n_maher

Dan, that sucks. But odds are that the window replacement is going to chew up more than half your deductible so you might as well file and get some $$ back for the stuff that they stole.

Say wha?

Yeah, and it was A, B, not B, A.

Blueberry muffins cooking in the oven.

Unless I'm mistaken Voltron has his already so you can count on one being at MOA. Not to mention that tyrion already has his, and so does thrice, etc, etc.

Well clearly you've got some DIY idiots for friends so if help is needed just know it's there.

Frack that sucks Vicki. I'd say send it to Singlepower East but I'm guessing the problem is more than I can handle. I assume that you tried different tubes to eliminate that as the cause. If it's nothing simple like that I'd be all over Mikhail for a replacement, not a repair.

I couldn't find much to say what the individual products did either but based on the list prices the Wadia is cheaper by a large margin.

Rumor has it that Pete has been up to some interesting stuff lately...

Is there anything that says the devices you linked to use the digital out of the ipod or do they merely accept it as an analog input?

Yes, that works too.

n_maher = Pete Millett fanboy

If so you'd have a wealth of knowledge and be able to contribute reviews. I vote yes for the new slogan just so Pretty Princess feels better and more comfortable.

Yup, I get that part, I'm just confused about what Mike was trying to convey about the differences between the Duet, Transporter and SB3.

But Mike said that the SB3 does not, so color me confused.

I was mostly fishing to see if he'd ever tried to compare similar discrete vs. opamp implementations, not trying to imply that they can always be made to be equal. Now, hearing that his listening experience is somewhat limited in the scope of comparison (cheap opamps) I have a good frame of reference to qualify his rather strong hatred of opamps. Don't get me wrong, the best equipment that I've heard is a fully discrete design (amb's beta22) but I've also heard opamp based designs that sounded pretty good. I don't think that either of my sources, both of which are chips based, sound particularly awful either or mid-fi. Now that might just be my frame of reference and a measure of my wallet but the blanket dismissal of the opamp doesn't sit well with me.

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Something in that description leads me to believe it'd be significantly more $$ to implement that solution.

I'd be more than just a little shocked to learn that it's cheaper and more cost effective to implement and design a discrete circuit that performs to the level of most high-end opamp based designs. Better performance is almost always possible if you don't care about price.

Got any supporting documentation for that claim? Like similar designs, one done all discrete and one using the opamp equivalent and some measured results comparing the two.

Yikes, some dvd player manufacturers are going to take a bath on this one, eh? The one good thing is that hopefully this will allow companies like Oppo to now start working on a BluRay player.

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Nice review, Todd. Well thought out and put together. But I find that what's missing is hour by hour updates of the burn in process. I believe that the industry standard is to update your review at least once every 15 hours. If you could add that, that'd be great. kthxbye.

Oh lord, don't start in with that again.