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doh, that's not pretty. I'm wondering if the length of the new cable has anything to do with the change in sound. Thoughts?

Don: heh, forgot my player cannot play burned discs. oops... For whomever asked the other day, the Muse is: Xilinx CPLD -> DF1704 -> 4 x PCM1704 -> passive filter -> 4 x INA103

swt61: um... "yay" I need to do a bit of surgery to a board, could you bring the smallest drill bit you happen to have? ... nothing fancy this time, mostly listening .. and repairing the odd smoking build. standard fare.

listening ... liking ...

Looks like round two may begin this weekend

me neither yay!

Kevin, have you ever considered trying to use IGBTs? I don't think they're going away anytime soon, question would be how to use them ... high voltage certainly isn't a problem, neither is dissipation. They have decent transconductance, and easier to drive than a MOSFET...

Not enough of an issue in my opinion to dismiss the topology entirely.

that's sorta what I mean. You're thinking at the component level. I'm saying there is another way to think of that, and this is at the stage level internal to an amplifier. One amp may have four stages and another has a single stage. Is the one with fewer stages better? I don't think it's that easy. Furthermore, you may have an amp with one stage and a preamp with one stage (so two stages combined), is that worse than a amp with three stages and no preamp? Food for thought I guess.

I avoided that combination on purpose I dunno, I think the KGSS+ESP-950 has the edge to the KGSS+SR-007, from a holistic standpoint.

I don't know if this really makes sense. Some amplifiers have multiple gain stages, few have single gain stages. In the case of a preamp, it's just another gain stage. Anyways, I think it's impossible to make the statement that a preamp limits a K1000 rig categorically.

I'm going to get offed by the mafia for this one, but I'd say: no with the Blue Hawaii + SR-007 no with the KGSS + ESP-950 maybe with my KGSS + ESP-950 I'm working on it though, plenty of projects in various stages...

I mean his CD player: 6moons audio reviews: Moon Audio Level 2 modified Original CD-2008Mk-II CD player

Looks like you have the same output voltage as my source, 2vrms balanced. What's the b22 gain (balanced) again? Yours isn't the modded one with the Lundahl transformers, is it?

yes, I totally 1000% agree.

ya, I had a feeling you should have upped the gain the beta22.. how are your orthos? I cannot remember the name of your source, but will the buf32 have higher voltage output?

Is the K1000 + b22 a pretty common combination? I really have no idea...

ah, pwnage like it was 1990 again

Scottish Carillons?

huh? ya mean calf fries?

yay! I had a feeling it would work Now, we need to get them back before Saturday so we can get swt61 comments on the changes as well!

Yeah, I'm betting 15 days or so. I used a normal thermocouple to do the final tweaking for your F5. Those heat sinks are very nice. It does help that there isn't an enclosure per se The reason this is handy is for measuring the temperature of the tab on TO-3P devices, for example. I never had the surgeon's hand to do this with my thermocouple, as I always assumed it could easily short the tab to the case given a slight mishap. I was thinking about getting a Fluke, but didn't know for sure if I could sell the thing based on taking the kid's temperature and baking alone. If I could have gotten those two applications, it would have been an easy sell.

China special: Non-Contact IR Infrared Digital Thermometer -32C-300C - eBay (item 270449341196 end time Sep-28-09 14:10:13 PDT) I hope it doesn't suck. Price was right.

interesting. I'd love to fit some leather pads on there... perhaps from that j$ guy or something.

nice work! with regard to the pads, I'm assuming there aren't any off the shelf substitutes around?