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Looks marvelous!

To me there is a neutral, and it exists only in the HP1000. as for the D5000, I listened to it out of a Maxxed Headroom Desktop and just went apeshit over it. The next day out of Drew's Cary thing I wasn't as impressed. So it could've been the amp or it could've been me.

Hey dom, jjhatfield/Jack here from HF. I bought your SACDs at Canjam, and now all I need is an SACD player. i thought you were supposed to be buying an HP1000?

i'm pretty sure they both mean the same thing. I think "driver" is just the term that Stax uses to describe their amps. You might also hear about "adapters" or SRD-7s, which are basically something you hook up to a speaker amp that converts that power to something a Stax earspeaker can use.

hehe. a mite out of my price range.

i'm leaning heavily toward the krell. if its good enough for KG and justin, it's good enough for me. there are plenty for sale on agon, but i'd really prefer to get one in black. I'm watching agon pretty closely, but if anyone sees one come up in black give PJ a heads up.

24" here, though of course the leftside ads are a bastard on my iPhone, but I'm SOL there. still, i'm glad I learned about RIP in this thread, i've been playing with it.

6 tickets to B.B. King & Willie Nelson at The Wharf in Orange Beach, AL, July 26 2008. $78 a piece after fees. ah well, I guess if I look at it like I'm seeing two headliners I only feel mildly screwed over. I remember paying $33 to see Metallica when I was 15 and thinking how outrageous the price was.

NO. FUCKING. WAY! ITS THE GREATEST DAY OF MY LIFE! no serum can cure all the pain i've endured from crack to rap to back to selling it raw :dance: :prettyprincess: HAPPY BIRTHDAY X&1!!!1

BHSE hater!! burn him!!!

hate to do a recommend what I own type of thing, but the 840C is the most feature rich mid-fi digital source out there. Proprietary DACs that upsample to 24/384, digital input, CD transport just in case you want to spin a silver disc, XLR and RCA outs. And perhaps its biggest aural strength is that it does get the highs right. Its a pure win for mid-fi'ers all 'cross the head-case, as many happy owners will tell you. $1350 new, <$1000 used.

the menace made grados as gradoey as i've ever heard them. i agree that it is a midrange beast, but i'll add that its a bass beast as well. it gave both the iHF-1 and RS-1 so much body. just really super lovely.

dunno. i'm pretty sure it still uses the scd-1 transport, but I can't be sure.

Yeah, and the msrp of the Cary went up $2500 after they fixed the transport issues. Seems to be a pattern amongst sacdp manufacturers. The Cary uses the SCD-1 transport, as I'm sure you all know.

thats a fine question to ask. i'll commence the research. there is one on audiogon write now for $1600 with just shy of the full warranty left. seller says he'll help the buyer send it in if there are any issues, but who knows where the seller will be in a year when the transport kaputs. it seems like the best you can get service wise on SACD players are from the likes of John Tucker and Dan Wright.

congrats! poking around the internet, the krell of course has had its share of transport issues, up through the MKII version. MKIII everything seems to be fine, since they are using a completely different transport. Everyone seems to love the sound though.

grats deepak!

bah! now i'm getting pressure via IRC to go for the krell.

fukn madjix yes!! this topic is got way OT and and the unreasonable but dreamy and seductive part of me just wants an SCD-1 again. bah.

yes is magicks

acomdata PDHD1000USE-72 1TB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache USB 2.0 / eSATA External Hard Drive from newegg. out of HD space again. this will be my first 1TB drive.

Good decision!

EMS will ship fine to Israel, but that's beside the point here. No point at all dealing with a non established member if its makes you nervous.

Sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of trey urinating in my ear.

I've been using eac for all my burning purposes since my last post in this thread. It works perfectly, never a bad disc.