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Well, given that a balanced Dynahi or ?22 is fairly close to that level of power output, I don't see why not. Plus the tubes are big and look cool, and from what I've read on diyaudio the performance is pretty good too.

At least it isn't as painful as Ori's page, but that's the only positive thing I can say about it.

If it fall over when you let it go, it's not balanced.

I've pretty much accepted the fact that I can't write reviews for beans, I worked on a Senn 580 vs. Grado 225 review on & off for around 2 years before giving up and putting it away. Impressions, no problem, I can crank those out in an hour or two at most but I have issues with long term reviews, I just don't know what the hell to put in them without making it sound like the pretentious garbage found in Stereophile or TAS.

I saw a blurb on the player some time ago on this page, and there are conflicting opinions. It might be a breakthrough or it could just be a glorified overpriced computer, personally I lean more towards the latter given all the marketing fluff on the Nova Physics webpage. For the price it's going for, I'd rather just get a Simaudio Andromeda and be done with it.

I believe this is something the DHS would like to know about. Buy a 'stat, or else a couple guys in black suits with no sense of humour will be along to escort you to the Hotel Gitmo.

Another possibility is the Solen film & foil teflon caps which are said to be very good. I haven't heard them myself so I can't say either way. One thing's for sure, they're a fair bit cheaper than those v-caps.

Granted, my sample size is pretty limited and quite possibly biased, but I've found that Japanese remasters do tend to sound better. The main difference I've noted is that the Japanese versions have better dynamic range and they don't get EQ'd to death. Speaking with people who have far more music & experience than I do, the general consensus is that when looking at the "audiophile approved" remasters alone (ie, Mo-Fi, DCC) there's no real difference between Japanese, Euro, and US versions. But the problem is there's lots of shitty remasters being done in the US by various record companies trying to make a quick buck, which leads to the impression that US remasters are no damn good since the good stuff is drowned out by all the crap. I think that's a plausible explanation.

Stuck the picture on my own webhosting, should show up now.

Clusterfuck Nation

Make sure you never buy one of these Pioneer CD players, it's also an upside down loader.

With regards to the 880, the old one is like getting a root canal with no anesthetic, the new one is like getting a root canal without enough anesthetic. To me, it's just a matter of which one's treble is more piercing and painful. I own a Senn 580 which I'm enjoying a lot on my vinyl rig, and it's actually pretty decent on my tube amp setup. I've heard all versions of the 880 & 990 and to be honest I hated the damn things, and I can't really see how a Senn person could like them. I can see how Grados and AKGs can compliment Senns and make for a good alternate 'phone to listen to, but to me the Beyers are so far out there that they don't make sense at all.

No kidding, the Leafs should just tank it for the rest of the season and next season as well to score some high draft picks. Not that it'll help anyway since their management is retarded and will end up trading away the picks after a year for yet another bunch of washed up players. The way I see it, as long as the Teachers' Pension Plan has a large stake in MLSE, the Leafs will be doomed to mediocrity.

In which case, you must buy some Wyetech Labs gear.

Since I've now heard a balanced phono stage, I can provide info on this topic. The SE phono was similar to this one but with a WE437A as the 2nd tube and a different transformer, and the balanced phono is pretty much the RTP5A but using 7044's on the linestage section. Both are really good, the SE one will run with any commercial phono stage I've heard including the Artemis and EAR-Yoshino 912, but the balanced one is better. There's more of everything and the music is more real and enjoyable. The gap in performance isn't too hard to notice. But, that was on a Nottingham Dais turntable with the Anna arm and VdH Colibri cartridge, you don't want to know how much that costs. On a more reasonable setup such as the Pro-Ject RPM-10 with a VdH Grasshopper IV cartridge, the differences are hard to pick up, the balanced phono is a tiny bit better but the gap is so small that I had a fair bit of trouble picking it out. The consensus is among the people there that day is that it's better to get a good SE phono than an average balanced one, they're going to cost around the same anyway and the SE one is likely to be less finicky and sound better. It's simpler with less parts, so better parts & design can be used which can usually more than balance out the advantages of a balanced phono, assuming it's not an all-out system. They know their vinyl so I'll take their word for it. Also, holy christ is the Colibri ever good. Even better when you have one of the 1st 10 records to come off the stamping presses to play on the turntable.

2 words. Indoor dome. Peyton Manning had a nice warm indoor dome with no wind for all his home games and some of his road games. In other words, ideal conditions for a QB to throw TD passes, especially in the last half of the season when the weather and field conditions tends to turn nasty for outdoor teams. And yet, he only beat Marino by a single TD, and the Dolphins play in an outdoor stadium. Brady also plays in an outdoor stadium, this one in the Northeast where it's cold, windy, and it snows in late season games, and he still beat Peyton's TD numbers. Frankly, I have far more respect for Marino & Brady's TD & passing numbers than I do for Manning's.

It depends on how much checkable deposits the bank holds, for the first $7 million it's 0%, up to $48 mil it's 3%, and over that it's 10%. Overall, the Fed tries to keep the number at around 5%, but as of right now the adjusted figure is roughly 0.024%, and the raw numbers are in the negative. That ain't good.

http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h3/Current/ The Federal Reserves Statistical Release, which lists how much money the banks & other financial institutions in the US have in reserve for various purposes. Of particular interest is the column marked "non-borrowed", which is basically the amount of money they have available for when customers make withdrawals, or in layman's terms, how much cash they have in the vault. Note that in the unadjusted tables, this number has gone negative. In other words, when you go withdraw money from the bank, that money ain't there, and your bank is now borrowing from the Federal Reserve Bank so that your transaction can go through. Can you say "bank run" if word of this gets out?

I'm not a bassist, but one of my friends is a guitar & bass technician. From what he's told me, if all things are more or less equal, go with the pickup that has Alnico magnets as they tend to have better tone.

No kidding, this is the first time I remember seeing crosstalk figures get significantly worse at low frequencies.

Simaudio Nova, the baby brother of the Eclipse which was their former flagship player.

It hops like a bunny, but looks more like a guinea pig.

A possible idea, from when I had a ground loop in my system. Get a wire and tie the chassis of the DAC to a ground point on the amp. Try at own risk, not responsible for fires and damaged components.

Because they're made in France, where they have to deal with pesky unions & labour laws, and well, they're French. I think that says it all.

Reference, no, Prestige, yes. The Prestige with CDs might have a slight edge on the regular Capitole, but it's really really close. In build quality though, there's no comparison, the Prestige makes the Capitole look & feel like a cheap toy. I barely played any SACD on it (or any other SACD player) though so I can't really say how good that aspect is, I just don't have enough experience with SACD. For CD, the SE has the best performance of the AA players I've heard.