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The Trends UD-10.1 also has AES/EBU along with RCA, BNC and Toslink.

Throw some led's underneath them and I'm sold!!!

I think it is just for looks alone to reflect the light off the tubes through the glass. I really don't get why they have all the preamp circuitry at the front and the PSU stuck in between. Color me crazy but I like short signal paths.

I'm more then ready for a new Senn HE but I'm not optimistic though...

Cool. Many have used Gamma headbands with the SR-X to make them comfortable but I'm all for Alex offering an alternative. Do you know if he'll be doing custom earpads too as there are some of use crazy enough for that. I'd love some real leather pads for my SR-Omegas.

He's also using Speakcon connectors for the umbilicals which aren't designed for these voltages. They can take them though but there are so many other options which are probably cheaper too. On the KGSS amps I built a few years ago I used the Powercon connectors which are very similar but one was blue and the other one gray with the sockets to match. Today I'd use the same connectors as Justin is using on the BHSE. He's referring to KG (probably due to my pulled thread listing the ES issues and KG's offer to repair a few amps) and it was KG who told me. I wasn't claiming that there wasn't anybody willing or able to repair SP amps out there as I was merely pointing out that KG wasn't willing to do so without dragging his name into it all. I should have included his name in the first place to eliminate all confusion but the fact is that no one has stepped forward and said, "I'll repair SP amps". You may very well find somebody to do so locally but not everybody is that resourceful. As for why this issue of unrepaired amps matters, well many have been sent in for repairs and Mikhail has done nothing. Kane's was probably the worst case, shipping the amp all the way from Africa, having the amp held hostage by Mikhail for months on end and then sending it back without fixing a single thing. If somebody did that to your car then you would probably sue them but the amp can cost more then a car and is many orders of magnitude less complicated.

Did he put any padding in the headband while he was at it? The SR-X is a great design but comfort is... uhhh... lacking.

The parts would be here in a month the earliest so I'm letting it cook for now.

In the post he pointed to the individual being a respected designer so while the guy that sorted the amp out of Purk is willing to do repairs, he wasn't referring to him. Any competent repair guy that knows about tubes can fix SP amps as the basic schematics are all out there. As for those 13 stepping forward, you know damn well why that will never happen. I've asked most of the individuals that contact me about issues with any component to come forward and tell others about it but they all fear retaliation. The best way for those people is to offer them a way out by posting the contact information of somebody willing to repair their amps. Btw. JP, your post is spot on

It did a bit better running overnight but it's still thin. I'm letting it cook now on my Shigaclone but I opened it up again and there are only 4 BG's in this unit. I'm thinking about swapping all the other caps for Elna Silmics.

While it certainly isn't a secret what transistors Justin is using now I'm not really sure why he would release the schematics.

There isn't a list of broken amps somewhere but I'll tell you the back story of those 13 I mentioned. There is an ES-1 for sale over on HF and in the listing the seller says he knows of an individual in the US that will repair SP amps. There is no truth to this but it's not hard to work out who he's talking about and last I heard there were 13 owners that had asked for help with their units.

I'm not talking about the Benchmark DAC1 but the AudioZone Dac1... I know, get creative with the names people!!! That is a very mellow NOS dac but with excellent bass for its simple design and a surprising amount of detail.

I do hope that it will change as of now it doesn't stand a chance compared to the DAC1 which has been running 24/7 for a few months now. Congested soundstage which lacks all depth, the bass has improved a little but not by much and the top end is edgy and all round nasty. The bass also lacks definition and is very "dynamic" as it just thumps along. I did take a peek inside before I fired it up and I can see some Silmics in its future. I'll also have to wire up a power led for it as it is missing.

Good to know... It's BS though as the writer was taking part in one of Iceland most popular sports, tricking stupid foreigners. According to this we would also have shitcreek.

I did buy it a while ago but it just arrived, a NOS Museatex bitstream fully modified. I just dropped it into my computer rig and after running for only a few minutes there is something very wrong with the bass as it goes deep but has no bloom making the sound thin. It may need to warm up though and the power and digital cables I'm using are also new (from Moray James) so it could be them. I'll let the whole thing cook for a few hours and see where I'm at. I'll be opening it up soon so expect pics in the usual place...

Being very drunk helps enormously. We also eat some rotten flat fish but I never touch this stuff... I much prefer some Domino's. One joke though, What do you do when your lost in an Icelandic forest? You stand up

Yup, h

I'm sure that you are right as (if I remember correctly) the maximum voltage swing of the H2 is 200v but they require a lot of current instead.

They say that about Iceland too though it's more like 3 minutes.

...or you could just run it off the BH.

I haven't read the article as there is only one audio publication that is worth paying any attention to, the rest is crap IMO. I'm drawing my conclusions from having lived with a few ML's (back in my speaker days) and having quite a few friends that do own Logans and are happy with them. I've also worked on them, replacing panels and the like. I'd love to be able to tolerate the Logan's as they are cheap and look good but they simply aren't good and the design sucks, even in comparison to granddad, the ESL57. It's my opinion and it is based on my knowledge of ES technology and studying how their speakers are built. If you like them, that's fine but never claim that they are well designed or built as that is a load of BS.

It is indeed sad and he's been asked time and time again to clean up his act but he never listens. He's also found the common weakness of all audiophiles and exploited it mercilessly i.e. a lot of upgrades promising better performance and charging a bundle for them. I couldn't care less about Mikhail but I do feel bad for the customers as their amps might become worthless (or very worth very little) on the used market. They could be fixed though and converted into something much better but it will require a lot of work and even more money.

Asking him to take a look wouldn't be a bad idea. All the SP designs are out there so the schematics are easy enough to come by if he doesn't know them already.