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Worked on the home gym setup

Played a holiday concert last night at the Memorial Auditorium in Chattanooga. Kids came out to watch. Good night. So tired. Sent from my ONEPLUS A3000 using Tapatalk

Got married. It rained, and I blurred.

NAD M51 on sale for half off at Audio Advisor ($999). So yes, I did buy another one. http://www.audioadvisor.com/prodinfo.asp?number=NAM51

Listening is over rated. You need more test gear!!

HC Approved cables FTW!

lampizator continues to advertise a DHT Plate Follower with a Voltage gain of +1 with a single triode. Not in this universe. Its crap like that, and transformers secured with double sided tape and a Mikhail class soldering job that tell me to run away fast. 20 years ago when the T2 came out, there was no such thing as a 1600v SicFet. Tubes were then the best way to do high voltages. There is a 4500v SicFet coming soon. Its going to be a bit pricey. But solid state direct drive electrostatic speakers will soon be possible. by the way you do know what birgirs middle name is right?

Ehhh who hit you with the stupid stick? I've lost count of how many tube amps I've designed so I'm well aware what tubes can and indeed can't do. Nothing to do with my amps either, some of my customers have Lampi dac's which is why I know they are such utter shit. Now, since you know so much about tubes...are tubes less noisy than transistors? Are they better at amplifying low level signal than transistors? Are they superior in terms of distortion and other artifacts that deviate from the original signal? Nope, fuck no and hell no respectively. What you fail to grasp is how tubes are used and where they work the best. That sure as shit isn't a tube output stage of a DAC which is ironically fed by a current output dac. Also since you bring up the T2, I'm well aware of it and I'm even revising the circuit boards now to hopefully increase its performance so let's dwell on it for a bit. Is the T2 the best amp there is for electrostatics...nope, it isn't. Would it be better if you replaced the front end tubes with fets and the output tubes with SiCfets? Yup...by quite a bit actually. That has nothing to do with "tube magic" or other such BS claims based on not having the slightest grasp of what is going on. The fet's are simply better devices, made to much stricter quality standards. What tubes do well is simple circuits, even silly simple sometimes and they are forgiving of "designers" who don't know what they are doing. It's hard to blow up a tube...though some people have tried their best to do so. Ohhh and they were excellent for HV output duty but the SiC fets are clearly better. As for these super qualities which are now just coming to light...is there anything to back up those claims or just your own BS? I take it the GG is still using a Soekris dac fed by an off the shelf PSU from ebay and another ebay special USB input. Well shit...I have all those parts...hell even two Soekris boards so I should throw something together and charge somebody 40K$ for it. I have some DHT's too so let's make it super exclusive and throw a tube output stage that does fuckall but looks super cool...ohh and fuckups the sound for good measure.

Those cool kids on headfi would still buy the Liquid Carbon over this amp. SAD!

I agree on many of your impressions on this. I also had a lengthy listen recently in a quiet environment. Took some eye-candy photos as well. The build quality, fit and finish of it all is top notch naturally. The marble case really is nice. Tried lifting it, succeeded just barely. This fucker is 25 kilos! Nice hefty metal remote included in the set. No issues with comfort here, the headphones felt light to me and the headband is HD 800 style but with more padding so no stress on the top of my head. The sound is very articulate but definitely felt a little stiff and sterile to me. I much prefer the warmer, more I guess “euphonic” tone of the SR007 which just makes vocals sound more alive and present. The bass surprised me though, the HE1 has tremendous bass impact and extension. It just begs to be turned up as the large drivers almost vibrate your skull but without a single trace of resonance.

Did you buy them from Single Power?

REM -- Automatic For The People (25th Anniversary Hi-Res Remaster) As above ...

If you are asking if they use their phones with the same cluelessness for good user habits that casual computer users had towards mid 90s era computers, then yes.

Moby – Everything Is Wrong (still great after all these years)

Man,.. Bath in the sonics of this place!

Women.