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I freely admit that I have absolutely no clue how solvent they are.

Oaf.

I checked 5 dealers and only one listed it as an option and had no stock, not to mention their price of upwards of $700 per tube for NOS AD1s. What I'm getting at is that it costs less than that to retube the entire Menace with good NOS stock and if you want to you can spend less than $100 on the 5 tubes for it and still get very good performance. No disrespect to Craig, I like his work a lot, but designing a new production amp, even if it's a limited run, around what appears to be one of the more esoteric tubes out there seems crazy.

Jebus riceboy, that's quite the acquisition spree.

Without doing a lick of research my primary concern, outside of the cost of the tube would be the single source (1 manufacturer) aspect. I mean, EML is probably not going to go away any time soon but I never like having to rely on their only being one source for anything.

Yikes! Quick research puts those tube in the "pricey" category at ~$500/pr.

Happy Birthday!

Sort of. I bought a case (black) but as to when I might actually get around to building it? Your guess is as good as mine. Maybe mid-2010 at the current rate of production.

Please tell me that yours comes without the Rainbow Bright drive belt.

Holy poop, I'm tempted to pick another up as mine has been a bit flakey lately.

Accessories - Logitech Harmony 880 Advanced Universal Remote (Harmony / Logitech) - eCOST.com - electronics, computers, laptops, mp3 players Saw this listed as a side deal on Woot, this is what I use at home and it's a pretty slick remote.

more Dexter.

You might try a PM on HF before you give up.

I think there's a HR B-stock Balanced Desktop for sale right now that is a pretty good deal. Yes, it has the DAC, but it has the stepped attenuator option too.

He needs the WinOS to run his firm's client software if I'm remembering things correctly.

Ouch.

Sure you can, but in this case we have: 2x 159ZG (15MH/4A choke) = $27.89/ea from Digikey 2x 157L (14H/75MA choke) = $26.16/ea from Digikey That's all I spot so far, I'm guessing the big iron is on the top side of the PS.

And lowly Hammonds at that.

Not really, I just think you're setting yourself up to fail. Does it really not have enough range if you set the GS-X at the middle range of the pot and vary the volume with the DAC3?

I know, but that doesn't make it any less absurd. Since most balanced amps are going to already have twice the gain of their single ended counterpart it makes little sense to me to couple that higher-gain with a higher output source. I already struggle with a lack of adjustment range.

It's listed as an accessory so maybe? If he doesn't require a remote I'd probably run the DAC3 at maximum output and use the amp to attenuate/amplify provided that it didn't overload the input of the GSX and cause it to clip as a result. The output of the DAC3 is a somewhat absurd 4.5V from the balanced outputs.

The real question is why are you listening with no source attached?

Congratulations on your promotion to Head-Case webmaster?

Indeed it does.