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My priority at the moment is abs, so yeah, my food is kinda boring.

Yeah, especially considering the likely amp candidates.

You're probably right, but the guitar amp comparison isn't a very good one, imo. I doubt Mikhail builds his stuff for touring. Anyways, my condolences on the unfortunate events, Al. If you manage to find a good tech, hook me up with a number.

I just had myself a breakfast burrito at Cheesecake Factory, and now I'm eating a BBQ salmon thing with mashed potatoes (Cheesecake Factory to go)... I'm getting pretty full.

How come nobody does comfies? Don't fit?

I'm not quite sure I understand your question, but the DAC/amp upsamples.

Hey OP: I don't mind review threads, but some points of reference would be nice. I don't know you or where you're coming from. What similar equipment have you tried? What are your amp and source? What music do you listen to? We're not HF, and we don't just tell people "Hey nice review!" when it's not warranted. All I can gather is that the D1001 is your reference, but I have no experience or interest in that. Not that I'm interested in the SE102 either... but still. Give me something to work with.

I haven't really noticed the cable thing, but I do notice that nobody cares about sources or amps. Whenever I try to tell a kid that he needs something better than a soundcard for his Markl D7000s or whatever, 5 guys after me say that it sounds great out of their D10 or Compass or whatever other cheap thing.

Does it really? I may be wrong, but it seems like some of these HD800 owners don't even want to pay $1400 for an amp, let alone shoelaces.

Impressions of Balanced HD800 - Head-Fi: Covering Headphones, Earphones and Portable Audio That picture made me puke in my mouth a little bit. Finally, something uglier than the Floats...

I'm probably going to this meet.

I also listened to balanced vs single-ended and thought the difference was huge. I'm dead serious, despite the smiley.

That's a rather odd final twosome, don't you think? I might throw the Pico DAC in there as well, if it's just for computer playback. What do y'all think of the MSB Link III or Audio Alchemy DDE 3.0 DACs? Do the Audio Note kits also fall in about this price range?

Meh, might as well jump in meself: 1. VTG 2. AD2000 3. HD650 Top 2 might change with source/amp upgrades... we'll see. Also, HF2 on the way.

How much is like a MisterX-commissioned Gamma1 + Starving Student or something?

Who wants to buy $1100 universals?

I'm more concerned with not being able to score a nice deal on a used pair. Same thing, I know, but I usually buy used instead of new.

I'm fairly surprised you weren't already registered here...

OK, thanks for the reality check, guys. If they most likely won't stand up to a good home rig, then that's that. Because I do intend to get a good home rig. I'll just wait for y'all to get yours. Edit: dammit Iron_Dreamer. Edit2: Hooooh ASR won them at the raffle. Curses!

I didn't get to hear the JH-13 Pros, but the massive hype around these is messing with my head. Would I be crazy to just forget about full-sized phones/amps? Get myself a great source, Pico Slim, and some of these? I have no experience with truly great IEMs, so y'all are gonna have to tell me what's up.

I hope JP directly compared that Ref1 to the TransDAC.

Blah, still didn't fix Niko Audio or Manely. Also, "rainbow are" is a fatty grammar fail. It's OK if you sent them a quick email like that, but actually publishing stuff with that kind of grammar is unacceptable to me.

It's gonna be plenty black where that stuff is going.

That's the first thing I noticed, too. :basement:

Shit, I just gave my own stuff a listen, and it all sounds like garbage! DAMN YOU CANJAM!