n_maher

1. Two large aluminum heatsinks. 1 for a switchable dummy load for testing purposes, 1 for a unique SSMH build to use up some spare parts. 2. M-Audio Firewire Audiophile DAC (second time I've bought one). 3. Parts for repairs of various damaged amps.

The composition and subjects are excellent but am I the only one who finds a lot of them horribly overexposed? Maybe that's what he's going for but many of them look blown out to me.

It's been my experience that unless he'd be doing heavy 3D work just about any consumer VC is going to do just fine and he won't require anything special. What CAD does do, especially the more recent versions, is suck RAM like it's going out of style and hog the CPU. Even with that said I'd wager that anything with a couple gigs of RAM, a decent dual core processor and VC will serve him well.

Seemed like you were getting good advice in the thread.

I love folks who dismiss opamp based output stages without hearing it first.

It's but a PM away posty.

And Lucifer's own soldering iron.

I hate those RCAs like the plague, I'll never use them again for any project. Rhodium plating is the devil.

I see the progression of this being something like this: Mikhail must be given an opportunity to make amends. Ridiculous, yes, but I think that part of the scenario must at least be given a limited time period to play itself out prior to the reconstruction efforts really starting to gel. The end result of all of that might be Dan with a wad of cash and no amp, Dan with some cash and the broken pieces he has no or Dan with no cash and the broken bits and pieces. There are any number of choices that Dan will have to make after that and I think we, the community, can then be ready to step in and offer some assistance. If that's repairing the busted PS I'm sure we can find a way to do that, if it's gutting the chassis and using what we can we'll see what's needed and go from there. I think what is most important at this point is for Dan to know he's not alone on an island, which he clearly does.

I'm in for whatever. I have a couple ideas brewing that I'll throw out to my DIY brethren via PM once they've coalesced a bit more.

It's kind of like me reading your gun posts. I go, "oh, it shoots bullets" but that's about all I get out of it. What I bought was diagnostic tools used for trouble shooting amplifiers and other electronic circuits. Pretty boring unless you're a nerd.

waaaaah

Haven't decided which I'll buy yet (have the option of either) but Saturday I picked up a Tek 465 (w/ spare parts scope) and the previously mentioned 7633. Got both working last night and was able to check them with their respective calibration signals.

No worries Colin, I'll give you at least $20 for them.

Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago

Funny, I find the bottom end of the DT770s fatiguing. Of course I've never heard a Beyer I liked so it could be me that just doesn't agree with them.

I would not look to an amp to substantially alter the sound signature of your headphones. I haven't heard the DT990s so I can't say if they really are the issue or if something else in the chain is to blame but my Dt770s certainly aren't neutral sounding.

I see no problem with providing an exit out the side of the enclosure to allow you route the wires, especially if that makes sourcing the enclosure an easier task. I'd just drill a hole in the side of one of those that you linked to, install a simple rubber grommet and be done with it. FWIW the ones that you linked to are exactly what I was thinking of.

Indeed!

What's the diameter of the donut?

On the beta22 there are at least 6 parts (4 caps, two resistors) per channel that would need to be switched. If you want to figure out a way to do that efficiently in a 4-ch balanced amp go for it, I'm all set. And I freely admit that there are other ways to provide a pseudo gain switch on the beta22 but that's only one of the things I listed that makes it a less than optimal preamp.

I listened to some of that last night, it's definitely one of my favorites.

Generally speaking I'd say I've found the beta to be the better sounding headphone amp compared to the M

Epica - The Divine Conspiracy

Yet another company that appears to use this when writing marketing fluff.