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I agree with you guys as well, for the millions of missing children we have in this country its sickening to only see media coverage when its a pretty white girl with blond hair from a rich neighborhood. It's unfortunate because I really think the media can help in solving these crimes just by getting the word out. I'd much rather see them spend a few minutes on as many missing children cases as they can instead of 4 hours on one. Personally I think the 24 hour news stations are largely to blame for this, there isn't nearly enough real news for them to fillup 24 hours with so they just turn things that aren't major stories and make them headline news. It's a pretty safe bet that the majority of people who watch the 24 hour new channels are in the middle class on up so they tailor their "stories" to that market.

I certainly didn't and lets not get ahead of ourselves, this guy could just be a nutcase trying to take credit for something he didn't do.

How about the McAlister EA-4? I've been thinking about getting a pair of Stax O2's and the EA-4 and the new amp McAlister has coming out look like pretty good options.

I would hope so since your digital rig is just a sound card

No they typically use op-amps instead of a tube.

Well there is a tube in there . Goes DAC -> 6h30 -> output transformers

Nice analogy

I will until someone proves to me that amps, sources and cables measure significantly different before and after burn-in.

Interesting data, now only if you could find something similar for amps, sources and cables . Seriously though that doesn't surprise me much, it makes plenty of sense that drivers do physically change over a period time as they are used. However I still think a lot of "huge" and "night and day" changes people report is largely a factor of the ears and brain adjusting to a new sound.

In my opinion I think probably only abot 5-10% of "break-in/burn-in" is actually physical, mechanical, or electrical changes. The leftover 90-95% is absolutely a persons ears and brain getting used to the new sound. If people want to consider the mental aspect of it part of the break-in/burn-in process I'm fine with that. I'm sure many people aren't fine with that which is why the "is burn-in rea"l arguements have an endless shelf life.

From what I can tell he seems to like keeping things in the output stage as short and simple as possible. I bet all those active parts on the zapfilter drive him nuts .

People are allowed to like something more than the K340's

Welcome to Head-case, while I have no direct experience with any of Alex's modded 3910's I've been extremely happy with the modded Philips SACD1000 I have from him. I'm also eyeing the new DAC he has coming out . Those mods you listed sound very similiar to the mods he now offers for the Sony 9100ES and early reports on that unit is that it is a very nice piece.

Yep thats quite true, my modded philips has lundahl output transformers and sounds pretty amazing, that being said I don't know anything about the transformers RAM uses.

Well the tubes I use are the sylvania 6sn7w short bottles and they go for about $75 each. The metal bases are quite a bit rarer and cost much more, anyhwere from $150-$200 each.

Sounds about right I've never heard a headphone from Ultrasone that didn't sound terrible.

Yeah looks glued on and those transformers look kinda tiny.

It's probably pretty good but I don't have any experience with the output transformers they use let alone any of their modded players.

He did that himself actually. The cable is the original cable from his now recabled HP-2's.

For all the RAM mods I've seen there is always a pair of op-amps doing the I/V before the transformers.

As usual it was a fun time and it was nice to see everyone again. Oh and thanks to Adam for the donuts . The new DT880s sounded quite nice. The treble is toned down a bit from the older models and they actually have some decent bass . They easily compete with the 650s for the best phone in that under $500 range. I'd like to hear the new DT990s at some point as they also look quite interesting. The HP2's were great as they usually are, I really liked them with that 6gu7 tube in the gain spot that Earl brought along. It was nice to hear the zana deux again it really is a hell of an amp.

Yep

Got my hotel room for Friday night all situated, look forward to seeing you guys on Saturday.

Start time will probably be around 10-10:30am. I believe reks PM'd all those who he thought would be interested but feel free to contact them again to see if they are coming.

Finally had some time to give Enchant a try, very good stuff I'm impressed. Thanks for the recommendation.