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Thank you for acknowledging that, as I thought I was crazy...now I realize ATT are just being punks.

Really? Why is that?

Iphone update question: On my 3G I still have the old 3.0 OS, is there any reason why I should NOT update it to the newest 3.1? I do have the tethering currently but honestly I don't really use it... Iphone rant of the week: So radioshack is now an iphone retailer through AT&T. Sales person tells me they offer a trade in for my old 3G for $170, and can upgrade to the 3GS for $30 more at $199. Obviously need to be in your upgrade time, which I tell the person is in February. Sales person says that they are offering promotion and rather than the normal 18 month upgrade timeframe, they are making it at 9 months, which I qualify. So lady goes into system, and nope, still lists february as my upgrade date. She calls ATT, no budge, though they acknowledge the promotion, they can't help me. I call ATT myself, nope, they won't honor it. I get close with the 3rd rep who offers their ATT upgrade advantage program, but alas, they only offer certain phones, no 3GS. My guess is they are saving their 3GS promotion for new customers, and could care less about me who has been with them since the cingular days and took advantage of their 3G $99 promotion.

Already tried...no luck But, I will have a new job (after being RIF'd from my current job) as well as a new baby coming our way! (September 1st)

Happy belated Kevin, you are awesome. Our birthdays are next to each other's..scary

Speaking of which, Doug finally got my amp in a condition for me to take home yesterday, woo hoo! None of the relays quite work, and the autoformer phase splitter output is causing a huge grounding issue into my F1, but headphone wise sounds great Thank you everyone for the well wishes.

Si correcto

Jim will confirm but she was responding to why they originally could not get a room for the 3rd. But I believe they have added more rooms on the 3rd for us. "Otherwise", the 4th and 5th is also available is how I take it.

Room update straight from the hotel sales manager: "We ran out of rooms in your block on the 3rd, which we had more put into today. Otherwise there are guest rooms for the 4th and 5th."

Holy batman that is pretty freaking sick. Will need to investigate and add to list for convincing wife. Oh my. You can upload your own PDF's. I literally can scan whatever I want from my choral library (which is quite extensive) and upload it all to an ipad. I think I am going to faint.

Finally had a chance to check out the ipad at the apple store downtown chicago, we stayed overnight after watching a show. I loved it, and can definitely see myself using it as my sole tool for internet and email, plus all the other stuff it has. The thing is pretty blazing fast, going from menu to menu and screen to screen, as well as entering and exiting programs and safari was like lightning. I do extremely well with the keyboard. And of course I love how the general interface is incredibly intuitive. Challenge is convincing the wife to get me one for my birthday next week

posted here before, but here it is again to highlight some of the issues that are present in the SHA-1, at least in stock form. Also, I would say Doug's modifications are probably the most in depth to date, whereas other SHA-1 mods like Carlo's have traditionally been just replacing caps. ecp.cc

cathode biased I think is the official term.

baller.

EDIT: Above measurement is from Nelson Pass, not sure if it is with the F1 or not (most likely)

DX45's, the typical alerions come with dx55's, and these alerions are his demo model, the very first pair that Terry Cain built for him - let's just say I got a pretty sick deal Meridian 508.24, into a Firstwatt F1.

Finally bit the bullet and picked up a dream speaker of mine for a long time. I was able to unload my hornshoppe horns and while they were great for the price, the resolution and detail retrieval of the lowthers is in a completely different world. Lightning speed, incredibly dynamic, beautiful top end, wonderful imaging. I am also very happy with the bass response, in due to the alerion enclosure really maximizing the low end output, coupled with the Firstwatt F1, the combo is really well matched to each other.

Mods - if there is a way we can edit the first post in this thread to include the link I would appreciate it.

Just a reminder to everyone here to make sure you register on the formspring link that is over at HF in the canjam registration thread. If you wouldn't mind posting as well that you registered in that thread (for those that can I would appreciate it, so I can keep the attendees list as updated as possible. Thanks to everyone for your support! This will really be a great event, especially to meet and hang out with you all.

What's wrong with using marbles? (if you have carpet, and yes I used them, though I am not sure if their was an audible difference).

I am with JP in that for that amount of money, you can get a really nice amp from other manufacturers. For 2K you could have a really nice custom amp made for you as well (which is the route I ended up taking). EDIT: After reading Hirsch's post, wanted to add that the custom route, as long as you can find the right person, can really tailor the amp specifically to headphone usage. Headphone loads are not necessarily the ideal loads for output transformers that are built to feed nicely into speaker loads, though I have heard great sound from them, such as the Moth/Eddie Current stuff. My custom amp, for example, uses custom made autoformers with a more appropriate stepdown ratio (I think 8K:32) that it will play nicely into headphone loads.

Yeah I definitely won't be hacking into the original cable, especially after reading through your description of it Ari. Eh, I think I just won't bother with it to be honest. Though I do think it would sound pretty sweet.

Eh had the wacky idea of running my HP's on the F1, but I would have to get them reterminated to balanced because the F1 is a true differential design, so the grounds can't be tied together, they need to be separate.

Thank you Doug and Ari for hooking it up!

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