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Have a great day Colin.

Happy Birthday HC!!!!

The ones I use (I linked to them above) slice through Teflon like buttah. In fact I just finished some IC's made from Kimber TC wire and it stripped that teflon easily. Same goes for the Belden/Navship stuff. The last thing I bought would be some Neutrik XLR's for the aforementioned IC's plus some generic XLR's and a cheap microphone cable for a ghetto AES/EBU cable.

Direct translation is translation "Bun Day". Tomorrow we have "Eat until you burst day", when it is customary to eat salted meat until you can't possibly eat any more, and on Wednesday it is "Ash Day" where kids dress up in costumes and sing for people in exchange for candy.

Spent the entire weekend working 16+ hours a day making cr

20 extra volts will not damage the SR-007 or any Stax headphone. 700+ and they will start complaining...

Yeah, it wasn't much to write home about. Still if you have no amp then it is better then nothing.

We've found proof in the glaciers up here that the temperature has fluctuated a lot in the last 1000 years so perhaps this could be normal. Things certainly took a turn for the worse up here after 1350 with temperatures plummeting and we are finally seeing the end of that mini "iceage" now.

Those are the jumpers and you need to solder in some new ones, i.e. move the wiring from parallel to series on the primaries.

Now if Rudi released a 1k$ headphone that wasn't utter crap then he could get somewhere but odds are that it will be 6k$ and badly made. I sure hope not since graphite is a very bad choice for diaphragm coating (it absorbs moisture and is far from stable) but I just chalked this up to Fang trying to peddle his overpriced crap. One can just imagine how little the Jades cost to produce given the very cheap labor... You aren't too far off... My hands are certainly larger then average but removing the earcups from the forks was made even harder due to the crappy screws used. I had to drill out two of them...

Naaman's set was the one that went of the tour of HC, right? Did anybody like that headphone, the Texas crowd sure didn't. To me they sound nothing like the Omegas, just bad copies of the HE90. I remember seeing the 1.3 for the first time and thinking they were nuts for releasing something which was clearly fucking with the backwave. Surprise, surprise that they apparently sounded like crap. Perhaps there wasn't enough of that magic pixie dust in the drivers to make them sound MOAR better...?

I just watched it again and I love their bewilderment about the audiophile power cords and filters. I must say though that, while clearly nuts along with 1000 hour burn-in for CDP's, there is a lot of junk on the mains today. Have any of you looked inside the chargers/power bricks inside the various appliances or just ripped apart one of those "green" light bulbs? Truly nasty stuff there...

Ahh the ET1000, certainly one of my favorites. As for the Jade, one has to hold it to truly appreciate just how badly made they are. The wood is thin which would be fine if it was something like the wood used on the Orpheus (very dense stuff,milled to perfection and much thicker then on the Jade) but making the forks out of wood is utter madness. Now I normally don't care what something costs (as can be seen by my stubbornness to praise the Mk1 even when facing much more expensive transducers ) but value is always a factor for me. The Jade would make sense in a way if it cost 300$ but at 1800$ (hmm back to 1500$ now) it is just the same crap as Ray pricing the A-10 up there with the BHSE and WES so that is appears to be of the same quality.

I just measured the stock Stax headphone plug and they are 20mm across so the cable can't be much bigger then that. I'm in a similar situation since I'm dealing with a 10mm front panel...

I've never bought replacement wool but there isn't supposed to be any paper attached to it.

Those EAR amps are built to order and very rare. There are also some other direct drive amp from Germany but I forget what it was called. Also some from Holland too... The Quads like good, clean power. Class A monsters will work well give how immune they are to the load. It's not a good idea though to use an old ESL57 with a 25w+ amp if they aren't fitted with the clamp boards (which work in a similar fashion to the zener's Stax used on the transformer boxes). Old school Krell did sound very nice on some ESL63's and even a rebuilt 303 did a good job with ESL57's.

Nope, EAR made (makes?) a direct drive amp which is attached to the back of the speakers.

You do know that the ESL57's can be made active...

A large pile of aluminum cut to my specs. I'm going to give it a shot making an KGSS in my own chassis with 10mm thick front and side panels, 6mm back and 5mm top and bottom. Should weigh a ton...

Given the pics I have of the P1 it looks like there are multiple primaries and a simple ohm meter would be enough to figure out which is which. The P1u does appear to be limited to what ever region it is sold in though...

Some gainclone parts. Time to build a tiny integrated amp...

Good to know even if the dac will only be used for testing new amps. I had read somewhere that the opamps were some really cheap units but OPA77's is good news. I'll probably install some sockets though and try some 2604's since I have them at hand. All caps will be changed to Nichicon FG's. Now the only problem is getting the damn thing out of customs...

Happy Birthday and the Super Bowl is indeed tonight.

I'm thinking powder coated silver with black heatsinks and a silver top panel. That gun metal finish Stax used on the original would be very cool too...

It's a bit amazing just how tenacious the SP curse is, even my 100% rebuilt amp hasn't escaped it completely. Just about the only SP item I reused was some of the old wiring for the filaments. The only reason is that it is rather large and being solid core, can be twisted tightly and once fixed in place, stays there. The problem is the insulation though, it melts and splits even at low heat. So one of the times I fired up the amp this week I cued up the first song and half way through it got quieter and quieter until distortion crept in. Hmmm, I looked at the amp, all leds lit and so were the 7n7's but the EL34's were dark. All voltages tested just fine on the PSU so it had to be the fubar filament wires yet I found nothing wrong with them or my soldering. I moved the wires around a bit and the problem hasn't resurfaced in the roughly 40 hours the amp has been in use since then but the wire is clearly cursed...