Everything posted by spritzer
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Quick question about my (new to me) KGSS
Ditto what Dan said, spray the contacts (which are inside the clear plastic housings, you need to clean all four sets) with a good contact cleaner like Caig DeOxit and then cycle through all the positions a dozen or so times. If that doesn't work then you might have a cold joint somewhere, probably at the input where the attenuator we replaced. The KGSS works well with the 4070/SR-007 so it is well worth it to have it running at 100%.
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Happy Birthday n3rdling!
Happy Birthday Milos!! I made you a cake but I eated it...
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Audeze LCD-2
I would have countersunk the screws but if these prove to be as good as they say it looks like a DynaFet is in my future.
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Happy Brithday, recstar24!!!!!
Happy Birthday!!! [url=http://www.head-case.org/forums/newreply.php?p=348560&noquote=1]
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slow forum
The comments are just nuts.
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Happy Birthday Dr. Gilmore!
Holy crap, has it been a year since I started a similar thread just to annoy Kevin? I'm glad Al's taking the heat this time. Happy birthday buddy and I can't wait for CJ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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The Quad thread
Dynamat the windows, sunshine fucks up the mylar anyway...
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The Headcase Stax thread
The fabric discs aren't supposed to be glued in, they should simply sit in the driver cutout. Also with the 4070, take care not to block the ports.
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I sort of want a pair of good closed phones
If you can find a matched quad of NOS Toshiba tubes then you would be golden but any of the Japanese brands are a good match with the Stax amps. Stax also used GE quite a bit in the 90's and they aren't half bad. The amp is pretty easy to adjust but the cheap pots Stax uses make it a bit of a pain. Still practice makes perfect.
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I sort of want a pair of good closed phones
717 would be my choice as it is basically a simplified KGSS. The 727 was a new design and not as good IMO.
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I sort of want a pair of good closed phones
The Mafia approves of this message. If you are hunting for used headphones in Japan Dinny, you might as well look for a used 4070 and install those lovely 404LE pads on them.
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Volcanic eruption here in Iceland
The problem is that we've never found a cool name for the volcano and it is still named after the glacier. Next door we have M
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The Headcase Stax thread
The mods to the 717 are minor in my book. I compared them on my SRM-T2 as a comparison and that comes with excellent input switching.
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The Headcase Stax thread
I'm working on a solution to that. Properly isolate the drivers from the rest of the wold and have spare parts like the o-rings (which won't last) and the screws easily available outside of Sennheiser.
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The Headcase Stax thread
Pure fucking BS along with his 717 ad stating his is a V2 unit which sounds better.
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Esoteric D70
I have fond memories of disconnecting those nice T-plugs at school and watch the whole network come crashing down.
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Esoteric D70
Nope, how about "Island mountains glacier" since that's what it means in a direct translation? There are always compromises and to be honest, how many commercial pieces out there are well engineered from start to finish? There is always something rotten, somewhere... That's exactly what my mind was struggling to remember.
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Esoteric D70
Try to pronounce it.... In all seriousness the connector used does matter in the same way a RCA plug isn't an ideal choice for the 75ohm of the S/PDIF coax. The BNC is actually 75ohm but for some strange reason many of the "audiophile" connectors are the 50ohm variety.
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What did you do today?
Sell them on HF as being moar burnin and make a killing.
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Esoteric D70
Wasn't there some talk about the XLR connector being a very bad choice for the AES/EBU standard and only chosen since it was readily available?
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The Headcase Stax thread
They weren't all O2 pads but it did include 10 pairs, 5 SR-Omega pairs and a bunch of Lambda, Sigma and SR-X pads.
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The Headcase Stax thread
How times have changed, I placed an order for almost 100 sets back in 2007 with no issue at all.
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Volcanic eruption here in Iceland
Somebody has to since Ray failed with his cRaptor v1 experiment.
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Volcanic eruption here in Iceland
We do have some trees, just not a whole lot and most of it has been planted in the last 100 years. We are still close enough to barren wasteland to have NASA experiment for the moon missions here back in the day. We have the geyser's to keep us warm, we burn stuff just for fun.
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The Headcase Stax thread
A bit of both I guess. I've heard the HD800 under better circumstances but it's been a while and I don't think the difference was this clear then. That said the ESX is far from the best amp I could have used so it made for a fair fight. Has anybody internal pics of this SPL stuff? They weren't up for some exploratory surgery on my part...