I can bring my SE530. I would bring my Sony SA5000 too but since Dreadhead is also bringing a balanced pair, it would be redundant. Don't have an amp yet, still researching.

I too am looking for an amp for the SA5k. Which tube amps would you guys recommend for around 400-500$?

Same here, chipping is not a problem

Any date suits me fine as long as it is a weekend. I live in Baltimore (Owings Mills) so if anyone needs a ride, let me know.

elnero: Which amps would you recommend for synergy with RS-1? Which DAC would you recommend? PS: I really am going to try to keep my total cost below a grand for now. If I don't I might just be forced to get nostalgic about grad school and end up on Ramen noodles for the next few weeks.

I am in too whenever wherever.

Scompton, I really would like to audition any electrostat setup before pulling the trigger on a set. Do you know of any place where I could do it in the D.C. area? I live in Baltimore.

elnero: Thanks for your replies. All the reviews I read on here implied that the Denons have more PRaT and more sparkle than the Senns while having comparable soundstaging. But tiemen and tomb have suggested exactly as what you have so I might have interpreted the reviews wrong. So your RS-1...

Well, there are a few things that I would like in my new headphone that weren't there in the 580. Better PRaT, faster attack, more sparkle. I don't have any doubt that RS-1s will satisfy me like 580s did, but just leave me wanting for a bit more. So, if I am dropping 1k right now and maybe more...

I had heard an SR-225 some time before and while I liked it's aggression, I preferred my 580s. If the RS-1 is the same signature but everything finer, I would prefer not having a Grado. Yes, I want that soundstage because I want that "out of head" experience. The 225 always reminded me that I...

I have been an owner of an HD580 for the past 5 years as a poor graduate student and I loved it. Now that they have been confiscated by my dad and I have a nice paying job, I am looking for a headphone and a complete setup that I can build around those headphones over the next year or so. So I...

I'm in but where is Bricksellers? How do you get there? I have not been to DC yet. Anyone from Baltimore I can tag along with or want a ride either way?

I quite literally live 5 mins from the BWI airport, so anyone needing a ride can pm me.

Quote: Originally Posted by ninjapixie I actually preferred the last four tracks to the rest of the album. The last four were very intimate an honest, while the rest sounded too cheesy. I liked the first part of Ara batur but its ending sounded like some chick-flick movie score...

Well I don't have anything that is as carnal as Eruption but one that always moves me is Jeff Beck's 'Cause We Ended As Lovers. For explosiveness there is a turbo charged rendition of Coltrane's A love supreme by John McLaughlin and Santana off their Love Devotion Surrender album but it lacks...

oh! Man! What an album! The first seven tracks blow my mind and the next 4 kind of tail off. But then again every time Ára bátur ends I switch back to Gobbledigook and repeat so I have only heard the rest a couple of times. Not even Svefn-G-Englar matches the majesty of Ára bátur though. (Helps...

Im not a regular visitor to the site so just checked it after a week or so. I'll pitch something in too.

Whoa! R10s and Stax! Can't wait.

How come nobody's recommended a Subaru? OK its an AWD, has a bigger and mightier engine than other cars in its price range. Hence the gas mileage is lower than a Civic or a Corolla (I get 32 on highway and about 27 in the city with my base 08 Impreza) but I guess you'll be grateful for it during...

Oh! Are we are counting DAPs too? I'll bring my Cowon D2 and Vaio VGF AP1L (old mp3 player ) then. Edit: Has a place been decided yet?

Just moved to Baltimore from Utah. Have been out of the loop for a bit trying looking to graduate from grad school. Count me in. Don't have much stuff though. Have an HD580 with a 650 cable and hopefully an SE530PTH. Will check your stuff out and then work 12 hours a day trying to afford that.

My old mp3 player died on me so I am now looking for a new one and everyone here seems to be raving about the D2. Does it support m3u playlists and ID3 tags? Can't seem to find those on any specs?

Pretty much the crescendos of Godspeed You Black Emperor's Moya and the 2nd movement of East Hastings. Seldom have I heard more frightening and powerful sections of music (but man! do they test your patience!). Oh! And Coltrane's Naima is so starkly beautiful, it makes me cry.

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Heh! Sounds like a faulty conductor somewhere. I think you may just have to replace it somewhere down the line.