deepak

You are right I haven't done the math yet since I don't even know what power amp I'll end up, but from what I'm reading a 2 vrms source (mine is 2.1) should be good with a lot of amps. The other thing I have to work out is impedance matching. Another gripe with most of the TVCs I see is they are very limited with the number of attenuation steps, and to get something done custom by a company like S&B (doubtful they even sell loose transformers any more) would be big $$$

Also bad imo ^ what Cosmo Kramer will look like in another 30 years. AG Pennypacker as The Meistro.

In a nutshell: 1600 is a balanced 1100 1500 is a balanced 1000 Basically the 1600 and 1100 have a PMD100. And the 1600 has K grade PCM63. The 1500 and 1000 have a different digital filter- SM5813AP

k340 = torture. Plus the risk of snapping off his wee neck

Good stuff, I didn't see the AES links before. Bizarre on the sex change though

Actually the Parasound is clearly better. But the performance gap is pretty close. The mids on the Parasound are more natural, but I can see some people here thinking the North Star is better or more acurate with its dry sound. I haven't had a chance to try the Parasound in my friend's speaker system yet. The North Star sounded good in his system, but his vinyl rig (at 10x the price) utterly destroyed it.

I would have included the Oakley sunglasses that had a built in mp3 player and earbuds.

Happy birthday KG!!

A proven track record of what? It's an old design? It's durable? It's cheap to make? Plenty of designs have been around for many decades, it doesn't make them any better or worse than what is currently available. That "track record" means nothing.

Thanks for the info! No doubt it will be pretty difficult to get a DHT pre built. If the power amp I end up with has enough gain I'm tempted to just go with a TVC. The Raven, looks like another good one.

mmm PMD100

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Bob Dylan - Together Through Life

Porcupine Tree - We Lost the Skyline

The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers

Henry Cow - 40th Anniversary box set, Disc 5: Trondheim

Charlie Parker - Bird on 52nd st

Or go SS (says the guy with a tube amp).

One of the big attractions is SACD playback that doesn't convert DSD to PCM. Unless SACD has been cracked and can work over a plain old digital input...

Congrats man! Though I thought you had one already Hey I like the stock YH-1/HP-1 (though modded is better)! Quite a few people at the NYC meet really liked the stock HP-1 as well, and this meet had the mega-buck headphones there.

Nope I wouldn't. Sony + moving parts = you're gonna get fucked.

You're off the hook this time.

Unfortunately the first releases of LOTR on Blu-Ray are the theatrical versions and not the extended editions Still plenty of people will rebuy them when the EE's come out on BD, and they know this.

So many posts but no recent BlacX deals

Fling crack rock. Crap I mean sling.