luvdunhill

go with the Bugle! Also, another particular noteworthy phono stage is a DIY Pass Pearl. go DIY!

anything made by Panavise

you should try the DL-103D, it's the best of the series, IMHO

nope, the Israeli Morel Morel supposedly licenses some of their technology from Dynaudio. In fact, a lot of their line has some "equivalent" Dynaudio part.

[img width=150 height=113 alt=P1010173]http://www.head-case.org/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1436&g2_serialNumber=2&g2_GALLERYSID=bb4f68f8f9ee575f1b358536d1e7f287

fill in the blank: ______, the poor man's Dynaudio drivers... I just bought 6 of 'em.

I've noticed this as well. Although, I would say after listening to the 840C + KGSS + SR-007 that the fault is probably the player a bit. The highs sound amazing... yup, amazing. The mids not so, there is some digital sound there and they are a bit thin sounding. Not so with either my analog setup or my Museatex NOS DAC, though the highs seem to suffer a bit. Makes me think that the upsampling adds a bit of "air" to the sound, much like BSC lift in speaker design if you're familiar with that.

I'm pulling it part at work to see what they "fixed" but didn't tell anyone about

why not put them in their flight case? that way you don't stretch out the leather headband or torque the metal arcs?

I wish. I have a nice floor goban made from Katsura and a nice shogi table board from Katsura as well, both from Hokkaido. Kaya is so expensive ... I'd like to try and use it to put under amplifiers and what not ... so small blocks / cubes would be fine.

can you get me some Kaya wood?

I've been in and out of that transport. First, there is a company still servicing them. Secondly, the laser assemblies are very common, and run $10-$20. I found them at http://www.electronix.com/. I don't remember the exact part number, but it's not hard to find one you open it. The transport mechanism is made by Technics.

One thing to note, is that there are various flavors of I2S. I just finished snooping on my new Muse player and found that they use the Philips I2S "standard" format, so yeah for me, as this dove-tails perfectly into my "plans". ! I have no idea what the North Star uses, but this would be the first thing to figure out.

so, I just need to figure out when the K701 was released, figure out the maximum number of burn-in hours, then advertise a pair with this number of hours and some crazy burn-in technology and me + $$$ ?

Thanks for fixing up my reply. <reply deleted> I hate people that do what I was about to do... enjoy the new player, and if you ever want to upgrade and looking for someone with experience with these players, let me know!

nope, the EAD uses the Pioneer PEA1030 transport. The VRDS mechanisms are made my TEAC, not Pioneer. Wadia used both of these transports, but they are not one and the same. The Wadia 23, 301, 830, 831 use the Pioneer and the Wadia 6, 7, 8, 16, 21, 270, 850+ (I'm not sure after this point) use the TEAC VRDS transport. IMHO, the VRDS transports are much, much better.

I used to own one of these, I thought it used the Pioneer stable platter mechanism? silly me...

I know the feeling congrats!

making fun of Nenso

in which case, see you in the "How has your rig changed in 2008? And do you have any future plans?" thread

I'm not arguring this fact, but that amp is puuuuuuuuuure profit

yup, me too aside for all those orange and black cylinders in there, looks great

what might this be?

fantastic set. Especially if you prognosticated its release, and sold the older less comprehensive box set and then bought this one and were out a total of $20

granted I was just nit-picking grawk... as for the sigma22, I'd probably disagree, case in point being the totally overkill, John Curl wannabe shunt regulated designs. That hasn't stopped me from building a bunch of sigma22s though!