recstar24

Cool - works for me

No!!!! I was just kidding!!! I still have two wishes left, correct? Change it back please

Wow, his user name is actually dandi (asshole)? I want to change mine to recstar24 (prick)

The myth has carried weight because users are misinformed about things like impedance and equating that good sound = loud volume. "Oh, grados sound great out of my ipod, they don't need an amp." No, they do, and scale up nicely with better amps.

Sounds like ground loop issues. Whenever you have multiple power cords plugged in different places, there is always the possibility for a ground loop, which is created when different ground potentials from the power supplies start introducing hum into the chain. If you have a keyboard around, 50 hz is around the pitch of B two octaves lower than middle C. Listen to the hum, then sing it on a tone and compare with B on the keyboard, if it matches you know you'ev got ground loop. By plugging all your components into a single strip that ties all the grounds together, you essentially eliminate all ground potential differences between the power supplies, the difference becomes zero, hence no hum. You could also use a cheater plug that bypasses the ground pin on the cord, but do so at your own risk. The above is only helpful if it is indeed a ground loop hum. I am pretty sure that it is not transformer hum leaking into the zana due to the external chassis. You may want to mess around with placement of the zana power supply, depending on its proximity to your source, zana main chassis or F1 magnetic fields could physically leak elsewhere along the signal chain.

I believe he is referring to different speakers from Grado. In the 60's Joe came out with a set of studio monitors. Larry from headphile has a set. I am pretty sure those are the ones he has, according to the dimensions the user outlined in the post.

Just get a Doge - its the best! yeah! thumbs up! Source - ipod should be just fine, but make sure you get an ALO dock. With all the money saved, you can go ahead and buy all the R10's, L3000's, and HP-1000's to your heart's content. Thank me later

He won a superbowl lol

Yup - remember Ray Lewis in the 2001 season? Nice

Clinton Portis: "So what if he has some dogs? They be his dogs, if he wants to fight them dat his business, he can do whatever he want. I be down in Mississippi, thats what we all do, its all good." What a crock of crap. Hopefully some justice is done from this inhumane activity

Sorry about that, you are correct, they are obviously all used, I think I meant just make sure the price you get them at is what you can turnaround. $2000 seems to be about right. I absolutely love the PS-1's but they are going for around the same price, and at that level I might go for the L3000 based purely on looks, as it sure looks pretty. Those two seem to be the rock favorites of the high end cans. Does anyone remember the good ole days when PS-1's used to go for $850? sigh...

As long as you get it used you should be fine if you don;t like it, as it turns around really well. That is the one headphone myself that I am dying to hear. I have been trying to set up a time with a local headfier to audition but so far it hasnt worked out.

Nah, Welly Wu is totally off the mark, and he is unstable. Doc is just overtly biased to the point of being irrational.

Ah, how the air is so much fresher on top of mount mint HP-1000:) Glad to have you with us.

For that kind of money, oral would be a start

There's a reason why they call the 6sn7 the campbell's soup of tubes

It sure is visually stimulating

I concur

I concur. They look nice and all, but that Beyer sound is just not for me at all. Last time I spoke with Larry he agreed with my review that the sound is nothing to brag about, but people like to buy them, so why not

Couple of different possibilities. You may have experienced tube arcing, usually occurs at power up or power down when the grid voltage exceeds the plate voltage, and would be specific to that particular tube. The AVVT 2a3 meshplates for example have an issue with arcing due to deformed mesh plates and very tight spacing, and will arc sending huge offset to the drivers. I can't use them in the moth 2a3 for that same reason, its DC coupled and can't handle the offset. Can be quite scary, I've heard stories of people blowing Reps-1 drivers over tube arcing, not good. If it is the amp's fault, there is a way to make sure it doesn't happen again. one side of the power switch can be wired to short the input tube's supplies to ground through a resistor, if it happens again let mikhail know so he can take care of it.

OMFG...drool...the pixies freaking rule! Even though I am more of a DCC/hoffman fan myself, I will take any Pixies remastered by anyone from the original tapes. I hope it is a hybrid though as I don't have a SACD player nor do I plan on owning one. Now if hoffman did some pixies on DCC or his current label Audio Fidelity, that would be fantastic, but I don't think it would ever happen. Steve does have a song writing credit on one of the pixies albums, bossanova, however.

Ouch, the output impedance into 32 ohms is awfully high, virtually no damping factor whatsoever. With RS-1's the upper bass is going to be bloated and the upper midrange spike might be a bit on the drilling side.

The GCHA has a soft, bland sound. The volume control is nice but that's about it. The whole advertising of unlimited resolution or what not is not totally accurate. The DAC is okay. Meier's stuff on the other hand is tits

Gorillaz in Chicago - before that, Radiohead Grant Park Chicago 2001

Most headphone amps are great preamps, even if you use an adaptor to run it from the headphone out. No need to build or buy a special cable, just go to radioshack and buy a 1/4 stereo plug to RCA adaptor (make sure the 1/4 plug is stereo, and not mono!). I used my EC/SS as a preamp with a cheap SS poweramp on loan before the moth came using that adaptor and my normal rca ic's, and the sound was fantastic. Most headphone amps have low output impedance, good current and voltage drive, and are low noise, which are great attributes for a good sounding preamp. Do you think you could clarify a bit more what you are trying to accomplish with your rig? What kind of speakers are you using? Do you want simplicity, a single box to do it all, or are separates okay? we could probably help you further if you were able to provide some more info on the direction that you want go in.