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The $95 deal sold out but it was great while it lasted!

Congratulations! And to think, it was around ten years ago that I sent her an email about my ProMedia speakers

You might keep the more... ahem, intimate details to yourself haha. I can't imagine a 3-day return policy. If it is an authorized dealer, you have the Klipsch warranty. Burning in is a questionable practice, especially for these headphones. They should sound great right out of the box. If you think they are defective, call Klipsch and work through their warranty.

I've just been on bulletin boards for a long time and people have spread both good and bad, false rumors about products. I am happy to see you actually do have a set. Thanks for that. I'll look forward to your thoughts after a few weeks/months with them. Still waiting to get my hands on a pair for my review.

I'm sure you have pictures. Sorry but anytime someone says they have an unreleased product and then review it, it's only smart to ask for pictures before passing judgement. I can't think of any reason why this shouldn't be easy to do if you have the M40. Thanks.

There is no way to turn that off.

How did you get a set? They aren't released.

They are indeed noise-canceling and $200 more, keep that in mind

You should never store any headphones while plugged into their output device. This is how headphone jacks are broken both on the headphone cable and from inside your player.

Thanks Jeff, I'll open her back up and see if that'll do it. Such a finicky little thing. Perhaps I should just hit up HeadRoom for a HeadRoom Micro Amp. Then I loose the warmth of tubes but I don't lose an entire channel of sound haha.

Really? Well then I'll give it another go. This was an issue for me since my iPhone 3GS. I just came to the conclusion that my remotes were broken.

I think it's by the end of November just based on the fact that it says "Fall 2011" though Winter doesn't technically start until December 22. I don't think there is a difference, sonically, between the Reference line and standard line of Klipsch headphones. I could be wrong but I think the differences are physical/looks/aesthetics.

There have been posts about these in the past, I think there was even someone on the BB that installed one in his attic(?). From what I remember, they really are impressive but had obvious installation/WAF limitations.

It's nice to see you posting again, Justin You've been missed!!! JJ Oh you guys... Thanks! Life isn't as crazy busy as it has been the last several months... err years LoL

If they still work just fine, I would go one of two routes. I would either do the flexible heat shrink option. The second, possibly not as solid of a repair, would be to use Plasti Dip. I'll attach a link to the Plasti Dip. Heat Shrink is pretty self-explanatory. http://lifehacker.com/5795122/use-plasti-dip-to-fix-stripped-headphone-wires Good luck!

I had this same issue with my S4i and two X10i headphones. What I have figured is the iPhone is not recognizing the headphones as also a headset. The third notch on the plug is what does this from my knowledge. Other headsets, including my Klipsch Image One, have no problem. I am sorry that I'm not helpful in finding a solution but wanted to let you know that you aren't alone. If they are under warranty, Klipsch will replace them. A replacement fixed my S4i problem, with the X10i, not so much. Good luck!

Good to hear!

Hold down the center button, hear two beeps and go. Same as Voice Control which was replaced by Siri and still available in older iPhones/iPods.

Happy it was helpful

Should work with no problems. Does so with my Image One.

There isn't a prescription for Gursky photos but the gist is this. He takes at least one wide shot of a scene, the wider focal length camera. This captures the entire scope of what will be the final image. Sometimes this takes multiple, panned exposures. The longer focal length camera shoots detail shots, perhaps an individual person or tree or light or door. He then takes all of these exposures, as few at 1, as many as who knows, could be dozens, and merges them all digitally. He scans in the 5x7 color negativs at high resolution and imports them into Photoshop to make his work. This is how he is able to take a photo of an office building, print it 11 feet tall and you can see precision on the faces of the people or the objects through the windows. Sometimes he is layering the image to exaggerate the complexity of a scene, other times it's to do the opposite by removing all conflict in an image. As for why 5x7 and not 8x10 or the giant, custom-made, custom film cameras? It's pretty simple really. 5x7 film is incredibly high resolution. ((160 * 127 * 2) * (160 * 177 * 2)) / 1000000 = 2,301 megapixels. If you scanned it at full resolution and were even able to print it, in theory, it would be around 54,720 pixels wide by 41,040 pixels tall. It would actually be a bit bigger than that. It would allow you to print a photo at 182 inches wide and 136 inches tall. This is is all in theory, using the math of... ((LPM (lines per millimeter) x width in mm x 2) * (LPM (lines per millimeter) x height in mm x 2)) / 1,000,000. Do that with 35mm film and you get 88mp, which is really about four times reality... In this case, math isn't always a perfect science. Part of the problem comes from the fact that 99% of digital camera sensors aren't actually measuring 12 megapixels of red, green and blue. The sensors are actually measuring black levels of every other of the colors... it's confusing and weird but basically it's whatever megapixel you're shooting, divided by three. This is why Sigma's Foveon sensor is so popular with portrait photographers. It is a three-layer sensor that measures the levels of all three colors for every single pixel. Also makes it suck for low-light photography or action. Beyond the fact that 5x7 is big enough for almost anything, why go bigger, is the effect film size has on focal length. On a 35mm camera, 35mm is wide and 120 mm is zoomed in. On a 5x7 camera, 35mm isn't useable it is so wide and 120mm is considered very very wide angle. You have to go as high as 300mm before you get what would be a 50mm equivalent for a 35mm camera. Shooting at 8x10 or higher requires incredibly expensive, hard to find, hard to make lenses that are prone to flaws. As film gets bigger, it gets slower because of the lenses it requires. Ever wonder why sports aren't shot on medium format cameras or larger? Why Canon makes the sensors in their sports cameras smaller than those in their studio cameras? Focal length and exposure time. To get a photo sharp with a 5x7 camera, you have to stop down to apertures like f.32, f.64 and even f.128. At that point, there is barely ANY light going into the camera and thus it takes a long exposure to capture the image. This is also why many photographers use large format cameras for landscapes. Mountains don't usually move very quickly. I could go on and on but hopefully this was informative and answered a few questions Let me know if you any more!

Wow, 6.5' high and almost 12' wide puts it in a different context, if extremely fine details hold up. But, what exactly is artistically special? Dazzling massive fine detail such as individual grass blades in such a large pic? That would be very arresting by itself.The arrangement and spacing of the horizontal bands? The colors, somehow? Like some others here, I don't see what's terrific on a computer monitor. I'd appreciate the help. Some decades ago, Kodak displayed HUGE backlit transparencies showing astonishing detail, on the largest walls inside Grand Central Station. That had to be some accomplishment in the pre-digital days of film. Gursky uses 100 ASA Fuji film in two large-format, 5x7 Linhof cameras. These cameras are placed next to each other, one with a wide angle lens and the other with a standard focal length lens. Due to the giant size of the film, the layer of two exposure, the incredibly slow 100 ASA film and the quality of the lenses, you can view these images at their gallery size and see detail that the naked eye could never see. It is unlike any digital photograph you have ever seen, with the exception of those gigapixel photos made through hundreds of exposures using prosumer/professional digital cameras.Using a slow film (100 ASA) prevents any grain and helps make moving objects invisible due to the slow shutter speed. Under-exposes the film by 1 f-stop and then pushes the development. This is a photography technique that can become quite complicated, especially when you're working with film, especially when that film is 5x7 and you have to do it perfectly, twice, for each photo you're making. Many of his photos are critiques on consumerism, engineering and extraction vs nature, the human complex and other "big ideas" you'd expect to be discussed at a TED conference. Understanding the context and intention behind each photos is integral to understanding its importance. This goes with artists like Nan Goldin, at first glance she is taking low-quality, disposable camera, flash photographs of drug addicts and prostitutes. Look a little closer and you realize it is a story about a population of people living with disease and mortality at their doorstep. People forgotten or ignored, victims of class and their experiments that lead to addiction and eventually death. Yet, through all this pain and sadness emerges small moments of humanity and happiness. Does that help? I love talking photography.

It's art which means you don't have to get it. Understanding Andreas Gursky's artistic style is important to understanding this photo. He is one of the photographers that inspires me in my photography. I was honored when a NYC art curator compared my last collection to Gursky's work. Nearly every photographer that makes it out of Düsseldorf becomes a great photographer in their chosen genre. I dreamed of going to Düsseldorf for photography, maybe someday I will make it a reality. It's all in the eye of the beholder, just like many of the (sometimes ridiculous and sometimes ridiculously expensive) updates we make to our audio systems. Gursky used to have the world's most expensive photo which sold for over a million dollars. Also remember these aren't 4x5 prints, they are GIGANTIC. We're talking 80 inches tall and like 140 inches wide. See on in person, in real life and it starts to click, no pun intended. "The first time I saw photographs by Andreas Gursky...I had the disorienting sensation that something was happeninghappening to me, I suppose, although it felt more generalized than that. Gursky's huge, panoramic color printssome of them up to six feet high by ten feet longhad the presence, the formal power, and in several cases the majestic aura of nineteenth-century landscape paintings, without losing any of their meticulously detailed immediacy as photographs. Their subject matter was the contemporary world, seen dispassionately and from a distance." - critic Calvin Tomkins Just my thoughts, as a fine art photographer.

Thanks everyone for your suggestions. I don't feel like it's a tightness thing, pulling the tubes out or putting them back in sure isn't easy. It's already a tight fit, yet a little jiggle and they lose contact, which is why I was hoping the answer would be conductive contact grease... As you can see, it's a pretty darn tight fit in there, not sure I can do much to make any adjustments to the tube socket itself. It only has a few hundred hours on it so it's not likely a wear-and-tear sorta thing, at least I hope it isn't. Thanks again.

I totally disagree on this. I've have the x10's S4's and Custom 2's. All of them are more refined with a headphone amp. I have the Headamp Pico. The reason I say this, is that your iphone and most other portables devices cheap out on the amp section to have the battery last longer. With the Pico, I find that I get a stronger, tigher/deeper response. The headphone amp is like a capacitor you put next to you sub-woofer amp in the car. It helps give the headphones the proper juice they want/need. I see what you are saying and said just that in my review which I linked to. The fact is, Klipsch headphones do not NEED an amplifier, unlike bigger, higher impedance headphones like Sennheiser HD650s, older Grado SR line cans or many Beyerdynamic headphones, to name a few. These headphones NEED an amplifier, otherwise not only will you not get a rich bass and bright highs, you will get only a small percent of dynamic range and low volume. Klipsch headphones NEED an amplifier about as much as an iPhone needs an external DAC. Yes they can make the sound better but they aren't needed. The iPhone does a decent job, a great job for most, at outputting audio. There is no ground noise, there is no EMI/RFI and there are no clicks/pop/snaps from audio decoding or amplification. Yes, an external amp can make the sound even better but it isn't necessary. It is one of those things you add when you get to the point that you have exhausted the best quality out of your source. If you feel you NEED an external amp for Klipsch headphones, I might first suggest you invest in a better media player which will have a better DAC and Amp built in. Especially if you are about to spend hundreds of dollars on an external amp of DAC. It just isn't worth it. If you have the money and want to spend hundreds on an external amp, perhaps look at reference-quality headphones first. Sennhesier HD650 or 800s, Grado RS line, Beyerdynamic DT 880s or AKG K 702s etc. If you insist you want to buy an external amp/DAC, look at the one I suggested. The Headroom Total BitHead. It's on sale right now for ~$25 off its normal price and has a great price/performance ratio. If you truly believe it is something you need, then I also suggest you buy a dock to line out or dock to digital out adapter so you can bypass the internal amp of the iPhone that dgoreck doesn't like. If you aren't using the dock output, you are still relying on the iPhone to amplify and decode your audio and an external amp will only amplify the problems dgoreck finds in the iPhone amp. if you don't hear them when you use an amplifier, then they aren't there anyways Just my two cents. We are all entitled to our opinions of course. I was just giving my opinions with my experience combining Klipsch, and other, headphones with a varying assort of amplifiers and DACs. From portable to tube to MOSFET and back.