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That'll be an interesting experiment, for sure. I've sat down with both amps and both the 007mk1s and 9s and while I agree with Spritzer that the BH beats out the "stock" 500V HV, they both sound amazing. To these ears the differences between them are pretty small. Its nowhere near the difference you hear when you go from a production level Stax amp to either the BH or HV. You really can't go wrong either way.

Interesting read, Marv. It's sad to see they are still having issues with the 3's after the out-of-the-park success they had with the 2's.

The most in-depth new iPad review so far: http://www.anandtech.com/show/5688/apple-ipad-2012-review TL:DR types can skip to the "Final Words" conclusion, but really the entire review is worth reading.

Whose BH did you end up with? Edit: Never mind.

On mine (32-BLK--AT&T) right now. Holy moly this screen is the truth. I haven't used an iPad since iPad 1 so this is a MAJOR upgrade.

If you are asking me about the mod, then no, I haven't played around with the mod yet. I've been meaning to try it.

^ Want to borrow mine? Someone else is borrowing it at present but I'll have it back in a week or so.

It looks like the same guy who started this train-wreck of a thead over there is actually going forward with his build.

32gb black AT&T. Been waiting for this one since iPad 1. It's a shame they appear to have missed out on the awesome coming generation of quad-core SOCs, but I guess that'll come next year.

Beautiful build, Spritzer. So how high is team overkill going to crank the current?

+1 Great read. It confirms a lot of what I've thought subjectively. Thank you for posting.

What an album. Stevie Nicks is a superstar, no doubt, but give me Chris McVie and her smokey alto voice singing with a minimalist arrangement any day.

If the CFA Exam wasn't the same day I'd be there for sure. I'm really going to be bummed out not getting to meet some of you. Oh well, hopefully we'll be able to have another mini-meet of Stax heavy hitters sometime before June 2nd rolls around.

It might also be helpful to have Kevin's voltage and current measurements in this thread as well. Reposted from the other site: Voltage More added later Current

That'd bring the HV into essentially parity with the T2 as far as output power, right? Wow.

See Kevin's post here: http://www.head-fi.o...voltage-ratings

I finally had a chance to compare my KGSSHV (500V version) with Kerry's KGBH with both 009s and 007mk1s. Our testing wasn't all that stringent, but in what was a very close race the BH won by a nose. Maybe its the extra current (18ma @ 400V vs. 5ma @ 500V) but Kerry and I both thought that the BH drove each of the headphones with slightly more authority. While the BH sounded a tiny bit better, its immediately clear that both the KGBH and KGSSHV are a big cut above the production level Stax amps.

Heh, I think you are correct. It looks like something google translate spit out.

Happy birthday to everyone's favorite Admin!

Happy Birthday, amigo!

The nice thing for beginning Stax buyers is that the used market for amps is seemingly on the verge of being flooded with all the amps people have been using while waiting (in vain?) for Justin's giant BHSE allotment. Kidding about the vain part, but seriously... most of his buyers seem to have amps currently that they aren't going to see much use for once the BHSE comes around. If I had any extra Stax amps I'd try and move them now before the surge comes. If I was looking to buy... well... I'd say three, four months from now used prices on amps might bottom out.

Thanks, Spritzer. Keep us posted if you find a track. When you give the 009s some time try listening more on the quiet end up the spectrum as an experiment and see if they can fight their way to more time in your headphone rotation.

Mini-meets, my good friend. I've always lived in/near major metropolitan areas so I've usually been able to find people who have the gear I want to check out. That way I can bring my own headphones/source/music/etc and listen in as controlled an environment as is practical. The other thing is I've been able to identify other people with whom I almost always agree with in terms of taste. Pretty much all of them are over here and not at the other site, natch.

If you guys are looking to go higher end than the growers listed in catalog on the Crushpad website then I may be able to help. My best friend's Dad owns a substantial vineyard (>100) acres in Calistoga (north part of napa valley) and grows all of the red varietals needed for doing a meritage-type wine (Cab, Merlot, Cab Franc, Petit Verdot, etc.) as well as a number of white varietals. Their vinyard sells 80% of their crop each year to other wine makers and bottles the remaining 20% under their own label. To give you an idea of the price/quality, their buyers include Caymus, Phelps, and Lewis Cellars. Price might start to become prohibitive buying from them (>$60-bottle for the finished product) so it'd probably be best to head in another direction but I thought I'd throw that out there in case your other alternatives don't work out. On the other hand, if you want to make something of fairly high quality and the $60-$80 per bottle price point isn't totally prohibitive, then I might be able to help out.

You wouldn't happen to have a music file or sound file that you've heard this effect on, have you? I'm going to be able to compare my 009s with 007mk1s at a mini-meet in the in the near future and it'd be interesting to see if we can recreate the effect that you are hearing.