>I keep hearing people mention these headphones going for $600-$650. Can anyone send me a link to a place selling it for that price? The lowest price new I've found is almost $800.   I got mine from www.headphones.com, for around that price, but they don't always have them on the site and...

Quote: Most graydoze sound like the music is coming out of someones nose to me.

Quote: Nope.   Was on Asylum around the time jj was doing his "y'all" thing.  Out of there too.  Yuck...   You and I have done email before.  ;-)

rec.audio was the original noisegroup.  When the noise became so high that group became useless, it was split up between rec.audio.opinion and the moderated rec.audio.high-end.  RAO degenerated into not being about audio at all and became a hangout for the mentally ill. (Middius, et al)   I...

Thanks for the memory jog on the effect of the series R.  Been a while since I thought about it much.

The green pen idea started out long ago as an APRIL FOOLS JOKE on the old usenet group <rec.audio> by James "jj" Johnston.   http://home.comcast.net/~retired_old_jj/   That it caught on as "serious business" is one of the best examples of how gullible audiophiles can be. 

Quote: Sorry, what I actually meant to say was the supply for the amplifier is +/- 750 volts.   Here's a question for those who've built electrostatic amps:  What is the effect of the series resistor just before the diaphragm?  I've used up to 1 gig ohm.  Thing is, it's hard to measure...

Bias is 600V   No, you don't want arcing!

Quote: Responsibility is in the hands of the user by the sensible use of the volume control.  Headphones can be repaired. Inner hair cell nerves cannot.   The reason the voltage is so high is b/c it just happens to be what the surplus transformer I decided to use produced.  A nice side...

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My ESP-950's finally came in from headphones.com.   This is a very nice product, and it's too bad they don't get more due recognition. (due to audiopile hype-predjudice, imo)     They are much more neutral than my Stax Lambda Signatures and just as comfortable, perhaps more so.  The pads...

Eqium and Firium.

Quote: Doesn't bother me.  Lightweight and more likely to be comfortable.

>I was just able to pull up the Headphones.com page with the $629.99 price but there's no way to add it to your cart.  I might contact them tomorrow.    I had the same thing happen to me.  Then later, there was a way to add them to the cart.  Strange.

Quote: They now say they've shipped, although I don't find them on the site either anymore.   I paid 629.99