Happy holidays everyone! I fired up the darth Grados over the holidays visiting my folks and darn it one of the connector wires shorts out a bit. Crazy that it does that when I don’t touch it for months! Well it still sounded great when I kept my head still ha, but someday I’ll definitely get...

Happy Thanksgiving all! Just letting y’all know that the Tower of Power is still alive and well! It’s at my folks’ place now and I fired it up and it still sounds super amazing (the Darth Grados by Headphile and the Maestrobated Melos SHA-Gold kill!):

Whoa. Someone at work invited us to an "Escape the Room" experience. Anyone remember the virtual head-fi escape the room experience? One of the rooms had my personification in it:

Sorry to hear that news a month too late Bozebuttons. Those NYC meets were always fun back when I didn't have a bum ear. RIP Ken. And yea head-fi is older than both my kids, and my oldest is reading up on the high school exam! Crazy, I remember when Mr.Slacker was a high school kid who came to...

Here in the NYC oculus mall they have a presentation of the new Orpheus. You can't play it (open cans do badly in the mall) but they said you can demo it on Prince Street here in NYC. Worth a trip over maybe! Here are some pics of the display: They had the $2k DAC there too, whoa!

Hi folks! The sins of the father shall be passed down to his children. Both my kids listen to music like crazy. I'm tempted to bring the Tower of Power out of retirement so the kids can listen to their fave songs like they've never heard it before. Are the ages of 12 and 8 too young for Darth...

I still have mine too, the Maestrobator and the Darth Grado HP2s with Headphile cups. Ear still shot but maybe my kid will like it someday.

Well my kid's old enough to want headphones of his own - he wanted beats of course, but I managed to compromise with him by getting the urban-oriented Sennheiser Urbanite XL Instead.  Yes, lots of bass, but not offendingly so.

anyone remember my old megathread?   http://www.head-fi.org/t/84184/before-and-after-pics-curse-you-head-fi   very sad that a lot of the oldest pics are broken.  once i switched over to guitars as the main hobby, the pics started working - i transitioned to photobucket as i recall, instead...

Graveyard bump since this video was shared over at the gear page forums, where I also pop in here and there: http://youtu.be/Bo3O9QrfvNw Golly. http://youtu.be/1KnV5_G0LJE Holy moly that intro http://youtu.be/VcnP24CKTXk

Well some inner ear stuff got messed up so it's not just tinnitus, it's also high frequency hearing, so loud or harsh sounds make music sound like a broken megaphone, not fun. Yep those days are over. But hey, I'm still slinging HD25-1 pros to work but these days I don't stand out as much, being...

Still alive over here, but still have a bum ear and tinnitus due to a inner ear infection a while back- no, not due to headphone listening! But yeah it makes audiophile-level listening a moot point. Still have the Tower of Power, but I gave it to my dad as his retirement gift. Now he gets to...

Hi all! Ayep ye olde Tinnitus is still doing a number on me, at this point it's pretty much here to stay so not too much enjoyment comes out of firing up the Tower of Power anymore.  Hmm, my kid's 8 now, either I can sell the Melos SHA-Gold and HP2 rig, or just hold onto it hoping that in a few...

Thanks guys, it really does mean a lot.  You know what, I spent enough time this year moping about this situation, I think I'm just going to pound on my guitar and drown that crap right out, maybe concentrate on putting together some music earlier than usual.  ...

Hi all, checking back in.  Sad news for me this year actually, in June I caught a nasty head virus that resulted in my right middle ear getting toasted.  Yep, sayonara upper frequency hearing, nihao nasty tinnitus.  Did that MRI in the tube to check the head for tumors, all clear, so that's nice...