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My wife would be interested, but you would probably get sued for trademark infringment though... LV leather AE-2 Special Edition

tease I got all excited to see info and pics :P

I like the fit of the HD650s better than the HD600s. And find them both to be comfortable. I haven't spent enough time with the HD600s, but I think both are really good sounding cans.

This has happened to me too. If you return and you're not logged in click on a forum or Head-Case.org on the homepage and see if that works.

When I've called Mikhail I used the number on his website, but the last time I called must have been a few months ago. I assume the number on his site is current.

Inside the Apollo... http://www6.head-fi.org/forums/showpost.php?p=2091672&postcount=86

I was shocked to find an ?authorized? dealer had not only opened one up, but took pictures and posted them on their website. I don't think REGA would be thrilled. I did want to see the guts of the Saturn, but just happened to stumble across this. Within the last year or so I?ve heard the E5, Moth Hyper DAC, Wadia 861, Cary 303/200, G08, Apollo, 508.24, and 588.24 just to name some of the more memorable ones. I liked the Apollo better than the E5, but the E5 held its own. Both the Moth Hyper DAC and the 508.24 were very close, but the DAC seemed better. I really liked the 508.24 and looked into buying one. Apparently there are software upgrades and internal upgrades and if the transports needs to be replaced they aren?t available; asking price is usually plus $1500. If I hadn?t found such an amazing price on the Saturn ($1570) I wouldn?t have gotten it. Yet the Saturn does sound very impressive.

Inside the Saturn. A dealer opened one up and took pics... http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:ZFcpjy6qdKcJ:sigsound.com/potm_main.htm+rega+saturn&hl=en&lr=&strip=0

Move a foot or two further back from the HDTV and the Leno/sports desk difference you saw almost certainly becomes indistinguishable as well.

Congrats! Your amp quest now seems complete. Next item of business... getting tubes... I like the look of those old school SP amps. I think it would be awesome for Mikhail to do an updated retroversion in black. I assume your Supra sounds similar then. It must be cool helping Mikhail out a little bit with the design process, giving him feedback based on what you?re hearing. The more ears the better.

Congrats! I think the K701s are a really nice can. I enjoyed listening to them on a few occasions. Don't know much about the Oppo 970HD--do tell more...

Earl, have you heard it? That's a good intro price... Are you getting any upgrades or just the base model? I hope Mikhail gets better. I think he?s been sick a few times within the last year or so too. It really sucks being sick.

me too (wait what does Nate build?)

The Saturn hasn't really rested. Running it pretty much 24 hours a day. Probably got around 100 hours on her... My mind and ears are a bit jumbled. (Somewhat) New headphones, (sampling) new cables off and on, and swapping 2A3 tubes... Yet the Saturn still sounds really nice, very musical, detailed, and great dynamics.

I bet Mikhail gets tons of junk/pointless emails. Then when a customer or serious potential one asks via email a rationale question and no response is give within a reasonable time that doesn't bode well. And that?s for any business. Mikhail is a nice guy. We spent around 90 minutes talking during our three or four telephone conversations about the MPX3 and other things. I did a lot of listening and learning too. There?s got to be a way to somehow weed through the crap emails and selectively respond. I suppose most of my emails went unanswered so I gave up and used the phone. At least for me email is a quicker and more efficient way to communicate. I never feel I get a firm grasp on SP prices. And I mentioned this to Mikhail before that it would be helpful to read a brief description as to what each upgrade achieves. But I realize it isn?t so easy to write something up and add it to the a site. I assume clearer pricing, descriptions about upgrades, a few packaged custom amps with description, and info, pricing about the new stuff in the pipeline would reduce a lot of questions. It?s easier and less time consuming to answer something once instead repeatedly.

Current Theme: pdx-dk05 trying a new skin (a little easier on the eyes)

worked at least on this return visit...

I've got to log-in every time I return to head-case, even though, I select forever on my previous visit.... what to do? any suggestions?

Damage is pretty slick and sick... giving it a test run.

nice new avatar... change is good. (need to consider it myself) must check out those themes too.

either I am \ That's wasn't clear. It seems we just lost our avatars and nothing else.

Has the entire site been reset?

86 that EH 6SN7 ASAP and do your ears a big favor and get a better tube. No question about it. The difference between the stock EH 6SN7 and the NOS replacements Mikhail sent were night and day. With the EH I didn't really like the MPX3, but with the NOS tubes I could have easily lived with that amp and been happy.

If someone said this set-up is the best combo ever it?s a particular person's opinion. As is someone saying X is awesome, broken, or has treble issues or not. Yet after listening to an unfamiliar rig and saying it must be X isn't even entertaining other possibilities. I believe this even applies to a new piece of gear that?s brought into an existing rig. And if something seems off they pass all the blame on that new gear when it as simply could be something else that they?ve not heard as clearly before. I hooked up the Apollo, 508.24, and the Hyper Moth DAC to the ZD while listening with the HD650s, K701s, L3000s, RS-1s, and HD600s and didn?t hear anything wrong nor treble issues all done under ideal listening conditions. And I?ve got major sensitivity to treble that I experienced with the E5, UR4/5/6s, Raptor, and HD650s. And that?s one of the reasons I sold the GS-1000s because with my Apollo, Cardas Neutral and EC2A3, my ears got fatigued in less than an hour. But in another rig I didn't experience the same thing with the GS-1000s. Go figure...

How can you be so sure it was the amp and not something else in the chain? Such as the source, cables, tubes, power supply, music, cd, etc... Or even system synergy that wasn?t to your liking. There are so many factors involved and to isolate it just to the amp isn't improbable, but questionable.