Clarkmc2

I haven't heard any that I like better than what I have already.

My old Marantz gear had a stereo/mono control for headphones. Mono would cut the separation to 10dB. It wasn't adjustable but it dealt with those bad old 100% separation mixes OK.

If this will get the people at Head-Fi to shut up about the Smyth Realiser, I'm all for it. Personally, the normal presentation of headphones only bothers me when a lead instrument is on only one channel. If you don't think about soundstage, your brain fills in the gaps anyway. All that said, would I like one of these? Hell yes, if I could afford it. The Smyth, never. If I want the exact presentation of my speakers, I'll listen to them. I LIKE the way my Stax OIIs sound.

Just waiting for the Photoshop mavens here to post shots of "Potent Cans."

The 6P14P-EV is also dirt cheap, plentiful and ultra quiet. -EB is the same tube, in cyrllic. (6 Pi 14 Pi EB more or less) But why am I preaching to the choir? Typing practice, I guess. For NOS fans, they are all NOS.

I find it encouraging that SemiSouth is actually interested in the "high-end audio" market for their devices. I had previously thought that the volume was much too low to put any effort into it. Perhaps Nelson might be doing us a favor in the end after all. SemiSouth might make more devices available on their own at some point. http://semisouth.com/archives/610 And yeah, those SITs were frighteningly expensive. I am no engineer, and I am still trying to wrap my head around how and why an SIT works. I read that the original Japanese manufacturers could not understand them either; they just made them to spec.

As usual, I must have everything backwards. Next Summer I'll get a case of Fuller's ESB. Nectar of the gods as far as I am concerned. I could drink it all year round. Always willing to learn! Or at least have a good time trying. But I have to admit that wheat beer really hits the spot for me in the Summer. Our climate here is similar to the DE.

Well, a friend likes Beyers as a preference to any Senns, whos house sound he finds sterile and uninvolving. Give him credit, he likes Stax better than either. I do thank him for selling me his old DT 311s cheap so I can listen to shit on my computer. German Hefeweitzen and strong hop character do not compute to me. Haven't had them all by any means, but when I want a warm weather thirst quencher hoppy is not what I am hoping for. If I want a meal in a glass I reach for Lion Stout. Rather have a Dupont Saison Vieille Provision over either, given the choice. Not that anyone could ever give a shit what I like. I'm surprised I care about what I think.

I'm about to test the small DIY waters by building a Gainclone. I need it for 8k HZ up in a biamp arrangement, and it is possible that T-amps do not do well with high frequencies. http://www.stereophi...er-measurements Peter Daniel was kind enough to advise me on how to massage it for the role. Still, for about $21 US at Parts Express the Lepai Tripath even has a volume control.

"There are Web forums, like www.Head-Fi.org, devoted solely to discussing high-end personal audio and headphones,..." News to me. The times I pointed out that it might be embarassing having the "headphone vs speakers" threads almost unanimously favoring speakers on the World's largest headphone site, on the high end forum no less, the answer was always "Head-Fi is not a headphone site and the high end forum is not a headphone forum." Has anyone else ever noticed that Head-Fi plays host to a lot of World class assholes? I especially enjoyed being berated ad hominem (for liking headphones at least as much as speakers) by a loud mouthed, rude neanderthal who was ranting on about how in the World a "one inch subwoofer" could ever deliver satisfying bass reproduction. With such knowledgable posters dominating the forums, what is not to love about Head-Fi?

As a matter of fact, there is a saying among long time vegetarians that chicken must be a vegetable. Whenever you tell someone you are one, they usually say, "You eat chicken, don't you?" I guess if corporations are people, ducks could well be vegetables.

cetoole, those are great looking plates. I would admire the food, but I have been vegetarian for forty years.

Perhaps something like the evergreen..."My legs are frozen. It's 20 below." "Thank goodness it's still 38 above."

Not my favorite rendition of "As Time Goes By," but fairly strong trumpet and sax statements I thought. A little corny by some standards, but "squaweky crap"? Reminds me of a friend hearing Robert Johnson's "Come On In My Kitchen" on the radio and asking me to turn "that country music off." To each his own. Like with amps. As someone said, it is immature to rip on someone elses choices.

I don't know if this will help, but SemiSouth has added a 1700v SiC JFET to its 1200v offerings. Maybe good things are ahead. Nelson Pass has been fiddling around with static induction transistors from the same company, designed to his specs. I have no idea when they might be generally available at an affordable cost.