What's the latest gear you've acquired?

Telefunken Stereo active d.i.

Highland Dynamics BG-2 and a CAPI FC526...digging both!

And of course a bunch of drums that come and go

I just pulled the trigger on some tiny Emotiva Airmotiv 3B speakers for my mobile setup...get so tired of phones only. I hope they don't suck. They're only $99 on closeout sale if anyone's interested. I'll try to give an impression after they arrive on Monday.

I grabbed a nice, clean AKG D12E today and while I like it, I saw what they are going for on eBay and I'm not sure I like it "that" much. But I'm going to put it through the paces next week before I offer it up for sale.

Tube-Tech CL1b and a Moog Minitaur

I haven't put the BG-2 through the paces, I've only used it for a tracking vocals and it worked nicely for that, usually release time 1 or 2. You can change the tone quiet a bit with the different ohm and British/American feedback settings which worked great because the past few days I've been working with half a dozen singers all on the same mic and I could tailor the sound to suit their voices.

Please post your impressions of the Origin when you can cOrtland. I've been curious about it.

Really? I have a pair of 650s but to be honest with you it's the first time I hear about sonarworks. Are you also using it for your speakers? 
I'm very very (very!) dubious when it comes to to software like this (or using graphic EQs to calibrate the speakers). 

Hm, just this weekend i heard from my brother that he saw emotiva amps that look suspiciously like those from a chinese manufacturer who offers a similar piece for ... let's say, a fraction of the price. I do not know if this is true, but i would not be very surprised if they start to just relabel products.
To be fair, the chinese manufacturer offer them for a very, very low price for what these amps actually are. But still. I was a bit shocked when i heard about the price difference of these products.
But by no means i say that other brands DON'T do this ...
Emotiva had some good products to make their name a brand people actually know. But it is hard to stay there. You can not really hold extraordinary price/performance ratio in a sustainable manner when it comes to products like high quality amps and speakers.
And honestly,... they were hyped a lot by the folks. So people maybe expect too much now and they can not hold up to the hype.
Hmm.

Well, we just smalltalked and i do not even remember the name of the chinese brand, but will see if i get my bro on the phone the next days and will ask him about the manufaturer and exact models.
Actually i am more often surprised about chinese products quality these days. Asking myself how they can make profit at these prices.
(OK, i guess, we all know. Workers with extremely low income...)
On the other hand i see many good manufacturers here giving up on producing high end, lowering the quality or simply buying complete product lines in china and sell more to the consumer market. The difference gets smaller. Obviously.
Uhm, and i guess i got the irony.

I was only referring to the sennheiser hd 650's. In my earlier post. No experience with anything else.

Sonarworks. I like it with the cans as it makes them a bit flatter in response. I don't use the speaker modeling just the eq curve to make them more linear I don't use sonarworks with my speakers ever.

Sounds killer!!!