When do you consider an amp "high end"

[n_maher]

i would coat my amp in Thorium-232.

Would that be as a theft deterrent?

[deepak]

i would coat my amp in Thorium-232.

Kryptonite ftw. Keep that damn Superman away from my gears.

[grawk]

I'd go for copper, it looks better the more tarnished it gets.

[NotoriousBIG_PJ]

We need a Pimp my Amp thread...

KG we will need full pics of the platinum knob. The gold knob was seriously awesome hehe.

Biggie.

[postjack]

I'd go for copper, it looks better the more tarnished it gets.

flat sterling silver. it would develop a lovely patina.

sterling is my favorite precious metal!

[Dusty Chalk]

[me=Dusty Chalk]makes joke about polishing one's knob[/me]

[kevin gilmore]

I also have about 50 grams of depleted uranium 238. Sitting in the appropriate plastic bottle on my desk at home.

(the radiation emitted is stopped by this particular kind of plastic). Since i don't know what i'm doing in this case

i'll not try and cast the stuff. I've been told that machining the stuff after casting is almost impossible.

I have a lot of .999 silver. Sooner or later i'm going to make a knob out of some of that. But it does tarnish

very fast.

One of these days i will have enough rhodium. But not any time soon

Copper is way to easy.

[granodemostasa]

gold knobs, polished chromer faceplate, and 10K interconnects.

[aerius]

It would be pretty hilarious if someone made a knob out of the national standard kilogram.

[kevin gilmore]

OK, here you go

http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/metals.jpg

upper left, my first casting job. Real shitty but i keep it around to remind me how bad my first couple were.

upper right, 100 oz of .999 fine silver. Lower left 5 grams of rhodium. 83 grams of 24k for my stax portable.

Then 31 grams of platinum and 50 grams of u238

[JBLoudG20]

You are one interesting man.

[KenW]

LOL...looks like my first casting from dental school.

[postjack]

I think postjack needs a 4 channel beta

You gunna build it for me?

I'm really quite pleased having both the Melos and the Dynahi. I don't know if I would be happy with just one. Strangely, the W5000 favors the Melos, while the W11JPN sings out of the Dynahi.

as for balanced amps, personally I don't know if I have a can I like enough to go balanced with. Its almost like once you've invested in a balanced amp, you need to be a one can guy, i.e. this is my favorite can, so it is the one I'm going balanced with! As you can see, I own many cans, still trying to find my favorite sound.

Anyone ever balanced an hp-2?

[deepak]

You gunna build it for me?

I'm really quite pleased having both the Melos and the Dynahi. I don't know if I would be happy with just one. Strangely, the W5000 favors the Melos, while the W11JPN sings out of the Dynahi.

as for balanced amps, personally I don't know if I have a can I like enough to go balanced with. Its almost like once you've invested in a balanced amp, you need to be a one can guy, i.e. this is my favorite can, so it is the one I'm going balanced with! As you can see, I own many cans, still trying to find my favorite sound.

Anyone ever balanced an hp-2?

I dunno those SDS-XLR guys like to have pretty much all the high end headphones (balanced)

[JBLoudG20]

You gunna build it for me?

I'm down.

What it cost to balance an can? 20 cents worth of heatshrink and $10 in XLR connectors. Most of these headphones we are talking already have 4 wires from the drivers. It would cost you like $100 to balance your whole collection, including labor.

[NotoriousBIG_PJ]

OK, here you go

http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/metals.jpg

upper left, my first casting job. Real shitty but i keep it around to remind me how bad my first couple were.

upper right, 100 oz of .999 fine silver. Lower left 5 grams of rhodium. 83 grams of 24k for my stax portable.

Then 31 grams of platinum and 50 grams of u238

I love the portable knob. That is style.

Biggie.

[PFKMan23]

I'm down.

What it cost to balance an can? 20 cents worth of heatshrink and $10 in XLR connectors. Most of these headphones we are talking already have 4 wires from the drivers. It would cost you like $100 to balance your whole collection, including labor.

Balance my stuff, jb!!!!

[postjack]

I'm down.

What it cost to balance an can? 20 cents worth of heatshrink and $10 in XLR connectors. Most of these headphones we are talking already have 4 wires from the drivers. It would cost you like $100 to balance your whole collection, including labor.

My next excuse is I need a balanced source.

[granodemostasa]

my excuse is that no one builds the balanced tube amp I want.

[PFKMan23]

Why not ask Craig to do a custom build?

[recstar24]

Why not ask Craig to do a custom build?

True - you can ask him to do a HD2, like what he made for JP #'s

[PFKMan23]

While you are at it, why not ask him to build a Moth DAC for you, seeing as how that seems to be something you really like.

[JBLoudG20]

Balance my stuff, jb!!!!

You know how to get a hold of me if you really want it done.

[pabbi1]

That monstrosity from mikhail was coated in about 2 oz of gold. Absolutely the entire thing, knobs included.

Can't get more gold than that unless you use my 24k volume knobs.

But really gold is so last year. This year it has to be platinum. Another few months and i will have enough

to make a 100 gram .950 platinum knob.

From wire clippings or evaporators?

[kevin gilmore]

From wire clippings or evaporators?

where i get my precious metals is my own business

I'm not getting them where you might think

And i'm certainly not paying the going price either.