n_maher

I think it'd be safe to continue the discussion of mark's mods in the thread that already exists. I'm sure there will be more iterations of the mods and each one doesn't need its own thread.

I would have loved to give FiOS a try but they don't offer it out in the country so it's Comcast or a dish and I don't want a dish. There are also rumors circulating that FiOS doesn't have any HD receivers in stock right now and won't for over a month. I have to wonder if that isn't somewhat a result of the proposed Verizon/Fairpoint deal.

Yup. My understanding is that this all started like 3 or 4 years ago. Tivo agreed to license their software for use on Comcast's boxes. It's taken this long to figure out how to integrate Tivo's software with stuff like On Demand, etc. The install took about 45 minutes most of which was spent waiting for the software to download. But it's up and running now and so far seems a lot better than the absolutely god-awful Comcast DVR software. I've read about some possible headaches on AVS Forums but I was willing to take the risk and see how it goes.

Here we go. Congrats on what is a great amp, brutally revealing but very rewarding when coupled with a proper source. Careful, some those combinations are in no way guaranteed to play nice with your PPA depending on how it's configured. Specifically if the gain setting could mean very bad things for the 637s, not too sure about the others. Unless you have reason to believe that something is setup incorrectly I'd leave well enough alone. Take it from someone who has rebuilt PPAs after people have blown them up trying to adjust the buffer bias, you DON'T want to find yourself in that situation. It took 3 rebuilds to get one of them working again. And it's really easy to have a probe slip and short the buffer while trying to adjust the bias and then all your amp will do is smoke components (how I got my custom title at head-fi) which is not nearly as much fun as listening to music. I'd highly suggest leaving it that way (see below). http://www.tangentsoft.net/audio/ppa/amp2/ - read all of that, then re-read it, then go read this - http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f6/ppa-v2-help-smoking-output-resistor-long-124880/.

Watching the Comcast tech install the Tivo software on our HD DVR.

My only fear is that it has raised my expectations for how they'll deal with the next 3 years.

Didn't you buy enough stuff this week?

Agreed, it was quite good.

You know, it's funny, the Equation RP-22x's sound like utter dogshit out of just about everything I've tried them out of except the beta22. I wouldn't thought an amp could have made that much difference, if fact it's the only case like it that I've experienced.

It'll be interesting to see how it goes w/ deepak then since from what I recall he is not at all a fan of the K340s.

I'm just busting on you, if I hadn't finally got to the place where I have no desire to try any more dynamic headphones I probably would have tried the Sextetts.

Sweet dude! If it weren't for the fact that I just mothballed my vinyl rig I would have picked one up.

Damnit man, that type of stuff is top f'ing SECRET!

http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f10/sold-woodied-stax-lambda-pro-headphile-250415/

That'll definitely one of the most absurd office amps ever. But if you're going with the mini it might make more sense to use a Duet for DAC duty.

Well, first I have to prototype the cable -approx. 6 weeks. Then I have to patent the design as this will be the world's first K1000 retermination (another Nugget Audio innovation) - I'm told to expect 6 to 8 months. Then I will have to order and stock supplies for this soon-to-be hotter than white-hot-ultimate-audio-goodness-K1000-mod-oh-my-god which will only take 2 weeks. So, all that said I expect Haj to receive his K1000's in time for CanJam '09. I really appreciate him offering me this opportunity.

Oh, they're getting direct shipped to me so I've got plenty of leverage!

Would now be a bad time to mention the fee for the retermination? I'm now using what I like to refer to as my ALO sliding scale for cable work which does not contain values lower than 100 and operates using an exponential function.

Peter, In my morning deluge of crap emails I saw this. http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=205714260&adid=17654&dcaid=17654 Seems like a pretty decent deal for 500GB.

LIES! I have it on good authority that the last thing you bought was something else!

At least let me take a better picture if you want to photoshop it. I could also take it with the meter reading at the middle so that it's reading "MEH".

Macbook + Duet?

Well, I certainly can't help you with that. I'd suggest looking in the mirror if an MOT clan member is what you seek.