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Vicki, you want to post pictures of the damage and see if we can't find some way to spruce it up further? Even if you keep it it'd be nice if it didn't remind you of the BS every time you look at it. You've got all sorts of friends in low places now.

This thing probably weighs what, 20x the tomahawk. By Raw's law of burn-in that means that at 4000hrs it will really start to open up and at 8000hrs it'll be the bestest evar!!!1!!

Sell the Heed, save your $$$. Dangit, did I just do a "voice of reason" thing again, my bad, my bad. And you know that John will let you borrow his, and isn't Gene getting a pair too?

Check your PM's, you might not have that problem for long...

I just fail to understand how some of these cable companies justify their costs... So I guess I'll send what others have said, try some of the lesser expensive cables (Blue Jeans, Anti, etc) and see how your dad likes them. Me, I've tried some of the MIT Terminator line but found that both the anti-cables and DIY stuff sounded considerably better at a fraction of the cost.

I love living in the boonies where there isn't a single person within range of my wireless network.

Probably not, since if you weren't pirating the material you'd want the best version available, right? It would seem the logical thing to do would be to chose to go back to all DVD and see if you can occasionally spec the Blu-Ray version if that's what you want.

Uh, yeah, I'd have to agree that he probably hasn't spent any significant time comparing the Melos to anything else.

You know it's funny, I had a chance to try a Melos in my rig at the last Boston Meet and I came away pretty nonplussed. I mean for $300 to $400 it's probably a fine amp but I guess I just didn't get any of the magic that some folks do and could never see spending $1000 on a completely modded one. Quite frankly, I liked my uber-Millett considerably more with Grados, car radio tubes and all.

You had me at Buffy, downloading Season 1 now. Gotta find something since those cocksuckers canceled Deadwood.

Isn't that what the XR-10B does? It only has single ended inputs.

and probably as hot as hell too.

That's what I've always been told as well. Can't say I've ever really looked into it though.

Sort of, but the Wheatfield uses a tube rectified power supply, which I don't think any Extreme does and the Extreme runs parallel output tubes (as you know) so it drives low-ohm loads better but requires matched tubes. One more thing, the Wheatfield has enough current capacity to run some serious output tubes like the 6528A, I'm not sure the Extreme can handle that.

YGPM

Aha, I suppose that'll get the job done in the interim. You know, love of tubes aside you might give some serious thought about Stephen's beta22 group buy. For relatively short money you could have a nice amp for both sets of cans.

Deepak, Are you seriously without an amp right now? I think you've answered this before but heck if I can remember what you've got on the way right now.

Honestly, if a one-off custom were what I was looking for and money wasn't thought to be a big object I'd see if I could get in touch with Blackie Pagano. The Noise Duality amp that he built for tjkurita is beyond impressive both visually and sonically.

I'm pretty sure that they don't, but it's probably discussed with the idea that open discussion of such things will probably only spread dissension and that it'd be a quick ticket for the removal of mod privileges.

Honestly Jacob, given the amount of shit that they have to sift through and how few mods there are that are active at all I'm not all that surprised. Head-Fi could use 4x the number of mods especially considering that there's a good number that don't log on hardly at all any more.

I can understand that, and understand that it's only the admins (there are only 2, right) that can apply the MOT tag but man, I have to tell you, it makes all of you look bad when that stuff goes unchecked. And it'd be one thing if it was just that it took a little while for the changes to be put into effect but we're going on a period of years, during which other MOT's have been dealt with, and still these characters walk around like they own the place. Seriously, I'm surprised that more sponsors haven't pulled out as a result of it.

But you do have direct access (through the mod forum) to the people who can, right? If tomb can get noticed after selling 3 amps (for the cost of basically the parts, BTW) then what about at LEAST a half dozen folks at head-fi selling cables, amps, acting as manufacturer's reps, etc, that don't even try to hide it because for whatever reason they basically skate scot-free. As someone who has been repeatedly accused of being an MOT despite probably donating about $10,000 worth of my time, parts, and so on this drives me up a wall and undermines the very core of any debate on that site. There's not even a hint of impartiality on some folks part. Think of it this way, from my perspective it looks like you guys have the gun and constantly chose to ignore the guy raping the girl in the alley and shoot the guy j-walking who was just trying to keep an old lady from getting hit by a car. \

I'd think that a TREAD-wallwart combo could be done for under $50. The TREAD itself (minus case) is ~$20 in parts, the wallwart another $5 to $10, the rest, completely variable. The big thing is making sure that it's ok for the 1A current requirement.

You're correct, I can't read. Or more correctly, didn't read enough. My recommendations still stand regardless.

What's the PS for Zach? IMO you'd be much better off either gettting a sigma11 from Stephen or if you're trying to keep it super cheap find someone to build a little boxed up TREAD that'll take the input from your existing wallwart and output a better DC signal than the Elpac ever will.