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I that might be just be correct. As for those "reviewers", they are pretty much why the market is so fucked up. Why people like Single Power, RSA, Cavalli, ALO, DNA, Woo, Wells, etc. etc. continue to operate. "How I feel" with no real basis for comparison rules the roost. Ohh and "I own expensive shit" actually means something to these people when it is meaningless as anything. Anybody can buy expensive shit, doesn't mean you know anything about it.

It will need some heatsinking if we are to run it at reasonable current levels aka. mafia style. That said, nothing too excessive.

Ahhh, yet another high end snob who couldn't afford to buy a clue. Buy anything with a high enough pricetag to continue that lie that he knows anything. Utterly pathetic.

Yeah, male PSU connectors leading from the PSU are a terrible idea. Otherwise it looks good.

I can't see any signs of regulation but those heatshrink "things" between the caps intrigue me. Might just be a CRCRC supply or something like that. Needless to say...pretty shitty in a 2K amp let alone something this expensive.

I just can't wait for the review to come on HF from a guy who was stupid enough to get those Woo monoblock piles of shit. Reminds me of when Ray got Skylab to review the A10 and we drove him into the ground for having zero electrostatic experience and thus...nothing useful to say.

That's exactly what it means in Icelandic.

That chassis is sure expensive but max 1k$ as they aren't doing one or two of them. As for the amp...the amount of suck on display is truly astounding. Also the sheer lack of proper engineering...

http://www.msbtechnology.com/amplifiers/headphone-amp-features/ Anybody want to guess what actually makes this thing tick? Look at all the bodges in a 37k$ amp...

There is no telling if something else is damaged so just enjoy that it works for now.

I use routing like this quite a bit and with no issues.

Might be a bad pot but it is probably something more serious. Still it wouldn't hurt to replace the pot as they don't age well

Yup, something like that. It adds a bit to the manufacturing cost but well worth it.

I can't see anything.

You route out slots through the board to prevent shorts. Much harder to bridge unintentionally if there is a slot in the middle. This is often used on power boards for extra insulation.

For a future board it might be a good idea to create some slots between the pads.

Yeah I need to make this official and the take all the sorb idiots to court here in Iceland.

Maybe something crazy like the Sound Lab MiniStat...

SORB-THAT-SHIT! (TM)

Nahh but these keyboards always go like this after a while. Still love them though and it is the only keyboard I want to use.

I just made my own. Photographed the logo in an old manual and then cleaned it up. Some progress and now it is ready for testing. Still missing the normal bias supply but that is trivial at best: It is a very, very tight fit and would be an absolute dog to take apart again...

Ahh yes, the age old "I don't have any leg to stand on, no actual knowledge of the matter but I'm delusional enough to think I'm right so the beautiful, beautiful music will tell all" argument. Classic...

The phono stage is of no use to me so it was scrapped and it will be used line level only. Pretty much had to do it so I could fit the new transformer and PSU board. I'll run the front at at 300V and the output at 600V as it is simply easier with the regulated PSU. I replaced everything so the new output filter network will be fun to test out as I converted to balanced. Those are KOA SPR2 resistors.

For a 100$ they are fine to transplant some other drivers into the shells but even then it doesn't work due to the shitty headband design.

The Hifiman Massdrop headphone is seriously shitty. Sounds like an utter turd...