Salt Peanuts

Ah, speakers. Personally, I'm glad that I'm perfectly happy with my budget speaker rig, and that other factors (e.g., room arrangements) essentially discourage me from upgrading it.

Lucky bastard. Got to love living in an old house/apartment in the middle of a crowded residential area.

That's fine by me. I'm surprised, though, that you hadn't chucked it off a cliff after what it put you through.

BTW, Nate, I sincerely hope you'll have better luck with this than you have had with the digital side of the things recently.

Congrats on your new (used) toy, Nate! I'm glad to know that I'll never head down the vinyl path. Priceless.

As I've stated earlier, I've sold my pair. I've, in fact, sold them for a modest profit, and I'd do it again without hesitation to get me what the market can fetch me for a pair. If anyone had offered me $400 for them while I still had my pair, I'd have sold them in a heart beat.

Dang, it looks like a beauty, Zach! Keep us posted how it does once you're done with everything.

Woohoo! I've been looking forward to this! I'll be impatiently waiting for their release so I can try them out with my K1000's.

I'm not buying a pair at least until I get a chance or two to hear them with my rig. Even then, I doubt I'll actually end up with a pair (unless I win a lottery, of course).

Sorry, I won't be able to give any useful opinion in regards to its capability as a preamp since I'm a complete speaker newbie and have had only one preamp (an headphone amp with preamp out at that) before.

Something like that. Though I really think I'm pretty much done for a long while now.

No worries, I didn't forget about them. I just had to rush through to get those pics before I left my place. I'll make sure to get pics of them plugged in when I'm back at my place.

That would be my guess as well.

I just realized that what I wrote on my last post sounded odd. Of course, I couldn't fix it by the time I figured out my mistake. Doh. Anyways, here are some pics. Any and all spots, lines, etc. are some dust and not scratches. Please bear with the poor lighting, poor picture quality, and lack of any image processing. I would've used K1000's for the last pic, but I was too lazy to take them out of their box.

Sorry, but my hearing's still out of whack for the most part. I haven't been able to take any good pics of it either since I haven't really been home of late (work and life too busy). I'm hoping I'll get some pics sometime tomorrow late night since then I'll be out of state for few days.

You know, I vaguely remember you starting a thread on Head-Fi a while back asking whether your son would prefer you leaving him vintage guitars or headphone gears...

That, too. I also gotta try out the balanced KSC35's. You're telling me. My allergy/sinus has been kicking me in the arse this spring far worse than usual.

Congratulations, Ethan! I think I'm the one that should be envious of an amp, not you. Wow, that really should be something. We definitely need to have another mini-meet once you get this new custom amp in few months.

Definitely! I'd love to hear your SA5000's again. I really do need to get the RS-1's reterminated soon.

No impressions yet - it's being burnt in as I type this, and my hearing is out of whack due to severe allergy and sinus issues.

Just about every single piece of equipment I own or owned have been bought without trying them first, except for RS-1, K1000, K701, Stax SR-007 (of course, these four cans also happen to be the ones I still own at this moment). As stated earlier, it's often bit difficult to demo headphone related gears, especially headphone amps.

Yeah, they really did sound nice out of SDS-XLR (or was that Supra-XLR I tried them with?) when I tried them at past meets.

I'm looking forward to it as well, once I can hear better. I also need to reterminate RS-1's for balanced operation.

As the subject states, my GS-X has arrived. I received the amp yesterday and quickly set it up in my system once I got home from work. As some of you are already aware, the amp looks really, really nice, both inside and out. It is bit smaller than I had expected, especially after getting used to the size of a Gilmore Reference that I used to own. I'll post some pics soon when I get around to taking out my camera. No listening impressions yet since I'm having issues with my ears/hearing right now due to horrible allergy and sinus condition that I've been suffering.

Does anyone know how well something like ONEAC CD1105 or CP1107 would work as a power conditioner?