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You will be put in charge of the plugs when the mafia starts to make headphones...

It is nothing but a marketing ploy but it's also so horribly transparent.

It is an interesting comparison if only to see how great the triode strapped EL34 is.

Yeah, headphone.guru, headphonia, what the fuck is trending this week are all the same inane crap. You wouldn't believe how many requests I've gotten for review samples of my amps and they all get the same reply, fuck off and never contact me again.

The SC-1 is similar from memory but I will get a new one soon. I've been buying all the important Lambdas recently with the entire stash still sitting in Japan. Then it will be time to build some sort of a display for the entire Stax collection.

Nova Signature or the original normal bias one fit that bill.

Tyll is indeed the sole one I'd trust. We may not always agree but I would never question Tyll's integrity. That can't be said about the other fucktards.

I just use a center punch to remove the pins but something like that would work in general. As for the glue, if you want them to stay put forever then use some polyurethane based glue.

This is indeed the problem with any publishing that relies on ad revenue alone, it is not in their interest to give a bad review. Makes one wonder if any of them can be trusted, seems to be the lowest common denominator which flocks to the reviewing circus.

Love the hi-res audio bit...

That is just weird. Never had that happen but the OPA445 is certainly not cheap so shouldn't even be possible...

Problem is that he's a fucktard and a shill so you can't take anything he says seriously. How much do you think Hifiman paid for that endorsement? That shit sure isn't free...

No idea really as my schematics are all packed up so I can't look at them. You would need to ohm out the connections inside the plug and mate the socket to that.

True but I have to check with full light whether I'm actually done.

McInstosh are good at doing what they usually do but I do wonder just how much Denon tech is in there.

I've used them as well and they do work well. Much cheaper too.

Good point...

This is what I looked like today after a two hour sanding session on the filler in the new living room ceiling... Yesterday marked the three week point since I got the keys and all I've done is tear down stuff. As of now it is just an empty shell... The kitchen is gone, the bathroom was ok so I left the tiles but ripped out pretty much everything else, all the flooring is gone and three of the rooms have new wood floors. This house was built in 1995 so I shouldn't need to be so extreme but hey, this is Head-case...

Except for the Oppo that reads like a list of shit one should try to avoid...

It is just a freak thing due to the age of the amp and the crappy circuit boards Stax use.

Very ghetto. I like it!!

I hope it has output trafo's otherwise it doesn't make any sense. Given that the tubes can only take 450V max (though at least one WE datasheet claims 400V max) and the rather poor grid to plate capacitance (15pf) this is probably the worst tube they could have picked for the job. I for one don't get the allure of DHT's in something like this but hey, the audiophools think they are the bee's knees...

The ground on the Dynalo is shared but for lowest potential I'd connect the ground to the PSU. Shouldn't matter though... Too tired to look up the datasheets for those but many single opamps will work.

Leave the - output floating and just use the +.

Could be but reading the whole thing it suggests that the amp is included. Dunno feels that way to me.