[Preachy1]

It's usually businesses in the morning, residential in the afternoon for UPS, at least in my area.

Interesting, I never thought of it that way.

 

[Preachy1]

My experience is, if it's a package I don't care about, it's always on time or early. If it's something I'm impatient to get, then I wait all day or maybe into the evening.

Where USPS is concerned, if it’s a package I’m eagerly awaiting, I call and tell
them to hold it at the local office. Then I go pick it up at 9:00 AM sharp. My local PO is only about 2 miles away.

 

[Preachy1]

BTW, one odd thing I’ve found with Focal’s packaging; the boxes are so freakin’ air tight that it’s near impossible to fully push the outer cover down. I swear I could use four of these boxes as shocks for my car.

 

[muckyfingers]

Choobs!

 

[mariospeedwagon]

Finally added headphones to my main rig
I'm mostly an analog 2-channel listener, but recently bought some Sennheisers so I don't have to turn down the volume when it gets late

From Left to right
Thorens TD-160 w/ Hana SH
Harman Kardon A300
Schiit Eitr [fed mostly Qobuz from a Macbook]
Black Ice Tube DAC
Bottlehead Crack
Sennheiser HD650
I like tubes

Analog source: Tape Out from the HK into the Crack
Digital source: Don't need the HK

 

[Preachy1]

Finally added headphones to my main rig
I'm mostly an analog 2-channel listener, but recently bought some Sennheisers so I don't have to turn down the volume when it gets late

From Left to right
Thorens TD-160 w/ Hana SH
Harman Kardon A300
Schiit Eitr [fed mostly Qobuz from a Macbook]
Black Ice Tube DAC
Bottlehead Crack
Sennheiser HD650
I like tubes

Analog source: Tape Out from the HK into the Crack
Digital source: Don't need the HK

God help me, but the Bevis and Butthead came out of me when I read “into the crack”!

 

[BobG55]

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[BobG55]

 

[Chillzone21]

DIY Motorhome with Home Theatre (Toyota Coaster)
DIY Headphones (Ananda frames / Grado GS3000e drivers)
DIY Anaview Amplifier AMS1000
DIY 4K HTPC
Smyth Realiser A8
Audio Lab M-Dac
SVS PB1000 subwoofer

 

[UntilThen]

McChanson 300b and KT88 amps.

 

[bigjako]

Stax setup: BH Stat, CCS-Modded 006t (Dominik), Topping D90, Jolida Glass FX (formerly BF2, which currently anchors second setup).

Edit for tall poppy: L700 headband broke immediately upon posting this and putting the cans away. Serves me right I guess. Socas yokes ordered.

 

[bcowen]

Stax setup: BH Stat, CCS-Modded 006t (Dominik), Topping D90, Jolida Glass FX (formerly BF2, which currently anchors second setup).

Mmmmmmmm.....tubes. Me like.

 

[bigjako]

Mmmmmmmm.....tubes. Me like.

Not on purpose, but there isn't a solid-state amp in that picture. Even one of the DACs is a tubes.

 

[Roasty]

After having listened to quite a few TOTL headphones.. The HD650 still manages to hold its own, and remains the OG for me. Crazy good luscious mid range. Sweet highs and nice low end. The price it can be had for now, it is just bang for buck value for money.

In the pic, I have it paired with a jps superconductor cable and hooked up to a denafrips athena/apollon power amp combo. Lost in the music...

 

[gefski]

Stax setup: BH Stat, CCS-Modded 006t (Dominik), Topping D90, Jolida Glass FX (formerly BF2, which currently anchors second setup).


Edit for tall poppy: L700 headband broke immediately upon posting this and putting the cans away. Serves me right I guess. Socas yokes ordered.

So the new series Stax headbands like to break too? Disgusting. When my 407 band broke and I bought a replacement, I bought a basic black also and put it on my 404LE, putting away my irreplaceable anniversary headband.

Anyway that’s not why I replied. What are your comments on the BH Stat? We Seattle HeadFiers have a special connection to Bottlehead, and pre-COVID usually had our Spring meet there. Thanks in advance for your impressions.