n_maher

Hello? Where are the impressions? Or did you guys have a sleepover before listening?

Color me jealous Jack, the only speaker rig I get to have these days is at my workbench.

Congrats! I'd put the cover back on, forget how it looks on the inside and just enjoy it.

You're finding exactly what I did at CanJam, it's just a glorious amp to listen to. Again, congrats.

Happy Birthday guys! Mike, you can expect to start receiving "gifts" as early as the end of the week.

I can't believe that he made the amp so that it's possible to connect the power cords that way. With the Menace, although it uses the same connectors for all of the power connections, it's impossible to hook it up wrong due to the sex of the connections used at each end. It wasn't hard to do and was a definite design consideration along with making sure that the HV was never exposed on male pins to limit the chances of cooking myself.

Tubes can certainly make noises as the metal inside expands as it heats. I have one set of tubes (outputs) that take a good 30 minutes to heat up to operating temperature and stop making noise.

Agreed, it's one thing if the person is a known quantity but in this case the seller made no mention of payment terms until we were well into discussions about purchasing. All of a sudden it was like, "Hey, how about adding $10 for shipping and sending me a MO? How about no.

Not sure why it'd happen with an input or output tube but it's not all that uncommon with rectifiers, especially if you're running them near the max plate current. The Menace has been known to have a little lightning show in its rectifiers at startup.

Nothing. I can't believe there are still folks who try to sell expensive parts with no feedback and won't take paypal.

I believe that the desktop portable uses the desktop dac module, which is nowhere near the level of sophistication of the Pico.

One might suggest that unless you've got a really good reason to open the chassis that maybe it's a good idea to just leave it alone...

Very nice! Enjoy the weekend and don't sweat the comparisons too much, just enjoy getting to know the new amp.

Sweet Jebus, how expensive a system does one have to own to consider a $6k power supply for your cables??!??

Shipped a few cables, inquired about some parts that I'm looking to buy...

Sometimes, I wear rubber gloves when soldering just to minimize the lead exposure but I've really only started doing that recently in case I have to run upstairs and help w/ Lily. Otherwise I've never bothered with gloves.

I'd wager if you measured the output of that 15V PSU it'd probably be pretty close to 16V so I'm thinking there's something else wrong with the scanner unfortunately.

It's made by the company that Dared buys all of their stuff from (they just rebadge stuff from what I can tell) but it's a bit different. No USB DAC, but switchable inputs and it uses 6V tubes instead of 12V.

I shall now make it my life's work to moderate your posts and add a princess to all of them :evil: I keed, I keed, congrats on the MAC lappy, I do enjoy my little old Powerbook and having now owned one it'll make not having one in the future a tough proposition.

In this case the only reason was that it's essentially a 0 risk adventure. I paid less for the combo than the amp alone has been selling for on Head-Fi.

Nothing specific, no. There have been vague rumblings but with no build time these days it's hard to imagine doing anything about it for the rest of '08.

Stax SRM-1/mk2+ SR Lambda Pro's I'll keep which ever setup I prefer, this or the SRD7/ESP950.

I did a couple of quick searches and it seems that issues after installing this card are not that uncommon, specifically with irq requests and with the card screwing with audio drivers in general. Maybe read all of the thread below but the first solution I saw was to go into the bios and make sure that on-board sound is set to ON and not AUTO. http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/246318-33-audio-problem-install-radeon-3870

Huh, that is weird. I'd try reloading the driver for the sound card section of the mother board. Or go into the video card's GUI and see if there's a way to disable the onboard sound feature.

If you go into the "Sounds and Audio Devices Properties" control panel what is selected as the "Default device" for Sound playback?