between us tonight. Good stuff abounded but we barely scratched the surface. Pretty cool that there were two flagship hi-end headphones debuted by Ultrasone and Senn and Ultrasone and Beyer also have new amps. Shure was huge and Monster Cable debuted a whole line of shit. Anyway, more tomorrow. AVN, what's that, a new audio company?

CES in 8 hours is a nutty idea, it turns out. Good times with Naaman, Dave, Tyll, Jude and Drew and especially at the Senn booth. HD800 is the real deal. Plenty of pics tomorrow but no computer between us tonight. Good stuff abounded but we barely scratched the surface. Pretty cool that there were two flagship hi-end headphones debuted by Ultrasone and Senn and Ultrasone and Beyer also have new amps. Shure was huge and Monster Cable debuted a whole line of shit. Anyway, more tomorrow. AVN, what's that, a new audio company?

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Congrats Mike! Enjoy this one for awhile, won't ya!?

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Sorry about your loose screw, and the one in the preamp too! Buh dum bump! Good luck with that. I had that disappointment recently but it's better to find out now than to fry the thing.

Honestly, Dan, what are you going to accomplish by flying to Colorado if he does not ship this week or next? Are you going to carry your amp away in whatever shape it is in even if he does not agree to have you take it away? You asked him to do some amount of work on it and technically he has a right to be paid for the work you asked for but not the work you didn't. He probably has a type of mechanic's lien under Colorado law so taking it against his wishes could get you into more shit than you could get him into. Spending money on private investigators and accountants and all this stuff is not going to get you satisfaction and it is going to cost you money. This situation sucks but you are in the same boat plenty of us have been in before. Mikhail is likely to get the damn thing to you and then just don't ever deal with him again if you are not satisfied.

No Sharpie?!

Almost done . . . Fuck Zu. Fuck Ju. Fuck Su. Fuck You.

I can't recall where I wrote it with all these HD800 threads, but the ones at CES in Jude's pictures were s/n 248 so I think you are completely correct. Sennheiser is a smart company and has the resources to roll out a good number of these bad boys right away.

Happy birthday Luis! Cheers!

And then you decked them, didn't you, you Irish fuck!

Keep your head low, Dinny, my friend. This ain't the time to be knuckling up at work.

I got screwed! j/k. I will put up on Agon for local sale to avoid fabricating a box and all that hassle. Good luck with the amp Mike.

Mu understanding is that Todd never charges until he is ready to ship or has shipped.

I'm actually not a DAC1 basher but it is not the height of headphone amplification and it is comical that they are using a $12k dac to feed a digital signal to a $1k dac/amp.

The Frankenapple!

I have no intention of using the FR charts to make my pick. I intend to use the Psychic Puppy Network, of course! The Magic Dog Biscuit told me that the outlook was good when I asked if I should buy the HD800. As for you question, that is tough. If pressed right now, I guess I would say my balanced Equinox'd PS-1s.

Maybe you should use Tickle Me Lemos! Oh, I just talked to Jude and he said that Tyll had the 800s on for 20 minutes this morning and thinks they may be the best dynamic cans he has heard. I know we will hear from Tyll directly, but that seems like some amount of further confirmation. Plus, the Senn genius trust didn't even have the Dac 1 Pre so they are using the brand new Emm Labs dac as a digital transport into the the Dac 1! There may be a better way to listen to these cans, I'd imagine.

Somebody will have to tell me what measurements I want, other than 36-24-36, which I already know about.

Dan and Nate, I agree with you. I was just including his physical description of it which could be a Lemo type or not. I wouldn't expect him to know if it is really standard or not. Should have been more clear.

This is what bostonears said on HF after he saw them yesterday at CES: The cable appears to be higher quality than the old HD600 series cable, and is said to be silver-plated copper. The cable connectors are definitely non-standard. They use two small pins recessed within round metal surrounds, rather than protruding from plastic as in the old design. The connectors seem much sturdier than the old style, and it might be a while before third party cable makers duplicate them.