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... Very few of us around here use ALO cables and those that do know enough not to spend $250 on a LOD.
It's only $195 on the ALO website! Why that's darn right reasonable.
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i watched it as well, and went into it not expecting too much, but hell i liked it quite a bit. can't wait for tonight's episode.
That's why you are getting shocked. It's God punishing you for watching trashy network TV!
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The mouse has the better hat. Be the mouse.
Gene Kelly is dead! Definitely be the mouse!
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I sold David my LiTe DAC-AH. Everything about the transaction was first rate. He paid promptly and communicated often. I'd cheerfully either sell to or buy from David in the future. Highly recommended.
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Weird.
Your link takes me to "Sorry no matches" page.
Me too!
To the OP, you can also look at www.headamp.com for more information.
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Another fifth of Rebel Yell. I was out and am making "Bourbon Wieners" for a for a pot luck tomorrow.
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how old are you? i turn 27 at the end of December, and i've been told that i look extremely intellectual when i'm smoking a pipe, not daft
Remember that the fellow is the mirror is very untrustworthy when it comes to these kinds of things.
well, i at least have the beard
Keep smoking cigarettes and you'll be 50 soon enough too.
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Unless I'm mistaken Voltron has his already so you can count on one being at MOA. Not to mention that tyrion already has his, and so does thrice, etc, etc.
Vicki shares better than you guys do!
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But I've also got a Pico on the way. Hoping to have it tomorrow.
Vicki, please bring it to MOA. I'd like to compare its amplifier section with my AE-2.
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Depending on the law of your state, you may be cancelling out your vote by sending out an absentee ballot and going to the polls and voting. I was an attoney poll watcher in '04 and '06 for the Democratic party so they made me learn voting laws so when the Republicans would challenge voters we could explain why the were wrong.
Ron Paul scares me as much as the other Republicans. The Democrats just scare me a little less. We need a third party and public financing of campaigns. It's time to get the corporations out of politics.
I do one or the other. I either fill out and mail in the absentee ballot or I take it into the polling place. So I doubt that I'm invalidating my vote.
They all scare me. I'd love to see a viable third party. One that's fiscally conservative and socially progressive. You know, kind of the opposite of the current administration. It probably won't happen in my life time.
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Wow, I was worried about my listening volumes but I've been listening to my music at about 65db which is about 25db lower than what is considered safe for 8 hours a day. I think it's a safe for me to turn it up a little every now and again.
What?
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A bit of a HeadAmp fanboy <slightly edited>
A bit? A bit?
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At the moment, I'm a K340, Singlepower, eXemplar and APL fan. Of course, I can't (or won't) afford the latter. For speakers, I'm a Joseph Audio fan. These all could change at any time. I'm pretty much permanently a tube fan.
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Wait...wait you go out to the poles, stand in line...just to waste your time. I'm all for comedy voting but if you have to register, drive to your voting station, stand in line...a bit much for a dumb joke?
Nope. I do absentee voting, so it's only a matter of a little time with a pencil and a stamp. I don't do it for every choice on the ballot, only when all the choices for one office are bozos.
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That's how they always drink it on TV when they are trying to drown in their sorrows.
Jim Beam and Jack Daniels are distinctive TV "get drunk and do something stupid" liquors (technically bourbons). Rarely do you see a drunk guy with a suit and loosened tie, stumbling down the street with a bottle of Macallans 15 year or Highland Park 1985.
Technically, Jack Daniels is Tennessee Whiskey.
Edit: Jacob beat me to it.
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That's right. Steve, how long does it take for the magic solder to burn in???
P.S. I have one of your Hammond cased Pimeta portables. It's a nice little amp. I just used in on the train rides from SB to San Diego and back.
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And call me crazy, but $50 for a mini^3 (under my iron) or $125 from Rockhopper is a MUCH better deal for a better amp.
Oh come on. Everybody knows that commercial manufacturers have magic solder that makes their equipment sound much better. Of course, only after it has been burned-in!
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The test for me will be to see what others hear at Voltron's meet. But it will have to be in a quiet room, not under meet conditions.
We can do that after everybody leaves. Wait a minute, nobody is leaving. Uh oh!
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Maybe Todd would give you a loaner to take to MOA? If it's a good deal, he would be smart to do so.
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I'm not sure about the electrical theory behind burn-in with small components and their large caps, but I have heard monsterous differences in sound with Ray's, Cesar's, Mikhail's, and Tyll's amps...good or bad.
Cary and Bryston both insist in their documentation on a minmum of 100 hours of burn-in before evaluating their amps and Cardas and VPI ask for a minimum of 40 hours on their cables.
Bryston burns in their amps 100 hours before sending out them out (looking for catastrophic failure) and then offers a 20 year transferable warranty. So do Mikhail and Ray (sans the 20 year warranty).
I've been heavily into home audio since the mid '70's and can say without hesitation, that almost all good components I've bought in 30 years, sounded better as they "matured".
Feel free to jump down my throat now, I have a lozenge ready.
Hi Aaron. I'm not going to jump down your throat. I'm sure that all those components sounded better to you after they matured. I'm sure that a lot of burn in occurred.
Let's look closer in the case of a new amplifier. On one hand, you have a pretty simple electrical device that will change slightly over time. There just isn't much there that can change. On the other hand, you have the brain, which is processing the signal from the amplifier via some wire and a transducer. The brain is an extremely complex biochemical device. It is very flexible and adaptable. It shows almost constant change in how it works.
So over time, I'm willing to bet that the vast majority of burn in is occuring in the brain and only a minute amount occurs in the equipment. Notice that this doesn't invalidate your belief that the equipment sounded better over time. It's just that your brain was doing most of the changing.
My favorite case of brain burn in is the experiment where a person was given given glasses that inverted all images. The subject had to wear the glasses during all waking hours. After several days, suddenly the images that the subject saw were right side up again. The brain had burned in a bit, eh? Then the glasses were taken away. Again images were inverted to the subject. Again after several days, the brain righted the images. I have to believe that similar experiments would show the brain doing interesting processing on aural input.
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Life was unlistenable out of the box!
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... I was really inclined to just ignore your post but lust like a good car crash I couldn't just walk away
Hey JP, I sure hope that this wasn't a freudian slip!
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I wonder if anyone will have one at Voltron's. I bet the Duet compares favorably to the Exemplar. Gene and maybe Al as well will have mac notebooks for the Duet. I will bring mine so there will be two.
Mike, if I drive I'll bring both my eXemplar Denon 2900 and a SACDMods Eastsound E5. If I fly, people will have to be happy with my iPod and AE-2. Of course, it's no longer a $1400 eXemplar. I had John Tucker put in the latest mods and now it's an $1850 eXemplar.
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no..
the only true way of knowing if burn in works is to do what I have done in the past with the Hornet.
You mean ask Ray?
So...who's listened to the ALO AU/AG cables, lol.
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I see. Well it's nice that Ken offers a "bargain" version.