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Ok, I want to hear the beat off joke...

I'd love to get some of these high dollar balanced amps in the same room with my McAlister... since fixing some of the issues it was having and replacing the tubes it is sounding very nice.

LOL Good point. I'll have to keep that in mind next time.

I don't know if I am necessarily feeling loneliness for the first time, but this second CD is lovely. Some nice instrumental bits.

I listened to the asian/indian one last night and it was pretty nice. Haven't had time to listen to anything tonight as I got home late and had to make dinner. Might get a chance later.

LOL, thanks guys... that was helpfull

So... a friend of mine in Hong Kong sent me 3 CD's out of the blue. Can anyone [chinese speaking] help me find out anything about them? Here are some pictures I took: Information I've been able to gather from the english on the CD's. luohaiying SUPERNATURAL YALA HVII 1675 www.yiren-av.com HUANG Hong-ying Tasting Loneliness for the First Time HVI 1385 www.hugocd.com The Beautiful Grassland is My Home GOLD REMASTER HIII 0873 www.xwx.cn I am listening to 'Supernatural Yala' right now and it is very well recorded... and her voice is very nice. This is a big change for me though, so I'm not quite sure yet if this will be entering my regular rotation. Either way, it is so much fun listening to new music. This made my day after having an especially hectic day at work.

Cool. You coming to the TO meet in July? We might have to have another mini meet before then though... Maybe just invite some of the 'cool kids'? My amp is apparently not a great match for Grado's with its output impedance, but pixelpushers PS1's sure did sound nice on it.

Yes and no. I am sure that your design is superior, but at my listening levels I prefer the PPX3 Slam. I would imagine it is possible to tweak your circuit [maybe even just different tubes] to have more gain though, right?

My Little Pony, Apocalypse Pony!!! [anyone else a robot chicken fan?]

Yeah, that is one NICE looking log.

Where did you get those girly tubes that glow pink?

It doesn't make me hard... but it's close.

Oh man... that would be SO tempting for my slowly developing office rig.

Sounds like McAlister audio...

Are you trying to say that my K340's are stacked? Not surprising I guess... I am a tits and ass guy, why shouldn't that go for headphones as well?

The HP1000 mafia is strong here, man. I'm not going to give any opinions, since I haven't spent enough time with either, but I will say that I enjoy both headphones. Nice analogy Eaphan... I'd like to see you do more headphones as women. What would the K340 be?

What I want to know... is anything about this 'evil' DAC you are cooking up.

Oh, and on a more positive note... the new 'ultra micro DAC' sounds like fun. I wonder how a standalone Headroom Max DAC module sounds?

I love how everyone is saying that the Zanden is the best amp in the K1000 room... when it has an Audio Aero Capitole as its source, and the rest are driven from Squeezeboxes. WTF. PS. Completely off topic, but we got those parts Kevin. Surgery will commence once I get my new faceplate from Steve.

As I said at head-fi... I just don't get it.

Awesome, thanks for mirroring it. I am thinking about giving the live upgrade a try first...

I would count the Eastsound CD-E5 as an exception as well. Sure, I've replaced the transport on mine now... but that is after 6 months of near constant use, and my old unit never crapped out. Got a transport for free off of Art and it is putting out beautifull music again. I've got the zapfilter in there now as well, but unless you need really nice balanced outputs it is not really necissary. The stock single ended output stage is quite nice. Also, I reserve my judgement on the Darkvoice. A lot of people who I trust have said good things about it, and the broken one from the meet aerius and I attended had a faulty power switch. Personally, I don't think that means the amp is poorly designed... it means it had a faulty power switch.

I prefer steppers as I get used to listening at a certain step and can get everything setup perfect for each type of music. I find that 24 steps gives me enough range, but I can see how that would be a problem for some. When I move to the amp on my computer rig I find myself missing the clicks. I am kind of getting sick of having two steppers though... so I might have ordered one of those sexy 4 channel singlepower stepped attenuators to put in my amp.

Coffee hurts when it comes out your nose.