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So for a complete ignorant on the Dynafet's topology, please let me know: To make a 2ch SE amp you need two or three boards like in the B22? To make a "proper" balanced and SE thing you need 4 or 6 boards? Moreover, you need 1 S22 for every 2 or 3 boards, or would it be better matching one S22 with a single Dynafet board?

LOL with these credentials I think I'm still less sure to participate

What should I expect soundwise from a Dynafet? A more tube like sound than the B22, but with the same power capabilities and transparency? I have no DIY capabilities, more for the lack of a place where leaving a project as long as needed to finish it than anything else, but also lacking the equipment for the adjustments and measurements, which is important. However I might participate if someone else builds the thing for me. Perhaps a friend of mine is interested, I can ask him, but I'd be thankful if someone having used a Dynafet before posted his impressions.

Happy Bday mate, have a great one

Congrats Al. How does it sound? Do you like it? I hope so

I've read at a Spanish forum that Sennheiser USA has ordered their resellers to not delivering HD800 to customers outside the USA. Maybe they want to avoid distributors wars between EU and USA. Some website in Spain has got the HD800 listed at 835 euros, but they don't say when they're having them available for delivery.

Yep, I think that's why I'm loving mine, it's great being able to fully get what's good in your sources.

Those innards look familiar to me Haven't heard a Zana, so I can't offer any advice or show any preference, but I can say the Beta sounds really good with all the cans I've tried it so far, from modified Grado SR225 to the R10.

Zero 7 - When it Falls [2004] And now getting ready for Zero 7 - Simple things [2001]

Happy Bday

Have you tried it as a CD Transport feeding a known to you DAC? I'd enjoy reading your opinion in which areas do you think the XA5400-ES sounds better than the Esoteric machines. They're not my cup of tea either. It costs 1290 euros here, I guess I can get it for less. Were the transport "good enough" to feed the Bidat, it could be my first SACD player. Not that I'm interested in the format, never heard a SACD player that I liked, but you know, curiosity...

Indeed

Same here using the Spanish version No problems a few minutes ago, this is probably a server's issue, maybe they're implementing new software...

I hope so, I haven't been interested in CDP or DACs for years

Seal - Soul [2008] Checking Beta 22's performance on voices with the bass light R10. Not bad

If there were any correlation from the money spent in R+D and sound quality...

I just can help with cash, no parts or DIY skills to offer

hahahaha, that's not Blackmore's

I wish they won't however it's been an usual MS practice to stop supporting more than 2 OS for pro or home use at the same time. Maybe they keep supporting XP and stop doing on Vista hahahaha. If that 2015 prediction is right, we'll be fine.

Congratulations Jack. Keep trying things like small adjustments on toe-in and speakers separation, you could find that they completely disappear. In fact I'm quite sure they will So far, that you have found a tonal balance you can enjoy and is not bright anymore is a very good thing. Regarding the TSM-MM, they're very nice monitors. They offer one of the best mid bass response I know of in any speaker, and are quite less finicky about amps than the VSM, though they can sound really wonderful with the adequate ones.

Congrats mate. Any first impressions about sound?

Yep. Moreover MS is about releasing a new OS in a few months when the beta phase is over. When this happens, they will most likely stop supporting the older OS, which is XP, then no new security updates, drivers... Vista sucks and I hate it, but for elementary tasks it works more or less as anything else. You start to be in trouble when trying to install drivers, program updates, codecs, some software... all things your mom won't be doing on her own.

Oh, for the position of his hands I thought he was doing something else.

VSM-MX. A fair compromise which works very well into the room.

Hehehehe, I had a pair of Sonus Faber Amati which were sounding OK on our previous (rented) flat, a very well constructed place with 1 1/2' brick and mortar walls, marble floors, big room with an irregular shape (no parallel walls and only 1 square angled corner)... When we moved to this place I was fearing the worst, and it was the worst. There was no way I could make this place handle the bass output of those monsters. I tried any imaginable placement to no avail. The best thing is that it was very easy afterwards finding the right place for the Merlins. I haven't needed any room treatment and placement is very living friendly IMO, and wife, the important one, agrees