n_maher

I would like to state, for the record, that I really do appreciate the fact that you don't list your gear in your sig. Other wise I'd spend my whole day trapped in a fit a of envy.

Mediocre at best. Oh man, don't take it like that, I got lazy after 4 names. I met lots of great folks for the first time, you certainly included. See the edit to my post.

Long Overdue Impressions: There were only really 3 items of note from CanJam. Like a lot of folks I spent a great deal of time socializing and not so much listening. I also tended to stick pretty close to my rig for fear that the great conflagration was only moments away. 1. UE11's - I just sort of happened by the UE table during lunch time and decided to sit down and have a listen. I tried both the 10s and 11s and came away more than just a little impressed. I preferred the 11's by a pretty large margin and as expected the greatest difference between the two is in the amount and quality of the bass. The 10 has a lot more bass than I've ever experienced with IEMs but to my ears seemed to have an unnatural presentation, as if somehow I was hearing synthesized bass. The 11s had slightly less bass (still way more than my Ety 4Ps) and the presentation was far more refined and realistic sounding. If I had $1100 I'd own a pair, sadly that's way out of my league and not something I'd feel at all comfortable wearing while I mow the grass. 2. The TTVJ/Millett 307A - I went into CanJam with really high expectations of this piece based mostly on my prior experiences with Pete's work (namely the Menace). He and I had been talking about this amp for months and I knew that he had put a lot of effort into the design and making it a statement piece. In my opinion he and Todd have succeeded to a great degree. The fit and finish of the amp is far greater than the prototype pictures that I had seen and while the look isn't for everyone those who prefer clean, functional gear over bling should be very pleased. The sound lived up to every expectation that I had for it, with an even, clean sound and plenty of power. My woodied HF-1s (balanced) sounded fantastic on the low-ohm setting and I really wish that I'd been able to get back over there the second day w/ my HD650s but time did not permit it. Bottom line - I don't think that I've heard a better dynamic rig. 3. Headamp's BHSE/O2 - I know enough folks have waxed poetic about it already so I'll keep my impressoins short. If the O2's are you can of choice you owe it to yourself to get a listen on Justin's latest stat amp. This rig was just amazing. Otherwise I had a fantastic time - due in no small part to the folks that attended and planned the meet. It was great to meet some new folks (Vicki, Mike, Al, Dan, among many others equally as noteworth but left off this list so that this post can end some time this week) who'd I'd only corresponded with on the forums and through email and it was equally good to see folks that I'd met at other meets. Great job Florida, someone's got their work cut out for themselves next year.

I hope that score is out of 100, otherwise you're way too generous.

Not a very strong start...

FWIW they might be grid caps, I've never used them before.

Stock photos don't count!

As far I understand it those are the plate caps, and they're completely reusable.

Heh, life is good since I've stopped taking on projects. Well, mostly stopped taking them on.

So sad that I only own 650s then. Something tells me that a wenge pair w/ black grills would still look slick as hell even w/ the silver framed 650s. If you're looking for a beta tester I know one. And I think that it would look great even if you didn't turn the edge of the grill down but left a 1/4"-3/8" lip at the edge (just a bit smaller than what you have on that first pair, all the way around) where you could use the Grado hot glue trick to pin the grill down.

Steve, Do you think that you could do them with a near full grill, Orpheus style? Cause that would be all sorts of hot.

He said he needed a min of 6 gigs, I took that to mean that anything over that was workable.

Not even close, but I do what I can.

If you think Apple's hardware is bad I have no idea what you're looking for in a DAP.

I wouldn't spend money on anything other than an Ipod touch these days. It's by far and away the best Ipod yet.

ORLY?

Stephen, If they won't repair/replace them just let me know and I'll send down the SE310s, you can have 'em.

Very nice Steve. If they were mine I'd have you use black mesh.

So we should expect them when, the next 24 or 48hrs?

Current draw really isn't an issue. Right now the input tube is drawing .6A of a possible 4A on that winding, but I know what you're saying. And it wouldn't quite be a single switch away as far as I can tell. The filaments are biased to B+ so I'm sure you could just simply switch in the 12.6V supply in place of the 6.3V without a pretty complicated switch. Granted, I haven't given it any thought so I could be over complicating the scenario but that's reason enough to pretty much stop thinking about it at this point. I want less building, more listening for a while.

Any pictures or details of the adapters that you've built? I'm more than just a little curious since all I was planning to was a direct pin to pin wiring of the loctal socket to the octal base. And there won't be any 12.6V option, it is what it is at this point and it's not going to undergo any substantial changes in the foreseeable future.

Fear not Steve, my dynamic rig isn't going anywhere.

Happy Birthday!

Nah, if that was going to happen I would have done it at CanJam so I didn't have to ship the thing home! But seriously, knowing what I have into it for parts and time I really couldn't charge enough since all I'd do is build another. Me too, I need to roll in a different input tube, the RCA that I had in there last night was kind of muffled and congested sounding. I greatly preferred the 5692 and the Sylvania 6SN7's that I've heard so far. And the parts for my 7N7 adapters should be arriving this week so I've got that to look forward to.

I'll get right on that in all the spare time that I have coming up this summer... What is more likely is that there'd be a V2 of the power supply that used a different chassis since there's no earthly reason to use a 4" tall one like I did, I just had it laying around. But again, that's just not going to happen any time soon.