skullguise

I picked up one of these too, for my bedroom. Agreed with all above: sound is just decent, but functionality and style is very nice. Has a headphone jack, I use that and a Shure 840 for some fun but non-critical listening. Buy.com was selling these for cheap when I got mine, not anymore so it seems. But you can likely find them for < $300, maybe used.

Heard a very bad/good joke the other day, went to the Arabian Nights show in Kissimee, FL (got free tix, thankfully; realized that - aside from some beautiful animals - it wasn't a highlight of my trip). A somewhat nice but kind of trashy guy comes up to us, and asks, "What did the very old horse say when he fell down?" After seeing our blank stare, he replied, "I've fallen...and I can't Giddy-Up!" Sadly, I encouraged him by chuckling.....

I think the 580 has some of the most "fun" for me. I've heard, but never owned, the 600's. I owned the 580's and 650's, twice each. Didn't like the 650's overall until I ran them balanced, then they showed me more of what they could do. But based on your boredom, and the fact that there is no T-Shirt mod for them , I don't think I'll be getting 600's any time soon. EDIT: weird....the word "Didn't" shows up twice for me when I view this post, but only once when I go to edit....anyone else see two of them? Time to stop drinking....or maybe start.....

I believe you are correct, but some folks have mods that will allow this. THIS is one of the better sites I've seen on the tuner.

Agree with all the talk here, it really hasn't seemed very special. That said, that little Sony HD Tuner that's getting decent press is a nice unit with decent sound quality. I have a cheap Rat Shack tabletop antenna on it, and it's getting great reception. The HD quality is so-so, just another background music choice IMO. Adds to the options, but not worth critical listening in any way. (EDIT: of course, I'm talking home audio here, but similar applies to car)

How does this compare to Ask Me Tomorrow, that's the only one I own?

Bumping this older thread with some news. The first batch of DAC's should be shipping over early next week to Bill @ Morningstar. Some folks (myself included ) paid extra to get some of them air-shipped. I'm on vacation the following week, not sure if it'll make it to me before I go or if my neighbor will get the box. But I plan on bringing it to the March 6th Boston-area meet, along with my FallenAngel Buffalo32. Some updates in the Audiocircle thread, with a couple pics. Todd - skullguise

No, it's just that the older version just had more burn-in.....

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I've heard the DACMagic twice (once at a dealer's, and once at a friend's who had borrowed one to try). Never captured me at all..... I also had about a 3 hour listening session at another dealer, to the 840c player. Liked it some, but also thought it had a harshness in the upper mids that was too annoying & distracting. The same dealer had a Primare CD player (forgot model, but around $2300 list price IIRC) that was significantly better than the 840c. I thought the 840c may have been newer, maybe needed some burn in. But dealer said it was several months old, and had plenty of hours on it. He did say afterwards that I wasn't the only one who mentioned that brashness. Just another couple cents...

^^^ I will have trouble sleeping tonight...... :Puke-Smiley:

Wow, a day without visiting, and I thought I was hungover....and I didn't even drink last night! Must be that brown acid I took at Woodstock.....

This seems to be a somewhat well-regarded combo based on a search of this thread. Can anyone concur/comment? I was basically ready to pay the ~$2K for the rig that Stretch got if he hadn't gone for it..... If not this, what phones might go well with a SRM-T1W amp, which I also may be able to get with help from Nate?

See the Sennheiser 380 thread.....that one wins hands-down for me. I tried several Ultrasone's, I realy WANTED to like them for some reason. The closest I came was the 2200HLE and RAL-recabled PRO-900. But bottom line is I don't have them anymore, they ultimately didn't do it for me.... BTW, someone earlier in the thread mentioned the GS-1000's. It was a really odd situation, but to me there was a bizarre but quite nice synergy in my system at a time with the GS-1000 highs and my PS Audio GCHA amp. Extended but smooth, natural sounding; some of the best high's I had heard from Grado phones! Too bad the amp made the bass totally unbalanced and fat compared to every other aspect of the sound....ultimately unlistenable as well

At least tell me it's the SE version. I'd feel SO much better if I only paid 3.5x what I needed to, instead of about 7x....

If that doesn't work, there's several freeware converter proggies that'll do it. SUPER is one of them, it is also a system hog at times, but has a ton of conversion options.

And this player will get medieval on your ass! Does look kinda neat, almost retro with those dot-LEDs....

~3500 audio optical disks (mostly CD, maybe 40-50 SACD & DVDA) ~ 800 LP's/vinyl (used to have about 3K, sold a bunch when we moved into our new house) I always remembered & liked a guy that used to work in the same company as me a few years back. Looked a lot like Jerry Garcia, had some nice gear (VPI TT, Audio Research and Pass electronics, Martin Logan CLS's - once two pairs doubled up IIRC). He had - and this is back in late 90's - about 11-12K pieces of vinyl, and zero digital. His online personas, for email, Usenet, etc., was always MrVinyl (@ whatever service he was using at the time). I wonder if he ever made the move to digital.... And then there's the time I caled a phone number for a new magazine coming out, and spoke to Myles Astor (sp?). He said he had somewhere around 16K albums "...those are the Jazz ones...." Wish I had lots of space, money, and time......

Regular site seems back up again as well......

I've tried some of the older RS series of wireless, was not too impressed, with sound quality or capability to send signal without excess hiss and noise. A decent sounding and good SIGNAL wireless phone would be pretty cool. But I think the new products will be.....the i series. Led by the HD-800i. New cable design to go with that new logo!

There was a dealer in Simsbury, CT who carried MBL. Ted Lindblad was HIS name, forgot the dealership name. Great guy....carried some beaucoup dolores gear, like this MBL, Karma, 47 Labs (heard the PiTracer), Lamm..... I had met my in-laws there one time, we stayed at a nice inn nearby. I stopped in Ted's to audition some 47 Lab's gear and he was playing an MBL system with these 101's. I was VERY pleasantly surprised at their coherency, very "together" top to bottom, with tight bass extension and great detail. No harshness at all. Pretty much immersed me in the music. And as one might guess from their design, they imaged like the Dickens. Some of the musician placement was downright spooky.

No hangover.....kept it with one drink last night, good ol' Woodpecker Cider. Not going overboard, and pigging out on food also helped.... Happ New Year!

I'll second you, and raise you "decent bass, highs ARE extended some but sound COMPLETELY artificial." I like my 280's (recabled) better, they aren't horrible after lots of playing time on them. Senn 380 was perhaps the biggest headphone mistake I've made, luckily bought them used and it wasn't HUGE. BTW.....anyone want to buy a pair of Senn 380's in great condition? :p Anyone? Bueller? Dang...... to myself

If you eat brains, does that make you smarter? I tried some canned brains several years back, just a forkfull; don't even remember what they tasted like, though I remember I didn't dislike them.... There's a store near Concord, NH (for you locals dying to try this stuff) called The Healthy Buffalo. They sell various alterna-meats, like the named Buffalo/Bison, but also all kinds of others. Deer/Elk, Wild Boar, Alligator, Ostrich, and my new favorite, Kangaroo; probably a few more I don't recall. I've tried eel and fish eyes (in Hong Kong for eel and Japan for fish with eyes). One of my favorites was a little narrow place in Hong Kong that specialized in Congee, a kind of rice porridge. I tried some of my co-workers Congee with Pig's Blood and Thousand Year Egg. Quite tasty, actually. I probably ate bugs as a kid, but that doesn't count on the gourmet scale I suppose.

[Hey Nate, how was your trip?] Hey, it's a "special" amp, designed for xxxx phone (some Senn's, some Beyers, etc.). Probably doesn't cost so much to design/build, even if for a niche segment. And they can charge more for it as a specialty design. Actually, I've had pretty good luck using a cable to up the impedence. I drove some AKG 271's very nicely out of the Lunchbox amp, with a 200ohm cable adapter. Not the best of all solutions, but works well. Still fondly remember that combo. All that said, I'm not getting this amp.....