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My understanding is that there are few choices, as the vast majority of 7n7's were made by Sylvania, no matter how they were labeled. The good news is that you are right in that they are dirt cheap, they are plentiful and, even better, sound great. One of my favorite driver tubes for the SP Extreme is a Sylvania tall bottle 7n7.

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I just checked mail and there is a recruiting packet from the USMC for me. They make it sound quite fascinating and I'm really tempted to respond. Do you think that the fact that I'm 56 years old is a problem? Or are they really that desperate to make the recruiting quota?

Once he received the trafos, maybe he discovered that the prototype needed improvements.

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Yes. Being secret works against getting the hype flowing.

Sorry, I wasn't clear. Ray has done a lot of introductory pricing before. However, he always proudly gave the introductory and later prices. The fact that it's secret is out of character. I suspect that he is still in negotiation with the builder and doesn't have a final price yet, so the intro price is secret.

Something really is not right here. Why is the introductory price for the first 10 secret? AFAIK, Ray has never done that before. I wonder if the fact that the BHSE is now shipping has pushed Ray to announce sooner than he wanted to.

Whiplash Audio will be at CanJam. When you come out, you'll be able to ask them about that cable in person.

They should make her an offer that she can't refuse. Imagine what would happen to Rudistor sales if they sent her instead of Sovshiller.

All they have to do is announce that they are bringing the same saleswomen that was at San Jose. Excitement will then build quickly and dramatically.

Decisions, decisions.

I like the sound of el84s. My speaker amp is the old Anthem Int-1. It uses 2 sets of quad el84 for the output. There is no bias adjustment so the quads must be matched. All these tubes produce a whopping 25 watts in a push-pull architecture.

Stacy and I are going to see BB King at the Canyon Club in Agoura Hills this Saturday. Are you going Greg? I see that he's also playing at the Fox Theatre in Oakland this Thursday. Anybody going?

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While both of these are beautiful pieces, neither strikes me as being very easy to dance to.

Too bad they didn't call it "Snidely Whiplash Audio". Maybe they are ambulance chasers?

"Twist and Shout". What could be easier to dance to than that?

Since nobody else had posted about it, I thought that I might be the only one. So I tried it with, cough, IE. It worked there. I tried killing and restarting all my Firefox instances and nothing changed. So I rebooted and, voila, it's working now. So somehow Firefox decided it was a bad URL and mucked with it or ...? Anyway, now it works for me.

I noticed that I am getting the alt string rather than the icon for being a subscribed to a thread. So I took a look at the http source to find the URL for the gif. It's http://www.head-case.org/forums/images/misc/subscribed.gif. When trying to view the gif directly with that URL, I get a File Not Found error. Since everything else is working for me, I assume that something has happened to this link. Is anything wrong there?

To me, Meier has the reputation for making solid, but unspectacular sounding amps. I still have a Headfive that was my first headamp. I agree with you about it and it was competitive at its price. I listened to Hiroshi's (Fungi) opera and was very disappointed with it. It didn't sound as good to me as the Headfive. IMO, it was totally non-competitive at its price point. Note that I only listened to the amp side. I never heard its DAC but the Opera DAC was universally panned, making it a worse deal at its price. When I think about buying high end amps, I don't think about buying Meier.

I'm sure that they would. But why are you posting about it here? This is the "Deals" thread. A request like that should be in the "Bend over" thread.

This is a modern hotel. I'm sure that they have roll-away beds.

Neither is Stacy, yet somehow she does. She's the one that pushed for going to this concert.

Yay! Stacy and I are going to the Fleetwood Mac concert at Staples Center on Thursday evening and then heading for the hotel. What time do you arrive in LA. Maybe you'd like to go and possibly get a ticket? I'll be checking into the hotel before going to the concert so would provide transportation for you. Depending on your time of arrival I could pick you up. Either way, Stacy and I are looking forward to seeing you again.