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Well, it was a good game, marred by some really stupid penalties. Congrats Steelers!

Gotta root for the Cardinals... Kurt Warner bagged groceries for my mom

Yes, but whose Opinion and Experience is he referring to? Filburt's? I don't think I would go there...

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Happy Birthday!

Wiring proximity to the transformers can be a cause of this, usually the input wiring, pot, etc. On this amp, it appears that the wiring from the input PRCa comes around the left side of the chassis (behind the board or terminals with caps on left amp wall) to the pot, which is about as far away from the transformers as you can get in this. The output jack is very close to a transformer however.

A SumR transformer...

Very nice! You decided to go Khatargo? What did you do with the Stratos?

Hehe... that's more than I've got, tho I've always meant to build one of those. Made me a little nervous firing up the counterpoint PSU after rewiring the umbilical

Hehe... that's more than I've got, tho I've always meant to build one of those.

If your goal is not an all aluminum commercial quality style case, you'd be better off doing something like Amb did with his Dynamite and B22 builds: use the heatsinks as a structural element (i.e., the sides), then do your wood front, maybe have FPE do a back panel, and get some sheet aluminum or whatever to do the top and bottom of the case.

I agree. Don't view it as shipping; look at the total price. You would pay at least $20 and possibly more from Par Metals for shipping and that isn't including the heatsinks. The Conrad heatsinks (to match) would easily run you $70 for a pair (MF30s) from Aus. My fav. US chassis (and Nate talked me into trying these) are the Context Engineering ones. I've also seen some pics of Lansing enclosures (does Thrice use these some?) that looked pretty decent. But I still think in pics the hifi2000 look the best. You could always look to thlaudio or vt4c as well.

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Some hifi2000 goodness... 1 to case morphsci's sigma22 build for his AA HPA 1.0, maybe another for... I still use some AQ Turquoise cables that I've had for years, as well as a couple of pairs of AQ Ruby that I bought awhile ago (when I was still in a cable phase thing ). I also have some long (25') AQ Indigo Blue (IIRC) speaker cables that I should sell...

Oh but its true DIYHiFi.org • View topic - "Op-amps unsuitable for audio DAC I/V" - myth?

Perhaps I'll wish for the iron I used to use occasionally at Mostek.. not sure how many watts it was, but the tip was probably 1" and it generally required both hands to use it. Worked great on multiple 00 ground braids though.

Altec iM716s: I recall seeing those mentioned awhile back; it looks like those have a volume control on the cable? Were the iM616s the same, minus the volume? I logged a second service thing on V-Moda's site and wasn't warned about them not doing repairs, so I may just ship these in and see what happens. In the meantime, buy the RE02s or something better sounding than the V-Modas. My kids like them, but everytime I have listened to them (ipod->mp3->vmoda) its just sounded flat to me, in more ways than one If my system sounded like that, I'd quit.

Hmmm, interesting. I'm building a Dynahi currently... I've only had the boards around for oh, lets see... 5 years Having some Dynafet goodness as an alternative might be interesting...

Good, cuz I went ahead and bought them

I thought that Kevin had published what, 4 varieties of board files, and built two or three himself (in rather expensive solid aluminum enclosures). No one has run the boards and done a GB or anything for them however. Or I could be recalling things incorrectly EDIT: And I think one thing holding this back was waiting for Linear Systems to do the 2SJ109 (LSJ109?) You could of course use singles (2sk170/2sj74).

I'm in for any iron time, parts, etc. that I can help with.

I bit on the V-Moda FOTM awhile back for my 2 sons without doing much if any research. One of them partially severed the cable right below the y-split (or possibly courtesy of the relatively new kitten). V-Moda is saying they don't do repairs. I suppose I could recable it with 18 ga. Jena Any recommendations for some decent buds/IEMs, <$100 (<$60 preferable). They both already have KSC-75s as well. These are for use out of an i-pod, and even though they have them, they don't like dealing with amps. I seem to recall some good thoughts on the Altec 716s? Yuin? I know Klipsch had their pre Christmas 50% off thing as well. Thanks for any suggestions.

Good choice... I wouldn't either

There is a Chinese (I think) company which it is said actually makes the Bursons, or the design is copied from them (Audio-gd). They have 3 flavors of the things. A review of them is over in the DIY area of the other site: Audio-gd discrete op-amps reviewed: OPA-Earth, OPA-Moon, OPA-Sun v.2 - Head-Fi: Covering Headphones, Earphones and Portable Audio I personally haven't used them; the only discrete stuff kinda like this that I use is for I/V stages with NO feedback. Opamps by convention must have feedback to work (usually tons of feedback). Plus they use BS meter pegging language in their descriptions, making me much less likely too even consider them. One guy in the DIY section (back before the HF crash) had put some in a CD player and seemed to like them OK. But it didn't seem like a night and day difference. Do a search on Burson there.