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This is a loaded question...with all things being equal and same quality balanced and singled ended outputs on the same dac the balanced is superior. This is almost never the case so a case by case basis really...

That was my point back then. There were and still are plenty of matched dual unit which are "cheap" and certainly easier to deal with for the noobs. Also here, this really wasn't a factor at all, let alone if the circuit had been done right in the first place. I do remember all the drafts (I think i still have many of them) where one was more silly than the rest. Then I bought the SRM-1 Mk2 schematic and sent it to Cavalli and then suddenly there was a working circuit. Guess what that 1982 circuit is also lacking...

It's impossible to tell what Stax are up to, even whether they have messed with the design yet again. I mean they were perfect or just about but since when has that stopped anybody from messing with a design?

I remember when they dismissed my comments about that back in the day, goes to show why the whole cult aspect of Cavalli was so stupid. Nobody called him out on his stupidity and lord knows there was a lot of that going around... Another bit were the input devices, needing to match those not just into pairs but to a specific range. How that was a good idea in a budget amp is beyond me...

We need more SS amps with output caps. Who doesn't like the sound of electrolytic caps in the signal path?

Go power bricks!!! We should post some of the internal pics of the SS-1 now...

Silicone Carbide... that's what makes it tick so...Carbon.

I think "yawn" pretty much nails the character.

I got mine from Trendsetter but it was a while ago. No problem using the LSK489 in most of our circuits and some other dual monolithic units will work just fine, just have to check the specs.

Anybody crying while listening to a HE90 should seek some professional help...

Indeed or LSJ689/LSK489.

It is a truly excellent series, one of the best I've seen.

I'd stay away from HP as well. I was in this boat a few weeks ago and I bought a Xiaomi Air 13.3 and I love it. It came with Chinese Win10 but I removed it and installed new Win Pro instead.

Hehe I can believe that. That's why I so want to get one without the built in amp and roll my own.

Yeah you are right. I'm drawing a blank as to where it was but it is on the phones. Might be inside on the sliders... The instructions manual is very heavy on the wank factor. I shot some pics of it and yeah...they basically made the new world order...

I think the serial number is on the top of the phones like the HD800 but I'm not sure. It is certainly in the users manual if that is sitting somewhere around the system.

The DAC output from the internal dac is super low so you might have been using that. Shame they won't allow you to bring a dac and your own files, I was allowed to do so.

I picked those at random as I'm going to do some matching today and see how they play out in the new boards. I'm also going to do different grades of matching if I have time.

I finally got to the post office and picked up some pins... Works perfectly.

It's been a while since I built something just for me but here is something old... So long story short, I was sent some boxes by mistake and the seller said I could just keep them. That also meant I had to find a project to put them. They were tiny 70mm tall boxes with sinks on the sides so an idea was born. It's been roughly 15 years since I built my first KGSS so why not make something to commemorate that..introducing the KGSS Klassik. So this was a pretty difficult birth, cramming the PCB's down to this size while using the same parts I used back in the day...was a challenge to the say the least and well, there is no space in the fucking chassis. So this is a bone stock KGSS like we did back in the day but with a few modern twists. Output resistors, 2SC4686A's instead of the C3675's but that's about it. The PSU is the new SMD version of the old KGSS design. As can be seen, this is a super tight fit and makes something like the KGSSHV mini seem spacious. It does work wonderfully but I need to do something about the Stax socket. So this one comes from the whole host of extension cables I've killed recently and often the threads on those sockets are just toast. So here I glued it in place with some crazy resin glue but it didn't set properly. Other than that, it is a cracking amp and not "that" much bigger than the SRM-252...

Nothing wrong with liking garbage, just look at SBAF and HF where people think Cavalli Audio made something that approaches high fidelity equipment. You liking doesn't change the fact that it is a joke product and the only reason somebody would compare it to the T8000 or the BHSE is its price. We've seen this before with the Woo WES, one out of three owners I've talked to thought it was the bee's knees but the other 2/3's...thought it was a broken piece of shit. So why would it be on the same par as the BHSE? Because it cost more... Like the Trilogy or not, I could not care less but remember one thing, this is the exact same circuit that Schiit thought was too bad to sell for 1k$ and their implementation was far superior.

I'm working on something similar with the T2 redesign. I think I'll just end up using two switches as the LV stuff runs the delay relay.

Not really but bias and the risk of damage is always linked to the drive voltages. So if you push the bias too high, you have to lower the drive voltages.

The GG psu is actually off ebay or aliexpress, the one that feeds the dac. At least in the one I was sent pics off. Too late now to bother finding the pics but I'll see about doing so tomorrow. The Amanero being from Italy is just precious. It's a cheap USB board from China, seriously...go on ebay. My T2 worked just fine once I completely redid the amplifier board. That is the curse of being the first to do something as you would know...ohhh wait, you haven't done anything, have you? As for my PSU's, I make them tiny, it's what I do. They also have this thing called regulation, you should look into it.