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I think mono blocks would be harder. Since you have 2 channels on a single board, so you'll either have to use L brackets on each end and align that to the heat sinks on each side, or some weird single heat sink design. My experience is mounting directly on the heat sink is much easier to do, and less error prone.

my heeeerroo.... saving the ESP-950 from FOTM once again!

what Kevin said.

deepak: I find that these cans are really just improvement of the he60 sound signature, and as such sound "different" than the SR-007. They are more forward, almost in a brash way and have very "impressive" bass and sweet sounding highs, both are strengths IMHO. As much as a KGSS is an upgrade for these, the 620v bias is probably more important. Then there is the recable.... They are really incomparable in the state you currently have them. In some cases I do prefer them to the Stax, usually when I want more bite to my music. I'm not a huge Grado fan, but perhaps this difference could be likened to a Grado sound, without the annoying soundstage collapse and other Grado "issues". They are a hard sound to pin down, that's for sure... and the relatively few people that heard them in what I would say is their "best" operating point, makes this even harder.

same output as a Pass x1000.5...

I have a SR-007 cable for sale ... I'm not recabling them though.

well, the patent in question is "super-symmetry" and there's a lot of ink spilled on it. amb did the right thing and got permission from Nelson and all is good in the hood. I was just being snarky / a NP-fanboy.

I'm closer

<asshat>yawn, build a real Nelson Pass design, not some random copycat</asshat>

dude, quit the hype (until I find one). I saw one on Ebay and it went for $250-ish and I think $235 was my max bid. That was probably 1 year ago though.

x2 on the Air Tight. Do they have the ZYX Atmos in Singapore as well? I'd love to hear it someday.

about 80% of the effort that went into building the entire amp in the first place.

burn-in? Ray's amps inject a subtle hypnotic track over the output signal that can easily be mistaken for distortion. 500 hours is the amount of time before your totally under the power of the amp and start the fan-boy chanting ritual.

yes, just order it from here: Lansing Instrument Enclosures Home Page

yeah, Peter Daniel owner of The Audio Zone: index His reference DAC is a modified bidat. Lots about it at diyaudio. same with me and John. He basically told me how to do all the mods to a few of their products. Great guy!

yup. There is a single bidat I would pay that for, but I know the modder and he's my hero, so there....

yeah, did you see that bidat that is/was on Audiogon.. $5.5k? crap...

sorry, I meant the seller's price on Audiogon is more than fair

the jacks are just wired that way.

and seeing as you cannot get the BG caps anymore and last I saw some people were asking $200 each.... personally, I think the price is fair.

tkam: is it possible to PM a .pdf or other attachment?

I'm holding one in my hand and it's identical. I'm comparing the markings inside the jack. If yours is like mine, it would say "Furutech" on the bottom side of the jack, meaning you'd have to remove it and turn it 180 degrees to read the text, or use a dentist mirror to peer under the jack. I'm pretty sure that is the same. The older models didn't say Furutech on them, I'm pretty sure about that, but yours is newer and I'm 99% sure it will have the words if you look carefully. Please report back!

I believe this is the case on the previous run of their bottom-of-the-line IEC jacks. I have pics somewhere if needed.

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