recstar24

Yeah i believe the iron is all lundahl. Not cheap thats for sure. I think 600 is conversative considering it has its outputs and inputs transformer coupled. The best iron isnt cheap, thats for sure. My moth s2a3 uses electra-print iron, TM3kB, each transformer potted is about $200. Tango iron can run you from 250-400 per trannie considering they are out of production. There's a sweet deal for a pair electraprint trannies 15k:300 ohms parafeed on audio circle for $100 if anyone is interested. Might make a cool project.

RSA XR-10B!!!! yay!!!!

Man I wish there was a way to properly convey tone and sarcasm on the internet, would really keep me out of trouble. Jacob, so your coming down for the meet?

Oh be quiet you know what I mean, I'm not sure if its been officially confirmed that Jude is filipino. Man Jacob you sure have been messing with me lately. Maybe that should be my new custom title - has no freaking idea what nationality he is. I guess if you want to be technical, my nationality is American (yee haw apple pie chicago peeezaaah).

Yeah I agree. I do remember Todd's amp, it was that bottlehead sex amp, sounded good with the RS-1's. Kevin was actually pretty cool with me at the meet, who would later admonish me on the boards for my taste in music, but I'm willing to look past that. The food was great...and yes his daughter is beautiful. In fact she is really fiiiinnnneee. Actually, I look like a younger Jude. We're both filipino (I think), that's what others have said as well.

Woo hoo! Jacob, I would love to have you down here, I think that would be awesome. And if you need a place to crash for the night, you are more than welcome to stay in my guest room at the apartment.

That was the one at Ray's, January 05 correct? I remember seeing you there, I was very new to head-fi so I am sure you don't remember me. That was fun, tons of people showed up. You, Todd_R, tyrion, I remember lots of out of towners, in addition to a slew of local headfiers. Tuberoller was still there as well, go figure

Shut up

http://www.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=245614 This is for anyone here who may not have seen the thread on head-fi. All head-casers of course are invited as well! As it states in the thread I am asking for a $15 contribution to help out with the rental fee for the clubhouse. I would love to have all the Ohio gang and whoever else if your willing to make the drive. Anyone from out of town that needs a place to crash, your more than welcome to crash at my place for the night.

That's a great way of articulating it. Another way to describe prat is "groove," the sensation of "playing in the pocket." That's typically a musician's term that we use when you lay back on the beat just a bit so that the gestalt feels like it sits right in this tiny pocket, you keep it there and it just grooves and chugs right along. It almost has a feeling of tension, because your body wants to propel the beat forward but the musicians keep it nice and relaxed and laid back. Huge with jazz. Prat deals a lot with transient response. The RS-1's are definitely tipped more forward in comparison to the HP-2's. Which is cool too, but you gotta appreciate that sensation of grooviness that the HP-2's are able to exhibit. As I am doing right now with some Dave Brubeck and Time Out - now that guy knows how to comp in the pocket.

Cool - works for me

No!!!! I was just kidding!!! I still have two wishes left, correct? Change it back please

Wow, his user name is actually dandi (asshole)? I want to change mine to recstar24 (prick)

The myth has carried weight because users are misinformed about things like impedance and equating that good sound = loud volume. "Oh, grados sound great out of my ipod, they don't need an amp." No, they do, and scale up nicely with better amps.

Sounds like ground loop issues. Whenever you have multiple power cords plugged in different places, there is always the possibility for a ground loop, which is created when different ground potentials from the power supplies start introducing hum into the chain. If you have a keyboard around, 50 hz is around the pitch of B two octaves lower than middle C. Listen to the hum, then sing it on a tone and compare with B on the keyboard, if it matches you know you'ev got ground loop. By plugging all your components into a single strip that ties all the grounds together, you essentially eliminate all ground potential differences between the power supplies, the difference becomes zero, hence no hum. You could also use a cheater plug that bypasses the ground pin on the cord, but do so at your own risk. The above is only helpful if it is indeed a ground loop hum. I am pretty sure that it is not transformer hum leaking into the zana due to the external chassis. You may want to mess around with placement of the zana power supply, depending on its proximity to your source, zana main chassis or F1 magnetic fields could physically leak elsewhere along the signal chain.

I believe he is referring to different speakers from Grado. In the 60's Joe came out with a set of studio monitors. Larry from headphile has a set. I am pretty sure those are the ones he has, according to the dimensions the user outlined in the post.

Just get a Doge - its the best! yeah! thumbs up! Source - ipod should be just fine, but make sure you get an ALO dock. With all the money saved, you can go ahead and buy all the R10's, L3000's, and HP-1000's to your heart's content. Thank me later

He won a superbowl lol

Yup - remember Ray Lewis in the 2001 season? Nice

Clinton Portis: "So what if he has some dogs? They be his dogs, if he wants to fight them dat his business, he can do whatever he want. I be down in Mississippi, thats what we all do, its all good." What a crock of crap. Hopefully some justice is done from this inhumane activity

Sorry about that, you are correct, they are obviously all used, I think I meant just make sure the price you get them at is what you can turnaround. $2000 seems to be about right. I absolutely love the PS-1's but they are going for around the same price, and at that level I might go for the L3000 based purely on looks, as it sure looks pretty. Those two seem to be the rock favorites of the high end cans. Does anyone remember the good ole days when PS-1's used to go for $850? sigh...

As long as you get it used you should be fine if you don;t like it, as it turns around really well. That is the one headphone myself that I am dying to hear. I have been trying to set up a time with a local headfier to audition but so far it hasnt worked out.

Nah, Welly Wu is totally off the mark, and he is unstable. Doc is just overtly biased to the point of being irrational.

Ah, how the air is so much fresher on top of mount mint HP-1000:) Glad to have you with us.

For that kind of money, oral would be a start