Posts by Triakel

I'm listening to my HD 560 Ovation-II right now. I purchased mine in late 1994, for around $250 (if memory serves). It was my first higj-quality headphone and my first experience with an open design. I didn't know much about headphones...

Wussy "Left for Dead" -- Great Midwestern alt-rock album featuring Lisa Walker and former Ass Ponys frontman Chuck Cleaver. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjDXceXFicMa

Stirring acoustic compositions from one of the titans of ... death metal? Great disc. Reminds me a bit (just a bit) of Peter Gabriel's "Last Temptation of Christ" soundtrack.  

Bison B.C. - Lovelessness Nothing audiophile about these guys; just primal hard rock.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2GC3oh1h1s

Quite possibly the best album I've heard this year. Beautiful, haunting, poetic.  http://vimeo.com/58995379  

Miasma & The Carousel Of Headless Horses - Perils   Interesting instrumental progressive rock with a strong gothic bent. Excellent recording quality and musicianship. Another Web of Mimicry release. This label is rapidly...

Good for Cows "Audumla". Impossibly deep sludge drones/grooves by Oakland experimental jazz duo (published by Web of Mimicry). These are not so much songs but ominous Black Sabbath-inspired wordless tone poems....

Today it's been a lot of Matt Pike, particularly High on Fire's blistering, mind-numbing "Death Is This Communion" and "Blessed Black Wings." But I'm at the end of my work day, now, so I'm finishing with a mellow masterpiece...

 Secret Chiefs 3: Ishraqiyun: "Saptarshi/Radar". This A/B single is one of the best of many excellent SC3 recordings over the past decade and a half. The style is Arabian inspired free jazz techno death metal, or something close....

I just picked up the Amperior ($350), which uses the same (or very similar) driver and to the HD-25-1-ii ($200-250). The main design differences, from what I've been able to gather, are aluminum vs. plastic ear cups, copper...