postjack

you kind of have to constantly monitor and participate in the "what are you listening to" thread. its really hard to just browse it trying to find recommendations.

well for that amount you could get half a b52, which can power any hadphones to very loudlevels of volume.

baloney sandwich

fuk dude, i crakt your wep like 5 mins after you had it up. i got all up in your mainframe w/ vrius in ur bios now, haha!! now u cant browse anymor musci.

That happened to me with NYPD Blue a couple weeks back! All of Season 3 was queued up and available "now" but they skipped right over all of it and sent me 7th disc in my queue.

so now that we've got that out of the way, how do you like blu-ray chekers? i'm not a big video guy, so I haven't tried it out yet.

I liked the HP-1000 with the Melos, but I liked it with the Dynahi more.

acute anxiety?

If its half as entertaining as its prequel it'll be a worthwhile read.

for <$50, I can do this. just bought it. type to get my mahler learnin' on.

No longer a rumor: http://www.sa-cd.net/search/mahler+bernstein+smej/1/1/1/1 Japan SACDs, pricey. Looking forward to these!

The funny thing is once I get it all together I'll only be using one input, XLR's running from the loop out on the beta22.

thats actually jacob on the cover there.

Hopefully this belongs in the speaker forum. Finally arrived after a long ordeal with Fedex: It looks great with the rest of the family: Ah, all that black and blue looks snazzy! Silver dynahi sticks out like a sore thumb. No listening impressions, because of course I have no speaker wire. :'( Still, it is a substantial unit, quite heavy. It definitely turns on, which is a plus. The volume control makes a fun clicking noise. So in other words its already worth the asking price, sound be damned.

seriously, anyone looking for more HBO goodness check out The Wire. I've got season 2 queued up and ready to roll, this show is addictive.

i love the internet! i honestly had no idea about the chocolate rain video. obviously I need to spend more time on the internet. [me=postjack]puts in his two week notice[/me]

can i get mine in canary yellow?

If I get to eager to hear the speakers while waiting for higher quality speaker wire to come in, I might borrow the cheap wire from the rear satellites in my HT just as a stopgap. Then I'd be able to compare and contrast later.

I feel foolish for thinking it might be unimportant. Seems obvious when you put it that way. Live, listen, and learn. Thanks all, Nate is helping me out some more back channel.

thats sweet as hell.

true. might end up being more trouble then its worth. but they must make balanced phono stages for some reason.

does the raptor get loud?

Okay, just kicking around an idea here. Kevin at KAB does a Cardas rewire terminated in a 5 pin DIN phono plate. I emailed Kevin and asked if this was a truly balanced connection for use with a balanced phono stage. His response: "That is the one single advantage of the din connector. carrying a balanced connection from the cartridge to the preamp. it has 5 pins. + - right, + - left, and a sheild. RCA's cannot be used for that, of course your phono stage must be able to accept that kind of connector as well." ...so I could get this done to my TT, and run XLRs to something like the Aqvox Phono 2Ci MKII Balanced Phono Preamp, and then of course the balanced amp, and I'd have myself a fully balanced vinyl rig, correct? I'm sure someone in headphoneland has balanced a vinyl rig, anyone have any recollection? I just figure if I'm going to balance my digital rig I should at least research the idea of doing the same with vinyl.

I feel you here. The reason I'm going for the beta22 is a) the dynahi made me a believer in what solid state can do and there isn't a non-custom tube amp available that can properly power all my headphones. Which means I would have to do a custom job, and at this point in my headphone career I'm not willing to drop that kind of money. Also its a plus not having to deal with tube headaches like when they blow up your RS-1 , and not having to drop major cash on spendy nos tubes. Like I said in my Dynahi impressions a little while back, dynahi ss is still ss, but its superb ss. I believe the beta22 will offer me even better performance then the Dynahi, plus I get to go balanced with it. but hey, tubes are tubes, and I still love 'em. One day I'll make my way back...