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Happy Birthday Beefy. Good news. The federales have stopped looking for you down here in the antipodes. It's safe to come back.

"Who are you and where's Birgir? " He's cooking something up........ In spite of having a KGSS and O2 Mk1, I still like my HD800 quite a lot - even better with the Anax mod..

AKG K1000.

Do you have a pair of phones with a built in Leslie so I can get that wurlitzer sound happening? I mean, it would have to have a broad soundstage to pull the effect off..... K1000-esque and moar....

Yep, that was also my first foray into aftermarket cables for headphones.

Happy birthday Marc. Remember, you get another one next year.

A classic case of a win for "Style" over substance. After all if it looks good it must be good.....

Aren't they all fake?

I found that the Cardas cable was better than the stock. The Zu Mobius which is silver certainly gave the treble a boost. The Equinox gave the best all-round presentation. btw, I was a real skeptic until I changed to a Cardas from stock. I also found that if you replace the foam with about 5 layers of nylon pantyhose cut to size, it lifts the treble considerably. Without any foam I only last about 20 minutes before my ears get very tired of the presentation. The other side may have a cheap aftermarket cable for sale.

Buy one and let us know how it goes... Take a hit for the boys.......

What's the rental on a Murumasa V111 shipped to the antipodes.. Do I have to pay for missing consignments..

Happy birthday boys. Especially to Iron Dreamer as I enjoy your photos here and in the other forum. It makes a happy snapper appreciate what can be done with a camera.

I think Birgir and Wiktor have cornered the market on HE90 and Stax spares.....

Looks like a StaxSenn hybrid.... Did Wachara have a hand it this..??

Happy birthday currawong.

Happy belated bathday. Tyll. Get an old smoker - Suzuki 500 Titan/Cobra. Or a Lilac (BMW copy). They used to call me a TA (Temporary Australian) for riding a jap riceburner two stroke. I never got the same feeling of being one with the bike with a four stroke. Even a Suzuki GSX-R750 with half-race motor running on AVGAS is not the same as a stroker on the boil...... Tall gutters and telegraph poles are there to make life interesting, same goes for those four wheeled motorised chicanes........

Happy 46th birthday. You just get rid of one year, and another one comes along straight away. Just think of it as 23 years old for the second time. Or, 21 with 25 years experience.

Tried out a Noontec Zoro. Surprisingly good for the price. An added bonus is that they make me look like a hip geriatric...

This saya NPN. Another case of don't trust the 'net..??

How come you don't have the CT connected to earth as per the schematic? unloaded: 1 is 520V 2 is 50V 3 is 303V 4 is 170V Are these readings measured as AC or DC? 1 & 2 should be one secondary winding. 3 & 4 should be another secondary winding. Corrected. Thanks, eggil Disconnected from the power supply, there should be no connection between these windings and any other in the transformer.

I may be wrong, but you need to forget about the bias circuit and concentrate on the rail voltages just after the filter caps (680uF) and at the output for the amps.

This just concerns the low bias reading.

That's normal. The meter is probably 10 megohm and pulling the voltage down. Unless you have a high voltage probe with a resistance of about 1 gigohm, you can't get a proper reading.

Stepford revisited?