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New pets rule, especially cute little dogs.

Hey Guys, I'm in a good mood today for some reason so I figured I'd offer up free head-case.org email accounts to any member that wants one. If interested please PM me with the login (this will be what comes before the @ in the email address) and password you want to use. Please only request an account if you plan to actually use it. Thanks -T

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.

In fact here's a very good example why people get tired of the zhalou or any product that gets insanely over-hyped: http://www6.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=202429

Except it has been zhalou owners that have made such grandiose claims.

Your not alone I feel the same way. Really don't give a shit either way.

If they are actually along the same line as the D66's they could be pretty good. But knowing Sony I'm sure they'll be awful