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08-21-2008, 09:09 PM
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Re: Little Dot MkVI balanced tube amp?
I hope folks don't leave them on for days at a time unattended for "burn-in". They might just experience more burning then they bargained for.
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08-22-2008, 03:15 AM
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Re: Little Dot MkVI balanced tube amp?
phhhttt! I'm going to get one anyway. I don't use headphones that much these days, but the few phones I've kept are terminated in 4-pin XLR, and I have balanced source. For US$700, I'm willing to give balanced a try.
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08-22-2008, 03:30 AM
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Re: Little Dot MkVI balanced tube amp?
OK Hopstretch, I just put my order in. Don't be chicken, just dew eet. Don't let the mob here pressure you... (I guess this hobby is only fun until you lose an eye...or burn down your house?!)
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08-22-2008, 04:59 AM
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Re: Little Dot MkVI balanced tube amp?
I just won a Pudge Rodriguez autographed all-star cup off ebay, so I'm prepared...
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08-22-2008, 06:19 PM
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Re: Little Dot MkVI balanced tube amp?
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08-22-2008, 06:39 PM
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Before JimP or anybody else gets bent out of shape, I have no ill-will toward Pudge and have no independent corroboration of steroid use. As a SF Giants and Barry Bonds fan I have lived through a lot of grief, but the last time I saw Pudge in Oakland earlier this summer he was a shell of his former shell and the assumption of course is that Canseco was telling it straight on that one. Who knows.
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08-22-2008, 07:36 PM
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Re: Little Dot MkVI balanced tube amp?
no offence taken. used to be huge fan of american baseball (Clemens, McGuire, Sosa, even Bonds etc etc), but have been turned off exactly by the pervasive steroid scandals. I just needed to borrow Pudge's cod piece (figuratively) to fend off Smeggy's roundhouse kick to my groin...(Smeggy, please - for the love of god, we're trying to have a second child...)
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08-26-2008, 12:12 PM
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Re: Little Dot MkVI balanced tube amp?
OK the following items arrived today:
  --build quality is excellent --heat issue: not bad (but that's with the fans), I have other tube amps that run warmer. Sure they could have put it in a bigger enclosure and put heat sinks like Pass Aleph 3, but it's their product and I don't have to buy it if it really bothers me. --speaking of the fan, it is LOUD and it does BOTHER ME, must be replaced! But that's mechanical noise, there is no amp hum/hiss. --sonically, it's superb - there must be something to this 'balanced mode'. I never really regretted selling off my PS-1, L3000, and K1000 (as the funds were - for me - better allocated elsewhere), but this cost effective 'balanced' side project with the LDVI absolutely seals it for me. Kind of like the cheap rebound date metaphorically with headphones... This was US$720 delivered to my door. I encourage others to try it. That's the price of a couple of dinners - or if I include bird's nest/abalone/shark's fin in my neck of the woods, maybe just ONE dinner. You can bash this product all you want, but I think what LD's delivered is quite amazing. In use: 
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08-26-2008, 12:23 PM
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Re: Little Dot MkVI balanced tube amp?
Good with the Senns? How's the bass control?
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08-26-2008, 12:25 PM
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Re: Little Dot MkVI balanced tube amp?
Are the fans installed with pins or are they directly soldered? Replacing them with much quieter fans would be good.
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08-26-2008, 12:30 PM
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Re: Little Dot MkVI balanced tube amp?
Noooo. I'm a single-ended spud, I'm a single-ended spud...
Laxx, the fans are easily replaced. There's a picture a page back from the Head-Fi thread, where the guy swapped them out for quieter (and blingier) LED ones.
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08-26-2008, 12:36 PM
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Re: Little Dot MkVI balanced tube amp?
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840C --> the cheapest XLR ICs ever (must replace!) --> LDVI --> HD580 (hardwired with Enigma Oracle to XLR) This is the best I've heard the HD580s. HD650s are amazing as well, but the bass is too much for my taste. The bass control is the best feature - IMHO - of the LDVI (don't know if this specific to LDVI or a benefit generally of going balanced) - taut, punchy bass.
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