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I do seem to recall somebody talking about something similar but I'm not sure who...

Oh crap!!! I'm not worried though since Ray doesn't even know what a CCS is... and he sells tube amps...

Besides very light electrical wiring which is perfect for planes, rockets etc?

Very cool but looks like it suffers the same LF problems as plasma.

To some extent yes.

Yup, it's the BH that I'm talking about and if it was supposed to be known it would be on the official schematic.

Just in case anybody missed this on the other site, the story of the Mullard Blackburn factory Me loves my XF2's...

Craig is a great guy but the prices for the R10 are way out of hand. Have any of these people ever heard of speakers?

Very hard since most of the amps sold on the market don't function correctly, eat tubes for breakfast or even damage the headphones. I know of at least two Blue Hawaii's that have gone up in flames and even if you can get it to work, it isn't running at 100% since the schematic isn't complete and lacks some very important bits. The Gilmore 0A2 amp would be much easier to build and just about anyone can build an Egmont (except Rudi that is).

Soldering of SMD parts will be the tricky stuff as casework is more annoying then hard. I would recommend a good drill press though and good drillbits to start off with.

Yup, at something like 6-700$ for the Koss system new it is a screaming deal even without the lifetime warranty. The BQ isn't that bad and I'm sure we know some woodworkers that could turn them into a HE90-like contraption...

The Koss may look like a cheap piece of shit but its build quality is good enough and far superior to the He60 where it actually counts, i.e. driver coupling and how the drivers are constructed. Both are far from perfect though...

Does the razor require any burn-in and wouldn't a 5+ blade unit be better? U know koz moar iz bettar!!!

My guess would be that Marc is right on the money but asking Ayre would be the best route. Since we are dealing with a real high-end company they will discuss their designs and can stand by them...

I'm not sure what amp that is but it's not a T2, since there are no tubes anywhere. It does look like it originated from this site though I can't find it there... It's the engrish version of me....

All ESP's I've had love the BH except for the He90 since it shines a big, fat spotlight on all of its flaws. As for them being easy to drive, all those comments came from the same crowd that thinks that the He60 is easy to drive as well as the 4070. Couldn't be further from the truth... The only technical specs on the 1.2b is the bias voltage of 600v and since the Stax adapter doesn't have any inline resistors then the charging resistor should be in the 5M range.

A markup that high is sure nice to have and the idiots willing to pay it.

Have a great day, fellow nut!

There has always been expensive hi-fi equipment (old JBL speakers, Marantz amps etc.) but they were expensive to make so that was reflected in the price. Now it's just a matter of shiny boxes with no engineering merit what so ever to see how much the idiots are willing to pay.

That's what I think as well. We can see this here in the headphone community where price is the ultimate benchmark and most of the MOT's are imbeciles. The UK does have a few brands left and Sugden is amongst them.

While Lamm is pure and utter crap they are just one offender on an ever growing list. I do wonder if a company with the mentality of Quad in the old days would survive today with sane prices instead of this absurd crap.

Found the pics of the Lamm. Scroll down...

Take a look inside the 100k$ Lamm amp and fall over laughing. Hammond transformers are good but not that good...

Sure looks like it. Those small brown electrolytics could be Nichicon or Nippon-Chemicon which are used in the Stax amps...

Just to be clear... those are silver Tango transformers. The stock versions are very expensive let alone something like this...