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That was the joke

Has anyone here heard any of the Aesthetix IO phono stages? I will get to hear one against an EAR 324 this weekend.

JH retaliates with 29.2 UE releases 38.7 JH announces 42.1 Shure comes out with a full size headphone

From an objective point of view the HEV70 begins to clip at not unreasonable listening levels. It also gets overloaded with higher than 2-2.5 v output sources.

Franz Schubert - Symphony No9 (Tennstedt, Berlin Philharmonic) black triangle cd

Ah sorry. WRT to the MFSL thing, I don't ever remember disparaging one of their remasters TBH. I might have posted about preferring other versions to theirs, but mastering differences are so much more obvious than subtle source or amp differences to me. Especially when lots of funky EQ is applied.

Wow that seemed uncalled for It's pretty hard to listen to music when the left channel is 70% louder than the right and keeps cutting in and out. Oh right you weren't hearing what I heard.

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Yeah I have the Mullards as well, but no way to test them. The TS are coming matched and tested, so it eases my mind a little. All I have to do is set the bias.

Yeah they still work to some degree, I'm not taking any chances though.

Nope, playing some Guns N Roses finally did the old set in. I was listening to some of the Analogue Productions LPs a couple of days ago and the microphonics started to get worse in one channel then it started cutting in and out in the same channel (not completely though). Confirmed the same with the digital rig. It did the same thing today so I'm not chancing it with this quad and just replacing the whole set.

New Tung Sol EL34 quad. I should have kept a back up set of tubes, now I'm without an amp for a week unless I want to listen to dynamics

Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy vinyl, masterd by Chris Bellman (Bernie Grundman studios)

A review is up: Magnepan MG 1.7: Unqualified Triumph | AVguide

A bit late to see this, but congrats Wayne!

For an all in one unit, the Naim Uniti looks cool (CDP, integrated amp, ipod connection, radio, wireless). The specs say 90 wpc into 4 ohms, not sure if that is enough for Harbeths? edit: link- http://www.naim-audio.com/products/naimuniti.html

CDPs are so 90s

Aimee Mann Bachelor No2 mfsl vinyl

Indeed nice sound from these RL LPs. Miles Davis Quintet - Steamin' 45 rpm vinyl from this box

Bloody exhausting day. But not enough to keep me from enjoying some vinyl Hendrix - Cry of Love (US Reprise Bob Ludwig mastered vinyl)

Looks like an Oppo

Oh I am a fan of quality silver cables, I'm not knocking the cable. But I'm also skeptical that the drivers were tweaked (I'll believe it if Birgir says they are, he has modded a 404LE hasn't he?). My take is that sales on the current Lambda lineup were slow and they reinvented an old product to make some money. Creating a black enclosure from existing molds and replacing a cable is probably a lot cheaper for them than redesigning drivers. I'll have to disagree with Colin that there isn't much difference between the SRM-1mk2 and BH with the treble. I compared someone's SR-007 mk1 side by side with his SRM-1 and the BHSE, the BHSE had far more presence from upper midrange up. Not sure why the O2 was brought into this though, but it seems it always is when discussing Stax

Can a silver cable really polish the turd that is the 404?

Have a good one Luis!

Are the 404LE some fotm on headfi or something