Arny, did seeing your lies flung back in your face scare you that much,
that you decided you're better off not responding to my reply to your
litany of lies?:

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Arny old man, I realize you're getting old. Way old. This thread
started because Schizoid Man posted having heard the Orpheus. So my
question is.... do you have Alzheimer's and would you know if you did?
Do you remember how to spell your name?

Yet you don't find a problem telling people they're a rip off, no better than the 580 model.

Wow, where did I say that?

Hint: I didn't. You made this up all by yourself SHP.

Damn you, Arny. Why is it whenever you're faced with the option to
admit you're wrong or embarass yourself before everyone, you always
choose to embarass yourself?

This below is you saying what I said you said. You said it just a few
hours ago. Arny, get yourself checked for Alzheimer's. You're an old
man.:

ARNY'S LIE REVEALED:
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are HD580s and 600s.

The Sennheiser Oprheus headphones are more of a pleasure to listen to than any $20,000+ pair of speakers I have heard from JM Lab, Wilson Audio, Sonus Faber, etc.

Begs the question, what do you do to a pair of $200 headphones to make
people want to pay $15,000 (quickly dropped to $5,000) a pair for them?


In the wacky world of high end audio the answer seems obvious:

(1) change some plastic external parts to wood.

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Given the price of the phones, you'd never be able to get your fat grubby mitts anywhere near them, to try them - so you haven't.

Doesn't it get cold up in that ivory tower, SHP?

No, I have central heating.

Could you be more pompous and misleading if you tried?

I'm sure I could do anything if I put my mind to it, but I've never
done that before, so I can't really say. I don't see what's misleading
about saying that your broke ass can't afford $20,000 headphones?

Ergo, you don't know anything about the headphones (they come with a tube amp, as I recall),

So what's your point SHP?

I think my point was that you don't know anything about headphones.
Perhaps we can add that to the long, long list of "things about audio
that Arny doesn't know".

and yet you can "confidently" proclaim to people that they are merely Sennheister 580's with wood frames, and about $15,000 added.

Wow, where did I say that?

Hint: I didn't. You made this up all by yourself SHP.

Seriously, you really ought to get that Alzheimer's looked after:

ARNY'S LIE REVEALED:
----------------------------------------------------------------- So
are HD580s and 600s.

The Sennheiser Oprheus headphones are more of a pleasure to listen to than any $20,000+ pair of speakers I have heard from JM Lab, Wilson Audio, Sonus Faber, etc.

Begs the question, what do you do to a pair of $200 headphones to make
people want to pay $15,000 (quickly dropped to $5,000) a pair for them?


In the wacky world of high end audio the answer seems obvious:

(1) change some plastic external parts to wood.

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So besides being intolerant of my tweaks which you can't figure out and that frighten and threaten you,

Wow, where did I say that? Hint: I didn't. You made this up all by yourself SHP.

So now you're saying that you're not intolerant of my tweaks, that you
didn't mock or dismiss them, that you didn't get angry at Jenn for not
dismissing them as thoroughly as you would have liked? Either you're
saying that, or you need to get that Alzheimer's looked at.

you're also intolerant of high end cables, wires, cd players, turntables, headphones and of course, Jews.

Wow, where did I say that?

I guess your Alzheimer's is SO bad.... you just wiped out the last 10
years of life, in which saying the above is about all you did. Do you
remember which shoe goes on which foot, Arny?

BTW SHP you seem to be ignoring the fact that I'm routinely accused of loving Jesus, and by most accounts he was a Jew.

Jesus was as much a jew as you're a knowledgable audiophile. And you
just said you're "accused" of loving him, not an admission that you
love Jesus. If you answer this question we might be able to clear that
up:

Q. Arny: Do you love Jesus?

Any other forms of bigotry in you that we should know about, Arny?

Hatred of stupidity and lies. Does that threaten you, SHP?

No, it makes a lot of sense, actually. Since "stupidity and lies" is
what I've always proven you are full of, that is a tacit admission that
you hate yourself. Which explains why you feel a need to embarass
yourself all the time, like this, where you flat out deny things you
clearly said a few hours ago. You hate yourself, and you like being
humiliated. I'm sure that you live to go to S&M clubs, where you beg to
be whipped and peed on.

Two words: Sighted Evaluation.

Pray tell, how do you blind test a pair of headphones, say the Sennheiser 580 vs. the Orpheus? The Orpheus will be a heavier pair and clearly, you'll be able to feel the difference on your head?

Add helium baloons?

That's your response? You're rant about the fact that SM never did a
blind test to your specifications, you dismiss his experiences because
he didn't, and then when asked how one does such a test, your answer is
a stupid joke?

I think you finally elucidated for us exactly why we should not take
you or your stupid ABX tests seriously, and that ALL audio should be
purchased on purely sighted, subjective listening. You just admitted
that your ABX TEST IS A JOKE!! Thank you for that, Arny.

Uh-oh.... looks like someone threw another spanner in the works for Arny's "ABX Empire" agenda. I predict we'll find you hiding behind the fridge now.

Looks like I've already made you hide behind your posturing and lies, SHP.

Looks more like I did, Arny:

ARNY'S LIE REVEALED:
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are HD580s and 600s.

The Sennheiser Oprheus headphones are more of a pleasure to listen to than any $20,000+ pair of speakers I have heard from JM Lab, Wilson Audio, Sonus Faber, etc.

Begs the question, what do you do to a pair of $200 headphones to make
people want to pay $15,000 (quickly dropped to $5,000) a pair for them?


In the wacky world of high end audio the answer seems obvious:

(1) change some plastic external parts to wood.

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If the Grand Utopia Be's were sold in the more pragmatic marketplace of professional audio, the top asking price would be less than a tenth of that. Clearly a product for people who are impressed by their ability to buy things at a price they never ask. It's all about bragging rights.

Translation: "I wish I was wealthy enough to afford those speakers, damn it."

Wow, where did I say that?

Hint: I didn't. You made this up all by yourself SHP.

You must have forgotten that you said this already 10 times, Arny.
Definitely Alzheimer's.

Spoken like a true gearhead. Arny, you will die never knowing squat about what sounds good. There's something comforing in that, i find.

When you figure out what *comforing* is SHP, would you let us know? ;-)

Ooooh, Arny gets me on a "typo". Sure sign of a loser, losing the
debate! If I pointed out every time you made a type Arny, we'd never
leave this place. Well, you'll never leave this place anyhow, so I
guess that's moot.

Nor have you hear what's in Tom Nousaine's living room. His are speakers that blow other speakers away the old fashioned way: They create bass so low that it is best characterized as a strong wind that changes direction at low frequencies.

Typical gearhead thing to say. Who cares if they don't sound musical?!

Applying your own standards SHP -when was the last time you heard Tom's stereo?

I would never want to subject myself to the torture of listening to a
stereo owned either by you, are ANYONE YOU PERSONALLY KNOW. When was
the last time you heard a pair of Sennheiser Orpheus?

Ooops! Kryptonite!

Now you think you're Lex Luthor? Okay, Alzheimer's AND senility. Arny,
you're getting too old for this. Retire from RAO already.

The important thing is, they can rattle the foundation of the house reproducing "sounds".

I've heard Toms system play music on many occasions, but I never heard the foundation rattling, even when I was in his basement with everything going upstairs.

Inability to avoid taking everything literally, noted.