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I tagged onto a VT4C.com order of luvdunhill's a little while back. I didn't expect them so soon. The quality is fantastic, and the cone feet and record clamp are seriously heavy pieces. I'll most definitely order from them again. Quite inexpensive too, IIRC I paid about $105.00 total.

Noted Sir.

Yeah I saw that from the sale thread over there. Congrats! That's the nicest looking pair of Sextetts I've seen, including my very nice pair.

The Vestigal tonearm was the arm mated to the classic Transcriptors Skeleton.

OK one more thing. I had to pick this gem up. It will be installed on the Thorens TD-160 Mk.II which will be modded with a new Wenge plinth. So the idea with all the new TT's I've been picking up is to mod them with wooden plinths and new parts, then sell them. Is it bad that I don't want to sell them now? Is it redundant to have 3 very different TT's on top of my racks? I have a giant slab of 3" thick Maple that I could place on top of my two new racks, and it will fit the 3 TT's and my CD transport. Tell me guys is this crazy, or is there justification for my collection? There just so different and cool in their own ways!

I paid a little bit more, but not too much. This one is in almost mint condition.

Very cool project!

I paid next to nothing for it. It has several inputs, and my plan is to use it with my PC, as I never do any critical listening with MP3 anyway.

Had a bit of a shopping spree today. I'm nearing the end of my audio purchases for a while.

I found these new for $185 ea. on Amazon. That's about as cheap as any rack I've found, and nicer than most.

One Yamaha PF-800 in pristine condition and two Salamander Archetype 5.0 racks I've run out of room in the rack that I built, and it's time to move on.

Nice work! I'm still undecided as to my two pair of SFIs. I bought some old Pioneer donor phones that I may use, and I'm thinking of woodies for the second pair. It may be a while before I get to those projects though.

Happy Birthday

OK, are they hard to find/expensive?

Well I've only been listening for about an hour, but it's actually not that dissimilar to the ?22. Really nice bass. There's definitely a nice weight to it, but it's very controlled. I'm certainly not familiar enough with the Omegas to go into much detail yet, but there's no doubt that there's a tube in the preamp output. Very organic and slightly warm sound, without being too lush or gooey. I'd call it a bit warmer than the ?22 which is very neutral.

Got the Consonance A-120 today. Very nice amp indeed. It sounds lovely with the Omegas.

This is Fred. He's havin' a bad hair day.

Cut out the middle man!

I knew you two had some kind of relationship!

It will be interesting to see what ALO decides to do if anything, if this indeed is discovered to be Jennifer's reply. I can't feel but that he'd catch a lot more flack for doing business with this company, as he is definitely a member of our "headphone club". Either way she's done him a great disservice, and that's a shame. I'm not crazy about his cables, but he in no way has done anything to deserve being thrown under the bus like this.

I took my camera, but as soon as Marc opened the front door in a Red leather jumpsuit I decided to put it back in the car. I'm discovering I really like HD580s!

It certainly could be a fraud, but I'm not as convinced as you. This is quite inline with the type of personality she has shown thus far. If it is her she's going to find out just how much influence our little community, pardon me "headphone club" really carries. Now where did I put that Stereophile phone number?

I doubted that one would go unnoticed.

He's not kidding! It would have been comical if we weren't under a time crunch. First my transport wouldn't read CDs. This was a pretty easy fix, since I had recently removed the top to take pics for Marc. It was as simple as plugging a connector up wrong. Then after Marc hooked up the AES/EBU input on the DAC we hooked it up and got a lock light but no music. After trying just about everything Marc noticed that the ?22's heatsinks were cold. But the JT had power, because it would go through it's clicking noises when the knob was turned. Hmmm! Well after a bit of hair pulling (which Marc can handle fine, but I don't have enough of in the first place) Marc discovered that the umbilical cable was not quite all the way turned in it's jack. Man it was nerve wracking for a bit. Marc the umbilical is locking fine on both ends now after a little tweaking this morning. And Jim this came about simply because I wanted a little hotter top end to mate better with the Donuts and K340, and Marc wanted to own my soul. It in no way reflects on my satisfaction with your workmanship, as our latest project should indicate.