Thusly:

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Tue Aug 12

marco:

My home-open-headphone quest has ended: I decided to splurge for the Beyerdynamic DT 880. (buy and support Dan’s Data)
My previous home headphones, the Grado SR 60, are the best-sounding, best-value, least-comfortable headphones I’ve ever used. They sound great and I felt great having only spent $60 on them (it’s really the best-sounding pair of headphones for the price, ever), but I can only listen with them for about 20 minutes before my ears ache (from pressure, not volume).
Dan loves his comfortable Sennheiser HD 590, but:

They aren’t available anymore.
They’ve been replaced by the HD 595, which costs more but doesn’t sound quite as good as these Beyerdynamics.
The HD 595 terminates in a 1/4” plug (the fat kind that you’ve probably only seen on old stereos), requiring an annoyingly large adapter or a second little cable to fit in a 1/8” socket (the kind that everything has).

Overall, he seems to rate the Beyerdynamic as best sounding and second-most comfortable. Since the most-comfortable pair isn’t available and has an annoying huge plug, I can deal with second-best, especially since I’m coming from the worst.
The only other drawback to the Beyerdynamic is a high impedance, making it difficult for portable audio players to give them enough power to get very high volume. This isn’t a drawback for me since I’ll use these almost exclusively from my AC-powered Mac Pro at medium volume.
My last home headphones lasted me 6 years. Here’s hoping for the best with the new set.
NOTE: Before buying “open” headphones, learn what that means to make sure it’s what you really want. The backs of each driver are an open-air grille, not sealed plastic. Outside sound will get in, and inside sound will get out — people around you will not appreciate hearing your music, so only use open headphones in places where you’re likely to be alone or with people who unconditionally love you. Open headphones, therefore, are not appropriate for most workplaces. In return for this inconvenience, they’re lighter, more comfortable, and most importantly, they sound much better than closed headphones.

dammit marco!
you can find those “perfect headphones” on ebay or craigslist and i have a soldering station (far different from a soldering iron) at the office and i would be more than happy to let you use it to retrofit 1/4 to 1/8 so you wouldn’t need an adapter.
so cancel payment and get what you actually might prefer. let me help a nigga out.

My home-open-headphone quest has ended: I decided to splurge for the Beyerdynamic DT 880. (buy and support Dan’s Data)

My previous home headphones, the Grado SR 60, are the best-sounding, best-value, least-comfortable headphones I’ve ever used. They sound great and I felt great having only spent $60 on them (it’s really the best-sounding pair of headphones for the price, ever), but I can only listen with them for about 20 minutes before my ears ache (from pressure, not volume).

Dan loves his comfortable Sennheiser HD 590, but:

They aren’t available anymore.

They’ve been replaced by the HD 595, which costs more but doesn’t sound quite as good as these Beyerdynamics.

The HD 595 terminates in a 1/4” plug (the fat kind that you’ve probably only seen on old stereos), requiring an annoyingly large adapter or a second little cable to fit in a 1/8” socket (the kind that everything has).

Overall, he seems to rate the Beyerdynamic as best sounding and second-most comfortable. Since the most-comfortable pair isn’t available and has an annoying huge plug, I can deal with second-best, especially since I’m coming from the worst.

The only other drawback to the Beyerdynamic is a high impedance, making it difficult for portable audio players to give them enough power to get very high volume. This isn’t a drawback for me since I’ll use these almost exclusively from my AC-powered Mac Pro at medium volume.

My last home headphones lasted me 6 years. Here’s hoping for the best with the new set.

NOTE: Before buying “open” headphones, learn what that means to make sure it’s what you really want. The backs of each driver are an open-air grille, not sealed plastic. Outside sound will get in, and inside sound will get out — people around you will not appreciate hearing your music, so only use open headphones in places where you’re likely to be alone or with people who unconditionally love you. Open headphones, therefore, are not appropriate for most workplaces. In return for this inconvenience, they’re lighter, more comfortable, and most importantly, they sound much better than closed headphones.

dammit marco!

you can find those “perfect headphones” on ebay or craigslist and i have a soldering station (far different from a soldering iron) at the office and i would be more than happy to let you use it to retrofit 1/4 to 1/8 so you wouldn’t need an adapter.

so cancel payment and get what you actually might prefer. let me help a nigga out.

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I hope I don't offend your pedestrian tastes

bagcoffee:

But, if you know good music, you should head down to Southpaw in Brooklyn tomorrow night (8/12). Then again, you might not go because:

you don’t live in New York

you don’t go to Brooklyn

you can’t afford it (I understand that one)

you can’t take a band named ‘Made Out of Babies’ seriously

all metal sounds the same

you look forward to living your life in a pretentious lie that only one day you’ll come to terms with, and that will scare you so bad you’ll cling to your worldly possessions and sink further and further into an abyss of malaise

i know of them. i listened to that melvins tribute they did again and remembered that i used to skip that track most of the time.

see, they’re too alternative tentacle to my amphetamine reptile.

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Mon Aug 11

“ Happiness is the secret to all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without happiness.

Christian Dior (via emilyposts) (via whatson)

malappropriated bullshit. watch the last embers quake in a fire as the cold of night creeps closer. note the work of joel-peter witkin or dorthea lange or goya or darger. listen, perhaps, to la monte young’s “well tuned piano” or gorecki’s “3rd symphony”. read “the road” by mccarthy or any number of works by flannery o’conner. confluence of self is far more implicit during moments of grandeur and it is not adjusted by the state of the viewer or the situation. the death of another and those that gather nearby may in part be granted moments of “happiness”, but in fact it is the greater thing that allows for “beauty” to be wraught.

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my heartfelt response to anyone butthurt or otherwise adversely affected by the daily dose of toss.

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morningstar:

Its amazing how many shit talking guidos backed down to MAH NEW HAIRCUT!!!!

oh shit. todd’s gone all bickle.

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“ Blogging is like masturbating into a mirror while you videotape yourself so you can watch it later while you masturbate.

Lewis Black (via merlin) (via inky)

i’d say it’s more like this. feel free to draw your own analogies.

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Erik has exactly 4 terabytes of memory at his desk (including sd cards, thumbdrives, iPod/iPhone).

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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

sometimes i wish that all music ever made sounded more like this.

the cows

track: dirty leg

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bagcoffee:

rebloggingrebloggingjulia:

soupsoup:

antikris:

This picture makes me want to make horse noises

~~Dana Carvey needs a haircut~~.

Tom Petty got a haircut. Check mate.

Ed Begley Jr likes him some red lipstick…

Ric Ocasek is a blond now?

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nerd-tastic!

yes, that’s yours truly (and erik) on the front damn page of the official lucasfilms star wars blog! [permalink]

i think i have exceeded most of you in nerd-points gathered for today.

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boo yeah. it’s on its way to me.

22-1/4”

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spy my awesometastic acting abilities. i think i’m really growing as an actor lately, possibly award-worthy.

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Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins shall be your goto film in crisis times like this! either that or gymkata. and don’t make me deliver unto you a roundhouse kick or a haymaker punch, dude.

weker1:

I’ve been in a bad Action movie mood lately , But couldn’t find a winner, Thank You XXX: State Of The Union!

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Sun Aug 10

i had a dealer once...

said dealer would not answer the phone or move between 7:00 and 7:30 on a sunday night, for that was when the simpsons were on. he made it quite clear, and when that mobskin chick died in front of us from main-booting coke he kind of got out of the business.

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okay.

roll call = poor man’s radar.