luvdunhill

it's possible that the coaxial cable is using the ground of the connected component. Since the optical cable has no such provision, that might explain things.

AKG service manuals may be of help... I'm not sure if other vendors do this, but I know that AKG does.

are you referring to the legalized live sex acts in Oregon?

If it were me using the MPX3 as a preamp, I'd try a few 3 6SN7 combos and think about ditching the 5687. They are great sounding tubes, but in a preamp context I think most "standard" recommendations might go out the door. I'm going down this route as well, and can comment later on as well.

pretty much... not to mention MD5 collisions using a PS3 is trivial these days I cannot complain, as stuff like this puts bread on my table...

so... I finished adding all Black Gates to my MPX3 last night... all the low voltage caps are upgraded now... good thing is, I just have to keep it on without signal to burn 'em in, as the CRC heater supply was effected mostly. I'm not sure if this will make much a difference, but what the heck.

so, I'm looking inside yet another MPX3, this one has a "XLR" jack wired up in the back. The pin 2 (left when looking at the back of the jack) is wired to the input signal and the ground is taken, not from the remain two pins, but the brass tab that is tied to the jack itself. Symptom is that when using this jack or the other RCA jacks, a bit of the other signals leak into the selected input if multiple inputs are turned on. So, question is, is this wiring scheme for a XLR->RCA converter valid? Is this the source of this problem, or is it related to the switch itself?

I played with the kids today in the yard wearing shorts... it was like sunny and 65 or so in the afternoon ...

doesn't WINE run on a Mac?

great! I've called FPE multiple times and they are very easy to work with and are extremely helpful. Keep me posted

you could get creative and do a standard neutrik cutout and then make a small piece that the jack screws in and then rear mount that and use the two holes in the neutrik cutout to secure the adapter. If you go this way, have FPE make a ton of the adapters and sell 'em. You can panelize the thing and add some scoring marks to break them out. How much do these things run? I might be interested in working on it with you

you could just make an entire panel at FPE to accommodate the connectors, or are you looking to retrofit and existing project?

oh yeah, do you have any of these bad boys:

oh, I'm a Koss ESP950 fan-boy, 'specially when it sounds so much better than the 100's of Lambdas that Spritzer has

I'm looking for a Muse Audio Eight CD/DVD transport

I've basically stopped browsing Audiogon, as I always seem to buy stuff. At this point, I really really don't need to be doing this (for lots of serious reasons)... I do have money set aside for a new transport. Well, it showed up on the 'gon, didn't sell and then showed up again and I randomly looked at it had just sold. This is all so frustrating, as I don't want to start lurking around there again (obsessively). So, I'm probably going to write a script to poll the site or find someone who with be an intermediary for me (volunteers?) That being said </rant> and all that stuff, I'm planning on actually getting two pairs of speakers finished this year. I've been working on these forever and really really want to get them finished. One is a Morel compact 3-way using first-order slopes, the other is a Scan-Speak + Audiotechnology + Scan-Speak using mixed-order slopes, ala Thiel. I even have a builder that will finish the cabinets, but the plans are lacking. Yup, that's the crazy part. I've gone through 3? cabinet designs and am still not happy with the result. Other than that, I have a DIY TT motor pod w/ controller I'm working on and a pair of souped-up Pass / First Watt F4 monoblocks that need to be cased up. The rest of this year will be devoted to music!

I haven't smoked for the past 11 months, due to my efforts to lower my term life insurance policy I'm about to take out. I'm not sure if this will work, but the online form that I fuzzed resulted in cheaper numbers if the minimum time since last smoke was 12 months. Obviously when I take it up again, I'll have my Dunhills, Petersons, Ser Jacopo, etc. lined up ready to go I'd really like to find a super nice Churchwarden, as it's a fun shape. I have a Savanelli ... it's alright, not much to look at. Have you ever used honey to break in your pipes? Someone mentioned that when I was over in Norway, and I think he was trying to take me for a ride ... maybe people do that ... who knows? Perhaps you can help me with this ... do you know where to get Castello pipe tobacco?

I have a lot of endearing terms for my Zyx cart as well :)

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better than a -fest I guess...

a few more links: http://www.diy-high-end.com/ http://www.akustik-perfekt.homepage.t-online.de/the-audio-collection/english/cdplayer/index.html http://www.tentlabs.com/

well, I think Alex got to the bottom of a few of the problems. Thing is, finding those MACE and FURORE chips is near impossibile for the DIY-er, or even people like Alex. I've almost bought the Philips transport 10 times now, but I just get guy shy as a lot of the problems are slow degradation not a quick break. This is hard when your rig is so unstable to deal with a source that exhibits some sort of quantum-uncertainty.

does that mean you like the same type of sources* she does?... *witty remark here

luvdunhill - Singlepower fan-boy I cannot really compete with the real Stax fan-boy ...