TheEvan

While we're at it, I've never had an mp3 player and would like to buy. A friend of mine has and loves the Zen. How do you feel about yours and would you recommend it? (Which model do you have?)

I'm thinking the Customs must be considerably more sensitive than the Senns because it should be completely impossible for them to produce their own hiss. I'm not sure what to say about the seal. Once I found the 'sweet spot' with my Image I was amazed at the sense of bass produced. It makes no sense to me at all how a little thing like that could produce bass like that...

Thumpster, Though I haven't yet done much critical listening in a quiet environment, I did a great deal of travel listening. It is comfortable, especially after some experimentation with placement. One of my canals seems to like a slightly shallower placement than the other to make a complete seal. Once I found this sweet spot, 10.5 hours straight was completely unobtrusive. The one thing I've listened to in silent settings is field recordings I made in Tanzania of Maasai singing and chanting. The reproduction is so realistic that I find myself swatting at the flies in the recording! I get an uncanny sense of precisely where the buggers are flying. The balance is utterly natural and how the sense of bass is achieved is beyond me...it sounds low, warm and authoritative.

I love mine. They passed the 'traveling companion' test with flying colors, accompanying me to Tanzania and back. Even with the iffy sound on the in-flight systems they sound fantastic with rich but not boomy/thick basses to balance the sparkling highs. As Justin says, they really disappear. Much to my consternation I missed coctails becasue I never heard the stewardess asking me what I wanted. You can really hear intimate music (eg: classical guitar) in a very noisy environment without having to turn up the volume unreasonably.

I received mine today. I tested them immediately on my home cd player with some classical, marching band and celtic music. I had no trouble finding a good fit and a decent seal, though one canal was a bit fussy. The angle of the stiff strain relief section is perfect for guiding the monitors deeper into the canal. I find the sound smooth, even and detailed. Very, very natural. My traveling partner to Africa is going to be sooooo jealous.

Image ordered. Thanks! I hope they get here 'fore my Africa trip, or I might end up in a very large stewing pot!

I'd long ago determined I would get in-ear monitors of some kind and was all set to get some Ety's. Then I saw THE announcement, so my ship has come in. I am so tired of my Sennheiser 'sound cancelling' headphones...more like 'distortion-generating' if you ask me. The things hurt my big head. This will help my disposition on my 2-3x/yr. trips to the Dark Continent.

Am I missing something? Where is the introductory offer? Will I get my Image before leaving for Africa on 11/26?

There's a member here from Wichita but I can't remember who it is. Seems, iirc, he has Khorns. Anybody?

My breath is appropriately bated (NOT baited).

Oops, I actually meant M97. I was just showing my age. We're doing fine in BR except for the traffic...but Houma traffic stinks too.

Sean, welcome! Another Looozianan here. The Shure M91 (and whatever other letters accomapny the current model) is a humdinger for under a hundred. Same goes from the AT440ML.

TWK, it isn't just Vegas. I'd like to get my fingers around the throat of the twit that has allowed this policy to exist in an ostensibly live music venue. Same thing happened to us when we went to see Guy Clark (accompanied by his son on bass) at House of Blues in New Orleans. He's doing his very touching song about his dad's pocketknife when those ignoramus twits thow the doors open from the bar side. In stream all the after-hours restaurant staff youths from around the Quarter, neither knowing of or caring anything about Clark. In 30 seconds you couldn't hear Guy above the din. He stopped the song and pleaded with the crowd to shut up or get out. It only got worse. Guy flipped them off and walked off stage. A large scale riot nearly ensued. I'll never go back. Jerks.

Ahh, you youngsters! I got into hifi with a pair of sand-filled Wharfedales. Anybody remember those fellas?

We had a bunch of units broken into at my storage place, including mine. I was called immediately. Turns out some middle eastern fellows sell 'ghetto ware' (hip hop clothing and other fashionista accessories) out of their trunks and along the roadside and store their stock at the same place. The would--be thieves broke into over 50 units looking for that stuff. They never found it and they took nothing. Yeah, U-Haul should have contacted the owner immediately.

LaScala-the most famous opera house in the world and a real beauty from the belle epoch of concert halls.

Good call on the Metheney disc, whell. Might I add Ralph Towner's wonderful Anthem, beautifully presented by ECM. I'm a classical guitarist and I scarcely know where to start in that genre. If you like Brazilian, Sergio & Odair Assad's Alma Brasiliera is a fantastic performance with very live sound. The inexpensive Naxos recordings sound remarkable. They're all recorded in a small church in Canada and they have a most natural sound dialed in. I think I'll recommend Ricardo Cobo's Guitar Music From Latin America. He smokes on the Piazzolla.

mas, if I understand correctly, the time arrival problems can be ameliorated by an active crossover, but the physical problems (comb filtering) cannot. In view of that, do you consider implementing time domain correction electronically worthwhile in the Khorn. Interesting discussion, even if a good bit of it is over my head.

Sound isolating? If so, how many dB's?

Another local checking in. Though we no longer have our "posse" living with us (they've returned to New Orleans, lemmings that they are...) the fond memories remain. My sister-in-law's middle class neighborhood (Lakeview) remains a war zone. To date, less than 20% of the houses are occupied. A roughly equal number are in some form of reconstruction. People who have not seen it all first hand and been involved cannot possibly imagine the extent. I go back and forth to Biloxi often enough and their recovery has ben much more aggressive. It hurts me to see what has happened to New Orleans... To echo Mrs dtel, thanks to all who helped in one way or another.

Resist the temptation to comparison listen for awhile. Just listen to the III's for a few weeks at least. Then hook up the old speaks. That should tell you all you need to know. Listening to one after the other in short order never seems to work as it should.

Only in theory, MLH. If I'm not selling, I'm not really losing...yet.

Besides being K2 Day, after coyotee hooks it up it will be Stormy Monday with a powerful breeze.[st]

Achtung Craigslist mavens! Is it possible to search the list countrywide in one 'swell foop' or must one search each local list separately? If it's possible, how is it possible? BTW, I'm not searching for our hobby but for my other hobby, thankyewverymuch...

Lovely work!