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is there an updated welcome PM? i got the old one, but should be updated

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Vicky gave me her HF2 to "keep an eye on" at last years can-jam. I tried them out. Funny story: I actually played them a little bit in the "DIY group rig" (Nebby's DAC, my amp, NoNoNoNoNoNo's amp) and was quite pleased. When it came time to return the headphones I put my headphones in her headphone box and gave them back. It took a while for me to figure it out. good times, good times.

Why do you need an adapter? Nikons cameras & lenses all work together in varying shades of harmony.

The truck you have strapped down is too small.

Tube munching was a rumor. Quite a few people have had the same set of tubes in a melos for years of use. I dont agree with better sound for the money, but Im biased.

Ask and you shal receive. The Least-Espressivo. It isnt an amp, It dosnt have tubes or transistors, and it runs headphones well. 2 out of 3 ain't bad.

yes. I find that Phono stages typically have the best synergy with vinyl. Once when I was but a young fool I attempted to run my Stax O2/717 directly off of a MM cartridge. OOH the horror. Fist it took all the volume knob to eek out any sound! Secondly, the highs were a good 20db higher than the mids, and the lows a good 20 db lower! can you immagine? Tilted up? Indeed.

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I think the detailing in the face is super cool.

Flying in on the 4'th Flying out on the 7'th

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NOOOOOO!!!!!!! DO NOT DO IT!!!111 The output stage runs too much current for a 6sn7, even with both sections paralleled. Its a cathode follower. The gain of the output stage is ~1 no mater what tubes you use, output impedance should (theoretically) be lower with 5998. Im pretty sure the hum comes from the B+ which is not as well filtered as it is on the PPX3. PPX3 has larger resistors (more ohms) in its CRCRC supply. From screwing around with my Extreme, I would swap the plate resistors in the gain stage with SS CCS's. The good news is it can PROBABLY be done without pulling the PCB. The bad news is my amp hisses and I dont know why (Its not oscilation, I just dont know where the noise starts). It may be that I have noisy cathode LED's (another mod I did to the amp) and I am too lazy to swap them back to resistors & caps to test that theory. Something to note if you do decide to do this is that the amp must NEVER be tube rolled outside of a certain family.

Nate builds awesome female to female XLR converters.

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did you ground the SUT to the ground lug on the phono-stage?

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Use Stevenson. I have never found a head shell that will allow a 103 to align to baerwald null points on a technics 1200 arm. If anyone knows of a head shell that does I would love to know too. I have been thinking of the best way to modify the 103 to align to "not stephenson" with the head shells I have. So far gluing the body to a piece of metal with threaded holes at the stock mounting points, and 3mm further back is my best idea.

You can get ball bearings in a wide variety of materials & sizes from McMaster Carr (McMaster-Carr) Here are my DIY isolation feet. (taken from the recent NYC meet thread) They are IKEA votive/tea lite candle holders LINK And squash balls which are available in several hardness grades and whatnot. I use double yellow dots, the softest/least bouncy.