Thanks. The Hugo 2 looks good. Are there any portable balanced amps out there worth looking at, in your view? The Moon looks like a wonderful piece, but it's not even remotely portable. Good to know! I would say the Hugo 2 is about as large as I'd like to go for any one component. I'm open to...

Hi all, it's been a while since I posted here so apologies if this is the wrong forum. What are the current options for a really good, really portable DAC/amp that can do justice to the HD800?

Yes, that was my first impression as well -- when I heard the HE60 on the original amplifier, I hated them. But when I heard the HE60 on a different amplifier they sounded much better.

People talked about "transparent and delicate," that seems accurate enough. But I did own the HE90 and HD600 and SR-007 for many years, built amplifiers for them, took them to many meets, and even wrote an HE90 - HE60 - SR-007 comparison review...

HE90 is very clear and detailed, with very deep but not strong bass, and a tremendously musical somewhat warm quality. HD600 and friends are not even close. HD800 I've only heard for a few minutes but could be a step in the right direction. Stax Omega II (SR-007) has lots of bass but not the...

Everyone loves how they sound... and everyone definitely loves how the HE90s feel. Mentioning the price always gets a 'wait... what?'

The Omega2 are really touchy about all sorts of variation... pad rotation at the very least. I've had them sound quite different after a haircut!

Quote: Originally Posted by AlanY No, do not do this. As a prohibited form of debt collection under the BC Business Practices and Consumer Protection Act, it constitutes harassment. Some1x or a licensed debt collector acting on his behalf can contact his employer and show up at his place...

Quote: Originally Posted by Demolition That's good to know. For a second there, I thought this was some sort of Waco-esque suicide contraption for when the men in black come to your door. That's the beauty of it. My imaginary detcord -- without any detonators -- is just as...

Quote: Originally Posted by Demolition I occasionally have to deal with explosives at work because my company's main clients are usually involved in land-alteration or resource-based industries (e.g. forestry, mining, road engineering, etc.). Detcord is commonly present when such...

Grenades? Shotguns? Jeez. And I thought I was nuts for having sewn some homemade detcord into my pillow -- it kinda gives new meaning to the phrase "throw pillow." It doesn't hold a candle to the M79 that one of the ROTC guys has on "loan" from a training exercise, of course...

Agreed. I love my ER-20s.

Like those? check these out: http://web.mit.edu/unlocked/Public/r...s/DSC_0247.jpg http://web.mit.edu/unlocked/Public/r...s/DSC_0097.jpg

Quote: Originally Posted by jpelg Now you can go to a meet, and have four or five HE90's!!! Some members own more than one pair! That was but a pipedream only a few years ago. [...] Secondly, I also think the HE90's scale up with better equipment, beyond even what the O2's are capable...

In one of those "do I really write like that?" moments, I went back through my HE90 vs. Omega2 review, and found the following paragraph: Quote: Originally Posted by eric343 With discs like the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “What Hits?!”, all bets are off. The Red Hot Chili Peppers aren’t...

I have yet to find a mechanical pencil that is more comfortable or well designed than the PhD. The grip takes comfort beyond any rational extreme, the tip is retractable, and the eraser is thick and extendable such that it seems to never run out. It erases well, too.

Getting told to "put my fingers here and here" on the laser the cool science dad guy brought to elementary school... *ZAP* OW! lemme do that again! *ZAP* OW! *ZAP* don't try that, by the way...

Hawaii Five-O & Hogan's Heroes on the oldies rerun channel Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles blankets, action figures, cartoons, and going to Germany later and finding nutso high quality versions of TMNT action figures and being like "Whoa man awesome!" Playgrounds where you could get higher...

...Super soakers... ...Nerf guns... ...the Macarena AIEE... ...Apple IIes and AOL, and getting banned from the latter...

Quote: Originally Posted by iSleipnir The title made me so happy until I saw the frowning face. Once again, there are no hifi stores in the northwest! Gah! There are plenty of hi-fi shops in Seattle... Experience Audio ( http://www.experienceaudio.com/ ) is a particularly...

Quote: Originally Posted by juni0r For undergraduate admissions, it's really your GPA/course load that carries the bulk, as well as essay(s). All extracurriculars help, don't get me wrong, but say you declare your major as something in engineering, winning a state-level robotics...

So for the record, everyone around Cambridge I've talked to that was affiliated with Harvard said that it's "hard to get in, but easy to stay in." Professors are strongly discouraged from giving C's or less... like the Harvard TA I was talking to at a subway stop. W00t, my first drunken post...!

Quote: Originally Posted by Oistrakh I'm mostly concerned about getting in COLLEGe right now, not med school (read the original post) theres no one from harvard or MIT undergrad here? *raises hand* http://matt.mitblogs.com/ http://www.mitblogs.com/ Start there...

I'm... Impressed... In an odd sort of way. If the guy with the portapros was short, skninny, and kind of Chinese looking, he's my old GRT. Aka the only guy I've ever seen wear Portapros. Ever.

Uhhh... what's this world coming to when people can't recognize a pair of v700djs from a block away?! Kids these days... back when I joined, these things would get mentioned every other thread, usually in reference to how bad they sound. The girls of HeadPhet didn't help, either.