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Given the hand-crafted nature I don't think it's aimed at making sense to very many people.

Most athletes have Peter, myself included. Either as the result of an injury that required frequent taping or as prep for surgery or if you're a cyclist it's damn near a requirement. If you've ever had road rash with harry legs you know what I'm talking about.

Yeah, I can't imagine someone using them in a commercial application. And I wish Frank the very best of luck if he brings his amp to market.

It's a singled ended amp that can drive balanced headphones.

First things first - I have no direct affiliation with this product or the vendor but I'm friendly with the designer. If that makes me biased, so be it, I guess I'm biased. Now, onto the amp. Basically it's a single ended amp with transformer coupled inputs and outputs to provide balanced operation and was designed to drive anything from IEMs to the K1000 (via selectable outputs). The tube compliment consists of a 7N7 input tube and two 307A output tubes. More details are available on Todd's site. I'm certainly looking forward to giving it a listen at CanJam even though it far exceeds the ability of my wallet.

Pfft, what a wimp.

Al, I'm really looking forward to hearing your rig at CanJam to see if there exists a system that I can appreciate the Ed9's on. So far I've heard them driven by one of Rudi's amps, a modified Krell and perhaps one other system and come away with at least a similar impression each time they aren't my cup of tea. I also hope to have a pretty serious single-ended HD650 rig ready for the meet but if I don't start ordering parts soon that'll be in jeopardy. Ugh, nothing like having to yell at yourself to get something done!

Typically it allows you to enable/disable the safety ground (the third prong on your power cord). This can help with ground loop issues in some cases. Since this is a passive device it must be slightly different but essentially probably floats a ground connection instead of tying it to the chassis.

Why so sad my robot buddy?

You know, that reminds me, I never did finish Season 2.

yeah, i'd never even joke about recommending the real prick from Audiogon.

you know i'm not talking about the asshat that sold you the amps, right?

Name a couple of shows you've liked Vicki. I think at one point I suggested something for you and you hadn't liked it, so I'm all like nervous and stuff now.

How is it, Jacob? I've thought about checking it out for a while now but thought it might be a bit too black given the premise.

I suggest contacting JBAudioPimp about some AT ES7's that can be had cheap, Jack.

Well that's good to know, but right now I'm on a waiting list for this: http://www.popcornhour.com/onlinestore/ From what I've read these things are supposed to be fantastic as an easy-to-use, flexible media streamer that'll handle just about any format you throw at it. They currently sell on Ebay for double retail. And Peter, my current media device (D-Link DSM520) seems to be able to handle most downloaded content off of a USB 2.0 stick. If you were using the USB interface on the Oppo there wouldn't be another computer in the chain, it would be the decoding computer, unless it doesn't do what I think it should.

Some of their previous players have had it as well, I just wonder how many different codecs they support. There's some info on it in the specs but my experience is that you never know till you try. And at $400 it's getting too close to what a half-decent media PC could be built for.

Oh Lord, Ian so needs that psycho kitty book.

Let us know how that goes.

More power to him, certainly nothing wrong with what he's doing.

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Dang man, I'm still working my way through Season 2. Just watched "Passion" last night, which while a great episode was also very painful. Bring back my Jenny!

Leave your hair out of my gear.

Evidently UPS decided that they hadn't screwed up the situation with the transport enough, rather than return the transport to me after "inspecting" the package they shipped it back to the guy in Canada. So let's hope he's the honest type and just refunds my $ since right now I have neither the player nor the $.