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Slowly coming together...

Power and volume aren't the same thing and any layman that thinks that is as ignorant as you are. You also seen to have no grasp what gain is and think that an amp with higher gain is somehow more powerful. You also have no idea what clipping is and how it presents. Seriously, go read a fucking book!

This man speaks the truth!! The 007A and Mk2 are heading for the chopping block but I'll probably be buried with my Mk1's...

Mafia approved to say the least, Deepak.

Why are you dissing my wonderful collection of polka and 70's German porn music tracks? You are such a snob... We can at least agree that my 007's are a bit special given my OCD need to set them up properly. How on earth can you still not understand what power means?? Volume is voltage, nothing more than that and the tiny Stax amps will drive any of these sets to earsplitting levels.

There are quite a few that prefer the 007... I really need to find one of those for next to nothing. The empty tube socket was just too funny...

That's probably wrong since +/-400V should give more voltage swing then that. The Exstata V2 (KG edition) certainly does.

We really need to get started on those clones...

The pins are a bit of a pain to solder to, especially if you like to have two sockets so the adapter boards make things easier. I drew up one a long time ago but never had any made which might be time to do now...

Happy Birthday!!!

Using the new drivers is certainly doable but you need a special rig to glue them together in and you also have to completely open them up to get the glue onto the parts. This exposes them to dust so one wrong move and the drivers are fubar. I've seen speculation about retrofitting the new driver cages into a Sigma chassis but somebody proposing that has never worked on a Sigma frame. There is no room inside it and the normal drivers barely fit. I used a 303 as a donor set because I had one sitting in Japan and aesthetically it's the best fit to a normal bias Sigma with the gray cable. Since John asked me about the sound, well it is a very good Sigma but with the 007 and 009 here it's in tough company. The midrange is glorious as ever but in other area it is rather colored though never in a bad way. I do think this is the best Sigma I've ever had though and it does look damn good after all the work I put into them (even painting part of the chassis). Here it is with some of its younger siblings...

Holy hell those LCD-3 earpads are thick... How does the volume control work on those Woo beasts? One pot per chassis?

If I were you I'd stop making assumptions since you are clearly just talking out of your ass.

We do use some it in the bakery now for making confectioneries. Nothing survives in that much alcohol...

I think Sennheiser are intentionally holding back based on the stuff I hear from the distributor here. For instance, where is the black HD800 that was supposed to be released by now? I spent an hour with one at CJ'10 and hated it. Now I'm not a fan of 6SN7/300b amps in general but this was just bad in every way. I couldn't believe how bad the Beyer T1 was until I moved onto the Woo6 and heard it was mostly the amp that made then sound that way. As for the monoblock beasts... yeah, I can't wait to see internal pics of that to see how they are going to get 3 different amps to function off the same tube sockets.

I don't have any noise issues with PRP's in the KGSSHV. My issues are all with using 10M90's in the CCS...

raises hand... I spent two weeks drinking nothing but Stroh 80% rum straight up with some tequila while on vacation in Greece. Burns like a mother... for the first sips and did lasting damage to my stomach but it was so worth it. ) Edit: What's up with the normal smile icon these days?

Yeah, that's why the 350V spec scares me a bit. Should be fine though but it is certainly worth a try to lift up the PRP resistors and see if that changes anything...

Monoblock headphone amps are nothing new and we can blame Tyll for that...

...but... but... they aren't red and purdy... My main issue with them is the max working voltage of 350V. Spend a little more and the Vishay CCF60 have a max working voltage of 500V with almost as many values available.

...goes off to place yet another Mouser order this month...

Well it's posted on Ippinkan which are the sole retailer of Airbow so you can draw your own conclusions. The SR-SC1 is a lovely headphone but better than a 007A... ehhh nope...

Highest Vbr to make sure the parts weren't marginal. I never tried it though, it just went on my gigantic to-do list. As Kevin pointed out to me, the much higher inductance of the Xicon's (compared to the PRP and Dale's) might help to kill the oscillation causing this noise issue.

One can always find some other use for those PRP's.

Will you redo the PSU for me to? Bloody thing hums after the whole transformer fiasco.... Looks like I'll be ordering some resistors. Not that I don't have a Mouser shipment already on the way...