Hi Fi Man

Here's an interesting item from Hi Fi Man. "Hi Fi Man Focus Pads". $44.95 USD / pair. Available at HeadphoneBar.com, $44.95 CDN / pair.

We like the look of the pads, as they look to be rabbits fur, the colour is blue/grey, and the interior leather is perforated. We're on the lookout for a pair of 500's.

Alternatively, the Beyerdynamic T5p is available for $1,399.00 USD. It's got a suede interior stap to the headband, and a focused ear-cup and headphone design. Of the construction and appearance the only thing we can fault is headphone cable, which is Sennhsier HD 560 II esque (the Ovation) - a little thin for a fixed headphone - and the need for the suade/leather mix along with the striping on the exterior of the ear cup, which reminds us a little too much of how poorly suede does in the rain, and the threadbare status of our Canelli wool-cashmere over-coat, of similar herring bone two-tone variety.

If $44.95 USD is to you as $4.49 CDN is to us, then we recommend the pads. We have the leather, and the velour HiFiMan sets already. If US $1,399.00 USD is to you as $5.00 CDN is to us, then we recommend the headphone. It's near the best around, in look and material composition. You can have the ear-pads replaced and the headband fixed by your tailor. You may be able to shiny-ify the head-cups, with an electro-plating of gold, by your jewelery repairman, also. As is they would work well with Louis Vuitton sunglasses, and upgraded, would go well with Cartier Aviator's. It's a very aviator look, the T5p.

Now, the Hi Fi Man is velour and pleather, which is not the most astute choice of focused material selection. But it is fit for the masses. Pleather you will find on inexpensive leather-emulative jackets which focus sweat production like no other material known to man. Velour you will find in the 1960's. Not that this is aghast to the headphone lifestyle. Quite contrary. At home headphone living is the TikiBar choice of the introverted rain man today/






It's a sumptual combination. For the family, that's home theatre.

We all like sitting around and doing nothing, don't we?

Now, let's take a look at the earcup. It's a sumptual design, which would function well, inverted, medium-scale, in the floor, leading down to a fire-pit, starting ground level, TikiLevel, that is, or as is, starting ceiling height, medium scale, leading to a large hatched sky-light.



In context of pricing and materials (a solid headphone), we looked at a lovely light perforated black leather Armani jacket this year ($5000.00 CDN) at Leone.ca, so you could get 100 pads, and a nice jacket for $10K, or a Stax 009 + 007t II (<$10K), per chance.

Jogging 10K is another thing, entirely. You don't want a headphone like the HiFiMan HE 560 for that, but perhaps something like their RE-300i might do the trick. They're $49.99 also! :)



Listen Up: itunes.apple.com/us/album/adam-original-motion-picture/id395629799 [here]
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100 Tiki Bars would be a nice fit. Anyone fancy Japan? :)