n_maher

Starting threads like this is it any wonder?

Given your size constraints I'd say that your odds of finding something cheap and commercially available are pretty slim. I think you're going to have to get creative and find something that's the right size but not designed for the job. Example: a couple of bricks would be about the right size, though potentially unstable.

worst thread on head-case, ever.

It's still on the books for Headroom to release an new version although I'm not sure where that project is right now. I haven't talked w/ Tyll or Pete about it in a while. And lucky you were to grab that, they are few and far between these days. I don't think I've seen one for sale since I sold mine last year.

She does run toasty, Jack, but it should be ok. Wait till we roll some tubes other than a 6080 in there!

Home Depot/Lowes type stores carry things called wall cubes which I think are what Tyll has recommended in lieu of the Desktop Speaker Stands.

Pffft, I got a 0.

Nice, Indra! I have had one for my D80 for a little over a year now and can't imagine going back to using it without it. SWEET!

Now about the transmission path...

In case there was any real doubt that big knob was a joke.

I honestly think that this perception is purely a result of the Headroom knob's diameter. If you've ever use a Single Power amp w/ a stepper you'd understand as the feel is pretty similar. You just don't generate much mechanical advantage with the stock knobs in both cases. That's why I like to use big honkin' knobs on all my projects, it greatly helps with attenuator feel, whether it's a pot or SA.

Probably exactly what you need and they aren't horrifically expensive.

Nice! Glad to hear that they took care of you.

Without signal degradation is going to be the kicker. Honestly, the only good cure is to find a source with either a good built in preamp or live with the possibility that an inline attenuator is going to potentially degrade the signal slightly.

I'm tempted to say nay. Tis a shite load of $$$ and the more time that passes the more variable I want my control, not less. Granted, with the gain switch you'll be all set with the HR amp but I'd be shocked if you got back the type of performance gain that the price might have you expecting.

I can assure you I do not. Yeah, I've got it pretty bad. But I started thinning the heard earlier this week and sold off a few pairs. I'll unload a bunch of 6SN7s if the 7N7 experiment goes well.

A few more 7N7's to run through the Menace. And my Tung Sol 6520s finally arrived today.

I'll be curious to hear what you think of them once you get the adapter. I found the listening experience from the stock amp pretty lackluster. Running of Justin's BHSE was a different story entirely. I think grawk had much the same experience and may have even tried them off of a third amp.

You're driving them off the stock amp, right? Having heard them properly driven at CanJam I can say that they do in fact respond favorably to better amplification. One of these nights I'll get my Koss to Stax adapter built and be able to see how well the SRD7 does driving them.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

The Touch has no issues with it and the Phone doesn't seem to either. Postjack and I were both posting live from CanJam. He was on Edge, I was using the hotel's wifi.

The problem with DIY Duet cables is that Apogee seems to be using a non-standard receptacle that isn't playing nicely w/ the VGA connectors that I've been able to source. Their receptacle is so shallow that normal male plugs can't seat fully and the retention screws can't reach the embedded fasteners. So it's a somewhat tenuous connection, seems ok for really static setups but if anything gets moved around the connection gets lost far too easily for me to be happy. If I can get through the rest of my fire sale on Head-Fi I might pick one up to do some research with. So far Apogee support has been ignoring me and I don't have much recourse with them since I don't actually own one of their products.

Happy Birthday!

It's perfectly possible, although still not really cheap since your best option is a sigma22 and I'd expect to pay ~$200+ to have a suitable one built. There are other options but I'm not sure I'd bother w/ something like twin TREADS or something like that. I'm w/ Reks, fancy power cords seem to me to be a waste of time. If I couldn't build my own I'd still be using the same Volex already mentioned. And I'd always go w/ a better source before upgrading anything else.