luvdunhill

More clarity and more forward highs spring to mind, plus a general health check

ooh, fancy: diyAudio.com

Spritzer was trying to clarify the fact that at that time this cable was made, Stax had already introduced the 5-pin jack. I think we both intrepreted your comment "And the reason for the 6-pin jack is that it was what they had" as meaning that Stax only had 6-pin jacks and the 5-pin jack didn't exist yet.

yeah, so gets the head-case seal of approval for mods? I don't really follow the ortho thread, but I know swt61 and a few old timers do...

so, who's the Fostex T50v1 tweak king? yeah, I like the Audez'e. When can I start listening to them? I don't want to listen too soon, I heard that screws up burn-in.

mine just arrived! Frame is much nicer than it looks in the pics. Much easier to drive than I imagined. Good attention to driver to ear placement. Comfortable. I have a small gap where I always have a gap, behind my ear and down a bit, but hard to say if this is a big deal (it is on the SR-007 for example) What looks to be a lack of decent strain relief on the drivers is a bit worrisome, but I haven't opened them up, just peeked in the hole. Cable... who provided input on this? Sorry, fail. Ok, queuing the test material up

I think their measurement mics are decent.. not compared to a DIY version, but still decent.

Are you kidding me? You should be all eyes instead, as I suspect you haven't even looked for one.

I'd say definitely not, but that's just me.

Muse Model Nine Signature -> Millet Starving Student -> Fostex T50v1

We're working on it Boards have been purchased and should be here pretty soon!

I suppose it depends on how good Justin's warrantee is

sometime the obvious is less obvious. I'd probably have gotten more looks if I said "I'm not really into ground channels".

sorry, not much into 3 ways ....

yes, yes I have

This isn't really for any network-based solution, just to avoid bloating my office computer... I suppose I could use mpd with a command line interface though, but that seems pretty overkill...

.. even ogg123, if I cared. I think madplay would be another choice, heck I think that runs on most toaster ovens these days.

hm good idea. mpg123 with flac123 using jackd might work for me ..

Guys, I'm looking for a way to use my trusty Bantam DAC on a pretty minimalistic system running Arch. Requirement is not to be gnome or KDE based and I'd prefer something command-line oriented. Anyone have any experience with the following: C* Music Player is a very feature-rich ncurses-based music player. MOC (Music On Console) is an ncurses console audio player with support for the MP3, Ogg, and WAV formats. ncmpc is a curses client for mpd. ncmpcpp is an almost exact clone of ncmpc with some new features. Sonata is an elegant GTK+ music client for mpd. cplay is a curses front-end for various audio players.

I'm assuming you're referring to the LL1544A? I've shied away from it, as I never could find any data for it (graphs, etc.)

Oops, okay, carry on then.

NekoAudio: just curious, are you of the crowd that believe that square wave response through a transformer equals all is well camp? I know it's a pretty heated discussion. I did use square wave response to tune my input transformer and it turned out well, but which I don't have a huge opinion on it (yet). The reason I ask is you mentioned both ears *and* oscilloscope Dreadhead: if it measures transparent, it must be transparent, huh? We're not talking subjective transparency here, I'm saying it measured transparent. That should be an adequate defense in your book, right?

cool, when you get it, would you PM me? I have a question about it that requires opening the hood

From the discrete designs (nevermind the monolithic designs) I've built and tested it might be higher than you think, at least that's what I've measured. The transformer design I'm using on my preamp has a measure < 1 degree phase shift at 20Hz. THD+N is < .0005% at 1kHz. Response is varies by a maximum of 0.02dB at 20Hz. Again, all this is very dependent on the load, but since I control this parameter (a fixed input impedance, stepped attenuator follows the transformer), that's rather easy. I'd be glad to compare this to some discrete designs of your choosing, but these numbers are pretty much down in the noise. They may be even better than this, I just cannot measure it.

yeah, that would be my concern as well. No way to really know. I'd probably check AudioCircle (I think?) as Nick has a forum there, or look to buy used.