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Haha those actually are my pics not ones from the manufacturer, not that it would matter we're pretty open here about what can be posted here

Well I was a little bored last night so I opened up my PrimaLuna Prologue One and was very impressed by the point-to-point wiring so I took some pictures. Lower res versions here: http://head-case.org/photos/thumbnails.php?album=6

I doubt the MPX3 will ever kill you, but I could see it killing itself at some point. Although the ever increasing prices of 6SN7's might give you a heart attack

Haha yeah the stock output stage actually hides it pretty well because its just not resolving enough

Yep all those denon's have switching power supplies and the clock converstion from 24mhz for dvd down to audio levels does cause a bit of glare/sheen in the treble.

Whether or not you will like the 701s depends on what you are looking for. If you want as close to neutral and an even tonal balance than you'll enjoy the 701s a lot. Otherwise you might not like them.

Pricejapan.com gave me a quote of $668 for the CEC DA53 a few days ago.

What DAC are you getting? I would bet that the signal cable magicpower would be better than the Punch. Another cable you might want to check out is the Asylum Power Cable from diycable.com. I have 3 or 4 of them and they work great for me.

Happy B-Day

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/baseball/mlb/03/06/news.excerpt/index.html

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I haven't seen much yet, but I liked Underworld Evolution

Hockey pucks work pretty well

Sounds like you probably have a bad driver. You have a few options though, send the phones into beyer usa and let them fix it or order the driver yourself and send the new driver and your phones to one of the DIY people and let them do it. Of course you could also have them upgrade the cable at that time, for this time of work I'd recommend Headphile or Enigma Audio.

I would avoid the zhalou, parts quality is pretty low and there have been reports of extremely high dc offset at the rca and xlr outputs. Build quality is also less than stellar looks pretty fragile to me. The Lavry is a very nice dac we have a few members here that have them.

Maybe it's just me but I've always seen headwize as technically oriented forum that seemed to be lacking in other discussion areas. I don't see any reason why headwize can't remain the mecca of technical oriented headphone/amp related material. The lack of forum categories and general absence of posting in some of the categories (electronic gear for instance) are partially why I decided to start up and host this forum. Head-Case will eventually become open, I certainly don't want or expect it to get anywere near as large as head-fi is. But yes for the time being the bandwidth is available. The server it is running on comes with 2TB per month of bandwidth. Addtional bandwidth can be added at $100 per each 1TB.

Crash was pretty good, but just looking at all the nominations made me realize what a mediocre year 2005 was for films.

Mint Chocolate Chip and lately Haagen Dazs Vanilla Bean

The S15 is a voltage regulator and has battery backup. The H15 which is the same sans the battery backup is much much less.

Yep it should handle my low voltage issues pretty well, I just wonder how its filtering/conditioning is.

I still think the Mini-cubed looks really interesting, I hope they go ahead with making boards for that.

So far for me the 650's have the most dramatic improvement but really I think every headphone I've tried has improved to some degree when balanced. If I can make it to the maryland meet in a few weeks hopefully I'll get to hear Hirsch's balanced rs-1's.

I think that is the most promising part of the X-1, gives an almost endless amount of ways to tweak the sound. Should be fun to try one with L3000 drivers

The 650s are quite a bit better balanced than the 600s are.

Will be interesting to see how it compares to your E5