[gerG]

Yessiree, after a rough week of devising/running tests and acquiring/interpreting data I like to relax by listening to music and ...applying test data???

What the hell, it sure sounds great!

No rest for the nerdy.


gerG

 

[usc goose]

hooray for geeks

 

[averydonovan]

Okay, so now I don't feel so bad now about doing stuff like tweaking my e-mail filters and re-tagging my MP3 collection "just for fun."

 

[Tuberoller]

Dude,

You ain't a geek.Tell that to somebody who has never met you and seen your cool rides.

Does the sauce make listening any better?

Where is the Turntable? If you are gonna listen juiced-up then at least do it right....

 

[Wilson M.]

Cool, scotch. And fitting that you have wood headphones.

I've not tried Lagavulin, how is it?

I haven't had scotch since last summer but I should be more responsible (and spend the money on headphone gear).

My usual brands are Bowmore, Bruichladdich and Macallan. You haven't had scotch until you've tried Bowmore's 30 year old or Macallan's 25 year old.

Oh and Ardbeg Provenance is wicked as well.

 

[gerG]

Wilson, Lagavulin is heavenly! Very bold and smokey, but with tons of complexity and a nice sweetness. My favorite to date. The Bowmore is a great coastal, and I have a bottle of Ardbeg 17 in the pantry. The Macallans are too dry and mild for my taste. Besides, once I migrated to the ocean it is tough to return to the highlands!

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I should be more responsible (and spend the money on headphone gear).

lol, what a wonderfully ironic statement!

Hi Fred, thanks for the compliment. Very high praise coming from someone with a Lingenfelter Corvette (and half of the audio gear that I have ever lusted after)! The turntables are in the music room (although I do need to upgrade). The setup in the picture is digital clear through the eq (I can equalize before the D/A operation). That is what I was up to, cooking up eq curves for various headphones and "stocking" the equalizer so that I can call them up by name. So far the HD600, A1000, DT931, and W100 are loaded. The W100 got downright friendly when I took out that big bump at 100hz, so I spent the rest of the evening listening to them.

donovan and goose, you are in good company here!

gerG

 

[kwkarth]

Gerg!
Nice pic man! I want to know how you managed to mod your MAX so the the inputs and the outputs are on the sides rather than the front and back!

Oh and BTW, you need to upgrade to the 48GX so you can suffer with the rest of us and that stupid purple/green shift rather than the totally more readable orange/blue.

 

[kwkarth]

Oh, and another thing... Without specific coupling adapter for your measurement mic the bass response you measure will always be useless reflecting the rapid roll off shown on your screen. They can be purchased on the web. I'll see if I can find that URL. Anybody else remember where that is???

 

[D-EJ915]

hey, those are W100's right??...do they normally fall like that, or did you mod them??

 

[TravelLite]

gerG, great still-life photo, but I can't identify your graphing calculator, LOL!
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Originally posted by kwkarth I'll see if I can find that URL. Anybody else remember where that is???

kwkarth, were you thinking of this?

Calibrators & Couplers:
http://www.digital-recordings.com/coupler/coupler.html

TravelLite

 

[Braver]

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Originally posted by donovansmith Okay, so now I don't feel so bad now about doing stuff like tweaking my e-mail filters and re-tagging my MP3 collection "just for fun."

indeed

great choice of Scotch BTW. tad too edgy for me, but it sure is great stuff! love waking up with the taste still on my tongue

 

[Wilson M.]

The coastals are very nice. There is something special about the "sea" that they can capture in those. Quite different from the Highlands. I'll have to hunt down a bottle.

I'm not fond of the younger Macallans. The 25 and 30 are much better to my taste. The Gran Riserva is better than the younger ones but I'm not that fond of it. If you can find and afford the 40 and 50, those are even better.

Seeing that I brush my teeth before going to bed, I've never experienced waking up to the taste of scotch on my tongue. I've woken up with other tastes in my mouth but that's usually from drinking other forms of alcohol.

Contrary to most other alcohol, scotch is not about getting drunk.

My statement isn't that ironic. Headphone gear is a long term investment that will bring prolonged enjoyment. Scotch can only go so far and if you go for the much older stuff, it gets expensive fast.

 

[kwkarth]

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Originally posted by TravelLite gerG, great still-life photo, but I can't identify your graphing calculator, LOL! kwkarth, were you thinking of this? Calibrators & Couplers: http://www.digital-recordings.com/coupler/coupler.html TravelLite

That's it! Good find!
Thanks,

BTW, the calc is either an HP-48S or 48SX I believe.

 

[gerG]

Nice link on the coupling device, thanks. However, I am using a coupling device, and the bass rolloff is real. The mic is trapped between the cans and my head, and the seal is quite representative of real world use. The exception is very small cans (e.g. DT250) where I have trouble fitting the mic into the tight space. One of the reasons I need to rework the mic.

I will pick up one of the couplers just to have a point of comparison. That would give me the ultimate bass capability of a given headphone. I can build a composite response from the 3 different curves (free, coupled, and on my head).

kwk, good spotting on the 48sx. It was a test, and I wondered who would get it first. I have a 48G at work. Thinking of picking up a 49, but I haven't seen one yet. Did they slim that tank down a bit?

Those W100s have been extensively modified and unmodified. That family of curves on the monitor is all for the same phones, with various internal modifications. I posted a couple of threads and lots of pictures in the headphone section.


gerG

 

[kwkarth]

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Originally posted by gerG kwk, good spotting on the 48sx. It was a test, and I wondered who would get it first. I have a 48G at work. Thinking of picking up a 49, but I haven't seen one yet. Did they slim that tank down a bit? gerG

The 49 is a piece of junk. If you buy one you'll want to make sure you have return privileges. I picked one up a couple years ago thinking it would be an improvement over the 48. Boy was I wrong!
The code was really buggy, the key tops are rubber rather than the HP hard plastic and they don’t have the right snap over feel. The default interface is Algebraic rather than RPN and the stupid thing kept reverting back to Algebraic even after I set it to RPN several times. As a matter of fact all of the modal settings were flakey and kept reverting to defaults. Yechhh The screen contrast was an improvement and it is supposed to be faster than the 48GX, but it was such a dog to use I took it back and picked up a new 48GX instead. I’ve been very happy with the 48GX in terms of stability.

I think all the good calculator designers left HP about the time they did away with the 41.

I miss my 67 & 97 (still have the 97, but battery is kaput) and I miss my 41GX and I miss my 42…I should have never sold them. Heck I even miss my HP-45. I even miss my HP-25, 27, 28, and 29. Too bad that HP chose to get out of the market. (what was left of it)
Cheers!