Everything posted by spritzer
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Foam deterioration
It was just me being silly. I usually say tube amps are safe if you don't try to lick them.
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happy birthday spritzers bakery
Thanks guys. Nobody knows the exact day the ovens were fired up for the first time but it was late August/early September 1834. A German baker was brought in to run the bakery (and it's named after him, Bernh
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It's Matt the Younger's Birthday!
Happy Birthday!!
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Audeze LCD-1 just landed!
Marc's out of luck then since I've already done so... Yup, I bought the one Philodox had.
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Post the last thing you bought!
Ouch but very cool at the same time.
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Post what you're watching
Check on dem der internetz...
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Foam deterioration
Licking does help...
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Audeze LCD-1 just landed!
Well that makes it all better.
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Audeze LCD-1 just landed!
Hmmmm wasn't there a B22 once that you blew up? I would start off at the crafts store with some felt or perhaps cotton.
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Audeze LCD-1 just landed!
They will become much brighter if you remove the damping (if I remeber correctly... ) so try some different types of materials plus a reflex dot instead of the stock wool. Steve did an excellent job with the Donuts so perhaps enlist him for this?
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Blue Hawaii Special Edition
Resistance is futile!!!
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Audeze LCD-1 just landed!
Have you tried to remove the damping? It will give you a baseline as to just how much can be done to the sound. I'd also put some Jena wire on them because it is teh bezt!!
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Foam deterioration
I think it just dries up with time, that is certainly true with the foam lining Stax uses. On old sets like the Koss ESP6/7/9 then the foam is nasty to say the least and destroys all it touches when it breaks down.
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The Headcase Stax thread
Yup You can do better for the price. A SRM-T1/Lambda Signature combo can be found for that price.
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The Headcase Stax thread
That's the PC-OCC model and Nate is wrong, they had had 5 pin Stax sockets for at least 6 years when this cable was introduced. I bought one of these new with my first SR-007 back in 2003 and they still had the 6-pin socket.
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Blue Hawaii Special Edition
Congrats to Vicky!!!!!! Damn shills overrunning this place...
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The Headcase Stax thread
If it is brown then you have the SRE-15n which does have have PC-OCC conductors and is a very nice cable. The reason for the different connectors on each end is simple, make one extension that fits both types of bias since Stax was selling NB phones until 1990 at least. This does mean you can plug the NB phones into a Pro outlet...
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Happy Birthday, archosman!
Happy birthday!
- Happy birthday, Riceboy!
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Blue Hawaii Special Edition
The 200mA fuses are for the power rails so these sit at 400v!! I should perhaps try these pig ugly red JJ EL34's that were included with my amp. Why would anybody make something this ugly... Ditto. The BH boards are up and running, fully dialed in and I only need to have some aluminum cut to make a chassis. Then of course Kevin presents the T2 PSU which would work perfectly in my BH...
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General DAC Questions/Tech Thread
Apparently understated looks are on their way out in favor of "MOAR LITGHZ!!!" so a revision is clearly in order. Ohhh and Dinny, don't buy the AudioZone Dac-1. It has only one LED (a tiny 2mm one) and no switches.
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Blue Hawaii Special Edition
I suspected you were up to no good so put the phones into one of the ovens in the bakery for a "reverse cryo" treatment before I even touched them... Those are beyond expensive due to their rarity. I've seen a closely matched quad go for 1300$... I've always liked the SED's best of the new stuff but they can't match even the RFT's. Have you tried either GE or Sylvania 6CA7's yet?
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General DAC Questions/Tech Thread
Ditto.
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Post the last thing you bought!
We really need to get to the bottom of that dam squealing issue. \ I've never seen the stock Koss bias supply but there may be some clues there... Excellent... The transformer scene is really heating up now with some crazy DIY stuff being worked on.
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The Headcase Stax thread
I don't buy it for a second. This all smells of the usual audiophile nervosa crap...