spritzer

Thanks for a great read. It's a shame that it resembles that Rudistor mess over on HF where we have one side arguing the facts as they are and the other arguing that it sounds good to them and such crap. They only need to start that magic nonsense... I loved to read the reasons why those very good SS designers build SS gear instead of tube.

A normal raid NAS would probably be cheaper then the Apple stuff and work better. The problem with the cheap controllers is that they are cheap and break down all the time. I do prefer to run a full time server though as it is bigger and has 2 PSU's which required soldering and a bit of metalworking to fit. That's beyond being funny... Dayton-Wright did do some crazy things with airtight dust covers and filling the drivers with some gas to lower the arc threshold.

Yup, definitely crazy, but in a good way.

That is an awful lot of work for what is basically a Vampire socket (Vampire makes the Xhadows). There are also the Furutech's to consider even if they are horribly expensive.

I used to have a few of them as they were in the boxes when I got some of my amps but stock cables never last long with me. They are either used for some of my crazy ideas or friends are to cheap to buy their own. They were included with most of the older amps.

Two are being sold soon so I'll be down to my bare minimum of 8.

I don't have hundreds...(goes to count)... I only have 10 now here with me...

It's clear that you can't understand just how bad my condition is. I have a friend that does custom furniture so it's no problem to have a bunch of stands made out of maple or some other nice material. The problem is that Stax has a stand so my collection has to stand on them even if it costs me more then 1k$ to do so. This is the main reason why I've been streamlining collection so it will only contain Stax (all of them), Senn, Beyer and the Koss ESP950 when I buy it.

I wish my collection was that organized... I have a glass display case stacked with Stax headphones and a few on stands but it's a horrible way to store them. Those Stax stands get real expensive when you need 35 of them... \

Real men buy a sign for their collections!!

Dynamics... Who needs'em?

Well I was talking about the electrostatic bias but the other one is easy. Didn't you ever bias the T1W when you were tuberolling it?

I'm waiting for Justin to come up with an electrostatic version.

I'm game as well... bow before the bias...

Amateur... Only 19 though... you need to do some more buying. I think I owned 17 Lambdas at one point though...

I think it is very likely that will happen soon. They didn't even bother to find out what was wrong with them.

Yeah. That was when I first ripped it apart for some cleaning and re-lubing.

Spritzer= Stax (electrostatic in general really) and tube fan-boy.

If you do go for them be sure to get enough C37 lacquer... While I agree with a lot of stuff that they do the magical lacquer just doesn't make any sense to me.

The fact that it needed to be replaced after about 1000 hours points in the other direction...

All the different variations of the top Sony transports were also widely used, JVC also had a great one and lets not forget the original Philips swing arm. It's sad that today we have the CD-Pro2 and some POS plastic drives. It does though I think it is the CD-Pro2... No matter as it is a massive die-cast beast.

The drive is actually 40$ but who cares... It's mediocre as it is designed to sound nice and not right. It will gloss over all the natural edges and present some blob of sound. When a TDA1451A equipped dac is capable of more resolution and a cleaner output I had enough and the G08 went on the 'gon. The player isn't all bad and I've heard plenty that are worse but it isn't in any way a step forward over some good vintage players. That is something my APL will fix or I'm taking a hammer to it...

He was quoting me. It's true that only some circuits can be made into opamps but that doesn't change the fact that their internal components such as the silicone caps will never beat a MKP cap. Still opamps have their place and I only object to their use in the high end.

The sound of the G08 is mediocre at best and the same goes for the 808. Meridian are simply trying to recreate in software what they they used to do with solid engineering and experience and are doing a crap job at it. The only good thing about it is the chassis work and clever use of damping. It doesn't surprise me that you don't care about good engineering as you like the RSA crap.

Opening it up only confirmed my suspicion that something wasn't quite right under the hood. Still I got it cheap and it didn't see much use the last years as I've been running a few DAC's and CDP''s that I've had on loan.