Custom Calibrated Headphones & Valentine's Dinner 15Feb18

I was dubious on, and anxious about, mailing my new pair of MrSpeakers Ether C Flow headphones to Riga, Latvia - but I did. Kala thought I was nuts. I was very happy when tracking said they'd arrived because the "to" direction was on me, while "return" direction was on them. I sent them to be measured and receive a custom calibration curve to use with the Sonarworks equalization software - this is a custom calibration service. The headphones and cal curve are back and installed in the software. Woohoo. I can't really tell the difference yet in COS as my new big Schiit DAC & AMP have still yet to ship (part supply issue). I may take the headphones to the Nest just to hear them with the new equalization through my "old" Fireflies setup which I moved up there. From the curve I see pretty flat across the spectrum but with several odd 6dB holes at 150Hz, 1500Hz and 15KHz (is that coincidence?) - but they should be fixed now for my listening... I will do an A-B test of course comparing raw with calibrated.

The Peregrine team dined at Prime25 for Valentine's Day... good steakhouse and totties. Of course it was Lent so Brantley & Yohanan enjoyed scallops while I indulged. Crappy pic but whatever - we returned to Jim & Mary's for Spanish Sherry and desert, yumm.

I made it to the Nest with Ether C Flows. Awesome even without the balanced Schiit setup (meaning mainly that I have the WA7 really cranked up). All cans calibrated and operating sweetly.