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Nah, no more top loading transports for me. And no because I had a pretty rough go of it with the first HiFiDIY transport, customs mangled the box and I was missing about half the fasteners for the kit. My luck with transports/cd/dvd players is epically bad.

Source chain goes like this: SB3 ----> Hertsens DAC or Arcam ----> Hertsens DAC All the Arcam does is read the info and feed the Hertsens a digital signal. It's a fine transport and I really should leave well enough alone. But I'm an idiot, love gadgets and had a hankering for a dedicated transport. I think my need for one has passed and I'll stick with what I've got that works.

I swear, if you don't shut up now I'm going to really start messing with you.

God I love DigiKey - order placed at 10:57am, order shipped at 12:20pm. That's great service.

For now (and probably the foreseeable future) my Arcam CD73. I may send the Wadia in to have the digital output added but I seem to have issues with shipping lately so I'm not exactly excited about that prospect.

I thought you were Mr. Boss Man, bump it back again dude!

Hmmm, I never really thought about it like that. In the end it's a pretty crappy situation for both of us but I have some confidence that as a result of his profession he may have better luck negotiating with UPS than I would have.

A ticket to CanJam?

He's ahead? Could have fooled me. Oh WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Quit trying to act so cool and you'll be fine.

I've got bracket V1.0 done.

Careful, you're starting to resemble that asshat comment I made earlier...

Would you have preferred if she lied to you or went on for 3 paragraphs explaining her answer? Welcome to a filter free environment (for the most part, unless you're an asshat), get over it.

I owned the HFI-700 for a time and if these are an evolution of those I'd have to say that I have very little interest in auditioning them as a music headphone. I can however second the idea that they may in fact do quite well for movies. While it would never be my first choice to watch a movie via headphones there are times when it is more polite to do so in a shared living environment and the HFI 700 DVD's that I had were by far the best headphone that I've used for this purpose. Still it wasn't enough to keep them in my collection as they were not much good for anything else.

Yeah, it ended up being a $50 failed experiment but could have gone much, much worse. And it is nice to have closure on this.

Well my saga with the transport officially ended today with the near full refund that I received from the seller. In the end he was more than fair and I feel lucky that the transaction was conducted with someone like that. Otherwise right now I'd be doubly screwed (no money, no transport). I also think that this officially ends my search for a transport. The End

Vicki, I think I've related this experience before but to my ears the Equation Audio RP-22X's have sounded downright awful out of everything short of a beta22. They seem to respond pretty favorably to that type of amplification which is in no way represented in their specifications. Weird indeed.

Sweet! Me, I just bought some caps and Amphenol connectors from Digikey. I'm now 99% done ordering parts for The Menace.

I figured you've got enough on your plate that you don't need yet another location to monitor about the Pico. Plus, it just strikes me as a stupid question since you'll update the list as soon as you can.

A multitude of resistors, caps. clamps, terminal strips, tube sockets, 1/4 plugs, RCA jacks and I'm sure I'm forgetting more. Basically about 95% of what I need to work on the Menace project.

You really think he's going to answer you here?

Parts.

Welcome to 2 years ago.

UPS picked the package up from me on the 4th of March to inspect it as a part of the damage claims process. They denied the claim on the 5th and on the 6th they updated the original tracking number with the following information: CONTACT UPS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION / RETURNED TO SHIPPER At that time I contacted the shipper and told him that it appeared that the transport was headed back to him and to let me know where he stood. I also suggested waiting until it got back to him before sorting out some final resolution. He agreed and we both remarked at how messed up it was that they would send it back to him. One week passes. He emailed me this morning asking if I knew anything new so I called UPS. It took them 10 minutes to figure out that I was only the receiver, then another little while to figure out that the package had been given a new tracking number (WTF?) and then even longer to say, "We're sorry, the shipper needs to contact us to put a trace on the package to find out where it is and why it hasn't been returned to him." The new tracking number only says "Billing Information Received" and no one seems to know where it is or why it hasn't gone anywhere since the 6th. I'd really like to know why neither the shipper or myself was provided with any updated information. Apparently as the receiver I'm a second class citizen and not privy to the inner workings of where the package I paid for is.