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If I remember correctly those hit the market many years back no?

Hell I'm too easy of a target anyway!

That's about $200.00 per square inch. Must be good!

Fixed that for ya, lest the boys in Blue come knockin' at your door.

Not true. Monday... four blocks over on the left side of the street. Tuesday... 13 blocks down on the right side of the street, because the street cleaners are coming. Wednesday... In front of your house! However you have a $350.00 ticket because they said the wheels weren't turned to the curb enough. Even though if you turned them any harder the steering wheel would crack and fall off. Thursday... Only eight blocks over, but that's a crack den neighborhood, so your wheels, tires and fenders are gone. Friday... 12 blocks to the East, but the guy who lives there said your bumper extended 1.2" into his driveway and had you towed. $500.00 impound fee, and the towtruck driver got pissed because you didn't have any Hank Williams Jr. CDs to steal, so he took a big crap on your drivers seat. Saturday... 16 blocks away, but Hillary Clinton was in town and might possibly be passing within 3 miles of your neighborhood, so the car was relocated overnight while you slept, so that her motorcade could have clear passage on a four lane street, but the city can't remember where they moved the 12 cars on that block to. They'll be happy to send you an email in 6 months or so once the car is located. Sunday... After taking out a loan you are able to buy a $50.00 Muni monthly pass. Problem solved.

Cool! When they don't work because they completely f-ed up the recable at least you can use them to pull your car out of the ditch on those wild Saturday nights.

He already does. Great rescue Alex, and an unbelievable story. Mike I completely agree, even if they had done a proper job of re cabling the R-10 those cables are damn fugly!

If he hasn't turned into a tube snob by then.

You have no intentions of building an amp! That's just your stash of Audio porn that you pull out when the misses is elsewhere. And it works too, I'm tentin' just lookin' at 'em.

Yeah Buddy!!! You got yourself one sweetheart of an amp there Voltron. It hasn't arrived yet I take it? We want to hear your impressions once it does! Although I have a pretty good idea what they'll be.

It's a frickin' awesome amp! What's to be nervous about? Heck even if USPS wiggled everything loose in shipping and it didn't work you'd still get major style points! OK that may have not helped your nervousness.

Mark half of the problem is that you're speaking to us like we aren't aware that what we say is noticed. Like we haven't had contact from manufacturers and the like. We're well aware. I fully understand that I could act a certain way and gather the interest of many companies to review there products or even find my way onto the payroll. I think most people that have written reviews, have a high post count and are noticed in the community have had some of those offers. I just don't choose to go down that road. I want this to be my hobby. I own a business that pays me quite well. This is where I go to dump the stress of running that business. In this hobby I want to be completely free to say whatever I want about a product. I understand that might have some ramifications to others, and I play pretty fair. I never crap on a product just for the sake of entertainment, nor will I sing praise that I don't really believe any given product deserves. Don't get me wrong, I'm not claiming you do any of these things, I'm just saying that's how I feel about getting involved in reviewing companies goods. I like you am an MOT, but my little side business of S

I surely hope there's more to it than that. That sounds awful!

Well to start with Nate has never seen that build. And furthermore although he's an excellent builder he'd hardly call your work truly awful. It's a clean build, and a sweet amp buddy! I know exactly which amp he's talking about and who built it. I don't think the builder hangs out on HF anymore, and probably for good reason.

I think I'd definitely go all out and go for the 6 board configuration if I planned on using SE much. You'd never have to worry about upgrading either, you'd have the best balanced and the best SE amp going IMO. I'd suggest two sigma 22 power supplies in a separate chassis.

A pickle sandwich? What's on that?

Yeah but the beauty of that city is that you don't need a car.

I share your sentiments about the charge for the mods (as already stated), and I really have no feelings about the D5000 in any way. The mods might be spectacular as far as I know, and I've never posted anything even slightly negative about them in any way. Really I had no feeling about them at all. What did get my neck hairs standing on edge was when I tried to voice just that same opinion and back him up on his business practices. Only to then discover him trying to trash Duggeh, Head-Case and everyone who is beneath him, because they aren't the celebrated reviewer and all around super important guy that he is. The man slammed others for not reading what he posted, only to commit those same acts himself. He even jumped down deepak's throat when he was defending him. It was an insight into how arrogant the man truly is. I got sucked in further than I should have, and I always regret letting myself be led there, but I still stand by my opinions. I just wish I'd been a little less hot headed and a little more eloquent.

Hmmm, maybe in a custom vintage audio case? I know that naamanf recently took on some builds (and you'd most certainly get more than your moneys worth there), but I don't know if he plans to do any more. I'd recommend the builder of mine, but I'll let him chime in himself if he has any interest. I here Nate's not very busy though!

I kind of got the gist of it from the other posters, and the "bitch slapping" comment was purely in jest. I did understand soon after that you were actually complimenting my phones if anything, I was just puffing my chest for dramatic effect, and being silly.

I've never spent any real time with one, but I've owned several Sony ES units, and the reliability factor was very, very good.

I had mine built for me, as my skills with a soldering iron are sadly much less than my skills with a table saw, and those are questionable. I picked a builder who wasn't offering his services, but who had built one for himself successfully. I thought it might help us both, as he might get some deserved attention, and I'd get a nice amp without the wait of the well known builders that were swamped with work. That worked out exactly as planned, and was a very pleasurable experience on my end at any rate. I have projects and plans with other builders as well (I kind of like collecting gear from people I admire), but also have a current project in the works with the builder of my ?22. That speaks to my satisfaction with our original projects.

Nice Justin! Those players are as sexy looking today as the day they debuted.

Well I'm crossing my fingers that when you attack it again tomorrow you'll be able to sort it all out and continue on.