Themed Monthly Avatar Committee (TMAC) discussion thread - Page 161

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Originally Posted by gopanthersgo1 

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Originally Posted by WiR3D 

Seriously? Does any of it fix my receding hairline of DOOM at 23?

 

And lol Law involvement - lets not go into the lack thereof on my holiday, 3x 4.5L V8 offroad Toyota Land Cruisers - some of which were turbo charged, and one had an intercooler and a complete rebuild + beer + soft sand + fireworks + new years + double clutching + singing("the internet is for porn", "banana phone", "Barbie girl".... we were running out of songs) was fun times, and ofcourse lots of drinking games, sweat, sunburn (44C on average), and spiders the size of my fist EVERYWHERE! I got over my arachnaphobia quick, on day 3 I was Rambo, until they hang from the ceiling and you turn your head and stare straight at a giant Garden Orb or wolf spider. 

 

 

And lots of paedophile jokes, never has there been so many of one guys 15 year old sister, Lol was hilarious. 

 

That was all at Sodwanna Bay.

 

At Ballito - I ended up doing a strip tease in the middle of a bar during the day and got cheered on by the entire place, because I was playing truth or dare with a bunch of crazy lesbians. Only realised the other day that the shirt I was wearing said: "lets get naked and dance on the tables" 

 

Thats the short version. Got lots more stories. And drank 14 beers a day, and didn't gain a single kilo **** YEAH

That's AWESOME!!!!! Please tell more!!!

Haha you obviously don't know me, Argyris and the other original member of TMAC know me by now - despite being full of myself and smart, I do lots of cool and stupid ****. :P and my love life is the craziest. Lol, Warrenpchi knows all about that. Sorta my partner in crime around here - heck our custom titles even match.

Anyway so more stories....

(This one sounds dodge but it really isn't)

In Sodwanna, my friend (calling him Bob to obscure his identity) got annoyed with us cracking the paedophile jokes about his sister (who was working the bar, which didn't help much) so Bob gave us a challenge, if we could catch a ghost crab he would get her to give the winner a BJ, in hope that we would fail and then shut up with the jokes. So then we discovered exactly how fast those little bastards are, motherlessly fast. 

One of my friends caught one, but he killed it, so he lost, then another one did, stalked the thing like a ninja, but he had a girlfriend. 

We wouldn't have cached in, but then we did tell Bobs sister about what Bob offered. And seeing a 15 year old beat the crap out of her 22 year old lobster sunburnt brother for 20min was some of the best entertainment yet.

Also me and another friend, got our nipples waxed. Was random, and hurt like hell, even have a video..... don't get drunk and let 15 year olds wax you.....

So then enough with the 15 year olds, this is sounding disturbing.

Next story

Bob was also known as the poop wizard, and everytime he took a poop he was casting a spell. Bob got jippo guts, and he was casting a spell and some little boy was looking for his mom:

-little boy opens door to toilet stall where Bob is casting a spell

-little boy: "you know where my mommy is?"

-Bob: "No?!?!"

-little boy stares blankly and confusingly at Bob

-little boy: "can you help me find my mommy?"

-Bob: "No little boy I'm taking a poop..."

-little boy: "ok..."

-little boy stares blankly

-Bob drops a log

-little boy walks away.

-Bob: "should have done that from the beginning"

after about 2 days of casting spells he swallowed some Dettol. That worked lol. 

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its about 11 at night (still 23C) and the generator is off, were in the drinking pool (hot tub sized pool with seats) leka drunk. 

next minute a friend floats parallel in the middle, penis sticks out at the water, he moves it around and says look at my parascope.

Also in the drinking pool, before that, we were chilling, and a frog jumps in the water, in a place where spiders are overabundant and gigantic, a friend calmy puts down the hubbly pipe and superman lunges out the water like his life depends on it.

Next story

So on new years at the quarry when we set off the fireworks before the drunken singing on the Land cruisers:

Bob bought some cheepo fireworks, and one D Size battery sized cracker, he set of the cheepo fireworks first, of which half failed.

Then people with about $2k worth of fireworks started setting up, and Bob goes and buries this monster cracker just behind them (bare in mind there is barely any light.) 

Ever seen people think that all that fireworks next to them was spontaneously exploding? Yeah it was funny, and didn't know Bob could run that fast. Lol

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So back in Ballito, was hanging out with the lesbians again, and we were playing Truth or dare on "Daredevil" mode on my phone. 

I got the worst one. I had to go to the bathroom and take a naughty picture of myself and auction it off to the highest bidder in the bar. Yeah... not gonna say what happened afterwards, not safe.

And to embarrass myself as I always do, I was wearing like speedo shorts to tan, and burnt half of my leg red, so I looked like a half baked steak. brown and red.

Also _ _ _ _ _ muffins, and D7000... woAHaahAHha.

was quite funny we made the muffins on the first Jan, since everyone went to sleep early, finished at like 3am, and then we had a batch out ready to chow and Bob's mom (who owns the place) pops by the table and sees the muffins, she asked "What kind of muffins are these?" with a smile on her face, Bob smiles, Bobs mom stole a muffin.

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Originally Posted by gopanthersgo1 

Ooh, that looks nice, now YOU just need to buy 2 pairs of Beats Studios!

I would hire someone to beat him.

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Originally Posted by Argyris 

Kinda quiet here again. I guess everybody's in the same boat as me with being busy and all.

 

Anyway, while sort of hovering between asleep and awake and listening to music I had a weird idea. If you don't mind my habit of using this thread as sort of a dry run space for my weird notions (and occasional offbeat humor), I'll lay it out for you all.

 

Some background. Most people around Head-Fi have, shall we sugar coat it, a less than positive opinion about the Beats brand (not breaching news there I hope). About a week ago while walking between classes on campus I was idly musing about whether or not anybody has ever ripped out the original drivers (and NC unit, if it's one of the bigger models) and used the shells as donors to create a set that actually sounds good (or at least improved).

 

A quick search of the DIY forum indicates that, basically, nobody really got very far with that. But here's my idea: suppose somebody managed it. What if we took that modified Beats set, then got an identical looking (unmodified) one, and had a bunch of consumer class consumers try them both out and see which one they preferred. It'd have to be some form of blind test, in order to eliminate potential bias.

 

What I'm interested in finding out is, once separated from the "Beats iz teh BOMB its better than ANYTHING ELSE!!!!1111!!1" effect (since the two headphones appear identical), can (and will?) average people choose the better product? I'm trying to separate out why people who buy Beats continue thinking they're good after listening to them, even after comparing them with better equipment. How much of it is marketing, brand appeal, and image (I think a substantial portion is this), and how much of it is the typical consumer tendency to associate MOAR BASS with better?

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Originally Posted by Argyris 

 

They turn up on Fleabay sometimes, busted, for cheap. Mostly it's headbands that are broken, though, which isn't what I need. I'm looking for somebody who blew the drivers, which I'm sure I've read has happened before. I also have zero experience with this sort of stuff and don't even have any tools to do it with. I'd need somebody who knows how to mod to build the set for me. I imagine it's a matter of suspending the Ax00 driver module in the proper position, then sealing the space around it. I don't know how to do either, let alone soldering the cables onto the new drivers.

 

Of course I'd go ahead and just borrow somebody else's working pair for the second set. Maybe I shouldn't tell them what I'm doing, though, or they'd be insulted. 

Wanted to try but too expensive to get those Beats in the first place, be it real or fake. Not spending $70 on a headphone just to gut it. Even for science. For myself is a different story :D (okay, ONCE OR TWICE only) but I wouldn't wear beats in the first place, not my type of look.

Sounds like fun though.

As far as which they will rate better, in the end comes back to personal preferences. Just as we, on Head-Fi, have varied preferences, the general consumer will as well (just more gullible and have less real personal opinion on what is "good").

And, sacrilege as it is, I'll say...!
Beats don't sound terrible given the right type of music. They're just awful in a value standpoint. And mostly not particularly amazing sounding either.

If you can provide me the shells I can try to make the modified version  (<--- actually, can't guarantee "good sound" so I guess maybe not)

But borrowing someone else's working pair => be prepared to reimburse him in case it breaks. you know... beats seem to excel at that if anything.

Warning: On Topic Content Ahead.

JJ has been quite popular. I've been seeing quite a few folks out there with themed avatars, some of whom haven't even stepped foot in our epic thread. The word is getting round that TMAC is the cool thing to do.

So I guess it's time to consider in earnest what we're doing for February. So far we've had two suggestions that I recall, one being to be as dazzlingly excessive as possible (as per the numerous "F" words that mean just that), and the other being to honor a Head-Fi'er who has left these parts (temporarily or for good) but who contributed a lot to the community.

Of course the floor is still open to suggestions.

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Originally Posted by Argyris 

Warning: On Topic Content Ahead.

 

JJ has been quite popular. I've been seeing quite a few folks out there with themed avatars, some of whom haven't even stepped foot in our epic thread. The word is getting round that TMAC is the cool thing to do.

 

So I guess it's time to consider in earnest what we're doing for February. So far we've had two suggestions that I recall, one being to be as dazzlingly excessive as possible (as per the numerous "F" words that mean just that), and the other being to honor a Head-Fi'er who has left these parts (temporarily or for good) but who contributed a lot to the community.

 

Of course the floor is still open to suggestions.

Dunno who the F refers to..

lol the excessive stuff makes me think of "Fabulous Faggotry", we all be as gay as possible. Of course its not meant to be offensive, but I have a feeling it can turn that way quickly.

Of course I like to push the limits. Lets do this.

Freddie February - Thunderbolts and lightening, very very frightening

Fake February - bad idea cans... makes me think of beats fest so bad idea. 

The fabulous part is one of the words. I know Jgray had some other adjectives, though I'm having trouble remembering what they were now. Actually, fantastic might have been one of them.

If we wanted to do something with Freddie Mercury, I guess we'd have to pick iconic pictures. Album covers, perhaps, or maybe a still frame from the Bohemian Rhapsody video (the part with all the heads).

How about Fanatical February, or FOTM February, where we all vote on one FOTM headphone (current or historic) and make up avatars based on it. I think we can all guess which one will win based on those criteria *cough* M50 *cough*, but it might be more fun to choose a current FOTM that's well known. It's been ages since I've spent much time in the equipment forums, though, so somebody else would have to gauge the eligibility of such a headphone for our vote.

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Good man, Argyris. I was just about to call forth the council. I had this stupid idea in mind called Fapbruary...but that's taking it too far maybe. I'm still not sure.

But I agree that anything February must at least have one of these: fabulous, fantastic, uhhhh....

fantastic and fabulous fapbruary. 

I'd love to see the avatars for that.... wait... thats slightly homosexual. 

Freddie thing is too limited.

FOTM could be good. however is it good and bad or only bad?

• ATH-M50
• ODAC
• M&M
• HE-400
• Denon D2000
• AKG K550
• Philips Fidelio L1
• Fiio E17
• Koss Portapro
• Xears TD-III
• V-moda M100

What about headpones that we all THOUGHT was gonna be awesum, and wasn't as much as the hype:

• Philips Fidelio L1
• Shure SRH1440 + SRH1840
• Sennheiser HD700
• BeyerDynamic Custom One
• UE6000
• Sennheiser Amperiors (debateable)
• AKG K550
• new sony XB line
• the ENTIRE new Denon range - the definition of fantastically failed february

wait a minute.....

avatar must have "FAIL" stamped all over it.

Actually, that's quite good. Fantastically Failed February. Pile on the biggest disappointments of the past year. Treble spikes and weak bass and the gutting of entire product lines for no discernible reason. All with the stamp FAIL in big "meme font" letters.

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Originally Posted by jgray91 

Failbruary you mean...

Fantastic Failbruary

Sounds good to me

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But to take some FOTM headphones and stamp it with meme-font FAIL is kind of provocative, in the sense that people would launch into zealous rage-tirade why the failed FOTM is the second coming of Jesus, the cure for cancer, AIDS and old age, and the best thing since sex. I don't think it's worth it.

No not FOTM, just disappointing headphones, like the Denon Range.

If we wanted to avoid the potential flame wars, we could always just drop the headphone aspect entirely and just post random pictures of obvious FAIL moments. Or maybe, if we wanted to stick with audio, people doing dumb things with headphones or headphone-related equipment.

It'd have to be obvious what's happening in the picture at avatar-size, though, so that kind of limits what can be done with this kind of idea.