[a_recording]

@ardgedee Say, we're both getting awful cost to 1,500 posts. I would suggest a race, but instead I'll just ask you if you ever ended up checking out that Grimes album? :3
 

 

[ardgedee]

Nope. Aside from DIY supplies, for about a month now nearly all audio and music spending's been on hold until after the head-fi meetup tomorrow. Because from past experience it will make me reconsider what sort of things to budget for.

 

[a_recording]

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Nope. Aside from DIY supplies, for about a month now nearly all audio and music spending's been on hold until after the head-fi meetup tomorrow. Because from past experience it will make me reconsider what sort of things to budget for.

 
I envy your chance to go to a meetup. I will go there vicariously through you.

 

[mutabor]

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 I am half Asian and yes it's quite interesting dealing with the Asian parents. It's such a strange dynamic, my mother wants me to be happy and therefore wants me to be successful but when I am not up to her standards she makes me unhappier than I even need to be. I guess she just doesn't realize it.

In Asia you have to obey parents. There is a very strict hierarchy and much less individualism than in the western countries. In Asia if you fail then reputation of the whole family may suffer.
 
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My parents were really skeptical when I first told them about her, especially the part where she was a Seoul National University graduate (#1 college in Korea...ask any Korean--it's harder to get into than Harvard, especially for a girl).  If you don't know about Korea, it's a 1 shot society...if you don't get into like the top 3 schools...you could very easily end up working at supermarket.  What's more is even if you do get into one of the top schools and get hired by a company like Samsung, they force retire you at the age of 50? with no retirement benefits!

 
 

 

[a_recording]

@veyron Seems like a good deal for a grado  http://www.head-fi.org/t/601403/aurisonics-asg-1-sold-ue-tf10-sold-alessandro-ms-1

 

[a_recording]

http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/28/insert-coin-soundlazer-speaker-plays-music-with-extreme-focus/
 
This thing seems like it would be great to drive someone insane with. Perhaps beaming voices at a co-worker across an office.

 

[ardgedee]

Perhaps beaming voices at a co-worker across an office.

Heck, doesn't everybody do that already? No? Just me?

(evil snicker)

Okay. Nevermind.

 

[koonhua90]

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In Asia you have to obey parents. There is a very strict hierarchy and much less individualism than in the western countries. In Asia if you fail then reputation of the whole family may suffer.
 
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Things have changed. Not every parents are the same. My parents never forced me to study that hard to get a full scholarship to come to US. It's just something I promised myself when I was 6. No money to go overseas? Get a scholarship and go overseas. Ez....

 
Here Compooper is going into college, meanwhile I am trying hard to graduate. By the way Compoopers, congrats on getting into college. It's time to have fun and work hard. Time constraint and other reasons have limited my activities quite a bit, in that I could not participate in as much stuff as I would have liked, but I would imagine that everything will be fine with you 

 
 
The W3000 has smoothed out quite a bit over the first few hours of listening. Now it's really nice. Pretty forward vocal, yet not very warm, and a little bit of spotlit on a few frequencies in the treble. As far as I hear it, there is quite a bit of depth to the depth of soundstage, presumably due to the angled driver. Headphones like LCD-3 and Stax O2 have angled pads which are thicker on the back than the front, the W3000 has, well, it still has angled pads, but it's angled in such a way that the earpads are flat. Pretty comfy, but the clamp is stronger than O2. I guess it will be pretty hard to get something that matches the O2 in comfort, except perhaps the HD800.
 
Speaking of which, one of my friend said that I could sell the 507 and the W3000, and that way I could afford the HD 800. Romy, what do you think about the HD 800? I would imagine it to be brighter than the O2? What about other technical capabilities, are they close/better than Stax O2 and 009?

 

[tomscy2000]

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Laser-cut holes over glow-in-the-dark (phosphorescent) material. Me likey!
 

 
And this looks like brushed aluminum faceplates with laser-cut holes over mirror. 

Is the first one, your brother's --- Muppet? Looks pretty awesome, both of them actually!

 

[Ouspensky]

hey everybody...I don't feel comfortable starting a new thread so I thought I would mention this here: I see Sony has various new headphones one their site including a new open air design called MDR-MA900 that looks interesting....any thoughts?
 
http://store.sony.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&productId=8198552921666438593
 
 
http://www.jr.com/sony/pe/SON_MDRMA900/

 

[MuppetFace]

Not sure if those are my brother's specifically, but yeah, that was the concept he and Wizard came up with together. I think his was glow-in-the-dark green for both left and right unless they changed it at the last minute.
 
Edit: Also his has brushed aluminum faceplates. So I guess it's like the two of those concepts combined.

 

[MuppetFace]

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hey everybody...I don't feel comfortable starting a new thread so I thought I would mention this here: I see Sony has various new headphones one their site including a new open air design called MDR-MA900 that looks interesting....any thoughts?
 
http://store.sony.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&productId=8198552921666438593
 
 
http://www.jr.com/sony/pe/SON_MDRMA900/

 
 
I'm... not sure how I feel about these. On the one hand, I kind of like the retro-Walkman look. On the other hand they look kind of awful. Wonder how they'll sound?

 

[Maxvla]

I envy your chance to go to a meetup. I will go there vicariously through you.

Big Sydney meets often, just gotta go to them

 

[Maxvla]

Those Sony do look odd, but interesting. See the gap at the back of the cup on that one side? Wide open.

 

[MuppetFace]

 

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Those Sony do look odd, but interesting. See the gap at the back of the cup on that one side? Wide open.

 

 
Yeah, the gap in the earcups is similar to the Sony F1: