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While I've only had it for a day so far I can tell pretty easily that this is a special amp. It throws one of the largest soundstages I've ever heard (including many balanced amps). The great thing about it though, is that even with the large soundstage there is never any loss of cohesion or false sense of space. I'm also amazed at the dynamics this amp has, it can handle anything from the most delicate of female vocals to the loudest of rock and metal with ease. I think one of the hardest things for an amp to get right is both the leading and trailing edges of a note. Many amps are great at one or the other and a few are very good at both. But this amp is phenomenal at both, I've never heard an amp nail the splash of an initial cymbal hit and the trailing shimmer as well as this amp does. Again it's still quite early, but this amp does bass so well, I've never heard better.

You have enough amps Earl

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Those enable or disable the 2nd gain stage (one knob per tube).

Well my new SinglePower amp arrived today. It has two gain stages and uses some nice powerful tubes as the output tubes. Here's a bunch of pics:

My amp arrived today . I'll start a new thread with pics later tonight, back to listening for now.

They should at least be cutting off his fingers so he can't be a doctor anywhere in the world ever again.

Should be getting my amp tomorrow finally . I'll be sure to post a bunch of pics.

It's not necessarily that portable amps don't make a difference, it's more a question of whether said difference is worth the large amount of money some portable amps cost. I think if your portable rig is going to be your main rig then sure an amp makes sense but as others have said get better headphones first and then get an amp.

Received a USPS delivery confirmation number from SP, so it looks like my long awaited amp has shipped

I'm still not a big fan of portable amps, it's one more thing to carry around and don't even get me started on all the stupidly overpriced mini-mini cables people get suckered in to buying. If someone is just starting in this hobby and needs something thats portable I'd recommend they get an ipod of their choosing and some headphones in their budget. I'd rather let them save up money for a future home amp then have them waste money portable amps which for the most part are pretty crappy.

Yes they don't have any limits regarding number of times they can be written to but it would be much slower than an HD as USB (even USB2) just doesn't have the same bandwidth capabilities of SATA or even PATA.

I imagine it will be pretty pricey. Wouldn't surprise me if they are $1k.

No this has no connection to Alessandro other than the fact the MS-2i's are the base headphones for these mods.

Yeah I'd heard about these last summer. Guy on head-fi is getting some special effects company or something to mod MS-2i's. They were supposed to be available awhile ago so I wouldn't hold my breath.

Except when you factor in all the labor cost is there really any savings to pass on??

Nice catch, I'm loving my Sony 55A2000.

I kinda doubt the Cary would be any better than your ZD. Of course the Cary can also drive speakers so that might make it a more valuable piece to you depending on your situation.

Now if only my amp would ship .

The Gilmore Lite is a very nice amp for the 650s especially and you can upgrade it by adding the dedicated power supply at a later date. Lite DAC-AH is a nice little dac and while it doesn't have the greatest extension or detail retrieval it should mate well with the GL and your 650s.

So your looking to improve bass? Getting a STEPS or similar power supply upgrade would get you significant improvements there.

Whoops you are correct I meant to say that the 970 is the best of the three Oppo players for audio use.

The 971 is apparently the best of the bunch for audio. The 981 though is an excellent upscaling dvd player, I've really enjoyed mine.

I'm not aware of any such lawsuit. I know Samsung had been planning to do a universal blu-ray/hd-dvd player but they canceled those plans and instead are 100% backing blu-ray only.