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At least they will only blow once to protect the fuse.... perhaps.....

Don't do it, just don't......! Even if you get away with it this time, it may embolden you to try it when the consequences may be considerably more severe. Good practice and habits should never be sacrificed on the altar of expedience, unless you know what you're doing or you don't mind the fallout.

As if there's not enough substandard goods floating around as it is. But, everyone likes a percieved bargain, even at the risk of getting stung. Hindsight is always 20/20 vision, except to the deluded or chronic cases of cognitive dissonance.

The best form of Beryllium http://www.minerals.net/mineral/beryl.aspx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryl

Top Darwin headphone contender:-

They're the new FrankenStax.....

They're waiting for Schiit to build an electroststic amp. vain hope.

How can I like Dave, when I don't even know him...?

Where's Tyll... Moar bass...? Sounds like the perfect mod for the HD800... Who says Sennheiser knows what's best for their headphones.... Or, even Stax, for that matter.... Get rid of the old guard, and slot in the new blood... progress at it's best....

All it needs now is edstrelow's sorb mod.... Stax should sit up and take notice.....

Yeah, GeorgeP had one for sale over at Head-Fi -

Bring on the sight-seers - feed them to the volcanoes..........

... and, if they're only just a rectifier tube which you should only get from Woo:- "Rectifier tubes upgrade 1: Takatsuki TA-274B single $965 (1 pc) with 1-year warranty Takatsuki 274B offer ultimate performance to any current production 274B's. Users have claimed that it exceeds the quality to NOS Western Electric 274B. The TA-274B sold in an individual package Click to see details." "Rectifier tube upgrade 2: Sophia Princess Mesh Plate 274B rectifier $160 (1 pc) with 30-day warranty To impact WA6's sound quality or for your super backup. Buy and ship independently. Sophia Electric™ 274B tube is a premium rectifier tube for a 5U4/5R4/5AR4 direct replacement with 3X longer plate structure, thus it has a deeper, wider sound stage and even smoothier sound than Mullard 5AR4" So, buy them up - and burn them out...... This,from the Woo site:- "Everything Should Be Made as Simple as Possible, But Not Simpler - Albert Einstein" Now you know why they don't bother with the 4.7M bias resistor......

The subterfuge didn't work.... Little does astroboy know that Birgir has a continuous search engine primed for any appearance of the word 'Stax' anywhere in this forum.

Looks like it's a autoranging meter and probably be better if you could manually set the range to the one lower. That is, if the meter allows you to set the range manually. Cheap meters are sometimes well out of spec when the range is too high.

... and then, turn around, and do the opposite of that....

Don't trust the measurements.........

Which one's mine....?

Cmoy Starving Student.....

That is, until Eyjafjallajökull decides to blow it's top and grace the passing planes with an unplanned holiday.....

Should be just in time for an upgraded YGGY..... !

They got a YGGY......

He was ahead of his time.....