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So I picked up a pair of JH-13's and they arrived today.
The Whiplash Elite Twag cable arrived a couple days earlier,so I plugged that in staight away.
Time to heat these things up.Dragged out an old 220W Vector Research amp and dusted it off.
Let them cook for a few hours with a Sansa Fuze playing files through a $5.00 GE audio 'Y' adapter into the RCA inputs.
I'll admit,after I opened the UPS box and swapped the cables,I plugged these things into any source I could find. (well...almost any) and listened.
I was left looking for something more.
I figured these pieces should get the most out of anything they are plugged into but found how easily they reveal the worst of what is there!
You really can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
The sow's ear were my sources and I was painfully aware of that to the point of buyer's remorse.
I mean,they LOOKED good and all but I just was not blown away like I wanted to be.
Perhaps I am a prisoner of my own past,being a teen in the '70's...
Field party,gigantic bonfire,big thumping amplifiers,enormous loudspeakers to rival the fireworks we brought...
Another idiom-you can't put your arms around a memory.
It's how I still like my sound: BIG,BOLD and a little bit nauseating.
Party speakers with the rock "pushing the air around", guess I'm still there.
Here is my old Harley that the JH-13 was modeled after as far as the paint scheme:
Now I have them plugged into this:
I built it in 2006,so it's old but still runs nice.
Samsung SH223 Sata DVD>MediaMonkeyGold>X-Fi Platinum>HeadphoneBay>JH-13
Files are on twin 74G WD Raptors in Raid 0.
You know,now that they've been burning for more than a few hours,they do sound better!
Maybe an Audiofire 4 firewire and a Firestone Cute Beyond would make these things rock out?
The Whiplash Elite Twag cable arrived a couple days earlier,so I plugged that in staight away.
Time to heat these things up.Dragged out an old 220W Vector Research amp and dusted it off.
Let them cook for a few hours with a Sansa Fuze playing files through a $5.00 GE audio 'Y' adapter into the RCA inputs.
I'll admit,after I opened the UPS box and swapped the cables,I plugged these things into any source I could find. (well...almost any) and listened.
I was left looking for something more.
I figured these pieces should get the most out of anything they are plugged into but found how easily they reveal the worst of what is there!
You really can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
The sow's ear were my sources and I was painfully aware of that to the point of buyer's remorse.
I mean,they LOOKED good and all but I just was not blown away like I wanted to be.
Perhaps I am a prisoner of my own past,being a teen in the '70's...
Field party,gigantic bonfire,big thumping amplifiers,enormous loudspeakers to rival the fireworks we brought...
Another idiom-you can't put your arms around a memory.
It's how I still like my sound: BIG,BOLD and a little bit nauseating.
Party speakers with the rock "pushing the air around", guess I'm still there.
Here is my old Harley that the JH-13 was modeled after as far as the paint scheme:
Now I have them plugged into this:
I built it in 2006,so it's old but still runs nice.
Samsung SH223 Sata DVD>MediaMonkeyGold>X-Fi Platinum>HeadphoneBay>JH-13
Files are on twin 74G WD Raptors in Raid 0.
You know,now that they've been burning for more than a few hours,they do sound better!
Maybe an Audiofire 4 firewire and a Firestone Cute Beyond would make these things rock out?