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I joined Head-Fi just a little more than a year ago, and was struck by how well-organized the forum is, how civilized and helpful the members are, and just how much they give back to the community. Be it audioelectronic knowledge, help with purchasing decisions or product reviews, to name a few, thousands of little contributions are made each day in the form of posts. Most of these posts are small at just one or two lines, but others are gigantic compilations, which eventually exceed the character limit and are expanded into even more posts.
This brings me to two of the most useful threads on Head-Fi: ljokerl's massive portable headphone and IEM comparison threads. It's a great reference; people link to them all the time, and the threads have helped countless others, including myself. Every time I visit them, I'm simply amazed - dumbfounded, even - at how comprehensive and immaculate they are. This is one guy, who's written probably at least a hundred pages' worth of reviews, and shows no signs of stopping. He thoroughly deserves his 'contributor' title. In fact, he deserves some kind of commendation. A reward, if you will.
I'm sure many others feel the same way. So, I'm hoping that together, we can give him this commendation.
Let's buy him a token of our gratitude.
This is not a new concept; it's already been done before (Ti Kan with an HD800 and krmathis with a beta22, both of which are very well deserved). Incremental payments of $10 (or more, if you're feeling generous) will be sent to an organizer through PayPal, then once all the money has been gathered and, the organizer will order the gift and ship it to ljokerl. Simple enough. Please take the responsibility of paying the PayPal fees yourself, if there are any.
Of course, some people might not be comfortable with a grand total of $1000 or so in the hands of a sub-500-post newbie with no trader feedback. That's why I'm hoping a more established member will step up and take control of matters.
I'm really excited about this, and I'm hoping that we can make this happen.
Don't disappoint me, Head-Fi.
January 4, 2011:
There's been a fair bit of debate over what to get - full-size vs customs, but I'm fairly sure it's been settled. rawrster will be organizing the fund, possibly with some help from poetik. At ljokerl's discretion, we'll put things to a vote (for what we want to see reviewed most, I guess)- UM Miracle ($930) versus JH13 ($1099) versus ES5 ($950) versus UE Capitol Records ($1000).
This brings me to two of the most useful threads on Head-Fi: ljokerl's massive portable headphone and IEM comparison threads. It's a great reference; people link to them all the time, and the threads have helped countless others, including myself. Every time I visit them, I'm simply amazed - dumbfounded, even - at how comprehensive and immaculate they are. This is one guy, who's written probably at least a hundred pages' worth of reviews, and shows no signs of stopping. He thoroughly deserves his 'contributor' title. In fact, he deserves some kind of commendation. A reward, if you will.
I'm sure many others feel the same way. So, I'm hoping that together, we can give him this commendation.
Let's buy him a token of our gratitude.
This is not a new concept; it's already been done before (Ti Kan with an HD800 and krmathis with a beta22, both of which are very well deserved). Incremental payments of $10 (or more, if you're feeling generous) will be sent to an organizer through PayPal, then once all the money has been gathered and, the organizer will order the gift and ship it to ljokerl. Simple enough. Please take the responsibility of paying the PayPal fees yourself, if there are any.
Of course, some people might not be comfortable with a grand total of $1000 or so in the hands of a sub-500-post newbie with no trader feedback. That's why I'm hoping a more established member will step up and take control of matters.
I'm really excited about this, and I'm hoping that we can make this happen.
Don't disappoint me, Head-Fi.
January 4, 2011:
There's been a fair bit of debate over what to get - full-size vs customs, but I'm fairly sure it's been settled. rawrster will be organizing the fund, possibly with some help from poetik. At ljokerl's discretion, we'll put things to a vote (for what we want to see reviewed most, I guess)- UM Miracle ($930) versus JH13 ($1099) versus ES5 ($950) versus UE Capitol Records ($1000).
