n_maher

I've had a few (3 or more) and none of them have worked in way that I would say listening to music over them would be acceptable, they've all pretty much sucked. Recently I'd been listening to audio books in the truck while commuting and the reception got to the point where it was annoying enough to invest the $30 in the hard line adapter.

Furutech speaker cable, banana plugs, spades, neotech wire and about $75 worth of fasteners from McMaster Carr. It. Never. Ends.

Sounds like someone broke into his wife's car.

Started last night, finished this morning. I installed a USA SPEC DF-TOY module in my Tacoma which allows me to use the CD changer control as an Aux input so that I can directly connect the Ipod to the radio without the use of annoying things like FM transmitters.

Congrats on taking 27 hours to notice.

Not surprising from a really stupid movie.

Sitting at that desk how could you ever view anything meaningful on the top row of monitors without severe neck pain?

It's been widely reported how bad an idea it is to carry a wallet in your back pocket. I stopped 10 years or more ago. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/17/health/17real.html?_r=1&oref=slogin BBC NEWS | Health | Is your wallet a pain in the back?

Just for you Peter.

I'm nummy's voice of reason.

No doubt, but I can think of a lot better ways to spend $500 than a niche headphone, regardless of its magix.

Nah, nummy has stats which put the VTG's to shame. The only reason to get these cans is if you're going to use them unamped. Otherwise I think they're a pretty bad value at $500+.

I have seen those and honestly, given their country of origin I have concerns about how they'd hold up. Also, in this case they don't make a 63mm bit which is what I needed. I'm once again using a steel chassis (not by choice) which means I'll probably be posting about buying another bit before too long. At least there are only two of the giant caps this time around.

That makes much more sense.

That would make some sense generally but in this case where one of the caps is a .1uF/400V cap it doesn't make any sense to me. The other cap is probably on the order of 10 to 20uF and you can't tell me that whatever it is that they were doing needed exactly 20.1uF instead of 20. It's more likely that they are the output caps and that they simply followed the "convention" of bypassing the larger cap with a smaller cap. Of course usually you do this so that you can use a higher quality small value cap and a cheaper large value but in this instance where both caps are the same fracken thing it's just confusing.

It all depends on the application really, my problem with steppers has always been that they've been on headphone amps designed to drive vastly different loads. That's a bad application in my opinion. In a speaker amp I suppose it would be possible to tailor the gain (assuming it's adjustable in the design) such that you'd have plenty of adjustment. But again with some tube speaker amps (highish gain) I'd be hesitant to invest in one prior to testing the amp with a traditional pot to see where the listening sweet spot was.

They would appear to be 3db steps for the pictured unit and also only have 24 steps (using the typical elma switch). And my experience with 3db steps leads me to believe I'd be rather unhappy with the level of choice provided regardless of how good it sounded.

For me it would still come back to not being satisfied with or willing to risk 28 steps, especially at that cost ($270).

Nope, today's purchases were for the SimpleSE which you haven't bought, yet.

You're not wrong.

Lucky guy! Although if that is #4 you're clearly a glutton for punishment.

2-1/2" Bi-Metal hole saw more misc. fasteners DIY is always more expensive than your first think.

Congrats to both you and your wife. Is this your first?

I'd honestly be shocked if it did, my understanding (what little I have) is that all of the SDS's are PTP wired. I think it's only the lower echelon amps that use pcbs.

Shouldn't be that difficult since the case size is the same for all varieties of Neutrik XLRs. It'd just be a matter of some additional wiring. That is unless Mikhail has started using PCB mounted XLRs, which would be news to me and would probably make it impossible.