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I'd read a bit about the FLAC transcoding capabilities which indeed sound intriguing and this thing already had mad bang for the buck. .

Delivered Ian's gift this morning so I can finally post this: SMCWAA-G EZ Stream 802.11g Wireless Audio Adapter Basically a less expensive version of the SB3, can be found for way less than even the MSRP if you're willing to dig. Stock it'll only stream MP3s but for a desktop rig that works for me. Also, thanks to the folks at DIYAudio it was discovered that you can mod the unit pretty simply to have an optical digital output. That'll be one of my next projects since I followed the military model when I picked this up for Ian. Why buy one when you can get two for twice the price? Should make a killer addition to the soldering rig.

I'm sensing you should return the Cardas adapters if at all possible.

Happy birthday to a guy who pours heart and soul into this hobby. Cheers!

I don't, nor to a really believe that there are two unique versions of the K340s. Do different ones sound different, sure, but I'm not sure it's a black and white difference. Also, I don't think that mine has any sort of screen mod done and the highs sound fine to me, of course I lean toward the Senn side of the spectrum so that may just be my preference. I'll try to take some decent pics this weekend and post them up.

Nice, I have a couple of RCA's similar to the ones on the end of your line, pretty nice sounding tube in my book. Unfortunately one of mine is getting noisy and will need replacement soon. I really need a tube tester!

I'm really interested to dig into my 340s. After listening for a couple of hours last night I have to say that this experience with them is going considerably different than my previous one. The first pair of 340s that I had were recabled with Silver Dragon but that was it. I'm wondering if more has been done to this second pair (also recabled, at a minimum) since they sound significantly different from the first pair.

Can't post the last thing I bought, it's Ian's birthday present and shall remain a surprise until I deliver it. I do enjoy torturing him though so I thought I'd post about it in this thread.

It was, in my opinion, damn near television perfection. Sofa king good.

K340s arrived in much better than anticipated condition. They need a recable but have already been converted to dual sided cable entry along with a few other mods. I won't know much till I get them apart but for now I've got them warming up on the Wheatfield to see how they sound.

Hardly, shit happens, people have a life, etc. No worries man, bummer that it doesn't look like we'll pull this off but you shouldn't have any guilt about it. Which kind of lazy Sunday? We talking, The Chronic...what?...les of Narnia?

I heart the Transporter but I'm hopeful that a slightly tweaked SB3 + DAC will yield similar performance, although not nearly as sexy looking.

Haven't heard one yet but I'll certainly be building a mini3 V2.

With the better pictures I'm with Ian, it looks like end grain which is nice, I far and away prefer that to larry-style side grain. This would imply that the only changes are the font and the button. And nice catch Justin, that's a bang up job they did with the lettering.

They've always used end-grain in the past, it's a complete departure (and different manufacturing technique probably) from the previous RS-1 and 2 design. And the horseshoe has always been there Dusty.

Just wondering if anyone else caught the new design of the RS-2s on HF? Items of note: 1. No more endgrain - now done "Larry style" with sidegrain. Pretty weak in my opinion. 2. No more button. I'm sure this was a man'f/labor based decision, one less assembly step and one less thing for folks to bitch about/fall off. 3. New font. Not my cup of tea but I'd have to see it in person to know for sure.

When might you know for sure?

Nah, I'm an asshole, ask Pinky, I should just be ignored. Bring the funnay postjack, bring it old-school.

I'm going to let the Salted one know about this mini-meet as well since he's just down in MA. Maybe he can make the trip?

Lemee guess, he's working on another portable amp.

Talk to thrice or cotdt, I think they've both had newer Denons apart.

My guess is Ray saw Headroom/SP/Rudi/Meier all planning SS balanced amps and figured he'd better join the party. What's funny is that at last fall's Boston Meet Ray and I had a pretty long conversation about how he thought he'd never be able to sell a multi-thousand dollar SS amp and that tubes were the only thing that would work in that category. So I'm not sure he had the Apache in the pipeline all that long.

Being the captain of camp Ray Samuels I'm guessing that the super secret project he's had listed in his sig for half a year now is something from Ray.

Yeah, I read some of those and it sounded like a 50:50 proposition. I just hate it when they don't give a series like that an opportunity to wrap things up in any fashion (from what I've read). I don't need answers to everything but a couple wouldn't be all bad. I'm sure I'll still enjoy the heck out of the next two seasons, I just wish there was going to be more.

My Ipod is going on 3 years strong and it only cooked itself once. [me=nate]knocks furiously on wood[/me]