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Hang in there guys. Once they are on antibiotics they seem to kick in fast. Both my sons get ear/sinus infections (even at 18 for oldest). Then my wife will get it. Me, never for some reason

Continued on and made second mistake on a -42dB one... oops I didn't try any of the others.

Did the pop music w/HD201s and made first mistake on -45dB.

Much of the verbiage on the Burson site, as well as the Audio-gd site, is audiophool bullshit. Burson dismisses opamps for being based on a single silicon strata, which in reality is as much of their advantage as is their disadvantage. Use of a single strata can accomplish much tighter thermal bonding, and achieve much more closely matched device characteristics than is easily accomplished in a discrete design. I'm certainly not adverse to discrete designs; it is what I use in my CD player for I/V rather than opamps. Touting a discrete device, essentially based on opamp topologies and yet not documented (specifications) thoroughly as any opamp would be, as being the ideal component for any opamp application is asinine.

Interested, but kinda blowin all my play money right now on another dyna creature.

Well, it was a good game, marred by some really stupid penalties. Congrats Steelers!

Gotta root for the Cardinals... Kurt Warner bagged groceries for my mom

Yes, but whose Opinion and Experience is he referring to? Filburt's? I don't think I would go there...

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Wiring proximity to the transformers can be a cause of this, usually the input wiring, pot, etc. On this amp, it appears that the wiring from the input PRCa comes around the left side of the chassis (behind the board or terminals with caps on left amp wall) to the pot, which is about as far away from the transformers as you can get in this. The output jack is very close to a transformer however.

A SumR transformer...

Very nice! You decided to go Khatargo? What did you do with the Stratos?

Hehe... that's more than I've got, tho I've always meant to build one of those. Made me a little nervous firing up the counterpoint PSU after rewiring the umbilical

Hehe... that's more than I've got, tho I've always meant to build one of those.

If your goal is not an all aluminum commercial quality style case, you'd be better off doing something like Amb did with his Dynamite and B22 builds: use the heatsinks as a structural element (i.e., the sides), then do your wood front, maybe have FPE do a back panel, and get some sheet aluminum or whatever to do the top and bottom of the case.

I agree. Don't view it as shipping; look at the total price. You would pay at least $20 and possibly more from Par Metals for shipping and that isn't including the heatsinks. The Conrad heatsinks (to match) would easily run you $70 for a pair (MF30s) from Aus. My fav. US chassis (and Nate talked me into trying these) are the Context Engineering ones. I've also seen some pics of Lansing enclosures (does Thrice use these some?) that looked pretty decent. But I still think in pics the hifi2000 look the best. You could always look to thlaudio or vt4c as well.

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Some hifi2000 goodness... 1 to case morphsci's sigma22 build for his AA HPA 1.0, maybe another for... I still use some AQ Turquoise cables that I've had for years, as well as a couple of pairs of AQ Ruby that I bought awhile ago (when I was still in a cable phase thing ). I also have some long (25') AQ Indigo Blue (IIRC) speaker cables that I should sell...

Oh but its true DIYHiFi.org • View topic - "Op-amps unsuitable for audio DAC I/V" - myth?

Perhaps I'll wish for the iron I used to use occasionally at Mostek.. not sure how many watts it was, but the tip was probably 1" and it generally required both hands to use it. Worked great on multiple 00 ground braids though.

Altec iM716s: I recall seeing those mentioned awhile back; it looks like those have a volume control on the cable? Were the iM616s the same, minus the volume? I logged a second service thing on V-Moda's site and wasn't warned about them not doing repairs, so I may just ship these in and see what happens. In the meantime, buy the RE02s or something better sounding than the V-Modas. My kids like them, but everytime I have listened to them (ipod->mp3->vmoda) its just sounded flat to me, in more ways than one If my system sounded like that, I'd quit.