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Haha ok, so a single forum with each manufacturer getting their own thread. Now one more question, should we automatically give manufacturers a thread? Or only those that want one?

Well the industry standard for XLR outs is male jacks, which is why when connecting to the xlr outs on a dac or whatever you need female xlr connectors. The only thing that uses female xlr jacks for output is balanced headphone amps. For everything else female xlr jacks are inputs.

One of the ideas about this particular subject thats been floating around in my head is to create a manufacturer forum, and give each manufacturer their own child forum underneath that. Manufacturers could use this to announce new products or answer questions about current products that members want to ask. My only concern is that if the manufacturers don't participate in their own child forum the whole idea becomes some what of a waste of time.

Thanks for the recommendations guys I'm going to check out some of these albums, keep em coming

Option 2 wouldn't be bad except the TubeDac isn't very good at all. Total lack of detail and low-end extension.

Get the Lavry its a nice sounding and pretty versatile piece of gear.

I think his website says he does the photos but not the new video ones

I'm also strongly considering a pair of these: http://www.diycable.com/main/product_info.php?cPath=24_92&products_id=571&Cid=d7d5be79ed9cc92852d50724a36936b3

The 701s see a nice improvement when balanced but not as large of one as the 650s get. Hopefully I get to hear balanced rs-1s someday as they apparently improve a heck of a lot.

I actually really like the Europa's they sound effortless and are not fatuiging at all. I would like better bass response and a more dynamic sound though. I will not be using a sub so good bass response is important. The room isn't too large its about 10x16 with 7ft ceilings and the speakers are setup on the 16 ft wall. They are roughly 8ft apart and about 18" out from the wall. My usual seating position is about 7-8ft away.

I'm currently using a PrimaLuna Prologue One to drive a pair of Green Mountain Audio Europa's. I've actually been using that setup more than my headphone rig as of late so I figure its time I put some more money into it. I plan to upgrade both the speakers and the amp but I'd like to do the speaker upgrade first. Here's a few links to speakers I'm currently considering: GMA Callisto - http://greenmountainaudio.com/Speakers/Callisto/Welcome.htm Seas Odin MK3 - http://www.madisound.com/odinmk3.html Selah Audio SA-1 - http://www.selahaudio.com/id46.html Thoughts on those or any other suggestions are welcome . Oh any recommendations need to be bookshelf/stand mount speakers.

If you want the bracket in PDF format http://www.head-case.org/tkam/06mens_bracket.pdf

I spent most of yesterday watching the conference tournament games and of course watching the ncaa tournament selection show. I think the bracket is pretty well balanced this year and I think Cincinnati is the only team that really should have made it but didn't. I also think it was a nice change to see more of the at-large bids going to teams from smaller conferences. And the biggest head-scracther of the bracket is Tennesee getting a 2 seed how did that happen?? [attachment deleted by admin]

FOTM of the month for sure, I still wonder why Ori is pushing it so much. Although I will say the Zhalou 2 looks to be much improved and might actually be something I consider buying.

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

New policy time . To try to increase membership and traffic here I'm asking our current membership to invite people they think would add to the community. In an attempt to keep track of who invites who, if you invite someone please make a post in this thread stating who you invited otherwise the person will likely not have their registration approved. Thanks