justin

The Alps Rk50 is great...but has anyone ever seen a commercial product that uses it? Besides HeadRoom offering it as an option...it's been around for a while and ive never seen it except for a handful of crazy DIYers. There must be some big customer for them

The iPod (4th gen) is -10dB @ 20Hz with iBuds, which i think are 32 ohms. It's probably worse now

I immediately installed FireFox once I got a Mac, since I've used it for years on PC. It seems to crash at least once a day, especially opening pages with embedded videos I'll go to Safari if there's add-ons that let me do gestures to open links in new tabs (foreground or background), and also saves tabs when closing/crashing. Does it offer these features?

Because I couldn't afford to buy balanced attenuators directly from DACT, and nobody stocked them for DIYers

I think I hit the Lego peak when it was Town/Space/Pirates/Castle. Which were all 4 types of civilizations in the universe. Then it got a little weird and they started adding things like people who live in the ocean, and then came the Space: Brought to you by Star Wars stuff

I remember Legos before they sold out to sponsors

You're on a special secret list and I'm going to try and get it done next week

I do have a system up now that allows people to enter their order #, and a password, and see the status of their order. However, right now that's only for paid orders. I haven't decided if I'm going to enter pre-orders on it too.

But then billy would spam it with fake orders...so i'd have to take some money, which I don't want to do.

why not? i'll try to do it this weekend

Would dealers, as a business, be exempt from paying the sales tax? That's how it works here

postjack, from now on, just use this:

Including the asynchronous resampling circuit, oscillator, DC/DC converter, voltage regulators & filtering, output stage for the DAC, i have around $35 in components surrounding the $5 DAC chip. None of these things are being mentioned. "Same DAC chip" is really simplifying things too much. It is not an "all-in-one" type chip where you just apply power and go. If it were that simple, I could side-step to a different $5 chip and end the comparisons, which is exactly what iBasso did but for other reasons. I'm trying to figure out if it's a good thing that iBasso wants to draw this comparison instead of against other DAC/Amp units.

Good audio transformers are very expensive, it would be cheaper to make a good amp than a good transformer box

he went black

It should be the same.

You should get a set of TO Bands to go with that (really)

what thread?

I think the KGSS should be on top...it probably generates more heat than the Stello

Coming soon, from Nate Mods, the iPico...

I think the Stax SRM-313 is very good for the money, but you might be able to find one of the older tube amps for the same price used

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Skimmed it and saw no rating out of 100%, or numerical ranking compared to other headphone. Thumbs down

Since there is a $15k electrostatic amp now, I may have to consider an Aristaeus II with those upgrades

tyrion, I have one of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822336002 which I connect to my wireless router It's worked very well so far. Advantage over the Time Capsule is you can put 2 HDs in it. I have it setup to mirror the data over both drives, so there is some protection against drive failure. Data transfer is not very fast, but it's good enough to stream video. I don't know if this is because i'm using RAID, and obviously this would be a very cheap RAID device, or if the network is to blame. I don't know what the Time Capsule's real-world transfer rate is. And this can be used with Time Machine by enabling network storage devices with the terminal