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Did I mention that I wired a small explosive device into your beta22 last weekend? Keep pushing salty, just keep pushing..

You should expect to get ~$225 for the headphones with the stock cable, maybe as much as $25 to $50 more depending on the market demand which is always tough to gauge. High quality pics will help the sale. The Zu, hard to say what that's worth since you're going to have to find the right buyer for that one and actually may hurt your sale if you try and include it with the 650s. I'd feel good if I got $50 out of it if I were you.

I generally don't stop at half-way decent... And sleep less?!! Hell no, more sleep, MORE SLEEP.

Silly postjack, we can fix things like that.

Maybe in '09, maybe. It's the cost of the headphones that is killer right now coupled with the time it'd take to build an amp the way I'd want to do it.

For me it's a matter of space, time and money. I don't have the space for another rig (wife is already pissed enough w/ two large dynamic rigs), I don't have the time to build a stat amp any time soon (and whenever possible like to build my own gear) and just don't want to dedicate the money to stats right now. Hell, neither of my dynamic rigs is really even close to done so throwing another completely different beast into the mix is a bad, bad idea. Plus, I'm really pretty psyched about where my dynamic rig is headed and want to see that through to at least some measure of completion. I've been presented with several tempting offers lately and managed to shut them all down before I got going. It hasn't been easy, but I'm sticking to my plan so far.

Used DIY KGSS if you can find one is probably about as cheap as stat amps go. Although I freely admit that I stopped researching early in the process. No stats for me, NO STATS!!

Man, that sucks. Sorry to hear that the travel plans are so hosed up. And don't let that penguin dude hog the DAC this time.

Well the first episode was good. And yeah, Ian, I see your point but there were a lot of times in season 2 where it was pretty friggen clear that there was no one steering the ship. They got that mostly sorted in season 3 but I just don't like that they've left so much (everything) unexplained up to this point and I get the distinct feeling that they have no intention of explaining a good deal of it.

The shield on Canare SQ is quite easy to cut when stripping the jacket. I've moved entirely to mogami (not for that reason) and find that its copper shield is much more resistant although still able to be cut if you're not careful. Although usually if I've cut the shield I've cut the jacket on a conductor and then have to figure out if I can live with a shorter cable.

DUDE! SWEET!

That's not the one you've been searching for for like 6 years is it?!?!?!? :kitty: :kitty:

It had better be damn good, that's all I know. Even with my writer's-strike reduced expectations there's only so much BS I'm going to put up with this season.

There's a fair bit of conflicting information with regards to that, Jay. I used to think that the one-end only ground connection was correct (based on what I'd read) but I've recently had a few folks experience problems using cables built like that. Further research has determined that it is actually very much application dependent. Not trying to stir the pot, just provide more information.

Okie dokie.

I can only speak for myself as a non-MOT but building power supplies doesn't seem like anything anyone is interested in doing. I get requests reasonably often (considering I don't solicit anything) and usually the only way that someone gets one built is to post a WTB thread.

Ugh, those are only an hour or so from my house... Must. Not. Buy.

Happy Birthday!!

MOTMOTMOTMOTMOTMOTMOTMOTMOTMOT!!!! ;D :dance:

I'd just make sure you get one with adequate battery life. I borrowed one from a friend for a vacation and the kicker of it was the ~2hr battery life. Nothing like getting 95% of the way through a movie only to have the battery die. Oh, and the optional extra battery cost as much as the player itself!

Just slow, his amps are quite nice. He's also always been a really nice guy when I've interacted with him at meets. I just think demand has always outstripped his capacity and that he takes on way too much custom stuff that requires mountains of time.

I think you have to be a member to view that picture, or once again my browser refuses to show me anything other than the Audiocircle logo.

Peter, I'd say try and find a pair of K340s and have them reterminated with spades/bare-wire/whatever. I think at least a few folks around here have ran them direct from speaker taps with good results and even with the FOTMness of them you should be able to buy them and have the cable modded comfortably.

How hard is it to make a PBJ in the morning? Seriously, making your own lunch is one of the easiest ways to save a couple thousand bucks a year.

Why not just get one of those devices to provide timed-lights and have your DVD player hooked up to it? That way you could have the outlet automatically shut off at 2am (or whatever) to shut off the DVD player. I don't think it'd come back on when the outlet got power again and shouldn't be all that hard on the unit itself. I'm thinking something like this: