Everything posted by spritzer
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JH Audio stuffs
Yup, dual gang only so either he's "faking" a 4 gang pot or the output stage is only balanced. That means the balanced input is useless and one could just as well buy a SRS-001 which is smaller and cheaper.
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JH Audio stuffs
Perhaps someone should also point out to him that this isn't the first balanced portable amp ever made, he's roughly 12 years too late on this one. Cough... Stax SRS-001... cough... Ohhh as for having a financial interest, his crap isn't selling, pure and simple. Just look at that stealth phono stage which is so low key that less then 500 people have viewed the thread. Comments like the magical properties of his magical wire (made by the lowest bidder to some spec invented by bureaucrats) and the moar awesome balanced amp supposed to boost sales. No doubt he's going to offer said connector for sale to others.
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The Headcase Stax thread
Ohh the humanity. Why would anybody swap out caps in a DC coupled amplifier? The bias must sound a lot better now...
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Ayre USB DAC
A solid state HDD would fare even better though.
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Ayre USB DAC
Build a floating base of some sort tied to a gyro. Well that or work on a carrier which has this system in place already.
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Laptop Boot Up Problem
You should be able to boot into bios before getting any disk related errors. It's often F2 to access the bios and F10 to just access the boot selection menu.
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What did you do today?
Sat and calculated tube circuits for most of the day. Can't wait until this phase is over and I can actually build this thing...
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The ultimate DIY? A Stax SRM-T2!
Sounds reasonable. I'll probably spend that much just on customs fees for the parts...
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The ultimate DIY? A Stax SRM-T2!
So the real solution here is to send all the boards to Justin and have him do the assembly? Sounds like a plan...
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Ayre USB DAC
Given how much you like the Reimyo then a USB transport would be a good idea and the simplest solution. I use a Trends UD10.1 which has a wide range of connectors but something like this would work just fine for testing the technology. A generic 75ohm coax to the APL and that's all there is to it. Foobar streaming files from the server located in the other room. I'm going to build something like the Sooloos with a touchscreen and a small PC (a cashiers PC would do the trick) and then drop CD's as a whole.
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Ayre USB DAC
I'd just switch to FLAC (or ALAC if you prefer that) Bob. I used to be a hardcore CD guy but now I do almost all of my listening with the computer feeding a DAC. To supplement the Ayre you could also just buy a USB transport so you can keep using the Reimyo. Some of them even have async.
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The ultimate DIY? A Stax SRM-T2!
Is there any other way?
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2009 HC Holiday Gift Exchange
Mine is on its way as well.
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Stax SRM-T1 earth terminal
In Japan they often don't have earth in their power cables so external terminals are needed. I only used it when biasing the amps.
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Post the last thing you bought!
That's the plan. An amp or two plus a Lundahl transformer with a modded SR-007A Crap... now everybody knows!!!
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Post the last thing you bought!
Yup and only one value, two voltage ratings.
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Fuck in snow
I know, I know. At least you get a summer and not just some slightly warmer rain which is going slightly less sideways then usual.
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Post the last thing you bought!
1500 polyester film caps. I think I might have a DIY problem...
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Fuck in snow
Freezing in CA? Here it's 6
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Emotiva DAC
Simple enough to add BNC connector but are those RCA they are using for DC switching?
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Post the last thing you bought!
Belden hookup wire yet again...
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Ice Records
Case in point that we should step up the border security a bit. We are apparently letting the crazies in now...
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Wanted: A Builder to construct and case-up a Stax Bias Supply
Yeah, with a gain of 10 it would be possible but with a gain of 2 it would be extremely low level indeed. Running them from the Pro output could work...
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Wanted: A Builder to construct and case-up a Stax Bias Supply
Our B22 has a Zobel network which helps the amp deal with inductive loads. It certainly wouldn't hurt when driving the transformers. Also what we are talking about here is driving the Stax phones directly from the Beta for extremely low level listening.
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Wanted: A Builder to construct and case-up a Stax Bias Supply
The ES drivers are a reactive load so the impedance varies wildly with frequency but the B22 should cope with that. Perhaps the best way would be to have two outputs, one direct from the Beta, the other fed through transformers.