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Once announced, I'm sure it will more than double the price...

Anyone else notice this? hmmm.... ALO Double M3 amp - Head-Fi: Covering Headphones, Earphones and Portable Audio

Thirded... nice writeup and really good pics!

Oh, what a marvelous idea... DIYHiFi.org • View topic - HDMI and future digital DIY

Sounds like you went to the Odyssey room? Did you talk to Klaus? He's a trip... really great guy. Any impressions on the rest of their gear, and were they showing anything new (amp/preamp)? Nice writeups and pics!

I like that pic of the bores for the shot. Did anyone tell you that you do damn nice work?

I'd like to have a listen to the Buffalo as well! Glad to see you are finally getting out of there.

You mean "small" circle hole cutter tech skillz?

Black walnut, really thick veneer (3/4"?)...

Really nice Steve! Inspiring...

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Used to have those... worked pretty well once you figured out how to calibrate it in auto-eq (speakers->room correction).

I had a Nak LX-5 that I bought new in the '80s for years... finally sold it a few years ago. It never broke (while I had it).

Odyssey Cyclops integrated would be one to look at. New may be within your reach ($895 was one figure I saw, but not sure on current price). I don't see these come up used very often, but they have only been out a year or so. 110W/ch.

Congrats Nate... she's adorable!

And that's a bad thing?

I know navships has some single conductor shielded such as these. This is the type of stuff used in alot of '80s and '90s gear, such as my Counterpoint preamp. Might be worth a shot for the input wiring. The shield is usually silver plated copper, so its good, though fine strands. The teflon tape outer wrap can be fun to deal with as well.

For general outlets available at hardware stores such as Menards, etc., Pass and Seymour are what used to be recommended (before the Oyaide, etc. flood of audiophool products... note that this is based on not having used any of these ). Something like a 5262 IIRC.

Agreed. Paul Newman was also one of my favorite older actors, and a real role model in terms of how to deal with fame/Hollywood in your personal life. I was sad to hear this. My condolences to his family; RIP Paul.

Yeah, I hadn't commented on the spare no expense PCB... hehe. I've done home etched boards that look as good (or better) than that. Of course Rudi would probably claim that silkscreen/solder mask, etc. have a detrimental effect and cause ripples in the force or some such nonsense

Looks like a Cmoy to me. Sovkiller posted the following in the hf thread you referenced: I don't see any charging circuitry whatsoever beyond perhaps a resistor on this thing, unless its built into the case or something that I can't see from those pics. Looks like it uses a pair of AAs?

What, no auto self-measuring RTA VTA adjust? I'm disappointed!

I have a real old one (probably ca. 1985-1990, possibly older than that) that still works just fine. It came with a neon light thingie to test it with. You pop that in the barrel opening and if it lights up, the Zerostat is working. The instructions with mine told you to pull and release the trigger with it pointing at 3 different spots around the LP, and then pull the trigger while pointing at the spindle, and then point it at the floor and release the trigger. Mine came in one of the big Discwasher sets with the wood base BTW.

Hope you have a good one!

They look like they are 4 wire... http://www.akg.com/mediendatenbank2/psfile/datei/93/K501_K500_4055d21891b68.pdf