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I've mostly stopped since my stomach can't handle it. Two weeks in Greece, downing a 700ml bottle of Stroh80 every day does that to you. Not that drinking two bottles of white wine in 80 minutes on Saturday did it any favors but I only threw up once which is pretty good. I even handled some 80% Absinthe rather nicely later in the evening...

Wait... you lot liked the He90 out of the BH? What on earth were you smoking... I have a hunch that the 4070 should be even more dynamic once they have been fitted with SR-404LE earpads.

It actually stands for "What the fuck, my ES-1 is fubar and I need a new amp..."

Happy birthday guys!!!!

Cool!!! Btw... I'm hammered!!!

The He90 is great but I ultimately prefer the SR-007 for everything. The SR-Omega is trying hard to be neutral but ultimately has a signature of it's own and is thus the half way point so to speak. Yup that's the N1000.

Good point but then the manufacturer is crap. Cue markl talking about stuffing pads...

We are throwing a friend his bachelor party today. We started off abducting him from home, dress him up in silly clothes and then made him stand on the middle of a round-a-bout with a sign saying "honk if I'm hot!" Then we had some brunch and went out to sea to try some fishing. I had to go to work for a short while but now I'm sitting at home trying to get drunk before the dinner tonight.

I'd say the SR-007's main character is to be unimpressive which is very impressive at the same time. They aren't trying to force some given "sound" down your throat since their character changes on a dime with the music they are playing at that moment. This is why the Mk2/A annoys me so much since Stax should have taken this design a step further and not introduced some, quite frankly, stupid colorations on what was a pretty much blank canvas.

Reflective Grado pads are about as bad an idea as messing with the dimensions of electrostatic earpads by even 1mm.

Once you've lived with a BH then those traits are easy to spot. I quite like them though and for the price the 717 is a steal to say the least. The reason for the sound has to be partially the PSU and that it is why I've been wondering about simple CRC psu's instead of fancy regulated units.

You should know that you might end up liking the 717 more if you prefer a bit of color in your life.

The Master is just a basic EL34 push-pull amp with a Stax socket/bias supply bolted to it. The signal is taken off the OPT primaries and fed through some caps/resistors before reaching the Stax socket. This is a great solution if you are looking for an EL34 speaker amp and just happen to have some Stax sets hanging about but if that isn't the case, you'd be better off with a dedicated amp.

My motives are nothing but questionable...

Ditto!

The caps and wires soldered to the PSU plugs are just precious. Desoldering them would take a minute or two, well if she even knows how to desolder that is. Same can be said about mounting the caps on a perfboard.

Just ask and you'll have some BH PCB's in the mail...

Happy Birthday!!!

Yup

It's great to hear that the amp is up and running again. Working on SP amps does give clusterfuck a whole new meaning...

To open up a SR-007 you simply pull off the earpads and loosen the screws in the black backing plate. That was the easy part, getting them back together isn't...

I'll also be making some different bias boards soon to use in the ES amps which will be adjustable plus have a voltage divider. Not as fancy as the DC-DC units but should be quite a bit cheaper and smaller.

I really like the cut up Uberbias board and the air mounted fuse connector. I really need to order up the parts for the Vulcan though...

Being OT is the HC way!! I got both the disk and the new drive from the Meridian distributor up here who ordered it directly from them. All you need is a null modem cable and the software Meridian have up on their site. It's been a while but I believe the player went from being V1.02 to V1.52 or something like that.

FIRE UP THE VULCAN!!!!! The bad part about Riken resistors is that empty feeling if they were to burn up...