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  1. i'm on a roll... the kgsshv

    in Do It Yourself

    Posted · Edited by El_Doug

    Macor would make the coolest stax jacks ever - too bad you dont have any

    seems the heatsinks will be out of the question, unless ~25 of us went in on it, and everyone was comfortable doing all the machining themselves. I am not equipped, nor do I have the time, to do tapping for everyone, let alone dealing with the rest of the chassis work. Kevin is a GOD for doing all of that work for everyone's T2's.

    edit: note that this would not be TOO difficult for everyone to do, since the new larger extrusion die is exactly 3U tall. angle brackets would probably be unnecessary, since you could (if i am imagining this correctly) tap directly into the heatsinks, to which the boards would be mounted in parallel, much like a Beta24

    edit: corrected number of people needed for group buy to 25

  2. i'm on a roll... the kgsshv

    in Do It Yourself

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    As the board comes closer to completion, I'd be more than willing to front the cash for, and store/ship, another heatsink run, iff enough people were interested in the purchase (and if Justin would be so kind as to allow us access to the die). Those angled fins are just so damned sexy!

  7. dynahi rev 2

    in Do It Yourself

    Posted

    aww, and I just last week finished procuring all the dual fets for my set of 4 rev. 1 boards :/

    you're a true gentleman Kevin, updating this great amp for modern sand, for the sake of the community <3

  10. HE-4

    in Headphones

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    I picked up a set of HE-4's as part of the nyc meet silent auction - pretty forgettable headphones, in all honesty. Very thick and bloomy... similar sound signature to the HD650s, except not good

  12. i'm on a roll... the kgsshv

    in Do It Yourself

    Posted

    huzzah!

    Thanks guys for the good words.

    Thank you Doctor G for bestowing your latest SS design on me.

    FINALLY! IT LIVES! OMFG I CANNOT BELIEVE IT!

    After three months of blood, sweat and tears I can hear music through my Stax on my KGSSHV.

    The 2SK170 sand did the trick. The +/- bias sits right on zero volts now.

    I still need to do a little tweaking on the +out to ground zero bias.

    Pics to follow in a few days...

  14. Audeze LCD-2

    in Headphones

    Posted · Edited by El_Doug

    In response to Amos' claim that they sound better with more power. Well for a laugh I hooked them up to my Fi 2a3 amp and they sounded better than I've heard before. Now the hum is pretty unbearable when music is not playing but when the music starts it does sound great.

    I'd love to have a 45/2a3 or 46 tube amp for these. Justin no one would listen at the full 2w just like no one listens at the full 500w that a McCormack DNA 500 delivers.

    The issue with statements like that is that it is not the increased power rating that is responsible for the "better" sound - it is the different amp topology. Some people like a 15watt 300b amp for these headphones, but somehow refuse to accept that they like the sound of 300bs, instead claiming they like the "improvement from 15 watts."

  17. Schiit Asgard

    in Headphone Amplification

    Posted

    You should have a listen to my NOS DAC - it uses 8x oversampling

    I was curious but had to start reading the review with my eyes rolled, which made it difficult to continue.

    Really, posting that on a headphone forum? No way.

    I stopped reading after that.

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