n_maher

I've posted the two biggest atrocities here, although to be perfectly honest it's his sig that pisses me off more than anything. It just screams, "LOOK AT ME, I'M AN ASSHOLE!!!!1!" EDIT: Reks is my friggen hero!

So far so f'ing sweet. I've spent quite a bit of time with it now with the HA-2 and I'm liking it a lot, it's still going through some burn in I'm sure so I'm trying not to nit pick at this point. It's certainly got some bottom end. So much so that I rolled a leaner tube (5998) into the HA-2 to compensate which has worked quite nicely. I'm really looking forward to setting it up in Boston where basically no one knows what it is. I'm counting on Salty and Ian to keep the secret.

At least you don't ask for much Salty.

My personal favorite is the Neutrik Pro-fi. If I had to use a Canare plug I'd choose the F-09, I prefer its form factor to the F-10, specifically the enclosed ground connection.

If the software will let you do word substitution it would just about make my day if trose = asshat.

Yeah, I thought that was your schtick.

In my experience pornos tend to err on the side of nurses rather than doctors. The outfits are much more suitable.

I think with some mild tweaking you might be able to achieve that result. I've been getting pretty interesting results with my 340s and the Wheatfield. I'm very much looking forward to hearing them balanced out of the Beta22 whenever I get around to building that.

I'm sort of awaiting the Westone 3, to see if any sort of significant progress has been made in the universal fit IEM world. Based on what I've read neither the Shure 400 or 500 series or the Triple-Fi 10's sound like they're for me. I keep hoping someone will come out with a decent sub-$500 custom IEM. I'd have to give that some serious thought.

YGPM

WUHOO! I win, what's my prize, WHAT'S MY PRIZE!!!

The more I think about it the more confident that I become in idea that the only thing I'll replace my Etys with is a pair of customs.

I guess you really didn't want to sell me a pair?

trose's entire Beyer collection? I think they merit mention since never has someone had the ability to make a headphone look exactly how they wanted and failed so miserably.

Teh new hawtness!!1!

Honestly, my first (and really only) criticism of the amp is its use of a stepped attenuator. Using low impedance cans I'd be pretty nervous only having 24 steps. And the Penny &Giles pot isn't' a cheap option at $500 (figure -$200 for the dact, +$300 for the P&G).

For someone who loves black as much as you I'm shocked your avatar isn't just a plain black square.

postjack FTW!

more of Season 2...

I gotta ask, how the hell does one snap the shaft off an RK27? I've been pretty unkind to things in my days and generally if something can be screwed up I'll figure out how to do it best but I've never managed that feat. And shoot me a PM if you're stuck looking for an RK27, I can toss one in the mail for you any day this week and save you the shipping you'd pay AMB and tangent.

Sounds about right. Before I fixed/modded my amp it ran even hotter, which was at times pretty frightening. I picked up a pretty cheap infrared thermometer from Harborfreight and it's already come in handy for checking things like whether or not a tube has cooled off enough to take out safely.

You know, I'm all for short signal paths but unless I'm mistaken the volume is on the rear panel of that thing. Nothing like having to reach around behind the amp to adjust the fricken volume. At least their normal preamp/headphone amp has the pot at the front.

The Wheatfield runs pretty toasty as well, I think the surface temps are around 120F.

I'd honestly thought about doing that but with how expensive the cases are that I'm looking at it'd put me in the poor house. Also, I just don't see me using much in the way of single-ended headphones any more. My source will be balance and I'll be rewiring all of my headphones so the extra two boards for the ground channels would just sit there idling 99% of the time. Instead I'll probably build a 2-channel amp with those parts (since I already have them) and sell it to offset the absurdly expensive cases.