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13 minutes ago, powertoold said:
It's quite a shame, considering the Stax high end sound is basically "perfect" and "worth it" if you take care of the equipment to last 10-20 years. You can spend ~$6k on a system that provides 15 years of enjoyment, granted no technical issues appear with the headphones heh
I guess headphones will always be niche because it messes up your hair
By the time a lot of us got to the point of owning Stax, there was a lot less hair to deal with.
Other than maybe ear hair?
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Because this is head-case.
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The Rendezvous never clicked with me.
Commisary BBQ in Germantown- good BBQ in the Memphis area.
The ribs are much moister and meaty. And a round of Gus's
chicken always hits the spot.
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If it passes the Spritzer test, it will have passed the hardest one.
Good luck!!!!!!!!!!
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I used to buy new Brother laser printers for less than the toner cartridge.
Same thing for a while with PTouch tapes. I was buying a new label maker
for $10 with the tape. New tape was $20. They got smart and started
sending them both out with "starter: toner or "starter" tapes.
They also jacked up prices on the tapes and toner.
I pretty much now hate everybody. Add Sony to the list I guess.
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Here's another winner from the bay. Seller claims a friend braided it for him without re-terminating the cable.
Sure he did
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I thought the set on ebay with the cables hand braided were bad. But this takes it to another level.
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1 hour ago, mainlythemusic said:
Hmm, a few errors here. The GG has the Amanero USB board which is built in Italy. You will find that board is OEM in so many middle and high end DACs, if you slag that off, well slag pretty much every DAC off on the market then.
Next point, the GG also has a FPGA DSD engine which BTW sounds better than PCM, which already sound damb good.
Next point, tubes can and do special things in amplifiers we all know that here. Stop trying to tell us different with your 'spec sheets'. Why is some of the best electrostatic amps (sounding the best) running tubes? GG, BHSE (final stage) T2, Justins new amp TBC, various other lauded KG designs. Not saying SS isn't good, I have a nice SS power amp for my speakers. We can go on all day about tubes v SS but you cannot claim tubes are beating by SS as a matter of fact, as it is not fact.
Are you trying to say the current Sic Fet Carbon design beats all tube electrostatic amps, I don't think so. It is damb good, but not the absolute best IMO. Lets do a vote on here and see how many say it is v the T2, BHSE and GG shall we, which of course all use tubes in part of the gain stages.
Have you personally heard the GG yourself? As for the power supply in the GG as 'off-bay' this kind of fake news is what they hate in the states. Lampizator have worked tirelessly for the last 10 years developing their circuits. They don't need to 'buy off ebay'. Pure BS. It is you who seems to enjoy buying of ebay while we are on this subject, fair enough to try stuff out. But don't accuse a manufacturer of that without the proof.
Going back to you designing a tweaked up T2, didn't you try to build one before but it turned out to be a cluster fuck of a mess, and you bailed out?
Next, why is your Carbon CC got a half size PS in it, seems like a big empty box with a big pre ice tag - opps.
And many of your KGSShvs being mini style also have scaled done PS's. Bringing that up as you insist on talking about power supplies.
Anything I missed?
Apparently, everything so far. Tubes work ok for some things.
A DAC is a horrid place for a tube. You want the tube sound, do it somewhere that doesn't
cause issues. And DAC electronics are pretty sensitive to HV.
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My lightly used (if at all) Luminox Scott Cassel
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Ok, I've played with vintage stuff for years, so I should of done this 1st.
Clean 30+ years of crud out of the switch, clean out the socket connections,
I also cut back the wires to fresh copper and crimped on copper pins.
Bass is there now. But the srd-4 still has the warmer sound. I didn't have 27 ohm
wirewounds, so I doubled-up 68 ohm 3 watt for 34 ohms. Now both boxes pretty
much sound the same. That was the only real difference, and with them in place
on the srd-6 it changed the sound. The 4 is still just a bit warmer, but I prefer it this way.
If I change my mind, I'll go find the proper 27 Ohm ones. In a pinch I could use the 6 with
the 202's as well.
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I really am going to have to build a decent energizer. I built an exstata hybrid,
which is ok, but with all the great designs out there it's about time to move up a couple of levels.
The sr-80 and srd-4 should hold me over for a while. I think I'll gut out parts from the exstata
and drop in some new boards.
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I don't see anything obvious. Thermistors appear ok, but that's pretty hard to really check. I'm going to have to unsolder them
There's two on each channel in parallel. The rest of it looks ok. There are some differences in how they are built.
The srd4 has larger, single thermistors on the input. it also has 5 watt 27 ohm resistors in parallel with the transformers.
The srd6 has a spot on the board for them, but doesn't have them installed.
This is the big difference (other than bias tapped off one channel). I could see where this might change the
sound signature. Guess I just need to accept the fact they have a different sound.
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I'll have to pop the top on the srd-6
I'm sure there's not too much in there to go bad.
The sr-80 is a bit lighter in bass than the sr-40.
But the lack of side to side movement on the wire arc of the sr-40
makes it hard for me to wear. The sr-80 fits much better.
At some point I'm going to have to build a new amp for the sr-202's.
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I just bought a sr-80 and srd-6 to use with my second system. It sounded pretty good, no balance issues.
But some bass stuff was not up to par.. I thought it was just the nature of the sr-80's.
On a whim I hooked it up through a srd-4 I had sitting around. There's the missing bass. The cutoff point was lower.
The overall sound was warmer as well. Are the two boxes that much different, or is there an issue I need to check for?
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New Seiko daily driver.
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The current generation of new receivers are equipped with Dolby Atmos, a new sound technology that adds channels for ceiling speakers.
3.1 is still fine for me.
Same here. 3.1 gets it done. More speakers don't seem to make the movies any better.
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Looks like Razordog's trick of holding list price but offering $100 off at checkout pissed off Sennheiser, they no longer carry Senn's.
I guess I haven't been paying much attention to the market.
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Interesting. For a while Sennheiser had everyone holding the line on 600's and 650's for price.
Looks like that's changed.
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Gee just what we need. Apple killing off standard audio interfaces and replacing them with their own.
Bad enough they are messing with the studio recording process.
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Windows background processes take over and cause 100% cpu or disk usage.
Then the playback gets flakey. Tuning things is harder in 8/8.1.
There most likely is a fix, I just haven't found it yet. And Metro sucks.
But from a baseline perspective, foobar runs just fine .
I tried to do a downgrade to 7 (which is supposed to be supported and free).
But support told me I had to buy a support contract in order for them to
give me a downgrade keycode, which cost more than a copy of win 7.
I've got a Lenovo laptop on Vista that runs with no issues at all.
Normal round of tweaks worked great on it.
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It's a combo of design, experience, trial and error.
And more often than not, $$$ comes into play. You have to cut some corners
to keep the cost down. Bean counting has killed good audio more than anything
else I can think of.
And no, I don't think all amps sound the same. That whole chain of thought
drives me crazy (not that I'm not crazy).
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You're going to have to pull apart the power supply to see what you need. Most likely, the switch is held in place
with plastic tabs you will have to compress, and it will pop right out. That isn't a big issue. Radio shack
may still carry one that works. OR you could scab one out of a broken computer power supply.(thrift shop!).
The big issue is that XP is dead. At the beginning of the year I tried reloading a couple of XP machines.
Nothing but headaches. At that time, updates weren't working. I had to spend hours researching why.
Seems MS knew it was broken, but why worry about a soon to be dead OS? Who knows if you could get
it updated or activated. I have a couple of XP beaters here, and all they do is nag me about upgrading.
I use a Antec quiet case with my music PC. Works fairly well. A couple year old laptop in a docking station works well too,
and it's quiet. Whatever you do, avoid windows 8 like the plague. I just can't seem to get it to behave with Foobar.
XP was easy, win 7 ok. But 8 just is such a pita.
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I did a 4 post flexi with 5/8" rod and 2'x2' shelves. I'ts about 4-1/2' high. I beveled the rods using a grinder to make points.
I measured up and started with a double nut. To space between shelves(and make all 4 corners even) I cut off 4 pieces of pvc tubing.
The pvc was painted, and I loosely wrapped electrical tape around the threads to make it tight and prevent rattles.
Fender washer, rubber pad I cut up to match washer, shelf, another rubber pad, nut, pvc pipe, nut, washer, rubber pad, shelf.
I used a nylon insert nut for the top. the rod was cut off even with the nut top. All the nuts/washers were painted black before assembly.
I cut a hole in all for corners of all shelves at the same time to make them even, and stained them before assembly.
The whole thing is sturdy enough to be moved without taking it apart. A bit heavy but it works.
The PVC also serves to prevent scraping knuckles or gear against the threads.
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Flavor Of The Month.
You see a lot of that over at that "other" headphone site.
Something is the hot new thing that everybody wants. A month later,
nobody cares. Time for a Head-case dictionary?