n_maher

What the F kind of wire is that?

I'm pretty sure that Dusty was being funny and that it was understood that Ed meant a gain of 1.

Care to elaborate on what the VH Audio configuration is? If it's just special litz braiding I think that HGA's braid already qualifies.

While I've never heard them I certainly haven't heard great things about Grover's stuff. In your budget range it looks to me like you're doing just fine with what you've got.

Welcome to head-case, you can't edit posts after 5 minutes. And for the record, I doubt anyone cares what you did or didn't sell your headphones for. That's between you and the buyer.

Happy Birthday!

Can you elaborate, Kevin? Have you told Ti about this? I think it's worth clarifying in this case that TI means Texas Instruments, right? I know I got confused since amb's name is Ti.

Well, you can pay $50 for shit veneer plywood if you want but this is about building something nice. And sure, free lumber is great if you can get it but the equivalent 32 board feet of Cherry would have cost ~$400 and taken 5x as much time to laminate together. This way I can get this piece built in a couple weekends.

[1] Sheet of 3/4" Cherry veneer plywood ($125) [14] board feet of Cherry ($75) = time for a new entertainment center.

I'll be honest, I can't figure out what you're describing. A picture might be worth 1000 words in this case.

The more I look at it the more it strikes me as a product that will improve in its second generation.

You're the one who put items up without a price, deal with the consequences. Bottom line, for most of the stuff you're selling you could just set a price and say that you're accepting offers through some pre-set date and get the same result. I think it always helps thing the heard of asshats that you have to deal with if you at least set a minimum. Otherwise you have no one to blame but yourself for saying "make an offer" or whatever. And in the end for stuff like the 501s is it really worth it to you to have to haggle for days on end to get another $15 to $20? Here's what I'd do: K501 mint $150 K240 sextett in good condition, w/box $150 HD580 with HD600 grilles, HD650 cables 2 spare head cushions, 1 set of foam disks and a set of left/right fork thingies $150 grado hf-1 mint w/ box and papers, 2 sets of HD414 pads, flat pads and headphile c-pads $450 stax sr-001mk2 mint w/box and papers $200

Does the Cosecant not count?

Yeah, see in my head the c-pads are a liability (would have to resell them) so they're a minus, not a plus.

Someone offered you over $450 for stock HF-1s, jesus there really is a sucker born every minute.

Pico very good. Predator not so good. Thus ends the extent of my knowledge.

I could care less about the review, what I want is for you to back up your claim that grawk offered an opinion about the gear, which you claimed he did.

Potentially dumb question since I'm sure I could research this myself but does this thing have enough processing power to play media files?

Quote it or STFU.

Have you ever tried to hear the 100's out of a decent rig? Maybe you've never heard their full potential, maybe they don't require anything other than a minimalist setup? Sounds to me like you're making a pretty uniformed decision so far. Who's to say you'd prefer the HP2s regardless of what rig you put them in?

On a more serious not what is it about your current rig that you feel needs upgrading? Source? Amp? Both? And since we don't have profiles here and you don't list any gear in your sig it would be helpful if you laid out what you're currently using.

No advice but if you decide to sell the SR100's I might be interested.

That's a double-edged sword really. One the one hand Mikhail has almost certainly put in some time designing the amp and maybe building a prototype (who knows, I'm trying to see the glass half full on that one) but on the other hand you've been way more than patient and he's missed deadlines for what, over 6 months or so know? I could easily justify going either way with it if I were you, crappy position to be put in for sure. Good thing is that next weekend you'll get to hear the K1ks out of the beta since I'll have the adapter for you then and I'll also bring my iron so we can just wire up the 4-pin jack.

OT - any news on this Haj? At this point I'd have an autodialer calling Mikhail twice-daily.

Bah, I've got nothing to talk about either but I still seem to churn out the posts at a near Reksian level.