Winnipeg meets' thread (Ongoing)

[DigitalFreak]

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Thanks for hosting Nathan (and Nathan's folks)!  It was great to see you guys again, and to meet Sandip (DigitalFreak).  David, I want to sit down for an evening with your woodied HF2s sometime.  Those are the only headphones I've heard so far that convince me there is life after my HD600s.

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I had work tonight and couldn't go to the meet you have me confused with someone else.
 

 

[acidbasement]

My bad.  What's Sandip's nick?  Coulda sworn it was you.

 

[acidbasement]

Nevermind, I figured it out - Sandip is deeplogic.

 

[mythless]

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Thanks for hosting Nathan (and Nathan's folks)!  It was great to see you guys again, and to meet Sandip (DigitalFreak).  David, I want to sit down for an evening with your woodied HF2s sometime.  Those are the only headphones I've heard so far that convince me there is life after my HD600s.

Sure thing, next meet let's bring some vinyl! haha  Or whenever you come into the city, I will have to do some experimentation to see which of my amplifiers is the best match for it.  I was quite surprised that little Sansui amplifier, it was an eye opener, that's for sure. 

 

[DigitalFreak]

Hey guys I downloaded the binaural album Explorations In Space And Time. Not exactly my kind of music but it's pretty neat to listen too. It feels incredibly real and I can't help but wonder what it would be like to listen to more traditional music.

 

[Armaegis]

Hey, have your DT1350's arrived yet?

 

[DigitalFreak]

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Hey, have your DT1350's arrived yet?

Nope, if I don't get an email by mid this week I'm paying a visit to Long & McQuade. The guy said they were expecting stock soon so it would probably be in before the 8 weeks he quoted were up. It's been around a month already if not more and I'm starting to get impatient. If the store can't give me a more firm date I'm going to look into emailing the head office and hopefully speed the process up. I never thought I'd say this but I'm really missing my P5's right now. It sucks not having a good mobile headphone. My iGrado is a good headphone but the fit isn't working well for long listening sessions and the lack of isolation is irritating for both me any anyone around me. I should have kept my P5's until I had the DT 1350's in my hand.

 

[Armaegis]

8 weeks is a ridiculous wait time. I ordered my Pioneers from L&M and that took 3.

 

[DigitalFreak]

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8 weeks is a ridiculous wait time. I ordered my Pioneers from L&M and that took 3.

Agreed, the guy I dealt with said the store was waiting for shipment of the DT1350. He said if I put a down payment on them when they arrived their system would flag a pair for me and they would email me to come pick them up. Now I wonder if it would have taken this long if I had just ordered them online from the Long & McQuade site. It's not like the product is sitting in Germany the clerk said the HP's were showing up in the system in their warehouse in Ontario and it was only a matter of time before they were shipped stock. I'm starting to wonder if they just forgot about it.
 
On a completely unrelated topic you ever taken the time to demo a Sony XB700? The HP is far from audiophile snuff but the deep bass slam is rather neat if you're into trance or electronica.
 

 

[Armaegis]

Have you called them since you ordered the headphones?
 
I've listened to the XB500 and 700 one time when they were on display at a store; it wasn't Futureshop... maybe BestBuy or Advance or something like that. Too thumpy for my liking (when you can feel your eyeballs popping, it's too much), but they were really comfortable.

 

[deeplogic]

Ehm. Sandeep is Deeplogic. D double E, P. None of this dip nonsense. False Sandeeps those are. True Story.

 

[deeplogic]

Sure thing, next meet let's bring some vinyl! haha  Or whenever you come into the city, I will have to do some experimentation to see which of my amplifiers is the best match for it.  I was quite surprised that little Sansui amplifier, it was an eye opener, that's for sure. 

I whole heartedly support the bringing of vinyl. Listening to Issac Hayes croon on wax is the blessing of all blessings. I also have this Jane Fonda workout album I've been dying to listen to... (I think that last statement is true-er than I'd like to admit)

 

[deeplogic]

Thanks for hosting Nathan. It was nice to meet you and some other forum members and oggle other peoples equipment.

 

[mythless]

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I whole heartedly support the bringing of vinyl. Listening to Issac Hayes croon on wax is the blessing of all blessings. I also have this Jane Fonda workout album I've been dying to listen to... (I think that last statement is true-er than I'd like to admit)

If we do get something like vinyl appearing.  I think there should be some matter of liability being more serious than usual.  I know for myself, while I'm not too worried of my turntable breaking, I'm worried about my stylus.  Accidents do happen and styluses are more prone to accidents, happened to me once and I had to buy another stylus after Jico price hike of 30%..  Not to sound arrogant or snobby but, I think the whole policy of "you break it you buy it" should be in more serious effect if individuals were to bring in their listening gears and LPs. 
 

 

[DigitalFreak]

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Have you called them since you ordered the headphones?
 
I've listened to the XB500 and 700 one time when they were on display at a store; it wasn't Futureshop... maybe BestBuy or Advance or something like that. Too thumpy for my liking (when you can feel your eyeballs popping, it's too much), but they were really comfortable.

 
Nahhhh I haven't called back since I first ordered them. I'm going to look into it in person on Thursday when I have time off from work. I'm hoping at the very least they can make a phone call and maybe get me a date. I'm so missing having a good mobile headphone right now.
 
 
By the way the eye popping feeling and the tickling around your ears from the XB 700 was what made me buy them. For whatever reason I can't help but grin when I listen to trance electronica or drum n bass on them. The sound is far from detailed but its rather fun. What can I say it's my guilty pleasure.

<<<<<< I literally look like that when I have the XB 700's cranked lol. I'm looking forward to grabbing the XB 1000 when they finally hit Canada.