n_maher

Al, If it were me I'd got NAS and not the drobo route. I hate the idea of having to have a dedicated box turned on to listen to music somewhere else in the house. I also don't like the idea of having to have my storage tethered to a machine to access it. So as I see it you have 3 options: 1. drobo or similar USB/FW RAID system. 2. pre-built NAS/RAID system (the hardcore guys like tkam will poo-poo this) 3. custom built low power consumption computer built to act as a NAS/RAID box. Personally I went with option #2 and other than some signal strength issues that I'm working on with video the audio side works pretty well.

Sweet, can't wait to try it out.

No shock there, everything pretty much sucks when driven by that amp.

I hate heat sinks with pins, good call to go with a mechanical fastener. Personally I use #4 screws (I'll fight metric to my irrational deathbed) but I'm sure the M3's work fine too.

The previous Home/Home balanced amp/dac did get pretty warm, I don't think the Max balanced amp only will get too much hotter (if any) since it's not like the doubled the number of modules to get to the Max level and there's no DAC in there now.

I'm so gonna kick you in the shins the next time I see you. Hell to the YES!

I'm with you currently on the crying bit, O2 MKII's + no amp = sad panda.

I find it hard to believe that Apple will price a netbook less than say, the Ipod Touch. I fully expect whatever Apple comes out with to be in the $600+ ballpark, if not higher.

Damn indeed.

Oh, my bad, I thought the auction was just for the amp. With the headphones, yes, that is a nice deal. My focus is a bit amp-centric these days. When are we finally going to see some details on the Supercharged Egmont?

$250? That seems a bit steep for that to me. I've paid close to that for SRM MKII's which I would think are infinitely better, maybe I'm wrong?

WANT! So I'll only blow it up 3 times?

I thought it was fantastic.

Packed up the BHSE.

The tubes used were the SED Winged "C" tubes.

YouTube links are not working like they used to for me, they just show up as URLs. example:

Todd, I've had good luck with Lowe Pro bags and use a Off-Trail 2 when I need to take the whole rig or just a Topload Zoom 2 which can take the camera, 18-200 (attached) and the flash. Off Trail Topload

No shame there for sure. In general Moth/EC is very much to my liking.

FAN BOI!

Breakout cable?

No, our conversation from last week still stands. My "loaner" BHSE departs tomorrow for Virginia.

No, the description is correct. It is my understanding that USB cannot transmit higher sampling rates or bit depths without using a specific receiver chip which is cost prohibitive. S/PDIF can natively output and transmit higher bit depths and sampling rates as dictated by whatever transport is being used and the Buffalo chip when properly implemented can accept up to 24/192. At least that's what I've read and been told by the guys at Twisted Pear.

Nope, can't do it. The new DAC is not module based so the Hertsens will remain as is, which is to say excellent. I do hope to get a listen to the new DAC at some point though and do a little comparing.

Yes, the standalone DAC is based around the Sabre chip. The modules in the various amp lines will remain unchanged for the time being though.

Yes, I'll miss the left nut but it was the small one. I won't post anything till I actually get something done!