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The spikes come with hard rubber floor protectors. And you'll have at least an inch of adjustment with these spikes. I seriously doubt you'll find any floor that out of level in less than four sq. ft.

I just bought and put together two of the exact same racks yesterday. Mine are quite solid feeling. And I have some tips as to easy leveling. First I'd suggest ordering from Amazon.com, I got the racks for $185.00 ea. and free shipping. And the shipping was as quick as regular UPS ground. With the money you save there I'd buy the Mega Spike accessory spikes... http://www.audioadvisor.com/prodinfo.asp?number=SMSPIKE You'll want the 5/8" spikes for the Archetype. Then when the rack arrives decide how tall you want each shelf. Install the mega spikes all the way onto each rod, then I'd screw the nuts and washers right on top of the spikes, and set your first shelf there. That will automatically make your first shelf level. I cut a block to the same distance I wanted between each shelf (for me that was three blocks at various heights), and used the block as a gauge between each shelf. You could cut 4 blocks for each shelf, and set the shelf on the blocks until you tighten up the bolts. This worked very well for me. Once I had all the shelves attached I simply turned the Mega Spikes at the bottom to level the rack. I have a giant Maple slab on top of my racks which adds to the sturdiness, but they felt quite sturdy once the nuts were tightened good.

Voltron I've always been curious how the closed Stax sound compared to the open models. Can you shed any light there?

Pretty shitty response if I do say so. Or would that be shitey?

Sure, that would be no problem.

Not a slam against your character or anything Duggeh, but I'd picture you havin' some freaky stuff. Normal vanilla porn just doesn't seem to fit with your persona.

Yep, that's pretty much how I was thinking they'd look too. Of coarse I have a few dozen projects to finish up first. I think luvdunhill's hired a goon already.

Duggeh, I have a liquor store nearby. Got any Sisters?

I'm not sure how I'd bend the grill to fit. If I had a way of bending the grill edge over in a neat fashion I could do it. I could make a pair with a pretty small lip though. You know that a Wenge pair with Black grills would look pretty yummy on your 580.

That's 1 TB! Holy crap I had no idea that much gay porn had been produced! Your people are really playin' catch up huh?

They add a tad bit of bass to the HD580, but are remarkably similar in SQ to the stock grills. And that's not a bad thing IMO.

That's awfully brave for a guy with so many projects on my workbench!

I'm not going to push them, because they're fairly labor intensive, but I'd be willing to make them upon request. Yeah they are pretty fugly, and I would send them your way just to get them off my hands, but these are for a Head-Fi customer, so the laugh's on him.

I just had that same conversation with warrior05. If they were going on my Black HD580 I'd use Black mesh too. I'm hoping the stainless will work well with the Silver/Grey of the HD650.

Finished.

That's a tough one. They are each a little different, but both have qualities I like, and each are very good. I guess Id have to say I'd give a slight nod to the ?22, but not enough so as to keep unhooking the speakers for headphone use. I'm very pleased with the Consonance. Once the Gizmo T-amp is ready for retail I still plan on trying it as well.

Will there be anyone on this site besides myself listening to dynamic headphones in a year? Congrats deepak!

Knowing you Nate you'll have sold it long before you'd get to adding the wood trim anyway. I for one hope you keep and enjoy that beautiful monster for a long time to come. It's quite an incredible build!

I'm loving my Omega Grande Six, but they also need a sub. I'm using AV123 Onix Rocket UFW-10 active subwoofers with great success. I was able to dial them in quite well, for a relatively seamless transition. All of the Cain & Cain speakers are quite nice IMO.

Happy Birthday!

:o :'( :'( > That truly sucks!

While there are a lot of good choices to amp the Senns., the balanced ?22 with balanced cables for the Senns. is a particularly high end choice IMO. It's just a great match, and shows just how incredibly high the Senns. can scale. Not long after I first joined the other site I bought some 650s. I had a Rega Ear amp at the time. I was completely underwhelmed, and sold them after about a month. But hearing them balanced on my ?22 was a completely different experience. All the things I had liked about them were there in spades, but the soundstage issues, veiled sound and somewhat sloppy bass I had heard with the Rega were completely nonexistent with the ?22. I ended up with 580s at that Dallas meet, but I do plan to get some 650s before long, and spend some quality time with them in my studio environment. If they impressed me so much in meet surroundings I can only imagine I'll love them even more at home.

It wasn't until getting the ?22 that I appreciated the Senns. So much so that I bought a pair of 580s at the same meet. I think the stainless mesh will help it match the Silver/Grey of the 650 housing somewhat. Actually the plainness of the headphone may work to set off the woodwork even more. But that was a very nice comment Duggeh, and I apologize for the stiffy.

Guess who's project is next in line?

Yes. I first traced the outline of the plastic grill onto the wood, then I used my scroll saw to cut just outside the line. I then used my oscillating sanding center to sand right to the line, and smooth things up. Then I set the fence on my router table to cut the little recess that fits inside the headphone housing. Next I set the fence so that I could leave about 1/4" thickness in the sides, and started with a plunge cut, then used the fence to guide my cut all the way around. It took several passes, raising the bit about 1/4" at a time. Once I had that done I drilled my port hole with a drill press and Forstner bit. Then I turned the cups over and finished hollowing out the cups with the Forstner. And finally back to the router table to clean things up with a bearing guided bit. As well as using part of a 1" round over bit to ease the top outside edges of the cups. The sanding was low tech, because I simply didn't have enough area to use any of my random orbit sanders. But hand sanding builds character.