n_maher

Yeah, that's been confusing the heck out of me lately as well...

Agreed, I feel lucky that she puts up with all my crap and my audio insanity. There will come a time when my activities get curbed, no doubt about that.

I used to be in the same boat as both of you, needing to pack everything up after each time I used it. I don't miss those days.

You might be able to find a used Singlepower Extreme in that price range which might save you the duty, that would certainly be a good choice. And more than likely your going to need to find a balanced to single ended set of cables or adapters for your apogee as the odds of finding an amp with balanced inputs in your price range are really slim.

I was working on a project this weekend and realized that I had my camera downstairs in my DIY dungeon. It seemed like a good time to take a picture and start a thread like this, I figure no one should be ashamed of what their space looks like after they see mine. That's my nightmare, what's yours?

Happy to be of service.

The Patriots, looking rather awful on defense.

Geeez, I log off to eat dinner and miss all sorts of fun.

With 4x 6528's it'll hardly be cool, it'll probably be hotter than a bastard actually. Shit, my Wheatfield ran surface temps over 130 deg F with the single 6528. He better have done some serious planning with regard to heat management or users can plan on a life of cooked caps and torched resistors. And given the cost and rarity of 6528's I pity the fool who tries to run four (likely requiring two matched pairs), yikes.

You didn't honestly expect him to answer technical questions, did you asshat? Ray is clearly very guarded about the components and design of his amps, for whatever reason, that hardly makes him a douchebag and should have told you ahead of time that you were shouting into the wind even trying to ask technical questions.

Same thing for me, someone sent me a PM and it erased the the previous total that was showing on the front page. I really hope they're able to rebuild that database and reintegrate it.

You dated deepak, wow, that's f-ed up man.

I'd have to disagree about the high-noise floor statements regarding the beta22. While I'm hardly one to contradict Dr. Gilmore, amb's measurements of the beta seem to indicate that driving just about any load the noise floor is pretty damn low. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding something but it would seem to me that if one was so inclined they could tweak the beta22 configuration to be a hell of a preamp, probably ridiculous overkill, but it could be done easily by lowering the gain and power supply voltage. There is an entire section of the beta22 website dedicated to configuring the design as a preamp. The Dynahi, which becomes unstable at lower gains (or so I'm told) probably would make a much worse preamp.

If it weren't for, uh, other compensating qualities about her I'm quite sure the relationship wouldn't have made it 6 months.

Monosyllabic girl - we dated on and off for about 6 months before I finally broke it off out of pure frustration. The issue with her, as one might guess, was that she just wouldn't talk. I know, I know, most guys would kill for a girlfriend who didn't yap all that time but at some point it's nice to, you know, just sit around and have a conversation about something. MSG wouldn't do that, it was all one word answers all the time. What made this all the more ironic is that she was brilliant, in the very literal sense. She's a bio-chemist for a pharmaceutical company now. Didn't hurt that she was quite attractive too, I love swimmers...

There's way to much to spill, really. Most of the women that I dated prior to meeting my wife were all pretty f'ed up in one way or another. So pick your poison, you want the story of mono-syllabic girl, contract girl, interview girl, don't treat me nice girl or one of others? My dating life would make a good comedy, that much is certain.

I can relate, I definitely had a few roller coaster GF's in my time. And not the fun "Woooooo" type of roller coaster, the "oh shit, I'm gonna puke, wait, this is awesome, nope, gonna hurl" type. Hell hath no fury and all that...

Probably on the order of a couple thousand hours, I don't think that there's any official rating for tube life for most tubes because of the variable nature of the operating points the designer could choose.

Are fake girlfriends like telfon coated bullets, they kill you even if you're wearing body armor?

I've always wanted to try the 595's based on knowing that Tyll likes them quite a bit. I think that the pair he used to bring to meets were recabled w/ Cardas cable.

I don't think that any manufacturer would ever call a tube the same name and have a different pin configuration, that would strike me as absurd. And I just checked a couple of tube vendors (like thetubestore.com) and I don't see any mention of a different configuration for the 6H30Pi Gold version. You could always call some of them to check. Bottom line, I hope not since my Aikido (if it ever gets built) will use this tube and I already have a pair of the Pi's waiting to go in. And welcome to Head-case.

Amen, but it's almost not fair to call that a Mapletree amp especially from an aesthetic point since Mark did all that himself.

My PM's look like they should be there (shows the right number) but they're all gone.

At 250K it's pretty worthless for anything but tube gear.