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http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?preatube&1192058776
I'm not sure what it is, or what tubes those are...but it does look funky enough to be a "collector's" amp.
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Happy Belated Birthday!.... I hope you got a nice discrete, class A amp to celebrate or at least some tubes.
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damn that's sweet.
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I think on the inside they are the same, but all the RCA connectors and 1/4th headphone jack appeared of cheaper quality to me. The power supply also got smaller, but I don't know what the deal is with that.
on the plus side, the newer ones have a cooler paint job.
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why is that? i thought the first and second generations were relatively similar, i.e. same parts.
that's what I thought too....
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I've seen that one... (if I were you I'd hold off for a first generation model).
I'm being interviewed constantly, I even got rejected from that crazy lady's place. I'm going to this place on telegraph... If i Get It, I promise to buy the L3K (or at least a qualia)!
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chick 2, by a wide margin. Chick 1 looks high maintenance. Chick 2 looks chill and relaxed.
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Hi
As you can see, I usually think things suck before I hear them
1. the AKG-240= it sucks. it really sucks.
2. The original Grado 325= it still sucks.
3. Westone 3= It sucks
4. The Cary 306 SACD- not bad, I thought my VDA-2 is better
5. The original Stax Omega- it sucks
6. Lehmann Black Cube Linear- It sucks
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Who is Merton and what is "Pinkie's forum"?
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Ahem...you have a PM sir.
Don't put your hopes on this... I've been tittering on the edge of getting a bassoon for years and whenever the whim comes to me, it usually goes away in a week. I think I just posted that to make conversation really... because I'll probably find another way to fund a bassoon.. and all this is dependent on where I move for the school year... so It is entirely possible...but yea, i'll wait. sorry. I was probably too early to the trigger there.
But if you have a Supra XLR, why the hell would you care for a Zana Deux?
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Hey, Jocelyn, Nice to see you joining us.
turns out that I may have missed my opportunity to live with the crazy lady.
doesn't matter, I want something bigger and better now: A Basssoon. I regularly have dreams of playing it again, and I think it's about time to make my dreams come true.
Taking offers for the ZD, but not sold on selling it yet
So I think I will get an all-in-one to make up for that... a balanced dac I guess (apogee, lavry, benchmark, or bel canto?) tell me what you think.
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LOL.
Thanks everyone. one full week of searching, and sadly... her place is still atop the pile. looking for rooms in Berkeley is sorta a race to the bottom. (example: a frat was renting rooms, but renters are not allowed in the living room or kitchen!).
In any case, I'm interested in that qualia CDP. does it have digital inputs?
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In review, here are your options so far:
* Move On - Look for somewhere else to live. This can't be the only sufficient residence.
* Get Clever - It can't be that hard to outsmart a wacko landlady. Get to work.
* Stand Up - Stand up to the bitch and let her know the wisdom of your ways. What's she doing browsing through your stuff anyways??
* Partially surrender - Get a 1-box source but KEEP the Zana Deux!
* Fully Surrender - This option will make cry, beacuse I probably won't have funds available for the Zana Deux when you sell it
I'd be pretty skeptical there's any 1-box solution that could stand up to a decent source with the Zana Deux, even considering balanced drive.* Go Vinyl - It won't solve your problem here, but this is like, always an option man.
1. The thing that bothers me is that this is the best place to rent from so far, however I am looking at 5 more places this weekend. hopefully one of them is better than this lady's place.
2. In this arrangement, she pays all the utilities, so that makes it important to her that no one waste electricity. After having been to the place, I'm pretty sure that no one there would use the power that I would. And, yes she is crazy... she got on my case and started being very accusatory when I told her about my gear...
3. My latest power bill was $60,
4. I'm thinking of building a file cabinet... that will have a headphone cord sticking out of it.
5. Standing up to the landlord is a bit tricky... they've been fucking cal students for years. Last year, most wouldn't rent to one of my friends because he was disabled... and they got away with it! I've seen them enter and give tours without the tenant's permission...if there are laws, they are rarely followed.
6. Ken, sorry. I am going to try to keep it (at least for this week) you'll have to to take that petty second production Zana Deux with it's cheaper parts, hazy tubes and smaller power supply.
7. I'm going to visit more places.. but for the most part, places are bad to worse in this town.
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Get a power conditioner and plug everything else in, so you're really only using one outlet!
the visual of it all will still probably get her pissed at me.
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Okay.
I've been applying to new apartments and they keep asking me about my stuff (Berkeley people are notoriously stressing over conservation and such). The thing is that my rig keeps freaking people out: i use alot of electricity and many power cords and shit. At minimum i use: 1 outlet for my music hard drive, 1 outlet for my sound card, 1 outlet for my transport, 1 outlet for my dac, and 1 outlet for my Zana Deux. This is bad... very bad. It doesn't look good and such.
The thing is that I want to say away from making me rig into a "benchmark dac-1 with usb." or worse a corda opera. If i do decide to consolidate, I want something that's gonna be the shit. here are my ideas, and your input is very much needed for this. thankyou.
1. Buy a headroom balanced home with max modules.
2. Buy a wadia CDP and use the balanced out on that.
3. Buy some kick ass dac with balanced output... but which?
4. keep my current rig, hope the land lady doesn't notice.
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LOL. the ED9 is a very unique headphone, for very particular music tastes.
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420 dollars for the saturday B concert series (7 concerts) with the San Francisco symphony OR.... New Power cord for my dac and some tubes...... (hard decision!)
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6.5 hours of straight listening to the w5000.... it sucks. i'm sorry.
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my parents made me listen to only religious music... thus I'm only discovering real music now that I've gone to college (result= audiophile).
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468688910001531 fedex tracking..
I criag'd the connections and wiped both down with ammonia before shipping. I wiped a part of the lettering that says "warning do not open" with the ammonia..nice quality..
direct signature required.
As some say your not a man of your word unless you live by your word..
LOL Andrea? keep it i got a new one..besides check out track 10..song rocks!
YEY! Thanks.
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hey, dude. I found your CD (it was still in Chicago). Where should I send it? PM Me!
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I'd be pretty skeptical there's any 1-box solution that could stand up to a decent source with the Zana Deux, even considering balanced drive.
This is an interesting forum
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It's abuse of just about every can you own dude... go buy a real headphone amp. At least for the HD650, they deserve better. You can keep the raptor for the W5000, it's not like the w5000 scales or anything.