Knuckledragger

"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.

Cornbread, I think.

If I wanted to go the tube preamp route, I have a pair of McIntosh MC-22 pres (each has 6 12AX7s in it) that I could get restored. Heretic that I am, I'd rather sell them and use the $ to buy more solid state kit. I am now looking at what Rotel's current offerings are for 2 channel preamps. They have two: The RC 1070 and RC 1082. I have owned Rotel gear for years and been very happy with it. The 1082 is kind of spendy, and has more inputs than even I will need. The 1070 looks to be around $600, and still has a remote. Both have a nice array of outputs (two pre outs and two tape outs), and a phono preamp. I'm quite aware that vinyl snobs wouldn't consider that a viable option. Another benefit is that I can get a Rotel tomorrow (funds allowing ). For sake of argument, where would I get a Quicksilver for under a grand, Reks? The 'gon? The 'bay? Do you have a stack of them between your recently buried bodies and Model M stash?

I dunno a Internal Asset Utilization from a TPS Report, but can you put me down for half a dozen? I like the PS/2 vintage, but any 102-key version will do. EDIT: Dusty = smart.

This has some racist overtones I don't like, but I couldn't help chuckling when I saw it.