gloco
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It's a bit of a ramble, hope you all enjoy it and feel free to add your own experiences in having the urge to throw in the towel and sell off all your gear, thanks.
I've been having this urge lately and up until today i figured it would happen sooner than later. I've started taking courses again in College to finish up my long-delayed Bachelor's degree so i don't have much time to listen to music other than my Zen Micro during my commute to work and school (and i've found my portable rig to be boring lately!).
Well, today i came home from spending the weekend at the gf's (like i always do) and i decided to turn on my cd-25 and HEV70 amp and run a cd for a while to warm it up. After 5+ hrs i popped in 311's "Soundsystem," which is a hdcd, and hot damn....sonic bliss! The Baby O's have never sounded better! Warm, musical, non-fatiguing and a lot of pumping bass, just like the way i remembered them back at a head-fi meet at Grado Labs in 2003 when Boze was running them through a 007t and some fancy source.
Now i'm starting to think of selling off the Headroom coda/overture combo to fund some upgrades to my cd-25 and get that Stax 007t amp pronto as i find myself immersed in these cans more than ever...what the hell was i thinking?!
Do i really need two headphone rigs in my bedroom? Nah, i do love my HD-580's a lot, but they have been collecting dust since last Summer.
The Baby O's will always hold a special place in my heart as a pair of headphones...errr...electrostatic headphones that i thought i would never be able to obtain after the head-fi meet, i'm sure Ian recalls how much i liked them, moreso than the R10's and any other can at the meet! The Baby O's just do something with that midrange that's so liquid...yes...liquid. It's sultry, enticing...just grabs your attention and pulls you in, revealing the sonics that are interwoven in a recording and usually pushed aside by other headphones i own that are too colored one way or the other. I recall a few years back when Tuberoller loaned me a vintage Stax SR44 electret amp+cans. Those things, fwiw, had amazing midrange as Tube had mentioned. Seductive, liquid, revealing....yes, to have this synergy that was missing from my rig at that time and thanks to Tuberoller i started understanding what i missing out on and then the head-fi with the Baby O's cemented my conviction to go forward and seek out the Baby O's (only took 14 or so months).
Funny how when i look back and see the gear i have accumilated and wonder at how fortunate i am to have a rig that treats my ears right. Especially with all the hell i went through in obtaining the HE60/HEV70's (ie. the buyer was taking his sweet time in shipping them after payment was rec'd). That was a hectic few weeks, looking back i doubt i would have done it again, but what the hell, here's to look towards the future with a kick ass pair of electrostatic headphones that rock my world and bring music, the only obsession that has stuck with me all these years, to perfection.
(inserts HE60 smilie)
Hey, i got a bone to pick...when the hell am i gonna get a HE60 smilie?
I've been having this urge lately and up until today i figured it would happen sooner than later. I've started taking courses again in College to finish up my long-delayed Bachelor's degree so i don't have much time to listen to music other than my Zen Micro during my commute to work and school (and i've found my portable rig to be boring lately!).
Well, today i came home from spending the weekend at the gf's (like i always do) and i decided to turn on my cd-25 and HEV70 amp and run a cd for a while to warm it up. After 5+ hrs i popped in 311's "Soundsystem," which is a hdcd, and hot damn....sonic bliss! The Baby O's have never sounded better! Warm, musical, non-fatiguing and a lot of pumping bass, just like the way i remembered them back at a head-fi meet at Grado Labs in 2003 when Boze was running them through a 007t and some fancy source.
Now i'm starting to think of selling off the Headroom coda/overture combo to fund some upgrades to my cd-25 and get that Stax 007t amp pronto as i find myself immersed in these cans more than ever...what the hell was i thinking?!
The Baby O's will always hold a special place in my heart as a pair of headphones...errr...electrostatic headphones that i thought i would never be able to obtain after the head-fi meet, i'm sure Ian recalls how much i liked them, moreso than the R10's and any other can at the meet! The Baby O's just do something with that midrange that's so liquid...yes...liquid. It's sultry, enticing...just grabs your attention and pulls you in, revealing the sonics that are interwoven in a recording and usually pushed aside by other headphones i own that are too colored one way or the other. I recall a few years back when Tuberoller loaned me a vintage Stax SR44 electret amp+cans. Those things, fwiw, had amazing midrange as Tube had mentioned. Seductive, liquid, revealing....yes, to have this synergy that was missing from my rig at that time and thanks to Tuberoller i started understanding what i missing out on and then the head-fi with the Baby O's cemented my conviction to go forward and seek out the Baby O's (only took 14 or so months).
Funny how when i look back and see the gear i have accumilated and wonder at how fortunate i am to have a rig that treats my ears right. Especially with all the hell i went through in obtaining the HE60/HEV70's (ie. the buyer was taking his sweet time in shipping them after payment was rec'd). That was a hectic few weeks, looking back i doubt i would have done it again, but what the hell, here's to look towards the future with a kick ass pair of electrostatic headphones that rock my world and bring music, the only obsession that has stuck with me all these years, to perfection.
(inserts HE60 smilie)
Hey, i got a bone to pick...when the hell am i gonna get a HE60 smilie?
