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post #121 of 559
10/29/08 at 5:29am
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Originally Posted by ZephyrSapphire View Post
I don't eat jelly beans. LOL.

And I'm back to using Windows XP even though the sound quality sucks out of ASIO4ALL. ********* Ubuntu and its Java issues. I NEED JAVA TO STUDY!
I really do find it odd how you can get different quality out of ASIO4ALL... it should really sound the some no matter what 'bit perfect' software you are using.

But yeah with Ubuntu and Java... did you try uninstalling all the .deb based java stuff and just getting the Sun version installed manually? If that doesn't work, something must be wrong !
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post #122 of 559
10/29/08 at 5:38am
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Originally Posted by Caution View Post
Yea, I had the blue dragon cable and was just curious as to how it compared against the Silver Dragon, but no biggie
Let me know if you want a lend of this cable, when I bought this cable I was skeptical as to the difference it would make. I was shocked at first as to how different it was, there was no bass and it sounded shrill. I spoke to Drew at Moon Audio and he assured me they do indeed need at least 100 hrs break in. So now I had to believe in this whole break in thing... well after a week and a bit the cable settled down and the bass was back, along with all the other superlative jaggen talk so they rocked. I had to send them back to Moon
Audio for a very minor repair a month ago. Switching back to stock cable was also a shock, back came that bad ass bloat in the bass and muddled mids...
If you heard a difference with the blue dragon in meet conditions, then you need to have a listen. Just pm your detais, happy for you to have a listen but I'm not selling them as I will be using them with my Tune amp from time to time... whoops my train stop have to go.
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post #123 of 559
10/29/08 at 5:46am
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Originally Posted by psyllium View Post
I really do find it odd how you can get different quality out of ASIO4ALL... it should really sound the some no matter what 'bit perfect' software you are using.

But yeah with Ubuntu and Java... did you try uninstalling all the .deb based java stuff and just getting the Sun version installed manually? If that doesn't work, something must be wrong !

I myself am shocked when I switch between Windows + ASIO and Ubuntu + ALSA. The differences are so clear to me somehow. Lots of detail is missing in Windows. Lol. I'll switch back to Ubuntu once Java gets fixed. And yeah, I uninstalled all the Java stuff then installed everything manually. Lol. Oh well, I'll try it again during the holidays or something.
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post #124 of 559
10/29/08 at 6:22am
thanks for the offer johnwmclean, maybe I'll give you a PM after my exams have finished
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post #125 of 559
10/29/08 at 6:24am
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Originally Posted by Caution View Post
...one person at the meet sold his 990s to Poo, I don't know where those have gone...
I sold them a few weeks later. Most overrated headphones I've heard to date (though I guess it depends what you are after - I can see why they would be appealing to some).
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post #126 of 559
10/29/08 at 6:28am
Actually, whilst (sort of) on the subject of the last meet, I bought those headphones off pkjames. He was generous enough to send me his DIY iMod a while later to demo. Problem is, I have had it packed up ready to send back to him for 2 months, have sent him a few messages, but not heard anything back. Anyone know how I can get in touch, or get his iMod back to him?
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post #127 of 559
10/29/08 at 6:54am
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Crazy Australian Dollar. Now the 9 CD's I want cost AUD$500. Madness.
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post #128 of 559
10/29/08 at 7:48am
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Originally Posted by poo View Post
Actually, whilst (sort of) on the subject of the last meet, I bought those headphones off pkjames. He was generous enough to send me his DIY iMod a while later to demo. Problem is, I have had it packed up ready to send back to him for 2 months, have sent him a few messages, but not heard anything back. Anyone know how I can get in touch, or get his iMod back to him?
I sent him an email a couple weeks ago...
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post #129 of 559
10/29/08 at 7:55am
Hi I can give James an sms if you want, I've seen him at uni quite a few times. Hes really busy with his PHD/tutoring and what not.
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post #130 of 559
10/29/08 at 1:08pm
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Originally Posted by hellfire666 View Post
if only i was living in the us
How would that help? Sydney is in Australia...
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post #131 of 559
10/29/08 at 2:45pm
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Originally Posted by ZephyrSapphire View Post
I got the Bijou 3. Lol. And hell, basshead. They're okay as entry level IEMs. But just too bassy for me!
The Bijou takes ard 300 hours to settle
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post #132 of 559
10/30/08 at 2:39am
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Originally Posted by sum1 View Post
The benchmark dac to me was a wonderful dac though. Diana Krall sounds wonderful on it. I Wonder if the source file was mp3/Lossless.
Was that coming out of the iRiver via optical? Pretty sure it was lossless - I looked for something I knew to compare amps and found Diana Krall flacs...
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post #133 of 559
10/30/08 at 2:48am
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Originally Posted by qusp View Post
I avoided the ED9's not because I didn't want to have a listen but because 'I DIDNT WANT TO HAVE A LISTEN' I was scared i'd fall victim to their charms and wind up selling my car to buy them.
I know what you mean. I had a friend once who had a shiny red RX-7 (not long after they came out with the updated version - 1990's?). He offered me a drive (as he did for quite a few people) one time we were up in the Snowy Mountains. You know those tiny overtaking stretches on mountain roads that you look at and laugh because they're only useful for motorbikes? You'd drop it down a gear, floor it and remember to steer around the car in front immediately because it had quite a kick - and you'd be back in your lane before the overtaking zone ended. And I can report that 180km/h on a gravel road is exhilarating but ultimately scary even if the road is straight and you can see everything for a couple of kilometres in every direction.

Despite further offers, I never drove that car again. Didn't want to fall victim to its charms...
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post #134 of 559
10/30/08 at 4:43am
Well, I've gone and bought a MS2i (in a black 325 body) from the FS forum. Thank you, Sydney meet, for making me spend so much more than I was intending to

I was going to go for the MS1, but I liked the 325i so much, and the modded SR80 at the meet wasn't what I was after. I convinced myself to go for a pair of 325i this morning, but I was too slow thinking about it and they had already gone.

I ended up getting these (not the FS post I got them from, but the same cans): http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f10/so...usings-347765/

They should be posted tomorrow and I'll have them in a week. I thought the MS2i may be a safer bet in terms of brightness, as a meet isn't the best place to judge how bright and fatiguing they might be. Hopefully they'll be great, and they look great too
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post #135 of 559
10/30/08 at 4:50am
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Originally Posted by elliot42 View Post
Well, I've gone and bought a MS2i (in a black 325 body) from the FS forum. Thank you, Sydney meet, for making me spend so much more than I was intending to
Hehe you might be the first victim of the meet
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