AndyKatz
100+ Head-Fier
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Hi everyone,
Yesterday, 25 August, was my birthday, the lastest in a long, long, long running series.
I wasn't expecting anything. I really wasn't. So my long-suffering spouse faked me out totally by presenting me with a pair of E500s.
Indeed.
"Where did you get these?!?" I shrieked. "No one's getting these right now!"
She just smiled.
More than a quarter century of marraige and she still tricks me at will.
I have to take a tiny bit of credit for this by engaging in pro-active spouse-fi. Her Zen broke a while back. The headphone recepticle, as usual. She didn't want to spend money to replace it, but I could tell she missed it. So opportunity arose when a Headfier sold his 20 gig Ipod. I snatched it up. She was pleased, but our son had stolen her ER6s and fled with them to China (don't worry, he only *thinks* he's run far enough). So she used the stock earbuds for a couple of days.
Nix.
Remember the parable of the very poor man who goes to his rabbi to lament his terrible misfortune, only to be instructed to move his wife's parents and livestock into his already crowded home. After a week of this, the poor man returns to the rabbi sorrier than ever. Move the livestock and relatives out, the rabbi instructs. The poor man is only too glad to comply. *Now* the rabbi's genius is made manifest. The man is no richer than before, but his home is suddenly more spacious and blissfully quiet. It is paradise, and what is poverty in paradise?
So it was with Lisa. After receiving another pair of ER 6is, she used them and said, "I'll never make fun of you headphone geeks again!"
Okay, a momentary resolve. But presenting your headphone geek husband with a pair of E500s at the height of their scarcity is certainly walking the headfi walk.
Now they're playing Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra in flac format by way of a Rio Karma amplified by an RSA XP7.
Life can work, sometimes.
Andy
Yesterday, 25 August, was my birthday, the lastest in a long, long, long running series.
I wasn't expecting anything. I really wasn't. So my long-suffering spouse faked me out totally by presenting me with a pair of E500s.
Indeed.
"Where did you get these?!?" I shrieked. "No one's getting these right now!"
She just smiled.
More than a quarter century of marraige and she still tricks me at will.
I have to take a tiny bit of credit for this by engaging in pro-active spouse-fi. Her Zen broke a while back. The headphone recepticle, as usual. She didn't want to spend money to replace it, but I could tell she missed it. So opportunity arose when a Headfier sold his 20 gig Ipod. I snatched it up. She was pleased, but our son had stolen her ER6s and fled with them to China (don't worry, he only *thinks* he's run far enough). So she used the stock earbuds for a couple of days.
Nix.
Remember the parable of the very poor man who goes to his rabbi to lament his terrible misfortune, only to be instructed to move his wife's parents and livestock into his already crowded home. After a week of this, the poor man returns to the rabbi sorrier than ever. Move the livestock and relatives out, the rabbi instructs. The poor man is only too glad to comply. *Now* the rabbi's genius is made manifest. The man is no richer than before, but his home is suddenly more spacious and blissfully quiet. It is paradise, and what is poverty in paradise?
So it was with Lisa. After receiving another pair of ER 6is, she used them and said, "I'll never make fun of you headphone geeks again!"
Okay, a momentary resolve. But presenting your headphone geek husband with a pair of E500s at the height of their scarcity is certainly walking the headfi walk.
Now they're playing Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra in flac format by way of a Rio Karma amplified by an RSA XP7.
Life can work, sometimes.
Andy
