When did you last have an eargasm? - Page 3

I had a few recently.

Let's just say that they involved tongue + ear contact.


O:-)

That's a little too much information...and kinda gross...

hahaha
I'm not so sure about YOU, but I clean my ears regularly and well.

And don't knock it until you've tried it. hahaha

Listening to the Stax SR-404 at CES.

Popping in Radiohead's "The Bends" once I got my new Axiom M3ti's set up, and listening to Street Spirit, with the guitar at a plane even with my ears, Thom's vocals even with the speakers, and the drums clearly behind him. I'd never experienced a holographic soundstage like that in my own place. It was way cool.

Peter Gabriel - No Way Out

It's the first time I've heard this song with the HD 600.

Gorgeous sounding bass. Such a pretty song. Actually, the entire album it's on is one prolonged eargasm.

That track rules.

My consistently unbeatable eargasm remains Cynic's 'Sentiment'.. but that was quite a while ago. More recently, Star of Ash's 'Beautiful as Torment' and Behold... the Arctopus' 'Exospacial Psionic Aura'.

Hmmm. True "eargasms"??

A long, long time ago.

Let's see...:

- Hearing Amanda McBroom live in a small jazz club, by invitation only, maybe 14 feet away from her. Woman has a set of lungs that makes the Big Bad Wolf jealous.

- Hearing B&W 802 Matrix 3's, finally, with the "proper" amp. That being a (borrowed from the manufacturer) $10,000 Citiation XX.

Yeah, the Spectrals, the Electro's (Electrocompaniets), the Krells, the Conrad-Johnsons - all sounded good. But nothing sounded like that Citation XX. It was if you took the 10,000 volt power line and directly plugged it into the back of the speaker. It was AWESOME. It even was able (even the Krells couldn't do it) to bottom out the drivers both the B&W's and Celestion 700's.

- When a good "friend" of ours, the designer of a small speaker company, ITC, came in with his brand-new ITC 1/4 system. The ITC 1's were amongst our personal favorites but small. He came in with the "4" system, an add-in to the 1's - a set of stereo 12" subs. With a 400 watt amp to drive them (and only them, we supplied the bi-amp). With a spectrum analyzer to make the system flat down to 18 Hz (no EQ's - just careful room placement and using the sub's built-in level controls! They were that well designed).

And a live PCM recording, on a video deck for source, of a Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ symphony with full chorus (he plays and tuned pipe organs for his significant living )

Result: Every ceiling panel outside the listening room, for 20 foot circumference, vibrating and walls rattling. Imaging that was so frightening the only thing we could all do - when we weren't outside the room laughing at the ridiculousness of all this - was stand there in the listening room and laugh at the incredible realism that we were supposed to absorb. But couldn't because, honestly, the experience was just too, well, too. Jeez, I still remember that. Sitting in a 20 x 20 foot room that you could SWEAR was really a 150 x 250 foot cathedral listening to a full pipe organ that somehow got stuffed into that little room with you.

Incredible.

Did I forget to say why the system sounded like this? Because the 1's were transmission-line 3-way mini's with upward-firing midbass and the subs were a pair of transmission-line 12's?? (!)

- Hearing K.D. Lang's voice for the first time. Haven't heard her live - maybe one day - but just hearing her hit "that note" is all worth it.

Yesterday, when i built my IC from my APX-> G-lite. It actually sounds mint. Senn200, gimme your HD 600s i want them. lol

Not sure that this counts, but...

I've listened to Homeward Bound, on the Simon and Garfunkel Collected Works CD's at least 30 or 40 times, on a Denon (Can't remember the mdel number, but it was back when they used really good DAC's... sound quality is excellent) CD player with a Marantz Model 2245 amp, and it sounded pretty good. Then I ripped the CD using cdparanoia/FLAC, played it on my X5L (using, God forbid, the stock earbuds). It was as if I had never heard the song before in my life... and it's when I decided to get REAL IEM's (Thinking of sf3's or um1's)

It was actually just this morning... just incredible.

It had been a while for me too. But last night I picked up the newly remastered Stooges album Fun House on vinyl, I'd never heard it before. The whole album is an eargasm! But especially the first track, "Down on The Street", just kicks things off with such authority, I love it.

eargasm ..
I think it's about music but definitely the rig contribute by a large margin
happening now with starting track of "In Your Honour" Foo Fighters album ..

..what's eargasm for you ?

Last night, taking my first serious test drive of my new Firestone Audio iCute amp and Supplier PS, listening to my Aretha Franklin box set Queen of Soul to the track "Today I Sing the Blues".










DAMN.

i get a eargasm whenever i here the "rock out" part of a metal song... also got a few from the new nine inch nails album, "sunspots" is a good one

Oh, just about anytime I put on my HF-1's, I'm bound to have something good happen, but the last time was listening to "Londonderry Air" off "The Art of Virgil Fox". Seriously amazing piece of music, and you get Virgil's amazing musicianship to top it off. It's actually one of the few tracks I like on the CD, but it's so good, it made it worth the CD.