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Dew Eeet. I think that you should beat Mike to the dual beta24 K1k amp with a balanced beta22 as the preamp. Should only cost about $6k in parts and smoke the doors off of everything.

That is very bizzare, since if your SP is wired like others I've seen it should have a switched headphone jack which means that when you plug in your headphones you essentially disable the preamp outputs. How that could stop working and then start working again is beyond me. It might pay to crack the cover on that sucker one of these days and have a peak under the hood.

Completely off topic but something that I actually thought of the other night - what's up with your Extreme these days?

Yeah, I know all to well about Mike and Capt.#'s gear-whore syndrome. I'm ok with it and can't complain since I've been the beneficiary. And I'm just happy that I got the prototype of the cable done, one less thing that ALO can claim to have "invented'. Our man grawk can report how it works out later this week and then we'll go into production in the next week or so. OMFG, MOTMOTMOTMOTMOTMOTMOT

You're already convinced, what exactly are we supposed to do? For me it would come down to whether or not you're tied to using the Ipod as your transport. If you're not, the Imod/dock treatment sounds like a shite load of money for a solution that limits what you can do with it. You can couple the pico to anything that can output usb audio, you can't do anything else with the Imod other than use it with the dock and you can't use the dock with anything other than the Imod.

I think it was more related to jet engines than music.

Ray is old, therefore his designs must be superior.

Or permanent if you don't feel like tearing something apart.

Regardless of who you were rooting for I don't think that was a good game. Two mostly inept offenses, one very inept offensive line, one lucky quarterback. The Giants definitely deserved to win, but it wasn't by virtue of playing particularly well in all phases of the game or anything like that. This really was one of those games that hinged on a single play. What a friggen waste of 4 hrs.

Steve, seems to me that you could try a couple simple experiements. First have a look and see if the ground pin on your XLR cables (should be pin 1) is connected on both ends. If it is you could try disconnecting it at the speaker end and see if that helps. Or you could try using a cheater plug on the power cords for the monitors and see if that makes a difference.

I think having a balanced digital output and cheap probably don't coexist all that often. Why do you need AES/EBU? I know there's the supposed benefit of having a 120ohm impedance (or something like that) but I'm not sure my ears care.

That's about what I was figuring, aerius.

I can't imagine what the price would be for something like that, probably high.

That is a question with many answers...

I think what you're seeing is all one amp, 2 separate power supplies tied to the central amplification section.

Happy birthday!

Nah, I'm still a slave to dynamic headphones. NO STATS! [me=Vince]arms explosive in salty's b22...[/me]

Bunch o' tubes for an upcoming project, parts to follow shortly.

Nice one Steve, although I do prefer the look of the black 600 grills to the painted 580 grills. Actually, the 586s (what I call them) are a pretty sexy headphone, much more so than the marbled blech that is the 600s.

Hmmmm, best black headphones... I'd go with custom woody Grados (insert HF-1/225/325) w/ Ebony, black grills and an old-school black leather headband.

True enough, but at least when it fits someone it's comfortable.

As far as I know you're correct, Jay. Just look at either a 2-channel or 3-channel beta22 wired as a speaker amp. The L and R speaker taps share a common ground for the '-' portion of the speaker output. And since I've used that exact amp wired exactly as amb shows it I think it's safe to say that it works and doesn't cause any issues. If it could blow up I'd be the one to blow it up. :)And if IIRC my gainclone works the exact same way and works just fine too.

PLASTIC FANTASTIC!! Eh, I dunno. I guess they're black enough but I've been left pretty wanting by a lot of AKG's more recent offerings (601/701). That doesn't exactly give me great hope for a lower end open can, limited edition or not. About the best thing that I can sy is that they're probably pretty darn comfortable, AKG seems to get that part right more often than not.