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Big power SS for the O2 Don't get me wrong, I love good tube amps, and I already am using them to power the speakers, but the heat generation and size of amps like the BHSE do make them quite impractical to me. Otherwise I'd probably own a BH or would be waiting for a BHSE at this point. Were there a SS amp to drive the O2 with a convenient size and lower heat production, but that managed to drive them like the BH/BHSE (power and sound wise), I'd be ordering one right away.

Happy Bday!

Huh, don't you like fireworks? It's lovely when your amp burns in flames the rest of the rig and the carpet while you try to reach the extinguisher. Then there's the smell... highend audio is full of joy and emotions.

Darthsilverice, read your welcome message again and disregard almost any advice you get, specially if it involves anything from Single Power.

I'm afraid you're right, IIRC 6th gen are very difficult to open and prone not to close well afterwards. Maybe just returning to shape the locking tabs works to close it back, but the opening thing... Well, try it and keep us posted

You didn't read your welcome message, did you? My opinion, like yours, is worth a shit in a site like this. However mine, and how other members of HC consider it, doesn't come from my post count, but for the mutual confidence we've built along time. In any case it's not important, I wasn't advising the batteries, but the tools that come with them to open the iPod.

I don't think so, just was surprised for the reply by a complete unknown newbie getting here for the first time to bash something I've used without problems, and to shill something else

I installed the Nupower batteries, they worked without appreciable performance loss for more than two years until the HD started to fail. No complains here.

I've opened my 2nd generation iPod for battery replacement (now I'm not using it since the HD died and I don't feel like replacing it). Not sure if the procedure is the same as in newer generation iPods, but I don't think it's difficult. Having the proper tools helps a lot, but you can do it using a sharp knife, a thin screwdriver and a lot of care. Some battery replacement kits come with the tools, which is a couple of blue plastic levers with a very thin curved edge If it needs a new battery the Nuforce ones work quite well.

After Prefab Sprout's first album, now listening to Alannah Myles - Rocking Horse

Hehehe I was just thinking of you

Kings of Leon - Youth and Young Manhood

Those are good news, maybe I can convince someone to get one, then having a listen

As you can see in the left graph, the pins layout of the ECC99 is not the same as the 5687's. So for your amp you'd need either a direct adapter from the amp's 6SN7 socket to the ECC99's pins, or using two adapters, one from 6SN7 to 5687 and a second one from 5687 to your ECC99. Sounds like a tough call to me I'd contact JJ to see if they can direct you to some manufacturer making such adapters. Good luck.

Listening to it on Spotify. Not bad so far (on track 1 right now).

Hi Miguel, nice to read you here too As I replied you at Auriculares.org, I don't think it's a great idea to use a 5687 --worse an ECC99 which is not direct 5687 replacement-- on a circuit designed around the 6SN7 if you cannot change plate voltage, bias current and other parameters to take the tube to its specified performance. Moreover, knowing how Mikhail worked on his amps, I'm not very sure the amp will stand working flawlessly for much time if you start swapping tube types. In any case you may wish to try a search at Ebay, there are many tube adapters over there. At this moment no 5687 to 6SN7 available, but you might contact any of the sellers (most are chinese), eventually one could make the adapter for you. Otherwise one may appear in the future.

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just the noise, but not the smell

And that someone had received the BHSE and knew with certainty how are the voltages inside? still

Maybe by rubbing their genre differentiation attributes over the PC monitor? Come on, there's little way they can know which wires/pins carry low voltage or high one by just looking at the amp at a meet

It's just a matter of time, maybe if you live long enough to wear normal HP for 400 years around your brains, the rate of brain tumors or leukemia using ULE phones is 0.00001% lower

Nah, they just want to prove that Ultrasone's ULE "technology" is just plain bullshit.

Thanks for the reply mate. Very helpful, if I finally purchase the MBP that link will be my salvation If the machine is 64 bit capable, maybe it can accept a 64bit Windows version. Anyone tried?

I think some of you installed W7 on a Mac. If so, how it runs? Is it easy making a dual boot install on a Mac? Any additional tools needed? I recall that when Apple moved to Intel processors, having a dual boot required bootcamp or something like that, but I don't know if that's easier nowadays. I'm considering to get a MacBook Pro, the 13" one with 4Gb RAM. They come with Leopard, but I suppose I may get the offer for Snow Leopard. BTW these Macs are 32 or 64 bit machines? It'd be my first Mac, so please excuse my bleeding ignorance

Which is understandable considering I'm far from an English major I must admit that when using analytical, I also take it more for a flaw than a virtue. However, considering Upstateguy used this term to define his next amp, and included the GS1 as an usual suspect, I had to think of it in a positive way.