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You might want to consider Peter McAlisters new EA-4 amplifier for ~$1k. It sure looks purdy. I am sure he could put a Koss connector on there. www.mcalisteraudio.com PS. I think it is balanced as well, like the Stax amps.

Just buy this! [Or my Lavry of course, that is still for sale... need to get off my butt and put it on audiogon]

Bah, I doubt this is the rescreen's fault. Be carefull with that bluetak... it can do some bad things to the sound as well. Other than that, I think aerius gave you some very good advice there. I knew he would.

Damn, sorry to hear about your problems with the Headphile mods. I've always liked the no cotton, taped back on my pairs. Maybe aerius can provide some more suggestions as he has spent quite a while tweaking his. What type of cable did you go with again?

Damnit... I didn't get it through the Dell Canada deal [~$250 CDN] when I had the chance because I was worried about this and couldn't find any info on it. Looks like I will be kicking myself for missing out now. Did the mini dock come with it or did you have to purchase it as a seperate accessory?

That is the Creative Vision: M right? How is that minidock? Does it stay in alright?

I think my brain just popped... that is weird. I guess I will just go on not bothering with it... too many inversions to calculate... phase unclear... *pop*

Exactly what I thought... and both a straightjacket and a pretzel make sense for this place.

No, I get it... and you even get another free squeezebox. All I am saying is you could spend $300 on a squeezebox and then spend $1700 on a DAC... instead of paying $2000 and getting two squeezeboxes and a $1400 DAC. But to each his own.

Very cool, but at that price it will be hard not to justify going with a DAC and a normal squeezebox. That 2x squeezebox + 1TB NAS storage bundle they have is great too. If only I were rich.

Looks and sounds interesting, thanks.

BTW, you have a message waiting for you KenW.

Here are the pictures. I tried to take a close up shot of the flaw, but it didn't really show up. Just goes to show you how minor it is I suppose. When my Wife saw me taking the picture she asked why I was even bothering since it is hard to see unless you look at it from a particular angle. I like to be as accurate as possible when selling something though. So, as I said before, if you are interested I will sell it to you for $225 plus the actual cost of shipping. Shipping method, insurance, etc is all up to you. I doubt we need to worry about double boxing it or anything, the stock box should suffice. You can pay me the total after I send it.

A bit bigger than a pack of smokes... The tubes are 'lying down'.

Nah, it should look much better than that! More tubes for one... more is allways better as we all know. Thinking about getting Steve [swt61] to craft me a nice bloodwood front panel for it as well. Also, I took the K340 sideplates off of my pair and plan on topping a couple of the metal can caps with them after I paint them black. Figured this would be cool since it is an amp customized for the K340's. It definately won't be as large as an SDS-XLR though. I asked Peter about a two chassis design and he told me that with tube amps it is better to have everything in the same box. Bastard!

The priceing for the version I would like [Display board, balanced, source selector] is as follows: Kit - $397 USD Assembled - $533 USD w/ Caddock upgrade [Kit] - $471 USD w/ Caddock upgrade [Assembled] - $607 Not too bad when you consider what 4 channel stepped attenuators cost and the fact that you are getting a display/remote/source selector as well.

I took the pics last night... brought my camera to work. When things slow down later I will try to get them up on my FTP share.

Yeah, I saw it at the National... it was tiny! I keep bugging Mikhail asking if I can beta test it... but he doesn't seem to be returning my emails.

Thanks Nate, that looks like a great solution!

What a load of shite... not impressed in the slightest. [see head-fi for the 'funny version' of this post]

I wish... that there is about the only headphone that I would give um my K340's for. I am getting a custom amp built by Peter McAlister of McAlister Audio. It is loosly based on his PL12 amp... which is not on his website yet... though it is itself loosly based on his PL10 amp. Fully balanced, all tube [except rectification as Peter prefers solid state rectifiers], with a beefy PSU... and pimped to the gills. It should have quite a few tubes sprouting out the top of it... as far as I know there will be 4 6H30's, 3 or 4 27GB5 sweep tubes [in triode mode I believe], 2 12SN7, plus some other tubes used for regulation. The 12SN7 tubes are not in the audio circuit and are instead used to create an infinite plate resistance circuit for the 6H30's. It should be a real beast. Originally I was going to continue to use the Lavry as a volume control, but have to decided to upgrade my Eastsound with a ZapFilter to get a true balanced discrete output instead. This means I now need a 4 channel stepped attenuator or potentiometer in the amp... which is rather pricey. Anyone have good recommendations?

Will do so tonight when I get home... need to take pics of my squeezebox for Nate anyways. Everything must go!!! I seriously hope this amp is worth it. \

Mainly because of the volume control I think... the amp section is nothing special. However, their volume control implementation can be cloned for around $100... balanced.

The headphone out is perfect with Grados. I personally think that it is better than most dynalo implementations I have heard in this respect. Me? I will be selling mine shortly to finance my amp. Hopefully the Zapfilter upgrade to my CD-E5 brings it up to around the same level as the DA10 in terms of its analog output stage.

Hey Nate... Been busy and forgot to take those pictures. Will try to remember tonight. - JAy