n_maher

There are rear outputs on the BUDA.

Oh, I think you'll approve of the project I have underway. But thank you for the offer.

Gotta risk something in order to get much of anything Jacob, as I'm sure you know. And yes, stat of choice moving forward is the O2 MKII - this pair is all mine. Now, I need to get working on an amp...

Technically speaking I believe that this is Justin's amp, not Vicki's but there's not way I'm getting between Vicki/her handguns and Justin on this one. I lobbied Justin for months to get the amp up to the NYC meet knowing that it'd be a large, appropriate audience. Justin was going to try and make it himself but in the end the timing was just didn't work out so I guilted him into sending the amp. It was also meant to serve as a final shakedown of the custom packaging that Justin got specifically for this amp. Simply amazing. I managed to log a good 4hrs on it this morning while my wife and daughter were gone to visit some friends and I just kept going through CD after CD throwing everything and anything at it.

Thanks Todd, everything seems to be working great!

Nomination: Thread of The Year.

All I know is that the MKII and BHSE sound fantastic together. And that's not from meet impressions, it's what I'm listening to right now.

You need to get off your high horse before you earn yourself a vacation. I've heard the GS1K on top flight gear, alongside both the prototype GS1Ks and vintage brown-headband RS-1s. The production GS1K is by far the worst of the three, plain and simple, no amount of source/amp/fucking is going to make it something it's not unless you are using your source to aritifically color the sound to make up for the GS1K's faults. That, in my opinion, is an ass-backwards approach to building a rig. So kindly check your own ego before posting again, just because we don't agree with you doesn't mean we're wrong. You are free to enjoy whatever you want but if you try to force feed it to me one more time you won't like how that sounds either.

Nikongod's Custom Creation - one of my favorite listens of the meet Setting up the BHSE - pictures fail to do this amp justice Someone brought this budget rig, it sounded ok... Nice crown. Nice looking Little Dot MKIV VPI's mighty balanced M3 - sounded every bit as good as I remembered. vcoheda's B52 and his KGSS, wish I'd been able to give this a listen. Ari's Melos stack, Grado fans rejoice! Team Source First - Northstar DAC w/ balanced mini3 and Millett Starving Student VPI's gorgeous (sounding and looking) RTR rig New Woo on the block - I spoke with Jack at length about this product and I think the production version should be a big hit. That's it for pics for me, detailed impressions of the few rigs that I listened to. I spent a lot of time catching up with old friends and making new ones. As always the NYC crew put on a heck of a show. And poor spritzer, if only he knew what I was up to in a few hours... :veryevil

I spoke with Jack Woo about this amp at length at the NYC meet, there are major changes in the works for the production version. No middle knob, 4-pin jack in that space, it will use a single pot (on the left) and the large knob on the right will become the impedance switch (all good things in my book). Also, one quick note about the design, it's a push pull transformer coupled amp and so quite different from what I was thinking it might be. Sounded pretty good too.

x2, i'm no shorty and he made me feel short.

Logged about 500miles on the car driving back and forth to a very enjoyable NYC meet. Also lugged about 150lbs of gear with me to said meet, the first and last time I've brought two full sized rigs. Definitely worth it to hear the BHSE.

We're using Justin's Sony SACD player, not sure which model it is but it seems to be a hit so far.

We are up and running. BHSE sounds sweet with O2MKII's.

To me it simply does not have the same magic, all the parts are similar to many of the Moth/EC amps but to my eye it just doesn't add up to the same whole. It's certainly not ugly by any stretch but it doesn't make me go either.

Hmm, I'm clearly going to be in the minority but I'd say that's my least favorite of the amps he's designed lately. I'm an unabashed admirer of the Moth aesthetic too.

I don't find Nikon lenses to be particularly overpriced (in this category of lens) and to think that someone else could cover more length for significantly less money seems unlikely. And as someone else noted, it's reportedly very slow in use which to me just about negates any usefulness if it happened to be optically superior. By all accounts Nikon hit a home run with the 18-200, while it's not perfect in any respect it is the perfect consumer-grade lens.

oh snap...

Oh, I'm not building...just unpacking hopefully.

There may be good news for you ~10pm tonight, at a minimum I'd suggest to plan on bringing the O2's.

Given the impedance curve of the HD800 they may wish that they'd done something else. And I'm with everyone on the spacing of the jacks potentially creating big problems for users. As it is I bet there are cables that won't work with the amp or will at least be stretched uncomfortably. Add more space to the equation and it could get ugly.

1. Yes, the external flash is absolutely worth it, I'm 99% sure that's the same flash I use and love. Get yourself a diffuser (~$20) for times when it just isn't possible to bounce. 2. It's almost guaranteed the Tamron is nowhere near as good as the Nikon. As for those that say the 18-200 isn't sharp enough, jesus christ you guys must be those that shoot full resolution RAW and then examine every pixel at 100% zoom on 24" monitors looking for a lack of sharpness. Or professionals, in which case the lens was never meant for you. For hacks like myself (and I suspect Todd) the gear is so far from being the limiting factor in our images it's laughable.