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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.

Yeah, if it's an environmental variable like that I just don't think that full sized cans are going to cut it. If I were you I'd look into either custom IEMs or something that fits your ears better than the ER4Ps, assuming that comfort is the issue. I know that my ears hate the tri-flanges any more but can tolerate the foamies for hours. Weird since I used to wear the tri-flanges exclusively. I really wish Westone would get their act together and release their new universal so they can get started on the custom version. Seems to me that there's a pretty big hole in the sub $500 custom IEM range. I can't get myself to take a flier on the live-wires for some reason.

How much isolation do you need? It always stuck me as a pretty bad idea to change the fundamental characteristics of a can (open to closed). I'm not saying that what other have experienced isn't a good change, only that for the cost of modifying the Senns you could buy another set of headphones entirely. And seriously, if closed/isolated is what you need the only thing that I've found that offers any real isolation is IEMs. Everything else seems to be in the 10db reduction category, which just doesn't cut it for isolation in my book. However, if what you need is just to limit sound leakage then that's a different story all together.

F'ing SWEET! I love it when I don't break things.

If it wasn't for the fact that you routinely do shit like this billy (as I said several pages ago) I might actually believe that you were sorry. Instead, what I'm left with is the feeling that you felt like you got caught and tried to save face.

postjack, ftw.

Oh *yawn* billy, your act is getting seriously tired. You come in, stir up whatever shit you can, then apologize and pretend you never meant it or were joking, blah, blah, give me a friggen break. If you think a group of like minded individuals qualify as a clique I think you need to go back and do some more research, there's quite a few of us that disagree about many things and the truly great thing is that we're not afraid to discuss it and not have to agree about it.

I wonder if trose has figured out yet that he can't edit his posts.

I really appreciated the time and effort that the author took in explaining how the different components were selected. I may very well have a go at building it with a different input tube. Otherwise there's the ubiquitous gain-clone type amps, I've got one of those completed but have never cased it up and never applied power, yet another thing to get off my bench one of these days. Jebus, I've got a lot of stuff sitting downstairs.

I was going to start out (and have some of the parts to do so) by building the boozhound labs 6SN7/6V6 speaker amp. This was mostly because I wanted to get the theory behind the design at the same time rather than just reading directions and stuffing a pcb. This build is currently on hold until I get some other stuff off my bench but I really hope to get to it this winter. And I have no idea how it would sound, only that it'd be pretty cheap to build ($300ish IIRC) and parts and tubes might easily be transitioned to other projects if I decide I don't like the way it sounds.

I believe you lost him right there, Reks.

First, congrats and good luck on your new venture Ethan. Second, what sort of friends and family discount are you planning.