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That's something called "hype". If you want to fall for the hype, we won't stop you, but please don't perpetuate it here. You have to understand something about Head-Fi. Their enthusiasm for the next new thing comes in waves; we refer to it as the "flavour of the month" syndrome. Occasionally, one of those products may actually be better than the standard bearers, but we wouldn't know, because most of them are not. My advice to you is, settle on what you want, be it a KSGG Klassik or a JDS Labs Atom or a Headamp Pico Power (that's smallish) or a Massdrop Objective 2 or whatever, and get it and live with it for a while. And watch the waves.

Police say they have nothing to go on. [emoji6]

The whole issue with measurement is indeed, how do you interpret the data. If THD+N is the holy grail...why do all the amps that suppress it completely sound like crap? Why do opamps with all the open loop gain in the world sound like turds? You can squash them down yet they still sound terrible. Why do certain circuits sound the way they do, what is going on really and why are some things which should be better...actually worse? As for the BH vs. 006t, well that is easy. If Stax were to test the amps at anything more than 100Vrms/1kHz then the difference would be starling. One amp can swing a lot of voltage without limitation while the other just can't.

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Regarding the "old design" thoughts, at least on the front end side, you cannot get the great parts today that the old designs are built upon. Other that some of the modern SIC output devices available now, I don't think you should be concerning yourself with that, as any of these amps will be light years beyond what you have experienced.

This is so true. Boris has generated curved space that is sucking the UK into a black hole. But he is now stuffed. He cannot go for a no-deal (now illegal) and France has said "no extension beyond 31st October". And the Scottish court has ruled the Boris's suspension of Parliament for five weeks is illegal https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/11/scottish-judges-rule-boris-johnsons-prorogation-unlawful . All in all a pretty bad week in Boris-land. And I'm massively enjoying watching the bastard twist in the wind.

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So, about sizes. It will be hard to get any of the KG designs that live here really small. I happen to have a ADI2 home at the moment, so took a couple of shots. This is the ADI2 on top of a eCFA (in a repurposed case that actually used to hold a KGSS clone). Note that this eCFA runs a lot lower than max current, otherwise the case gets way too hot. All boards inside are on good heatsinks but there's simply not enough circulation to run full power. External heatsinks is I think a must if you want to run this one full out. Same thing with a KGDT (solid state input, tube output, lives in a thread somewhere here), in a highly utalitarian Modushop case: Both of these are shoehorn builds as far as my skills go; Birgir could probably fit it all a little tighter, but not me .

I remember listening to this album thousands of times on my 944 Turbo S

From that point of view, the BH is also an "old" design ... and I don't think anyone cares.

Yeah, they said the same thing about tube designs when solid state first came out.

Don't get fooled by the latest fashion. Buy one, enjoy it, and if it's not enough you can change afterwards. I bet it'll be keeping some money value in the future.

Aren't we all.

Tool - Fear Inoculum decided i wouldn't listen until i had the physical copy in hand. already waited so many years, a number of days wasn't an issue.

Finally cased my ES CFA amp. Returned the bias resistors to 1M with the larger heatsinks. Running 20mA bias for the output sections.