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I'm not trying to pick on you Larry. But, this strikes me as the equivalent of suggesting that painting your car red makes it corner better. We can't all do double blind tests for everything, but a little more skepticism in audio would go a long way. There are real, and reproducible reasons certain types of amplifiers wok well with certain headphone designs, but rectifier tubes are not likely one of them -- unless of course the voltage drop is grossly different I suppose.

I think you and are going to have to fight it out.

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Posts like this are why I stopped reading at that other site ...

4-pin XLR has 4 pins + a ground connection.

Generally, people use male on the source, and female on the amp.

I am a strong believer that the difference between tubes and solid state has much less to do with actual differences between tubes and transistors, and much more to do with amplifier topology. The amps you mention will all have a non-0 output impedance, and I would wager that that is what you like about the combination. Unless there is an issue with the design, tubes do just fine at amplifying high frequencies well past human hearing. But, the interaction of the higher impedance amp with the impedance curve of the headphone driver, to me, leads to the warmer, punchier, sound.

First time I heard them, I agreed. After playing with them a little last weekend, my sense is that to my ears they, like Grados, do much better with an amp that has a non-zero Zout. High feedback just seems to lead to over damping, but run them with something that has a Zout around 10 Ohms and they warm up nicely and gain a little punch. The LCD's sound pretty nice, but I can't get past how heavy they are.

A friend of mine was hired as a temp many years ago doing data entry. The position was supposed to last 3 months. However, being a computer programmer, he found a way to automate the process, which took him all of a day. Once it was done, he was laid off. Maybe check out ReportLab. Or, for more hands on, use ADO from a scripting language (Python or something) to grab data from XL, put it in the form, then use a shell command to print. Then do it again.

I think I'd get an Airport Express and a Tivoli, or just a small powered speaker if you don't need the radio.

The consensus seems to be that it is BC. The question is whether it is all nonsense or not. I have no opinion on that, I thought Bud's posts were interesting (Bud makes Onetics transformers).

http://www.diyaudio....candy-ebay.html see posts 50, 56, 57, etc.

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The Fuji really looks like the winner and worth waiting for. It is amazing to me that a shutter speed knob on the top and an aperture ring on the lens would be such a novelty. Maybe Zeiss will come out with a digital Ikon ...

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I've got a tube push pull Gm amp for headphones. Maybe not quite what you are looking for, but might be OK. Also, digger945 has one, I think.

The Fuji looks really neat, but I agree that it is a little too idiosyncratic. Too bad, really. I'll check out the Sony, though the combination of Sony and Minolta is not something that inspires a lot of confidence. But, I'll go in with an open mind. Thanks for the suggestions.

Sorry if this is repetitive. I am looking for a new camera. I have pretty specific wants and I have thus far not been able to find what i am looking for. The background is that this will be replacing my trusty Contax G1, and I basically want that camera with a digital back. So, I would like digital, interchangeable lenses of good quality, compact (mirrorless most likely as SLRs are too bulky), a system that won't become obsolete, etc. More specifically, I want to control aperture and shutter speed "mechanically" meaning I don't want to toggle through an LCD screen to set them. Bonus points if the aperture control is a ring on the lens. I also am primarily interested in fixed focal length lenses as 95% of the time I'll use the equivalent of a 35mm F/2.0 for a 35mm camera (the other 5% I'd want a 90mm equiv macro). I would also love the ability to manually focus. I don't care about stabilization, video, stitching together panoramas, reducing red eye, flashes that pop up, or any of that. Just a good sensor, and good glass. The obvious "right" answer is the M9, but it is too expensive by a factor of about 10. Does anyone else make anything that fits the bill?

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