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Wow that looks really clean and neat

probably not hiroshima.

NOT TILL I BUI THE VANTOTL

Honestly, I've never enjoyed any nos dac. The ack dack(not the latest one)'s resolution seemed surprisingly good for what it is and I may live with it if used third hand for 200 bucks, but not at the price they sell at new/slightly used. The dac ah(was modified too) didn't do anything for me at all but was not unpleasant by any means. I may be judgmental and sound stupid to you all, but when a dac at this pricepoint has its chassis "built on our tune wooden Merbau wood with Stainless Steel plate similar to our TVC construction" and uses "Neotech 7N copper" which is $1.30 and up/ft, a as well as "Pure Silver RCA used for digital input and analog output," it takes a lot of credibility away. Nothing wrong with having nice jacks and good wire, but again, it is a paradox because "tweaks" like this don't like to perform hard(if at all) on this level of performance. The money and effort spent on the arbitrary things could have been pooled into the actual heart of the gear- which in turn raises it's performance and receptivity of the "tweaks." In cases like this, the actual tweaks prevent the tweaks from being optimally implemented. Of course hissy audiophiles love the wood, luxury external(and easily viewed) components, and snake sauce.

- Ack! dAck2.0 (used) Yuck! - CIAudio VDA2 (used) Mmm! - Promitheusaudio Solid State DAC Yuck! - Bel Canto DAC 2 Mmm!

Ah of course. He can ask someone in the states to buy it, then ship it to him. Little extra shipping cost but still a deal.

you are mean. There is a dynahi for 590 listed over there.Shipped. Dew eet.

Put it in a HD650 frame. The old school grado drives paired with new age composite material based HD650 skeleton would yield the best of both worlds.

That's exactly what I was thinking.

Will the owner of a bellari vp129 chime in? hows the amp in that thing.. it could be a nice cheap phono/headamp in one box.

It's so creepy.

What is a google spider. I saw a yahoo spider too.

yes

I think wadia has a simple ad convertor for these purposes. If your phono preamp has balanced out, the apogee minimee is great, and would probably serve other purposes too. Plus you can get the minime used much more readily. The lucid ad9624 is also a good converter. Record it in 24 bit 88.2khz with the apogee or lucid (I dont remember what the wadia adc did) then find a good program to dither down to 16 bit and convert sample rate to 44.1 using secret rabbit code in foobar.

They are detachable.

I'd take the vda2/vac1 since it gives you the option of going balanced and I like the particular dac design.

No wonder the cd sounded so good, he used the pacific microsonics convertor If only pac micro were still in business and sovereign, there would be way more studios using the model 2 and stuff like that and the cd medium as a whole would probably jump up a few notches. Damn Microsoft...

If you have access to wood tools you can build a basic one with fostex drivers. Stuff like the BIB is cool, and if you don't have the tools you can always try to get others to help. n_mahler is building a cicada so maybe talk to him about it. phergu_25 on headfi has neat pair he's built and is most likely finished now that runs on this tube amp that has similar output to the se beta. Pm him for pics and stuff. http://melhuish.org/audio/DIY.html has a bunch of ideas

postjack is cute.

Are you the horny type? Single driver fullrange would be great.

I thought 18wpc was a "conservative" rating given for it? I bet it puts out a bit more than that.

Checklist: 1. Did you post in fs forum yet? NO 2. Did you start bashing headfi and or their members in order to appear cool here? NO 3. Do you have a thick skin? NO(apparently) I think you're clear. For now

thats a fucking big penguin.

Imagine filleting a thick slice off the rockhopper penguin, then dipping it in sashimi sauce and eating it while the penguin is still very much alive and conscious. Like this: