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I'd go w/ the balanced desktop w/ Home modules before I went single-ended MAX.

This one?

It will always exist, if only in our hearts. And I never voluntarily listen to either. Beatallica is as close as you'll find me.

We've all been there. One of my bigger f-ups was wiring the output of the first balanced amp wrong and not only cooking the headphones (thankfully just KSC75s) but the amp managed to blow itself up as well. I think there were other issues with the amp to begin with (flawed, untested design) but even the second one I built only lasted a half hour before it fried itself as well. Nothing like flushing $400+ down the toilet.

I think you'll find the poll agreeable.

I haven't seen a set of Dynahi boards for sale for a good long time and posty's amp was the one of the few that I've seen listed that I would have felt ok telling someone to buy.

Don't forget to make sure that it's grounded or else it won't shield properly. That's the way to the blackest background, of course you won't get an audio either.

From 0 to 100deg it's never failed to start for me. It might not last the weekend though as someone is coming to look at it on Sunday and if it sells I'll be upgrading. And x2 on "good luck" Jacob, I hope it all works out.

You know what is hilarious? While I was repacking the loudass AC unit my wife started searching online for a replacement. In doing so she found a pretty similiar one at Sears, 3 of the first 10 reviews that she read were from people who had returned the same Frigidaire that I'd bought. Everyone complained about the noise, so it's not just me. Evidently the one Sears carries is much better so here's to hoping that BB doesn't hassle me when I return it tomorrow.

Too bent after f'ing around w/it for 2hrs only to have to return it and do the same thing again tomorrow night...

Uh, yeah, I'd like to be able to sleep in the room since it's my bedroom.

Well, it's a one of a kind - be nice to it. I don't know how much you were told about it but it is 4 strands of Chiimera's CCC wire, configured in two twisted pairs each sleeved in their own 1/8" dia. nylon multifilament. Those two strands are then sleeved in another layer of multifilament. It was pure hell to build it and I would never do it again.

Damn, I didn't realize he sold that!??!?! I would have bought it back I liked it that much. And Vicki just hates the Zu, I don't think she has as strong a dislike for any of the other aftermarket cables. Me, I just bought a Frigidaire 8000BTU AC unit for the bedroom. I'll be returning it tomorrow. Holy fracken crap the thing was as loud as a jet engine. No joke I bet it was a heathy 70db on low, you couldn't hold a conversation in the same room with it.

That is a non-boomana approved cable. Bad riceboy.

Eh, I guess I had expectations that it would at least have some entertainment value in addition to the brutality. In my opinion it did not. The brutality was pretty over the top as well, I don't think I've seen anything with that type of violence/gore ever.

Finished watching Rambo. Pretty worthless if you ask me, subtract the opening and closing credits and it was barely 1:10 long. I'd love to see the 2-page script as well, I'm pretty sure it'd be lol worthy. Also finished watching The Bank Job last night. Pretty darn decent really and I had no idea that it was at all grounded in reality.

Heh, it is actually the first set of balanced cables that I've built using this particular wire.

tkam the balanced cables are on the way!

No you're not, you're acting like a jackass. You clearly don't. Acting like a jackass is a privilege earned, not given when you sign up. You want to discuss, fine, tell me how I wasn't discussing and where I allegedly took too much credit or whatever I did that was elitist? There's precious little debate, attenuating the output of an amplifier (not a source) is a terrible idea no matter how you slice it. You might get away with it on a preamp if you carefully considered the input impedance of the following stage but again I'd question why someone would ever choose the least efficient path and one that is more likely to muck up the signal. Perhaps I should have been more clear, based on my research and in my opinion using a resistor divider on the output of the source would be my first and preferred method for dealing with the problem of insufficient range of volume adjustment when changing the gain of the amp in question is not practical.

Have no fear, we can hang out with our inferior budget stats. No O2 in my future.

Uh, pardon me but what the fuck is up with your attitude? Are you trying to piss me off? I knew why it was a shitty idea and told you as much, output impedance and damping factor are linked concepts and was exactly what I was referring to when I said: The whole point of amps like the beta22 is that they present a near-zero output impedance which allows them to have very tight control over the headphone regardless of the headphones impedance. Change that and by default you affect the damping factor and the amp's ability to control the headphone. Now, there are those that would argue that having too high a damping factor is a bad thing, but that's another discussion. How do I know? Because I took the time to do the research. Credit where credit is do? I gave myself essentially no credit. And how am I being an elitist? You made a comment about people crapping their pants with reference to output attenuation, therefore I used the word shitty to describe the decision to attenuate on the output. Get it, it's a fucking pun.

I beg to differ and justin explained it better than I could have Why would you imagine that? You can select tightly matched, high-quality resistors that are impedance appropriate. In that scenario this first attenuation stage would probably be doing less harm to the signal than the variable attenuator that you're using as a volume pot.

And by doing so complicate the heck out of the arrangement and also have to deal with a lot more power dissipation over the resistors.