Jana Dagdagan

Might have to look into that and HD tracks catalogue. As someone who owns over 5000 classical and Opera CD's and as much in vinyl, the temptation to to pay for something I already own in HD is not appealing unless, of course I can get the complete catalogue under one roof. Which was my reason for posting and agreeing with Jana on accessibility and performance. How I wish this could happen.

BTW, I have not yet complimented Ms. Dagdagan on her fine posts, well written, and very insightful.

I think our multi-channel inclined digitally grey-matter-washed friend was making a joke about analog not being Hi Rez, which is true....analog is Higher Rez!

;-D

Wonder why they changed name from Sony Studios to Battery Studios?
Maybe due to some not liking Sony?

I meant no disparagement.

I once dated a girl who had worked as a show host in Japan. She filled me in on the culture. I thought the girl in the photo was there for photogenic reasons at first - so be it - it was a great photo, and a great set of cans. I'm talking of the headphones, just to be clear! really. It's cool that it was the writer.

I was just writing to ask for an description of the sound of the headphones.

The article got me interested, as it's a nice looking product - most headphones today suck in design, imo - not just the phones, but the amplifier - not sure about the portable, though - and I had read another reviewer's description of how the sound of the headphones differed from the speakers in the room.

I was looking for the author's description of the sound. All the other writing was - for me - details - but not the meat of the story.

I know today, one is not supposed to comment, positively on someone's appearance - but I prefer to speak in the cultural manner of the time I was raised rather than adopt today's standard.

So if that is Rat Pack / Dean Martin, and that makes me a sexist creep, then oh well.

To be honest - it is a genuine pleasure to see a good looking person - like the guys of Sonus Faber - or Fabio as a hobbist, previously - working in stereo!

I don't know this Allen Fant, but he must be a nice guy.

As for myself, I played music but never had the chance to play with the likes of a Frank Sinatra. The closest I got was sitting in with Kenny Coleman, Denzal Sinclare (who did a nice Nat King Cole thing, and my what a fantastic vocalist), and stealing a few solos from Diana Krall. That's about nothing, musically speaking, but such is life.

As much as I like headphones, I get tired by the same over-weight tired-looking people in all the hobbyist photos.

So I'll just state and admit that that is my prejudice.

We can't all be models, and my days of doing ballet 3-5 hours a day along with jazz, hip hop, and looking great in cycling pants are far behind me.

But still I am happy to see someone good looking in hi fi.

The hobby really lacks a get-out-there audience.

It's nice to have the show-reports though.

Maybe someone else can comment on the event and the sound of the gear and the room.

I would really have liked to read this as a part of this article, and that was the gist of my comment.

Oh well. I'm glad Stereophile isn't yet like a college campus of 2016.

I though Austin Powers and Canada's Mike Meyers would leave it open to making positive comments. :)

To be fair, Stereo Goddess, I'll give you my full initial visual impressions, so you may brand me as your like.

"That's a good looking girl at the console. Oh. Homemade bracelet."
"That's a nice looking Herman Miller Arion Chair."
"My, that equipment sure looks dated."
"Who'se that balding guy with the round glasses?"
"Is that a Gucci Wide Band ring on the lady's finger?" :)

"What ever that ring is, I should get one. Maybe a Gucci Widebander. Wonder if it is the same ring as the young guy wears in Schitts Creeek. Great choice. Fashion."
"Probably should get that Herman Miller Chair too."
"Probably also the Sony headphones!"

So really, my main interest in any photo is finding out what to buy that I don't already have, like most here.

What surprising reading the other event report is how dated the listening hardware is. Dunlavey SC-IV. Krell (likely KSA-300?) Amplifiers.

Great stuff, but hardly reported on - today - in the the audio press.

I'm just rather surprised with Sony's engineering resources, that they tune a contemporary headphone to such a studio.

Maybe I like things Japan, but I'm a Sony fan as much as a Stax one.

They've developed some great equipment!

As for Dunlavey, yeah, great equipment, but I'm rather not sure why the stereo press bothered with all their products when there was still Duntech in existence with their Sovereign loudspeaker - another mastering studio favourite.

It's like the stereo press was set up to promote new events and products, regardless of their quality.

Wonder if your're the stereo goddess who has a love of NAIM and Nagra amplification.

Perhaps guys and girls like visually different things. Or maybe the same things, who knows.

I like the look of a Sunny Cable Majectic - or an Apogee Grand Ribble tweeter. Is that sexual or sexist? Who knows.

Good looking bass drivers, also. A nice mid-range.

Perhaps this is object fetishism. Hence the 'phile in Sterophile.

I have a friend who used to look at all of his cars before going inside. Took the time to admire each one (usually had 9 of them at a time, as the garage only had so much space...) before going inside.

When it was evening, I though he was being like a father, looking at his children.

I could of categorized him as crazy (being judgemental), but he enjoyed the daily habit of buying cars - or at least looking at them - and all the communications it involved.

He couldn't be happy having just one S600 insured, he'd have to have an identical one in a different colour for his drives.

Likewise, us Stereo addicts have our particulars.

We get funny in our habbits.

The longer I read audio journalism, the more I despise looking at photos of men - well, musicians.

When I was younger, I wouldn't mind. I would find them interesting. Fascinating. Other creatures. The heavy metal guys would seem like creatures from an alternate reality. Magical or something.

Now they're just men, and why would I want to look at photos of men? Well, sports men I don't mind as that's my hobby.

When I was a music student, I wouldn't mind seeing pictures of musicians. Male ones.

Now it's a pleasure to see a picture of a female at a recording console, listening to headphones.

I had no idea that was Jana, and that's cool.

That's because it's pretty much all-male. I don't know what y'all read into that journalism, but I count the way I was taught in school - i.e. two plus two equals four. When I get a few cameras on my youtube channel, the female participation reaches as much as eight-nine percent, but when it's mainly headphones and amps it drops to less than six percent. And I for sure do not have a male-oriented channel. I just read the numbers and know what's out there. I expect journalism to talk to its readers. When the readers are male, the journalism is mainly male. Do the math, as Buffy the Vampire Slayer would say.

I "hear" the MDR-V6 are good, too! :)