Knuckledragger

#1 someone actually bulding KG's TakeT amp design (the solid state one) would be the coolest thing evar. #2 say I wanted to try out the Ortho sound? Where would I begin? I have exactly one headphone amp (GLite) which I believe can push 1 watt of power. Is that sufficient? Most of the orthos I see mentioned in this thread are DIY homebrew options of some sort. I should not be trusted with any tool more complicated than a rake, so that's not an option.

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WHOA. Now that is taking an active role in Darwinism.

Canon A470 on special @ Adorama for $79.95.

"If we build it, it probably won't fall down..." "If you see this vehicle driven in an unsafe manner, please don't call us, it increases our insurance."

Wanna buy a lens?

Head-Case might do so even if he's not.

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*chuckle* What I am doing here is not putting the financial cart before the horse. After I have had the four pieces of tube gear (3 Macs and a Dynaco) restored, I'll put them on the market. If I get anything close to what they're worth, I'll should have enough money for a decent headphone amp. Which one, I can't say yet. It will probbably be silver and say "HeadAmp" on it. Didn't you make Duggeh a Stax-to-XLR4 cable that matched the TakeT's peculiar pinout so he could test driving the H2s with a Stax amp? Whatever became of that, if Doug wrote about his findings, I didn't see it. Interesting. I wonder if that "RCA out" is a loop or a preamp? I suspect the former, which would be of less use to me.

I'd love to see a list of dynamic headphones that are currently in-production and compete with the HD-650, for approximately the same price.

If there was a heart attack smiley, I'd be using it now. I just located, extracted, and carried out my car 2 McIntosh C22 preamps, 1 MC75 monoblock, and a little Dynaco monoblock I forgot I owned. The MC75 is affixed to a wooden base and ungodly heavy. I'm fortunate that there's a guy who works on tube gear 15 minutes from where I live. I'll be depositing these boat anchors at his shop later this afternoon. I blame you for this, Head-Case.

In that alternate reality where I buy a KGBHSE, I'll use to to drive these hideous things:

What hath MC Paul Barman wrought? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oCpTuVgm9s

HEY. That is renovated. You should have seen what it looked like before...

I know a bomb making plant when I see one.

Me: "I want a single ended, solid state headphone amp and preamp." Head-Case: "N0000! You want a tube pre and balanced amp!" At least I know what the emoticon means now. ... I'm surprised no one's suggested that I just buy an SDS-XLR yet. It's balanced and tube! Here's the deal: I could have almost afforded a GS-X, at its old price, if I had not bought the Quad 12Ls and CDP-2. The thing is, I did buy those and the GS-X is now $500 more expensive. The only conceivable way I could afford it is to adopt the "Duggeh" model of gear aquisition, which is to sell all extraneous kit I have first, and then purchase what I'm after. I have traditionally followed the "Torpedo" model of buying the gear I want when I see it, and then figuring out how I'm going to afford it. I cannot do this in the balanced realm. Maybe if I hadn't spent the last four months renovating my house (which has tallied up bills of Krell-like proportions.) I think in the short term, I'm buying a Rotel SE preamp. If I can turn some of my unused audio gear (Macs, Dynaco, tubes, etc) into cash, you may see me hanging out with the cool kids and their GS-Xs in 2009.