n_maher

Hope everyone had a great day.

I'm with Jay, I thought that MM and MC carts had different gain requirements, hence you not usually finding phono stages that can work with both. And it's not all that surprising that the higher gain setting has a higher noise floor, that's the nature of the beast.

His interest in the hobby pretty much got trashed by the whole Storm Audio debacle.

Ugh, no fracken PM's for the last 10 months, that's a bitter pill to swallow. Glad to hear that all of the information in the general forums won't be lost though, that would have been unbelievably bad.

Got an email from my boy Thaddy.

Yup, that's why I linked to the second bit. Although for those of us that have built ladder type attenuators before it's pretty easy to see that the Goldpoint's aren't ladder types, there simply aren't enough resistors. That's pretty much the way I remember it. There previous version looked a lot more like a stock elma stepper like this one:

This: and this:

Hmmm, I've always been told that series attenuators are the least desirable due to the fact that as you step up you add more and more resistors to the signal path. Anyone care to comment on that?

pics or ban, jack, you know the rules.

I'd shoot Aaron a PM before ordering anything, relying on my memory is like walking through a mine field blindfolded. Sure, you might make it through ok but no one would ever claim it the best way of doing things.

I think that Aaron (immtbiker) uses a Dared MP-5 to drive is TakeT's. You might try something incremental before dropping pretty big coin a speaker amp to see if the headphone scales or if it really just doesn't sound the way you want it to regardless of upstream components.

I'm trying to get Ian to host one in Kittery, peer pressure always helps.

Why? I hope you didn't pay more than $15 for it? Unless it's the 4-channel version... You can't fight evolution.

My 2c is that the recent debacle was really just error by omission and a tendency that most of us have to stick with what has worked in the past and not further complicate things, even if they really should be more complicated. There's no doubt that Jude has learned a painful lesson, I hope not too painful.

Raise hell, Haj, there's no reason to just take it.

Oh god, I was messing around on Audiogon this morning and came across the following listing... http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?dgtlconv&1200066669 Looks like the ultimate apple TV setup didn't last long, shocking given its owner's tendencies...

I'm pretty sure that socrates63 here has an MPX3 and uses W5000s. You could shoot him a PM for more detailed impressions.

That was fracken funny billy.

I've been watching it all year, it's getting better and better and is one of the shows that I think has promise if allowed to mature. Of course this also makes it extremely vulnerable to the writers strike and could easily lose it's audience and momentum, which would really be a shame.

Love you too, Ed.

Doesn't it need to be 4-channel for balanced operation?

Yet another link that I will have lost if Head-fi doesn't come back.

I'm sure the beta could be reconfigured to use both remote volume and source control. That'd be the route I'd go before adding another preamp to the chain.

Sounds like a good deal to me other than the mountains of paperwork.

Bwaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahaha. Nice one!