Augsburger

You sound like a public service employee entrance exam...

Well I sold my Eddy Merckyx for my Trafomatic Head One, so I don't think anyone on this forum can argue with me that that was a good choice. No road bike can compete with the sound of a good tube amp. BTW, I am a little premature is stating that the Merckyx is "sold", actually " may have a buyer and I am taking bids"..... (note to self, now go read the HC thread about posts on the HF site, the RS1 in particular)

ahhh I have envy

EPILOGUE: Well I purposely let the issue die down so that I wouldn't let myself get caught up in my excitement. I have been traveling for the past two weeks so I have spent some time away from the Head One. I am back in town for a few weeks and I now have about thirty hours on it, not a full burn in per se but enough to say that I like this amp more and more. Next to the EC/SS which I found very revealing and detailed, the EC/SS seems a little too forward and imparts a bit of glare to the music. This is only noticeable since I have been back in town and I am taking the time to A/B the two amps. The Trafomatic has a nice smooth mellow character with a deep and wide sound stage. When A/B ing, the EC/SS seems to be a little to fast and forward whereas with the Trafomatic the music seems to envelope you. I guess the mellow characteristics can be attributable to those crazy KGB sponsored tubes. I hope we can pull off a summer meet here in So Cal (as rumored) so that others can comment on their experience with this amp.

I win for the most real time post. As of now, because I just got off the phone with my wife after she informed me what a nice guy I am for buying her something; I just bought my wife a bracelet. I am cool with this because I just bought a new amp and I was feeling kind of selfish and guilty.

I demand a recount! And what about the absentee votes?

Anyone willing to take a look at my wiring job to see if I screwed up? This temporary DIY failure is killing my ego.

Almost three weeks late but Trafomatic Head One amp. I am very happy with this purchase which means unfortunately the EC/SS must go. Hopefully we can pull off a So Cal meet this summer so I can get some other opinions...

Grawk, Know any medium's? How about a seance with some Bill Evans?

I use an Elvis statue I bought at a garage sale. Interestingly enough, Grados are the only cans that seem to fit on the King's head.

Somehow I get the funny feeling that in a few years once the public discovers him, I will not be able to afford any of Justin's amps at all. I was wondering if he will consider offering futures on his amps. For example we could purchase a futures contract today for delivery of a yet to be thought of design for six years from now. Justin.....are you there? Whadddajaaaa say???

LOL... actually much worse, it would be a huge step up to sound like $40 BB speakers. Thanks for any help or suggestions, I am willing to try anything.

If I can find a CD on online source for a sweep tone I will try that. I doubt that the driver is fried because the speakers sound identically "bad". My experience with a fried driver in the past has been that they sound raspy and most of the music is missing. The woofer and tweeter reproduce the whole range it is just that the music is muted. What I mean by that is veiled, no bass to speak of sounds as if the driver is trying to play through a pillow. No prat, no texture, basically sounds like a cheap boombox. Before the mods the speaker played well at small room listening levels with my test Charlize amp at nine o'clock, after the mods, I had to crank the Charlize to two o'clock to get the same sound level. Insignia is Manufactured in China so the true source of the driver is a mystery. Given that, a data sheet from the manufacturer is a dead end. Danny Richey ran a sweep and posted the chart on the hyperlink above, it's Greek to me though. Bad ears is an option but bad attitude is probably more accurate.

Dohhh!

I did that as well one of the first and easiest was to switch speaker terminal connetor from amp. I am trying to post a scan of the schematics as well as a picture of the cross over but having a little trouble. I will try image shack for the CO How do I post a PDF of the schematic? Thanks for your ideas and patcience.

I think the resistor value is too high or the inductor is a bit too robust and not the best choice or I can't read a schematic and messed up the wiring but Danny would have caught that.

Not sure what you mean by this, but I did switch just the tweater connects, then just the woofer then the tweeter and woofer I tried every combo on my Excel matrix that I created to make sure I tried every variation that I could think of, then I waited for the full moon and a glass of Port, same result....... I have a pair speakers I am working with so I kept one speaker as is for A/B'ing with no improvement in the B'ing pair and they still sound equally awful.

Your on! If you mean switching positive and negative connections, I tried that for both the woofer and tweeter with negligible benefits. I even tried voodoo but that didn't help either. So I am defaulting to someone smarter, which in this case is anyone reading this post. :'(

Unfortunately, I have neither but I do have a soldering iron, a screwdriver and a ton of frustration.

About six months ago I got swept up in the Insignia decent speaker for cheap craze and purchased a pair really cheap at Worst Buys with the intention of trying my hand at the Danny Richie Mods. My plan was to replace the mediocre speaker pair in my office with some nice looking and killer sounding moded speakers..........rrriiiiiight! http://www.gr-research.com/insignia.shtm Bottom line, they sound awful, worse than stock. I checked every resistor connection, inductor, and how I ran the connections. Out of desperation I sent the crossovers to Danny who hooked them up and ran a sweep. He found no problems, but they sound awful. I have fifteen hours of painful burn in and there is absolutely no improvement. I hate to throw good money after bad at this point, but at this point we are talking ego. I will not let this debacle end in defeat. Is there anyone out there who knows crossover designs who can take a look at the coaxial driver, inductors, and resistors I am using and find a solution? I will compensate you for your time. Thanks all. Greg

Napkins, both cloth and paper. may have been processed in bleach to make them white and no matter what there are some traces of bleach remaining which will effect the taste of wine strained through them. I know because I have experienced the after taste myself when trying this. Preferable to cloth would be some type of metal strainer or better yet decant the wine into a pitcher and scoop out the cork remnants with a spoon.

Interesting conglomeration, what style of music would you say? Thanks I will give it a try.

I am a big fan of the ECM and MA Records labels. I have found most of the recordings from these labels have great music detail and mixing, especially anything Todd mixes over at MA Records is exceptional in sonic quality. My dilemma is that both labels are very deep in talent and have many CDs available and I am reluctant to just randomly pick CDs without knowing what I am getting. Both labels have an eclectic roster of talent but some of it is just a little bit out there for me at this point and I would rather not buy a CD just to have to wait a while for it to grow on me. Any recommendations? What artists have you purchased and liked?

Agreed. There is nothing worse, in jazz especially, than a cranked up clipping album of music. Some engineers think buyers of CDs believe if it is loud and distorted, it's high end. Sheeze!