[VNandor]

 
Who needs tone controls, isn't that what tubes are for?

No, tubes are for opening up the soundstage and lifting the veil of certain headphones.

 

[nick_charles]

 
Uuuh. Networking standards have built in error correction. If it makes a difference the cable you are using is so broken that the error correction can't even make sense of it.

 
Not Ethernet though, Ethernet is not "reliable" in the strictest sense of the word. If you want guaranteed reliability with Ethernet you have to implement it elsewhere, duff frames just get thrown away, in fairness it is typically much more reliable than 802.11 but not without problems. Though as I say this it strengthens the case for not worrying too much about the damn cable as hopefully the reliability is handled elsewhere. I teach a *very* basic and often wildly misleading (UG) course in comms principles but have never investigated audio over Ethernet - summer project perhaps...Anyone point to a good primer on Ethernet based audio ?

 

[Koei]

   
Not Ethernet though, Ethernet is not "reliable" in the strictest sense of the word. If you want guaranteed reliability with Ethernet you have to implement it elsewhere, duff frames just get thrown away, in fairness it is typically much more reliable than 802.11 but not without problems. Though as I say this it strengthens the case for not worrying too much about the damn cable as hopefully the reliability is handled elsewhere. I teach a *very* basic and often wildly misleading (UG) course in comms principles but have never investigated audio over Ethernet - summer project perhaps...Anyone point to a good primer on Ethernet based audio ?

True I guess, I was thinking about TCP.

 

[pinnahertz]

 
Who needs tone controls, isn't that what tubes are for?

Last time I tried to adjust tone by rotating a tube, I broke the pins off.  

 

[StanD]

  Last time I tried to adjust tone by rotating a tube, I broke the pins off.  

That's your mistake, you should roll them not rotate them. Just make sure that they don't go over the edge of a table and hit the floor.

 

[pinnahertz]

 Last time I tried to adjust tone by rotating a tube, I broke the pins off.  

That's your mistake, you should roll them not rotate them. Just make sure that they don't go over the edge of a table and hit the floor.

I start with them already on the floor. That way they can't fall and roll farther. You should see an 833 rolling down stairs though. Fun, fun!

 

[StanD]

I start with them already on the floor. That way they can't fall and roll farther. You should see an 833 rolling down stairs though. Fun, fun!

Was it microfunic?

 

[pinnahertz]

  Was it microfunic?

Yeah, but not after it hit the fifth step.

 

[StanD]

  Yeah, but not after it hit the fifth step.

Sounds like a harmony. Is that what they mean when they say it's musical? Or do you prefer a minor third?

 

[Don Hills]

 
Well it is Science Fiction, just like those movies when a man made virus escapes the lab and turns the world into a planet overrun with audiophile zombies with ultrasonic hearing.

 
Technology to the rescue. Instead of hanging a cross or garlic around your neck, hang one of those ultrasonic cat and dog repellers.

 

[StanD]

   
Technology to the rescue. Instead of hanging a cross or garlic around your neck, hang one of those ultrasonic cat and dog repellers.

Not so sure it would work. Last Spring I had a squirrel invade my attic, she had two babies. I tried a number of ways to get them to leave. One failed method was an ultrasonic deterrent. It really pissed them off because they were running all over the place. Suddenly it got quiet. I go up to the attic and they are on the rafters looking at me, laughing. The device was on the floor, the wire to the wall wart was pulled out of the device and the connecter was chewed off. To quote Yogi, "Smarter than the average audiophile."

 

[StanD]

OK, so we're back to you can never have enough power. Check this one out.
 
http://www.head-fi.org/t/538255/sennheiser-hd-600-impressions-thread/17835#post_13338983

 

[Koei]

  OK, so we're back to you can never have enough power. Check this one out.
 
http://www.head-fi.org/t/538255/sennheiser-hd-600-impressions-thread/17835#post_13338983

​Considering clipped amps ruin drivers I always err on the side of caution by having more power .

 

[Joe Bloggs]

 
OK, so we're back to you can never have enough power. Check this one out.

http://www.head-fi.org/t/538255/sennheiser-hd-600-impressions-thread/17835#post_13338983

​Considering clipped amps ruin drivers I always err on the side of caution by having more power .

Clipped amps ruin tweeters on multi-way speakers. Doesn't really apply to headphones...

 

[Koei]

Clipped amps ruin tweeters on multi-way speakers. Doesn't really apply to headphones...

Really? Are drivers in headphones that different?