guzziguy

Much harder!

No chance of a pipe but good chance of scotch. Though at MOA, a glass of beer was more likely. OK, some small chance of a pipe.

pistachios

I have an eXemplar modified Denon 2900. I think that it's a great deck for Redbook CDs and ok for SACD and DVD-A. Mine is only single-ended, not balanced. eXemplar does a balance mod and they can either add it to an existing single-ended eXemplar or as part of a general mod. I suggest checking eXemplar out if you can.

Don't feed the troll and he'll go away.

I know of several NSESBs that need one of those.

MOA was a great meet, the best I've ever attended. The pictures were great too, except for this one of an old man with a pot belly listening to music in a corner:

Calva, calva, calva!

Dan, your flexy looks great. Can you please tell me where you sourced the black rods and hardware? Also, did you use neoprene (or other rubber) washers as suggested at TNT?

You'd sleep through it anyway.

Just make the 4 pin to 1/4 and buy a Sennheiser 1/4 to 1/8 adapter. It's a tiny cable and you are less likely to lose it than a screw on adapter. Or make your own. For the price it's really easier to just buy the Sennheiser.

I see that 4n6 has a prayer rug before the altar of equipment just like Reks.

Nice pictures. I especially like to two sailplane shots. It reminds me of my time spent with the Greater Boston Soaring Club in the early 80's. I always lusted after an LS-4 but could never afford one.

Linksys NAS200 + Seagate 1 TB HD

My usual breakfast: Cheerios with non-fat milk, bananas and blueberries, and dark roast coffee. Lots of the latter.

Excuses, excuses!

Bingo. Anybody who has dealt with me knows that I won't use PayPal. So far my feedback is ok.

Where's the Spam? How did the two amps sound when driving the K340s? Does the above description for the B-52 apply?

I thought now through September is the off season!

You should have given me Mike's BMH23 at the NorCal meet. I would have eventually sent it on to him.

Be sure to listen to some low impedance headphones, like Grados or AKG340's. I'm curious to see how the comparisons will be.

Happy Birthday to both of you.

I talked about burn in with Pete Millet at HeadFest in SJ last year. We agreed that it was almost certainly the listener's brain being burned in rather than an amp. So now you know the amp maker's view on burn in. Loose connections are the first things I look for when I hear hum. I agree that this amp is very quiet and good sounding.

Besides, you have to burn it in for at least 1000 hours before you can do a meaningful comparison. Edit: I'm watching TV and just saw an ad for Kinoki foot pads, which supposedly draw toxins from your body through the bottom of your feet. I wonder if either amp would sound better if you put Kinoki pads on their bottoms to draw out the toxins in the amp.

I'll be happy to sell cases of 10-buck-chuck. It tastes 5 times better than 2-buck-chuck.