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The HD650's sounded great with the McAlister PL10 I auditioned [as well as with my own amp], though I would wait until he standardizes his design and builds up a stock of amps as this will probably translate to better build quality. Still, for $699 you can't go wrong...

I really don't give a fuck, so don't start arguing with me... but this is pretty dumb.

My Wife is a total handbag queen too... loves shoes as well. It is the only way I justify my audio expenses and D&D books.

Sounds like the Alessandro's would be a good match in that case, though I can't say that I have any experience with them straight out of a X-fi...

Welcome to Head-Case. What sort of music do you listen to? What will you be plugging these headphones into? iPod, reciever, soundcard, etc... I would put the Alessandro MS-1 and the AKG K81DJ on your short list as well for that price.

Merry Christmas guys.

Still have yet to hear them...

I think you mean, "Too bad Audio Technica is poop." Yeah, that's it.

Dammit.

Any performance loss in Oblivion is unacceptable! BTW. If anyone has a decent dual core A64 [socket 939] for sale, send me a PM. I just found out that Oblivion takes advantage of dual core processors... and me, using a 3000+ still.

Talk to swt61 [steve] from head-fi as I know he is ordering some AKG parts for a friend of mine.

Didn't I tell you about it? Shit... well, it was sort of last minute. You need to give me your phone number again. I have VoIP now.

Myself and two other head-case'ers had a listening session this sunday just past. I had a great time forcing all my music down their throats, and they seemed to enjoy themselves. I gave Micah [Redleader] my headroom hat as it doesn't fit my massive head. The picture of Nick [datamorph] didn't turn out all that well due to my poor camera skills... man I need a tripod. Here is another one of Nick that was taken with his ghetto camera. He had to beat the crap out of it to get it to turn on and it was making weird noises. NOTE: I'm not sure if datamorph is registered here, but redleader is I believe.

Well, yeah, but that's not really the same thing is it. Any idea if I would see performance losses over just running the game on XP? It has been a while since I messed around with any of those emulators.

Damn you people and your cool ass jobs. I flipped when I found out what NeilPeart does for a living... and he's younger than I am!!!

The couple times that I've went on a Linux kick I used Debian... but something like Ubuntu is probably better for a first timer. As for Linux being able to do anything that XP can, I suppose that is true from an application standpoint. But you can't play oblivion.

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Yeah, that is pretty much what I heard with the Planet as well... it looks like their newer players are quite a bit different though, so I am interested in trying one out at some point.

Yeah, its not working for me again...

Build me something Nate!!! Your PM box is full!!!

Sure... now that you've fixed it it's working!

You can get your headphones recabled with female XLR's, but I would use adapters if I were you in case you get a balanced amp down the road.

Thanks for the impressions Jamie. I think the output caps are probably the cause of the flabby bass with your PS1's. Is your amp transformer output? That might be a good idea, but don't sweat over it... I am sure that after I talk to Peter it will be a week or two before the work is done. Not in a huge rush anyways since I am loving the amp even in its current 'half done' state.

Yeah, I don't think any of the impressions from that meet are really accurate as it has changed quite a bit through burn in. I also got some new 6GU7 tubes and guess what... EARL WAS RIGHT. Listening to a matched quad of Sylvania 6GU7's right now and the bass has really tightened up. Haven't given the RCA's a spin yet. I will probably have Peter finish the amp in a week or two... just waiting on a couple jacks to come in the mail. PS. My new key start power switch [rated at a higher voltage] just arrived from KG... thanks Kevin!