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Not exactly efficient but these would be great.

You know Selah will also do custom kits

I highly recommend these. You won't find anything better remotely close to that price.

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I see no reason to wait Windows still does have a 90%+ market share in the desktop arena.

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damn there goes my idea of you paying for my ticket and room

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dan's coming to he just doesn't know it yet

I'm really looking forward to this game.

I don't really see the point of yet another browser at this time but whatever. It being multi-threaded shouldn't be a huge surprise though, pretty much all software needs to start making that transition if it wants to keep up.

I'll see if I can make it

For monitors I doubt you'd find anything new as good as these for the price. If you don't mind buying used though there's tons of good speakers on audiogon. One of the tough things with demoing speakers is that they probably won't sound the same in your place as they do in the store. If you buy new make sure they have a good return policy.

That's typically just the nature of single drivers speakers in my experience.

Yeah I assume KG is referring to my apl 3910 in which case I agree the build quality of the actual mods is of much higher quality on the modwright.

I think you'd be perfectly fine at 15ft. Shouldn't be too hard to find them in 20 or 25ft online from somewhere like newegg.

6sn7s in parallel will have no problem driving higher impedance phones like the 650s but they can't drive low impedance phones very well. Of course if you add transformer coupled output to the mix then they'd have no problems with low impedance phones.

I've done quite a bit of listening to the modwright 9100es over the past 3-4 days and I feel that it is truly a high-end source. It throws a huge soundstage with extremely good channel separation. It presents stage in an articulate manner placing every piece of the music in it's own concise spot in space. I'm looking forward to comparing that aspect in particular against the apl 3910 in the speaker rig. One of the concerns I had before getting it was speed and pacing, tube outputs (especially poorly designed ones) have a tendency to slow things down just enough to to throw the pacing off a bit. I'm happy to report that is not the case with the modwright 9100es it keeps the O2's speed intact and has spot on pacing. I do think one of it's biggest strength's is bass reproduction. It might be the bass reproduction I've heard it goes deep and can really slam when needed. But it can also be delicate in the way it lets all the nuances and textures of the bass notes through. I'm sure the excellent bass ties in with this, but the player also has killer dynamics it transitions between quiet and loud passages perfectly never sounding too soft in the quiet parts or too harsh on loud ones. That's about all the thoughts I feel like putting down for now, more to come soon.

Well I do think the external tube rectified ps makes a pretty big difference, was it ever offered with the 999es? Also in stock form the 9100es is a much better machine than the 999es. Dual linear power supplies, seperate clocks for dvd and cd/sacd, etc.

That would be my assumption as well. Sounds like your buying into Sony's marketing of SACD's superior frequency response a bit too much . The modwright does have great extension but it's not aggressive or edgy at all.

It arrived yesterday, didn't get around to taking any pics till tonight though. here's some internal shots of the external tube rectified ps: and a few shots of the 9100es internal and external: Initial impressions are positive so far, it has absolutely killer bass and I'm pleasantly surprised by it's ability retain a coherent stage regardless of the complexity of the music.

Just get two of the 24" dell's.

they're only $20 so don't expect them to have much long-term reliability. you could always pay a ton more and get something from plextor but i've had pretty good luck with stuff from lite-on and lg.

Yeah I hope to compare it to my apl 3910 at some point but it won't be easy. The 9100es is upstairs in my stax rig and the apl is downstairs in the speaker rig.

modwright 9100es arrived today finally. pics and such will have to wait till tomorrow