HeadphoneAddict

stevenkelby and barqy on head-fi both made me an iMod LOD with the little blackgates in them, so you don't have to buy a super expensive one from ALO. I agree that the 5.5G is nicer because you can still use the headphone out which is decent with JH13pro, ES3X and UE11Pro. And, with the 5.5G iMod you can build your own desktop dock with Vcaps or auricaps and get even better sound than the blackgates that can color the sound a little. While with the 4G the blackgates are inside and you can't get around those - as you probably know, in the 4G iMod the DAC is wired to the caps and then headphone out as a line out. I suppose your iPod is out of warrantee and you don't want to buy a screen from eBay to install? Or, what if it is just a loose connector? Also, when you send it in for the mod it might make sense to get a new battery and have it installed while the iPod is open.

Elephas has the ES-1 we listened to at the Colorado meet July 2008, and Spritzer has the ES-1 that Afrikane donated to be repaired (as you know he documented all that was wrong as he fixed it).

I wanted to bid on that auction for Philips metal base EL34 that you linked us to, but I could simply not afford them. The current set on eBay is $2500 right now. Jack Wu says the tubes in the prototype WES that I recently bought from them cost $700, but $2500 is nuckin' futz.

Sherwood's used NAD 533 turntable with Ortofon M2 Blue cartridge, which I paired with an NAD PP2 preamp for a budget TT setup. I got a good deal, but it still set me back a bit more than Grawk's Sony PS-X500 would have cost (I traded an iBasso D2 DAC/amp and $100). I paired that with my Apogee mini-DAC/Sigma 11 > ZDT > HD800 and SRD-7 Mk2 for Stax O2 etc. I can hook up a third source to the ZDT, but for now it's just the TT and Apogee. I also have a GEMSound PL-USB to import LP's into my Macbook Pro with Audacity and Soundsoap SE 2 software. (One of my digital sources is an Apple TV hooked up via HDMI to a 19" HDTV and optical to the Apogee, and the other is the Samsung DVD player hooked up to the Apogee via coax and RGB to the HDTV, and then Apogee via USB to the Macbook.) See photo. All I have for vinyl right now are some albums that have been in a box for 17 years, many dating back to the 70's and 80's - so I'll be looking for some audiophile jazz and classical albums soon. I'm not entirely thrilled with the old recordings - for instance Dire Straits "Love Over Gold" is a little better and more dynamic on CD. I have the same recording of Handel Messiah on LP and CD (L'OSEAU-LYRE Christopher Hogwood), and I'll need to try that next. When the WES arrives I'll have to move the TT to the granite shelf behind the Salamander rack and put the WES in it's place. The TV might be moved to a wall mount to make room for the TT without having to hide it behind the WES. I'll be able to use the TT with the WES by using my Jensens Transformers ISOmax box to convert the SE TT preamp to XLR (no functional RCA on the prototype WES).

Too bad about the TT auction - that's almost like child abuse. How old is Aaron's kid? I am so thrilled to have my 11 year old son into music and headphone gear, that I'd be crushed along with my son if that happened to him. I guess it's an early lesson in real life.

I meant - someone needs to buy her A2 from her, if she got the A5.

Admittedly, I only sent a 50% deposit after selling my GES. Need to figure out what I should sell next...

Someone needs to buy her A2 as well (I have a pair, so not me).

The drivers were in stock when I sent mine in to be refurbished in early June 2008, and they got my HE60/HEV70 back to me within two weeks.

I'm in. Cheers!

The height was increased so that they wouldn't have to cut holes in the bottom to make room for the inductors (prototype was in a GES case), and the 12AU7 were changed to 6SN7 tubes, but I don't know about the rest of the changes. I could likely meet you to let you try the K1000 at some point, or Sherwood might be interested since he is closer. I'd bring the SAC KH1000 amp for comparison.

The final WA22 at RMAF (Asr's) was better with K1000 than the prototype that I borrowed with the Sylvania 7236 in it during the summer. The prototype had enough volume with K1000 but not enough control over the drivers (like my Sq Wave XL). So, I would be curious to know what tubes Jack had in Asr's WA22 while it was on display at RMAF, because it seemed to drive my K1000 as well as wiatrob's EHHA (18 watts) and much better than the prototype.

hahahahaha

Wonder why the video was taken down.

You can just use Tyll as a divining rod to find one.

Yah, just one 10" woofer seems good enough with the Transformers 2 last night, so I think I will be pleased. Now I just need a proper cable to connect both subs at the same time. The Tributaries RCA subwoofer cable that I bought has the Y-split on the wrong end so that the cables after the split are way too short - so the two subs would have to be set back-to-back. Unfortunately I am dealing with a ground loop that I need to fix as well, because when I plug the RCA LFE into the sub I then get a hum through all 5.1 speakers (unless I convert the 3-prong subwoofer power cable to a 2-prong). My plan is to use them for music a lot as well as for movies. So I also thought it would be fun some day to try the subs in my 2-ch rig. I could use my Apogee mini-DAC feeding its XLR out into each sub, and then feed its single ended output into my Yamaha AV receiver so that the receiver can drive my Polk SDA CRS speakers (I set jumpers so the Apogee's volume control affects all the outputs). This should be fun, as I used to have an MK 15" subwoofer with 250 watts running along with the Polk SDA CRS back in the mid 80's.

I traded for a pair of Onyx Rocket UFW-10 subwoofers (but in maple wood/piano black tops).

Wow, 18 months ago my HE60 drivers were $254 for the parts + labor and shipping, and when I sent my HEV70 with a 220v wallwart they replaced it with a 110v wallwart and didn't charge me for that. However, I had also ordered a wallwart from another department and I went ahead and kept both, just in case, since the 220v was actually dead.

Happy barfday!

Want.

Salamander 4-shelf Audio Rack

Spritzer, you were right, the SRM-717 does work well with the O2. I got to play with Dinan's modded re-wired 717 today at his place with O2 Mk2, HE60 and SR-003 and I did enjoy it. He says it's much better than it was stock, but I have to take his word for it since I haven't heard a stock one. The O2 Mk2 midbass bloat was more obvious with the 717 than with my GES where the forward mids were the bigger problem. I think that the time that I spent with the eXStatA at RMAF a month ago tells me it was on a similar level, but that was too long ago to really make a proper comparison.

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