I'm not a big Rush fan but do enjoy several of their songs with Ayn Rand's Objectivism inspired lyrics.

as for the ayn rand bit, i read 'the fountainhead' a few years back - i thought Howard Roark was a character taken out of a 70s movie - fantastic character and his love story with the chick was really awesomely written

i have atlas shrugged piled up now for years but its size always stops me from starting it

Read Anthem. That's the book I understand to have inspired Peart and many Rush themes and lyrics. It's a very short book but an excellent read; shouldn't take more than a couple of hours.  I believe now adays Neil considers himself a small L libertarian rather than Objectivist. Sorry to drift so far off topic.

Here's something that will no doubt please The Crass Dude (aka Mr shotgunshane), a person with a pretty questionable music taste: Honky Tonk Women (by The Stones) sounds absolutely superb through the Angies — the midrange and high freqs really take the cake (the whole spectrum is rendered brilliantly, really). It just sounds absolutely right.

proedros, you might want to check out this thread: http://www.changstar.com/index.php/topic,2459.0.html

So, here's a post that will likely help no-one, but here goes, anyway.

Been spending the last 3 days comparing my FAD LAB I and Angie and, though no doubt our dear (top) Pirates and audiophiles alike would choose the Angie’s sonics over the LAB’s, I’ve come to the conclusion that I prefer the latter.

Might me an impedance issue, after all, where the LABs simply shine with the AK240 (and V200). Basically, what it boils down to is that the LABs sound more natural, with a wonderfully more natural and meatier midrange and, to these ears, more natural treble performance and excellent natural decay down low, not to mention the great cohesive sound coming from this dual-BA crossover-less phone. The LABs, from day one, always had a very analogue-type sound (I know, I myself don’t like it when people use terms such as “analogue”, “musical” and the like…) that made them a pretty unique phone, though not one that grabbed me instantly.

So, as much as I love the Angies, the LAB I, once again, takes the number one spot as the best phone I’ve heard to date.