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Did you happen to save markl's original post from 1:35pm? It ended with a winky and cool smiley at the end of a one-sentence last para.

http://www.head-fi.org/forums/4128967-post131.html markl joins the fray with a knock against Alex. Nice work, asshat. EDIT: I meant Asshat MOT who does potentially competitive work.

Thanks, I assumed as much.

The Jena Labs story is riddled with holes and makes no sense at all. The main thing that is clear -- without even calling Mikhial -- is that they make a huge deal on their super-ironic web page about how the prior modder did not remove the transducers from the housing and only did the wire splice. So we know for sure that Mikhail did go in there and wreck the voice coil. I am curious whether Alex thinks that Mikhail could have pushed the wire in and done any of the damage he found, but I think that JL's own summary of the events shows that they did it. I am also curious if the R10s had Mikhail's upgraded cable on them when sent to JL, because that would kind of undermine their story that BoilingFrog "deliberately did not inform" them about the earlier recable. What, they are such R10 experts that they didn't notice the cable was changed? Another thing that burns me up is that JL's email (copied from morph201's post and pasted below) attempts to say that BoilingFrog had some odd concern about intermittent sound or something before they did their initial work and that he pestered them about this. They said he was being a pain and questioning the sound of his $5000+ cans (even sending a second pair for comparison) but then later on in the email they claim that they did a voice coil repair the first time but never mentioned it to BoilingFrog because it was such a "trivial operation." They also never mentioned this as a possible reason for any of his problems even though he was complaining of bad sound and breakups, which they confirmed the second time they worked on them. They then "repaired" the voice coil by soldering some wire to it, and AGAIN made no mention to BoilingFrog: "In any event, the defect that we could see externally on the drive unit was addressed and repaired in a manner as reasonable as possible without fanfare or mention at our end." Give me a break. Throughout this whole thing, their story is that they found this serious defect and NEVER pointed to it as a possible cause of issues while BF was hassling them for explanations and refunds?! Come on. Here is the email from morph201's post on HF:

How about Puss N Boom's Audio? I so sorry we broked it. That'll be $3,500 please.

Most importantly, I certainly did notice that bit about the tubed up ES2 and it better be at CJ08 or I want my money back! As for the whole deal with Jena, I just posted on HF their own web page states unequivocally that the transducers were never removed by Mikhail or anybody else, so the damage can only have come from one source. BoilingFrog laid out the facts that he understands pretty clearly and if the company wants to tell their side of it let them. I am not going to get into legal analysis of this thing, but you point out an interesting issue regarding JenaLabs' statements to 3rd parties like morph201 that might make them hesitant to cry foul. Steve can probably post what he heard from Jena when he spoke to Jay and Silent Bob. Certainly an interesting situation all around.

Congrats and Long Live the Menace!

Well, did half of NH go dark when you flipped the switch?

The plebes and AC/DC are satisfied [for the moment].

Twice. Look at your first post in the thread where you called people fucking idiots and said "of course Jena Labs didn't damage the R10s" which sounds a lot like disbelieving Alex's express statements that Jena Labs caused the damage. Too bad you can't edit your posts over here. Kinda sucks to be stuck with your own words to trip you up.

No, here YOU go again, DoucheFish. Your idiotic opening salvo calling people "f#kin idiots" like the punk-ass bitch that you are just demonstrates that your only purpose is once again to shit-disturb. The people here who have read Alex's story believe what he has said, and what his pictures clearly show. We would all like to hear what the owner of the cans has to say, but I am sure it will back up Alex. We would also like to hear the Jena Labs side of the story, although Steve's effort to track down details from Jena Labs directly did not really lead to a lot of factual information. If they step up and set out some facts, I for one am willing to listen to them. As for you, not so much.

Mr. thrice is supposed to be sending it to Florida for CanJam and then I will ship it home afterwards. I am looking forward to seeing it next week for sure!

minneola tangelo (no pickles)

Speaking of internal porn, it looks like you jizzed all over the place in there! That is a sweet source, congrats. I just heard neilvg's NWO3.0GT again recently and it reminds me that I want some APL goodness one of these days.

I voted for a B22, and recently bought thrice's personal beast of an amp that I believe is configured much as swt61 proposed in his recent post. There is a FS thread here on HC and it has some details. Not at all sure that thrice would build one for money, but you can always ask (and offer Belgian beer and art photography as inducements). I have heard that particular amp before at a meet and think it is excellent and easily beats most of what is on your list. I have also heard at least one more balanced B22 that wasn't as good, but was still good. Your location is not going to make your life particularly easy, but you can get anything shipped to you if you try hard enough. As for the other options, and with your preference for the Ed. 9s, here are some unsolicited thoughts: The HeadAmp GS-X and HeadRoom Balanced Max are probably the no. 2 suggestion I would make. I have only heard them at meets, but they are both impressive. I cannot recall hearing any Ultrasones on either one. The RPX-100 is the Rudi amp I would suggest out of those choices, and it sounds quite good with the Ed. 9s. The RPX-33 is underpowered and the RP010-B just didn't seem worth the hype of the price when I heard Rudi's original model. Maybe it was the meet conditions or something, but I didn't think it was very powerful or appealing in any significant way. The Apache does not sound good with the Ed. 9s, and overall is probably not a choice that would be great for you or for the money you would have to pay. The SS-1 is not the best solid state amp I have heard by a long shot. It is quirky and never seemed to be sounding its best or configured right in the few times I have heard it. I don't think it is available, but I would not seek it out. The Harmony or Transparency are intriguing without ever hearing them myself, but the Square Wave is not in the same league. Same for the Naim and Opera: not in the same league, imo. Oh, and the Dynamite is a really cool amp if you could ever find one. Haven't heard the others.

Vaderette can't find the zipper.

Except here you do not pay until they ship but you do save your place in line.

I like but do not love the Ayre products. JP#s likes them more and actually owned one--maybe that same model, but I cannot recall.

Steve's response: All questions being answered here: http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?p=3412758#post3412758

This one musta eaten a photographer who wasn't wearing any bells

T-rrific, Fool!

Worked out well? You don't want Nate to end up divorced do you?!

I can't really imagine that these are going to be terribly limited editions, but I am hoping for clarification of that by AP/AS. I am curious whether they will do it on a rolling basis or just release them all at once, which would take a while. I am not pre-ordering yet but I intend to keep an eye on it.