Rthomas

Where do you want to be in a 1 year? 5 years? 10 years? Define your goals and focus on how to reach the right audience. Blogging is not easy.

near impossible, as you have to stand out from every cookie cutter o the day -- and had to check if you were a bot/troll ;) -- you mentioned 1K, wth. -- snark aside, just do it and grow naturally

Probably not if they need to ask us idiots who spend thousands to make music sound 5% better than an iPod! But hey, no judgement from me ;)

I got to briefly try the Amiron and will say it sounded less offensive to me than the DT990s from memory. Definitely sizzlier than the DT880s I got used some years ago (which turned out to have been felt-disc modded by a previous owner so.... there's that). Might do a back to back eventually, will report back if I get to do so.

I've been following Brent as long as Tyll (found him before Tyll, I think), particularly when I was looking into bookshelves and subwoofers. He has done great work on subs. I follow Sean Olive (of Harman, Olive/Welti curve) on FB and Brent comments pretty often. Good dude. Not perfect, but if you don't agree with his impressions he at least shows his work and provides valuable data.

That all being said, there will never be a new Tyll.
Ever.
One of a kind.

I think they only collect for international shipping duty in case seller hasn’t paid it upfront. Domestic, I don’t think so.

Thanks guys!

Technically you are supposed to pay use tax but fortunately there are still no means to enforce them.

Wow, GREAT price. If you got a good one, you'll know. The sound will be magical. ;-)

It might match whatever curve it wants. Still going to have different sound on different shaped heads, can't change that. So on the one they measured it with it might have, measure it on another system, it won't. And on your head it's something else. On mine another too. So..

That said, I liked it. And it looks super cool. Would never ever give that amount of money though

Orpheus 2 is is too bright with not enough relaxed fine detail. Let's forget about modern senns, they're not worth it and built for a price bracket instead of listening enjoyment.

There was a rumor flying around a couple of years ago that he was working on something TOTL, but I haven't heard anything about it since. Someone should ask him at one of those CanJam seminars he does.

Interested in the result knowing that you'll compare against EQ'd 800S. My money is that for you, the 800S will win.

I don't care about hype, unboxing experience or price tags. May the best sound (to my ears) win! :)

Nice writeup! I hesitate to comment on the Meze thread because I heard them out of the Dave's HP out, which admittedly isn't the best for planars, but I definitely thought it was better than an LCD-4. The upper bass and lower mids didn't quite connect correctly on the Meze and that the transients weren't as good as the Senns to me. I get the feeling if you gave the 800S some tubes, you may be set.

lol

3 of your last 4 status updates have been about Rafe or how bad IF is now. Time to move on.

I love how Rafe says he’s going to do listening tests of the HE6 using his portable. $5 he says it sounds great.

Once you put all the EQs into the EQ window you go to file -> export -> "filters impulse response as wav" Ezpz way to try these out without needing fancy VST wrappers or whatever, plus the foo_convolver plugin is super fast :D

The hd800’s respond incredibly well to EQ, damn

Maybe I can bug somebody else, @JohnM , what determines the length of the exported impulse wav file?

Yeah. People like me. Now I have vertical vertices stuck up my ass. And it’s not pleasant.

I read that as vehicles...

That wouldn't be pleasant either

Of the two I much prefer vertical vertices for their mellifluous alliteration and the way they roll off the tongue. I'm only sorry I don't live in a universe with the right number of dimensions to observe them.

should he chose an Ether2, Hands should be banned. yes. I said it.

It would kinda invalidate all of his reviews @jexby ...

@jexby is just lashing out because I poke fun at him for liking the HE1000 and Utopia. :)

If it's any consolation, he's probably the happiest he's ever been with the adventures he's taking in that remodeled FedEx truck.

Did you ask Marv?

What he compared these to and his upstream gear taken to account, I wouldn't say he was far off. He's take on neutrality is a bit different than is used around here. I think he refered to consistency in timber as neutrality.

You can always slap on more dynamat!

Oh it's November. Voting time.

Based on my observations, I bet ec af would win this year lol or at least one of the strongest candidates.