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As a vocal instructor, I should be vehemently opposed to anything associated with auto-tune...but I have to admit that is pretty dope:palm:

On Friday Jim, please leave the backdoor open so that its easier for me to come by and listen:p Perfect timing too, with Monday being Labor Day weekend, and Friday the wife is going to be out...should be a great day to wait outside your door:)

Some friends of my wife and I were just talking about that this weekend when visiting. He used to work as a professionl photographer and did some work fro Vogue in New York. He said the exact same thing, and even said that with digital photo editing, they just take one half of a model's face, and flip it over exactly, so that the face appears perfectly symetrical, and conveys "beauty". Sorry for the OT.

Look outside:p

Sorry Elephas, one more story that might make you feel better... So the Zana Deux has those damper diodes in the back that take care of rectification. Well those damper diodes have plate caps, little pieces of wire that go from the top of the tube into little sockets in the chassis which is part of their normal operation. Craig tells me about this guy who complained to him that the amp was running with the tubes showing their lighted filaments, but there was no sound. Also, the guy complained that when he touched the top of the tubes, he got a little shock. Craig realized that he didn't even have the plate caps on top, but also figured out that the owner threw away those "little pieces" as he didn't think they were important. har har.

Elephas, Biasing tubes is extremely important, and considering the monetary investment you have in the amp, a couple of minutes and a $5 multimeter is well worth the investment for optimal performance.

I agree, couldn't ask for a better friend. Doug and I plan on getting together sometime within the next couple of weeks to check out his new amp he is designing and building, I will shoot you a PM and I am sure we can all get together.

Not simply no load, but no load and playing music through them. I think the fact that Al was able to hear music being played through his OPTs with no load is not a good sign...I have never heard of such a thing, but I guess it does make sense since the iron would resonate and those magnetic fields could actually produce a low acoustic output.

Going for the BA will about deplete anything I have in the budget, especially something for a power amp, which may have to wait awhile to recover. My issue with the ZDT is that after talking to Craig about it, may be at best a lateral movement from my moth, though the 8 watts would sure sound extra nice on a set of cornwalls or my hornshoppe horns.

If anyone has comments about how the EC BA compares to the ZDT I would thoroughly appreciate them.

I remember reading in a post somewhere that Frank was nice enough to release his schematic for his DHT amp, the dynamic version not the electrostat version. I would like to take a look at it. I'll send him a PM at headfi as well.

Exactly - compare that to Ultimate Ears, they definitely had way more market appeal to where they were able to be bought out.

I agree...I received similar treatment during my experience with 6moons, considering I was the resident "headphone" user. To "them", "we" will always be portable ipod users. Its hard for them to take "us" seriously. Even if you guys show up there with kilobuck rigs, I feel they will just dismiss the rigs and say "you should put that money towards a real system with speakers". I am very cynical about this I am aware, but my experience with "that" group has left a bitter taste in my mouth. Speakers are great, but I feel headphone fidelity has as much merit as speaker fidelity IME. I understand that the goal of pseudo canjam is to help market real canjam and attempt to expose speaker guys that headphones can be serious forms of musical enjoyment, but I just don't see that happening...

Okay this is weird...I just tried to plug in my shures and voila they fit perfectly in. I swear when I tried this a month ago for the 1st time on the airplane it wouldn't insert fully...a week ago or two I used the stock earbuds to insert and check it worked, and now the shures fit fine. Blame me for being an iphone newb I guess:palm:

Mine definitely looks like the top one, and according to the case, it is a 3g. I do have 3g data access on my iphone of course. However, the plug of my shure se530's does not insert fully into it, which means there is no bass and it sounds phasey, though there is sound.

Weird...I guess I will have to take some pictures later on to show that I am not crazy (at least I think I am not crazy, of course if I truly was crazy, that would exactly be the kind of thing I would say).

At least with my iphone 3g and my shure se530's, correct.

Ok another iphone newbie question...I remember reading on HF a long time ago that the headphone jack is of a different size and that normal headphone/IEM mini plugs don't quite fit. Well that is the case with my shure se530's, then mini plug is unable to fit directly into the headphone jack of my iphone 3g (which sucked for our trip to San Daniego I must add). I believe I need an adaptor of some sort, anyone that can help out with a link would be great.

yes or I believe the technical term are buffered opamps as the opamp feeds a pair of transistors for output (at least with the HR2). The eddie current ECSS is in a similar branch of buffered opamp designs.

^^^ primarily the proto chimera axiom amp, the welborne DRD 300b's and a custom Electraprint 300b.

Yup

Note to self - sometimes sarcasm is hard to convey and/or interpret correctly on the intrawebs. Also, I looked at her feedback thread, and while I do approve of the posts, is that technically allowed in someone's feedback thread? I thought you could only post feedback if you actually were involved in a transaction with that person.