philodox

Yup, portable rigs suck.

How much do they charge for headphones that don't suck?

Happy Belated Birthday guys!!!

A Zu cartridge Steve? I hope it is awesome, but I'm a bit leery of that outfit personally...

Asian salad with chicken from the 'Lettuce' place across the street.

You still have Vilmas number?

Couldn't help but notice the end of the thread being sprinkled with aerius chatter... was he banned or did he storm out Asr style or something? That really made me laugh out loud. I've met him too, you know. A little off topic, I know, but does anyone know where I can get an aftermarket IEM cable that doesn't have 'plasticky' sounding bass and adds a little 'zap' to the sound?

Had to google that... a southern american eh? So like everyone else on here?

Looks cool, no use for it myself though. Will be interesting to see how it stacks up the the Cambridge FOTMc.

I wish!

Yeah, he's made that clear. It still doesn't make any sense. He's not saying that there is distortion and asking why... he is asking if there is distortion. It's like me asking you to prove that I'm floating even though I'm sitting on this comfy couch right now. I just don't get it.

Actually, it really does. This is what is confusing me about your question.

Quick, mail them off to me before you croak! [congrats buddy]

Replied on head-fi, I hope this is a joke... if not, what the fuck? Plug K701 into Woo3, dial in desired volume, listen.

RIP

I always thought it was ray-men, but someone finally corrected me recently. [rah-men]

Oh, I knew you were joking, but didn't know you were the seller. The 840c is a great CD player in any case.

Its a great amp and by injecting the inverse PSU noise back into the signal it allows you to disregard the power supply to a certain extent.

I second the Aikido recommendation if it is feasible. I also second staying away from shitty tubes.

I'm happy with my tivoli stuff in the bedroom. I need to take some rig shots sometime soon... too bad my camera died.

Nope. The output on the zapfilter is pretty hot though and tends to make people either love it or hate it. Still, with good volume matching, a zapfilter modded E5 can certainly play with the big boys. I prefer my new CD player, but it is really a matter of preference/sound signature. I think Earl has experience with zapfilter modded sources though, so the output level shouldn't be a problem for him. Congrats buddy!

I was just listing everything in my setup as there is really no way to know what component is warming up if you are using them all together. Let me know the next time you listen to your headphone amp without a pair of headphones and a source. Since my K340's have electrets it is minutely plausible though I would personally expect the source and amp to be the components warming up. Hey, at least I left my IC's and power cables out of it.

that's mean

My amp definately sounds a lot better after it has had time to properly warm up... or maybe it's my CD player... or my headphones... or all three.

Very cool, with some vibration control and better [and bigger maybe] fans it should be an excellent budget balanced amp.