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I think that is a pretty fair assessment, though electrocstat bass is a good bit quicker.

Nice! There can never be too many tubes.

Thanks to Alex (ayt999) I've had a pair of R10's on loan for a good amount of time now and figured it was time to post some impressions. The R10's have wonderful detail retrieval and are one of the most resolving phones around. This is of course a double edged sword as it can be great on well recorded music but absolutely brutal on poor recordings. The R10's tonality which I do feel to be quite natural sounding is likely their best attribute. Probably the most talked about attribute of the R10's is their sound stage, yes it's huge and yes it gives the listener that sense of being completely enveloped in sound. That being said, I do not think it is very natural, in fact on some music I found it to be down right distracting. Aside from that, I will say that the imaging is very accurate and the sense of space they can portray is impressive. The R10's treble has great extension and a good amount of "airyness" to it. However I do think it has a tendency to be a little sibilant at times. On to the R10's bass which is easily and I think rightfully so their most controversial attribute. The extension is pretty good, but the impact is lacking. For example the leading edge of drum hits sound very good but that "oomph" you expect to come after that and as the note trails off is often times non-existent or not prominent enough. I almost wonder if the less than stellar bass was done on purpose as it does seem to add to the sense of space between instruments. For a large portion of my music the lacking bass is really quite a detriment to my enjoyment of the music. For me that makes the R10's very genre limited headphones and certainly not worth the $4-$5K that they go for these days. It's safe to say that I'm part of the group that just doesn't get all the hype the R10's receive. Their "strength" I already get elsewhere, with the L3000 I get tonality that is on par or better than the R10's IMO and when it comes to sound stage if I want a truly large sound stage I'll just listen to my speakers. Part of the reason I really like headphones is their immediacy and more intimate setting and I feel the R10s are the antithesis of that.

Let's attempt to keep this on-topic I split off all the posts after Chrysanthemum's to another topic.

New pets rule, especially cute little dogs.

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Brand new amp it's not even named yet . Theres a good chance something quite similar will become a new addition to the standard SP lineup.

Haha so sad but true. I think I'm at that agony of waiting point, about 2-3 weeks left before my new Singlepower amp arrives.

Congrats that should be a fantastic pairing.

Anyone check out the measurements from the Zanden review in the November issue of Stereophile? Not that Stereophile or in particular Michael Fremer had any credibility left. But how the hell did he manage to be floored by a combo that had a roughly 4 db channel imbalance and a thd+noise of 25% at 50hz.

Sorry about that, should be working fine now.

Ditto, the front panel is way too busy and all the bolted on stuff looks like crap IMO. Then again I've always preferred my audio gear to look simple, clean and understated.

Sounds like a bad tube to me. Might also be worth reseating the tubes if you haven't tried that yet.

Sorry haven't heard the RS-2's.

Looks nice, should be interesting to hear your impressions on it and of course how it compares to the competition.

Few more thoughts to add now that I've had the new 990s for a bit longer. While their tonality is greatly improved compared to past Beyers it's still pretty piss poor when put up against my l3k or rs-1. I'm thinking some of the tonality issues are caused by the treble which has an unnatural sheen to it.

Awesome

I just did that test and track 39 sounded at the same level as 38 and 40.

Yeah Mikhail mentioned possible 6c33 adapters when I spoke with him about my 6528 amp

Is it FLAC? If so rockbox doesn't work on the new ipods yet so you'd have to convert it to alac for the time being.

I do believe you could do that but there would also be a number of changes to the circuit that would need to be done.

I have one of the new 80gig ipods, it's pretty nice. Is your music mostly in lossy or lossless formats?

You can have mikhail use octal sockets and you won't need any adapters. In my amp they are run at a higher voltage (375V) I'm not sure about the bias to be honest.

Just the Plitron transformer.

Yeah thats really a pretty good recommendation, my PPX3 Slam with the Plitron transformer sounds fantastic with the bl7 and bx7's at high voltage. You can always upgrade other parts at a later date if you want.