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One man's sluggishness is another man's PRaT. But I admit I have difficulty swallowing the market price of the HP1000, which is one reason why I sold mine. A mint 51 empire cap set will run you about the cost of a HP1000, IIRC. However, I'm limiting my obsession to the cheaper SJ sterling capped vacs, modern Bexleys, and the occasional flexible nibbed vintage celluloid (I only have one now, a canadian waterman in a brown, arco-esque celluloid with a very flexible nib. amazing pen!).

yay zanth. Thanks for part two of the review.

I love my 840a, but it is the only integrated amp or for that matter speaker amp I've ever owned.

just finished season one of Lost. this is a great, great, great show. I mean it is just great.

I'm fairly sure I read somewhere on TTVJ's site that there are no returns on b-stock? And the PH-1 was B-stock. I was thinking I would just end up selling it on the gon later for not much loss. But now that I think of it I can't seem to find where it says this on the site, maybe I just made it up in my head.

I've written TTVJ to see if I can take advantage of their 30 day return policy to upgrade to a Sonata Statement. That way I'll have the Sonata in both HO and LO, and I can do a proper shoot out. I'm willing to bet I'll prefer the LO, even with the hiss from the PH-1. Listening to some sludge metal with the Reference right now though, sounds great.

if it wasn't for my horse, I wouldn't have wasted that year in college.

also I'm a douche bag for spelling zanth with an x. thanks for the edit.

I know that reading Xanth'sZanth's review really made me want to hear PS-1s. Also I concur with a lot of what he said regarding the GS1K. Of course I'm probably the only person around here who will say that.

Sure, the is for when somebody says something you don't understand. The , as far as I can tell, has multiple purposes, but it works well for a shocked or omg type of reaction.

Currently tracking the Grado Reference Sonata at 2.0g. Which is the maximum recommended by Grado. It now absolutely sounds like all the reviews said it would. Luckily I googled up a thread from the Steve Hoffman archives where someone was having similar Sonata troubles, namely a glaring midrange and occasionally peaky treble. They suggested cranking up the VTF. So I went from 1.5 to 1.8, and that made it better. So just for kicks I put it at 2.0. And the bass now goes crazy deep, and the midrange is finally lovely and liquid, without any of that nasty glare. I tweaked the alignment one more time using the Technics Baerwald Arc Protractor, and ran it through all the applicable tests on the Hi-Fi News Test LP, and it seems to be performing marvelously. Based on my experience with Platinum Statement, and also per GE's recommendation, I'd hypothesize that best way to go with a Sonata would be to get the low output Statement version and pair it with a powerful and dead quiet (solid state?) soundstage. I would love to hear a Sonata Statement with say a battery powered unit like the Sutherland Ph3D.

[me=postjack]squeezes mr. nice's belly[/me]

I've been trying to figure this out as well. So far as I can tell it has something to do with belly squeezes and midrange euphony.

http://www.kabusa.com/wirewin.htm I know a few DIY folks around here are fans of the Mogami cables. While browsing the KAB site I saw this. Not sure how long he has been doing it, but it looks like good cables at a good price, if all of one's DIY friends are busy with other projects. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

deepak = Captain English Christmas Boy

they hit their stride somewhere in season 2. i'm glad you are enjoying it, to me its just an amazing show.

AAD Lets break it down A - so far so good! A - still good. D - BAD which is why wave, FLAC, or 24 bit files won't sound as good as the master tape.

http://www.head-fi.org/forums/2261243-post1.html edit: scroll down to where it says "Part II" for the new part/comparison review a year and a half in the making. I think it is a great read, and everyone should take the time to look over it. Thanks Zanth for a superb write up, if you are every back around here.

Nope, not yet.

Yeah, looks fancy shmancy. Reports have been mixed regarding the quality of the vinyl itself. Some are getting flat, quiet vinyl, some not so much. But I've been on a lucky streak with new production vinyl recently, nothing but winners. Here's hoping it holds with this and In Rainbows.

Welcome to head-case, foo_me!

In A Frozen Sea: A Year With Sigur Ros - Limited Edition Vinyl Album Collection Includes Agaetis Byrjun, ( ), Takk, and Smaskifa; seven LPs encased in a hardcover book.