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Will do. I will report back here with the details when I get it opened. I believe there may be some components mounted to the top of the case also and he probably wants to make sure I realize that I can't just go ripping them apart. I don't think it is anything else.

Hey, nice ride Mike. Sounds like a great deal also.

Yep, they already have receivers STR-DA5400ES and STR-DA6400ES. I believe they are introducing a preamp/processor though.

I have a little hesitation as there are quite a few screws along one side which probably means there is something attached there. I just received an email from Mikhail saying he wants to talk to me on the telephone. I gave him a time tomorrow, so we will see what transpires. I'm not in a real hurry.

If I have enough to drink, I may not care. I guess the comments could have been a lot worse.

Or, since I do not have to drive I can arrive pre-lubricated

There are no dumb .... err wait I'm teaching tomorrow. Nevermind.

Or going by past experience it will be a dumbed-down version of the XA-5400ES.

So if I arrive at 6:46 PM on Friday, will I be too late for the debauchery festivities?

Yep, the caps are there for our 4 1/2 year old. I just take the caps off and lick the top when I need a little recharge.

That is an old picture, before I actually received the amp. It does not look like that now. It also has proper caps on the tubes.

So I was reevaluating my two-channel system and while things were moved about I decided to remove some of the accumulated dust. I was using one of those swiffers on the ES-1 and I guess it is too forceful an instrument as the green glass covering the readout from the digital volume fell into the chassis. So I am going to open it up and remove the glass and re-affix it to the chassis. I realize I need to turn it over and separate the bottom from the top. There appears to be only 4 screws (2 front and 2 back), of the approximately 1 billion screws in the chassis, that actually hold the top and bottom together. This seems way to easy, am I missing something here? The piece I am trying to retrieve is the glass covering the readout in the image below and the two front screws I believe connect the top to the bottom are the lower screws on each side:

Exactly why digital inputs are a necessity.

Wow, you're lucky, the last time I dealt with Sennheiser parts it took longer than that to get them to actually confirm my order.

Very nice. If it sounds as good as the GES and swings more voltage then this should be a killer OII amp.

If you have never heard Jena balanced K-701s on an amp with some oomph you might be surprised. You know, the monkey typing on a keyboard, etc. Just sayin'...

x2 "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

Different beast .... ES9018 not ES9008 chip. But no one has heard it yet, just talking specs and pixie dust right now.

That's what she said ... Ba-dump

I always thought it sounds very "hobbitty".

Did you hear the SA-50? Or was it the older SA-60 or DV-60 or even older DV-50? Just wondering as the SA-50 is pretty damn new. Oh, and the DCC stuff I have seems to be very well mastered and isn't overly compressed (in general).

No argument from me on that.

Good deal. Then you should really look at buying JP#'s Sony TT. It is a great deal and you can pick it up at Can-Jam.