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Go to Canadian Tire or Home Depot. They should have some large diameter clear vinyl (I think) tubing. Grab some of that, grab some foam pipe insulation to go around it, then get some PVC or ABS pipe that fits over the foam. Glue it all together & paint it and you'll have one of those swanky cable doo-hickeys.

I is reading some threads on head-fi where ignorant fanboys are getting owned. Someone just compared an amp to mung, that is probably the funniest thing I've read all day.

I seem *cough cough* to have come down with a *cough cough* cold *cough* I'm going home now...

Good transformers cost major money, plus there's no designs around for people like you-know-who to copy. But there is this. I think KG mentioned there were something like $600 in transformers alone in there. http://www.moon-audio.com/MoonHead.htm

Build this. It's beyond my skills at the moment, but I'm pretty sure someone on the board can build one.

Look where the keys are on his keyboard, I think the trackpad is the least of his issues.

So it costs about as much as an R10, therefore this is the new R10 killer!

I know that feeling, I have my parents' old Dual turntable which is also a direct drive record spinner with the original Shure V15 TypeIII cartridge. I don't even have a separate phono stage, I'm using the phono input on my Technics receiver along with its headphone output jack to drive my Senn 580's. If I put my good LP's it's still fucking awesome, it makes my Senns not suck which is a small miracle in itself, and something which my CD rig with the full out tube amp can't do. The CDP/tube/K340 rig can still beat my vinyl rig in most areas and in terms of enjoyment they're about equal, but when we're talking about value & fun for the money there's no contest here, vinyl rules. I suspect that once I get an up to date cartridge and build a nice tube phono stage, my turntable will end up crushing my CD rig in practically every aspect. I recently heard the Apollo and I'd have to say probably not. It doesn't have the big real sound of good analog, the only CD player I've heard which does is the Audio Aero Capitole and those ain't exactly cheap.

Ok, I took off my record mat so it's now all rubber. The shiny orange lights are also working, but I'm still not getting any music, only the same horrible scratching sound. I think these silver records are defective. I'm going to return them and buy some proper LP's and 45's.

Hi, I bought some shiny new records for my vinyl collection but they seemed a little odd. These things are like shiny silver on one side with graphics and stuff on the other, and they're smaller than my 45's. I put them on my record player and tried the 45 RPM setting, but it didn't work, and I couldn't get music out of them, only a horrible scratching sound. I tried the other side and got the same thing. What am I doing wrong?

If headphones could talk, I wonder what they'd say about being passed around the tribe like the village bicycle...

http://www.head-case.org/index.php/topic,1541.0.html

It's been down for at least the last hour or so. I clicked on a link from here to there and it was no worky. It's actually a small miracle that it took this long before it went down again.

It's basically the same, but pretty much different.

I get a fair number of similar emails from both Amazon & Paypal. It doesn't quite work when 1) I've never shopped at Amazon and don't have a membership there, and 2) the email account which gets the mail ain't the one that's registered with Paypal.

Thanks for reminding me that I don't own an iPod. I'm going to lie down in a corner and cry now. :'(

The Senn 580 by default, because all my classical music is on vinyl and hooking up my K340 and its amp to the vinyl rig is too much of a pain in the ass.

It's just you. Serious answer? I won't speak for other head-case members, but I for one, having seen all kinds of "this new thing's the best shit ever!!!" threads on more pieces of gear than I can remember, will treat any new claims of "miracle gear" with a healthy degree of skepticism. To me it's nothing to get excited about until either myself or someone whose opinions I trust hears it and gives it the thumbs up.

I expect them to perform at their pricepoint, whatever the hell that is. I remember a craze way back when over the Sony CD780 (I think), which was an under $100 headphone said to be better than the Senn 580/600 and the best damn thing around. I eventually heard one after the buzz died and it turned out to be crap. Then the Audio Technica A900 craze hit and it was said to best 'phones costing twice as much, it was of course a bust and philodox and I had a big part in popping the bubble, I think I also got a ban out of that one. Based on my past experiences with trends like this, I'd stay the hell away for now, then pick up the phones for cheap when the bubble bursts and people start dumping them.

It might be because people are using amps as a tuning device to make up for the flaws in their headphones, and at one time I was one of these people. With my Senn 580's for instance I needed a bit more fullness in the midrange and some added sparkle up top to bust through the "Senn veil", with my Grado 225 that sparkle becomes "crap, that's too bright". I eventually realized it was better to have a more neutral amp and tune the headphones instead. Or it could be that people are just parrots and sheep and just follow along and repeat what everyone else is saying. On head-fi, I think the latter explanation is more likely.

This is something I've been thinking about for quite some time now, why is it that some headphones are automatically assumed to require super-expensive over the top amps while others aren't? The examples I'm specifically thinking of are the Senn 580/6x0 and AKG K701 along with Grados like the RS-1. As most of you have likely heard by now, everyone "knows" that the Senns & AKG "need" the best amp money can buy, and if the sound isn't quite right it's always the fault of the amp because it's not good enough. I've also noticed that scores if not hundreds of people own $1000+ amps for the above headphones. On the other side of the coin we have (John) Grados, everyone "knows" that they sound good even without an amp, and thus they don't really need an amp. I very rarely see someone with a full-out Grado amp, most people seem to stop somewhere around the MAD Ear+ Gilmore Lite or PPX3 level and that's the end of the line for them. As far as I've seen, there's maybe a dozen people or so who've actually spent more than $1000 on amps for their Grados. I find this really strange for several reasons. I own a Grado 225 and Senn 580, and I've recently been using them a lot more. I've found that when fed from a good amp, the 225 scales every bit as well as a 580, and I think the two of them are pretty closely matched in terms detail & resolution. If I add the RS-1 to the mix, it'll handily pull away from any Senn when given a good amp. Which finally leads to the question, just how important are amps to various headphones, and who the hell started these silly myths?

Currently I'm not working on anything, the weather's too nice outside and I'm too lazy to plug in my soldering iron. Recent projects have included the following: 1) Continued tweaking of my Objective-Interim tube amp, mostly playing around with new input tubes 2) A proof of concept parafeed amp using a 12SN7 and 12W6 in triode mode 3) A cRaptor based on KG's schematics just to see how bad it sounds (even powered it with a switchmode filament supply) 4) Various DC filament supplies, trying to make a super-simple super-quiet one As for what's next, these are all still in the thinking stages 1) A tube phono amp of some sort 2) A 2A3 headphone amp of some sort 3) A glowy nightlight using an 872 mercury vapour rectifier

It's a new high in co-ordination, a ghetto looking stand for a ghetto looking headphone.

That's cheapskate ingenuity at its best. Get some pipe, screw it to a board, and then put pipe insulation on it.