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Then you really have to ask yourself, is it a better use of $1000 to build a rig that will have limited use given your current collection of vinyl or would you be better off and closer to achieving sound that you like by improving other areas of your rig? I started building towards a +/- $1000 vinyl rig and ultimately decided that it wasn't worth it. I've got 40 or so albums but have no desire to go hunting around for more or pay premium prices on ebay or wherever to get the ones that I do want. So I pulled back my rig plans even further and I'm now shooting for around a $500 rig. I've already got my Thorens TD 160 ($150) and my Hagerman Bugle ($75) is built but not cased so really all I've got left is to get a cart. I'll probably go with one of the lower end Grados and call it a day which will put me well below the $500 mark. I hope to have something that sounds decent and allows me to enjoy what vinyl I do have and leave it at that. My 2

In my opinion, based on much advice gathered from those more experienced than myself, if you're going to spend more than a grand on your whole rig you should be prepared to include a good record cleaner in that budget or else you're really wasting your time.

His Bottlehead isn't done yet. He cased it up for NYC but didn't finish the casework. And there's a ton of pictures of it in the NYC Meet Thread but it looks exactly the same as the one on the bottlehead website. Depending on how you think about it that's the beauty of their kits, they really are soup to nuts and you get a very nice looking product in the end.

Perhaps the first thread worthy of deletion here at Headcase?

Personally I steer clear of anyone who sells a $750 power cable wrapped in what would appear to be plastic wire loom.

Here's my quick-take: Season 1 - good to great, definitely worth watching Season 2 - eh, somehow too much Kim was a bad thing Season 3 - gawd awful, my wife and I couldn't finish it After the season 3 debacle we decided to just pick it up this year and maybe go back to Season 5 which I've also heard was good this summer.

I for one am not trying to argue that what Art does is necessarily a bad thing, only that his claims of being completely impartial are dubious.

Art, Quick question for you. Have you ever received indirect compensation from Cattylink for your services? I'm talking discounted products, etc. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that the answer to that might be yes but I'd like to hear you state something for the record.

This would officially qualify as piss pour timing on her part. I guess it's worth saying that at least they got the album done with her vocals.

I think this officially means that the case has hit the big time!

I've only used the Hakko but it is a very nice piece. It heats up in about 10 seconds and seems to have very good recovery even during heavy use. I don't think you can go wrong with either and the price difference is only about $10 from what I found during quick searches. My 2

If it were me, faced with this dilemma and the advice given so far I'd have a long think about custom IEMs. They should be more comfortable than universals from a "stuffed in the ear" perspective and something like the UE-10s or maybe something from Westone might be just what the doctor ordered. On the plus side you wouldn't need a uber-powerful amp to get the best out of an IEM either. Just my 2

Happy to be of service!

Grawk, I assume that you checked the IEC inlet to make sure that it doesn't have a built in fuse. It might not be the most obvious thing and I don't know if Mikhail has ever used inlets of that type. It might looking something like this. Also, it could definitely be something like the switch. If you've got a DMM it should be pretty easy to check the continuity at the switch (with the power disconnected for safety of course). Let us know what you're able to check.

If anyone in this thread is still looking for a killer source they should jump on this. I spent some quality time with Mark's ECD-1 last summer and man, if it weren't for the fact that the Beta22 has literally bled me dry I'd be all of this. As it is I'm turning over couches as we speak.

Looks beefy!

Actually, there wasn't much discussion of it other than one person had gotten a hold of a sample and tried it in a PIMETA and said that to his ears it sounded very similar to the 627. I don't take a whole lot from that statement other than the fact that I'd very much like to hear more about the chip and what it's capable of. I don't think anyone considers the PIMETA the ultimate test rig. So I say bring on the chatter.

There was a thread about this on that other headphone forum a while back and the few people that studied the data sheet agreed that there were marginally better specs compared to the 627. The one downfall that I see is that it does not appear that TI will produce the chip in a dip8 package.

Happy birthday!

If you're able you should take a trek down to http://www.ensemble-av.com/ in Nashua. I've dealt with them in the past and they've been great and they carry higher-end stuff like you're looking for. And a quick note about sub-sat setups, if you've got a laptop you can pick up a mic, download some software and tune the crossover in the sub to be pretty seamless.

Not to nitpick your decision but why? I would think that if ultimate fidelity is the goal while keeping costs "reasonable" that a great solution would be two speakers and two subs. Really, I'm just hoping that you'll take a flier on Outlaw Audio's new speakers and put them with a pair of the LFM-1's.

Unfortunately not, my wallet has limits.

That makes two of us. The last of the components should ship tomorrow which means I can start in earnest casing it up in a week or so. Shouldn't take all that long as I'm keeping it fairly simple. I have been listening to it air-wired on my bench (hell of a soldering rig, let me tell you) and what I've heard so far does not bode well for my wallet. I see a source upgrade in my future...

I'm with humanflyz, with the K340's in order to get a balanced presentation I had to listen louder than I was comfortable. At that level I thought they sounded pretty damn good, but not so much better than my HD650s that I wanted to figure out how to make them sound good to me at lower levels. All that said, hopefully we can get you both a K1000 and K340 audition with the beta22 when it's done. It should be a freakin' beast.

Ventricular fibrillation - A low-voltage (110 to 220 V), 50 or 60-Hz AC current traveling through the chest for a fraction of a second may induce ventricular fibrillation at currents as low as 60mA. With DC, 300 to 500 mA is required. If the current has a direct pathway to the heart (e.g., via a cardiac catheter or other electrodes), a much lower current of less than 1 mA, (AC or DC) can cause fibrillation. Fibrillations are usually lethal because all the heart muscle cells move independently. Above 200mA, muscle contractions are so strong that the heart muscles cannot move at all. Ok, so now you're saying AC can kill. You started in this thread saying AC voltage can't kill Billy, that's a stupid and irresponsible thing to say, especially if you're a licensed electrician. I'm all for you sharing your knowledge but some of the things you've stated in this thread are asinine.