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With the modded SR-404 gone I needed a new project and seeing how a Mk1 SR-007 sounds with the Mk2 pads would be an ideal choice. I even took some pics of the installation... I've never installed a fresh set of Mk2 pads before and lets just say it is a fucking pain!!! The vinyl is too thick and not as easy to handle as the leather on the Mk1 pads. I've used them for only a few minutes now but there seems to be some extra bass and no issues that I can detect.

The BH managed to clear up some of the diffuse nature and lessen the overhang in the bass but nowhere near acceptable levels to me. Off the same amp I preferred my lightly modified He60 since it added less of it's own character. Then it's been said that I'm a picky bastard that's hard to please... Us island folk are naturally superior. Being shaped by bad weather, isolation and an unstoppable need to drink alcoholic beverages just makes us better. Moar better even...

They most definitely don't sound the same on all amps but their character is so overwhelming that the amp has much less of an impact then say with the Omegas, 4070, Sigmas, Lambdas, ESP950 and the list goes on and on... I for one could have lived happily with the HE90 off a T1 amp when it won't do justice to anything other then the oldest Stax phones. As for Jude liking the RSA "sound", there is obvious bias and that "review" appears to me just as a sales tactic to help Ray. The simple fact is that Ray is after the wrong crowd to push his crap onto and the A-10 won't sell. Just look at how many Rudistor Egmont/Cirolan amps there are on HF as a guide. Not even the mainland Europeans buy that crap and rather have DIY amps made.

Wow, people gushing about the He90 on first listen... where have I seen that before? The phones have that "Wow OMG" effect regardless of the system they are used in. The HD800 should be a winner if it isn't as damn diffused as the HE90 and has more bass control. I'll know soon enough though...

Congrats and the SR-003 is a cracking little headphone.

Yup... ...and yup. Justin posted a link to a TubeCad article that tackles this very issue. There are ways to minimize the effects on the circuit but the "fixes" are way beyond anything we've seen Ray do before and it would be far better to just use some other circuits. There isn't exactly a shortage of circuits to steal...

I've got to keep this short but in essence the SRPP design and tubes used are both utter fail. The tubes will either be run far out of spec (so they won't last long) or this amp has the lowest output power of any amp, bar the SRM-212 (and it's variations) and the portable Stax amp. Now he could use output transformers but the SRPP circuit still will not like the reactive and capacitive load present. Now take price into account and that you can get the new Woo amp plus a SR-007Mk2 for the same price as the A-10 and the Woo uses the same or even better parts.

I feel very sorry for those four unfortunate souls.

Better then the T-50... or is that a sore subject given the flames involved?

Spoken by a true member of team arcy sparky

I fired a PSU doing that earlier this week so be careful!!

That is Kim's (peeradonn) amp unless somebody else bought all those heat resistant tube dampers. That means there are 2 amps out there and there are probably some other poor souls that were fooled by the grainy pics and stupid Latin inscriptions.

He might get some sound from the transformers but that isn't good performance by any means. I'm also not sure the M3 will like the low impedance all that much.

We can just write the A-10 off right away as SRPP circuits simply aren't suitable for driving electrostatics properly, even if people with zero experience claim they can. We all know what effect the HE90 has on people that have no experience with 'stats and the He90 is also one of the easiest headphones to drive. I've always preferred the HE90 with AC coupled amps or some that aren't as brutally revealing as the BH. With that in mind then I'd stick with the Aristaeus or try out the Woo. You could even ask Justin to build you a bling Aristaeus with some Mundorf caps.

They were really ahead of their time with that gas idea. Soundlab is just catching up with their teflon coated diaphragms. So.... if we used those chips then the amp would be mil-spec? Sounds like a plan!!

Has it something to do with the penguins?

There is a reason why we always see the same tubes used over and over and over and... , designers usually don't like to venture outside of the beaten path.

I just realized something, this amp looks a lot like the first Stax SRM-T2 prototype: That's simply brilliant! Perhaps the Stax mafia should change it's name to the Arcy Sparky brigade. Ps. This brings back ford memories of yesterday afternoon when I watched 2000uf@350v explode a few inches in front of my face, messing up my vision a bit and burning a hole in my table. Blah, wimps!! Just replace the air inside the drivers with some of the stuff Dayton-Wright used and we'll be fine.

Congrats and as for the Bose, I spent the day trying to get something acceptable out of the Bose system in the Cadillac Escalade my dad is trying out. It simply can't be done...

You might be onto something there. That's why the SR-Sigma 404's sound so great compared to the stock SR-404, I had to reverse the drivers. Same goes for the old Sigma drivers in the Lambda housing. Now why didn't I think of that...

I'd recommend licking them instead... the wires that is.

But, but... you are a company?!?! Marc-E-marc Audio and don't you forget it!!

Sometimes and I'm crazy enough to D/L the same crap twice without noticing.

What makes this even worse is that I'm limited to 80gb a month. That's just 70+ 720p shows...

I can't see any drawbacks here. Moar powahhh is king.