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I didn't think it was possible for me to hate Sovkiller any more than I already did. I was wrong. I hope the useless shitbag gets a one way trip to the Hotel Gitmo for some daily waterboarding sessions.

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Nope. In the Artemis SP-1, the 6N1P is the input tube, the EL34 is the driver. In the Wavelength, the input/driver tube is a 6C45P, which is similar to a Western Electric 437A. The Coincident uses a 6EM7 which is a dissimilar dual triode, one section is a low power medium-high gain triode and is used as the input, the other section is similar to a 6BX7 and gets used as the driver for the 300B.

Once upon a time, I thought the Senn 580 was a totally amazing sounding headphone. Then I heard an RS-1, and later on a Stax setup, and came to realize that the 580 isn't really all that great. Once upon a time I though B&W's were great speakers, then I heard Living Voice Avatars and Quad ESL's, and came to see that B&W's aren't all they're cracked up to be. Same thing with amps, I used to think Carys were really good, then I heard the stuff from Wavelength, Coincident, and most recently, Artemis Labs, and now I know where the Cary stands in the big picture. Every time I hear something better, the scale gets recalibrated and everything below the new best gets moved down. 5-6 years and half a dozen amps ago and the 300SEI might've been a 9.5/10, now it's been dropped to maybe a 4/10. I've been extremely fortunate to have heard all the great gear I have in the last 5 years or so. Speaking of which, I'm bugging one of the local dealers to bring in a DP-2, Class A push-pull 2A3's with transformer phase splitting.

Sorry, but it does. I've heard the 300SEI and it sounds like poo, very syrupy, mushy, slow, overly warm, and lacking in resolution. If that's the kind of tube sound someone likes, then fine, he can say that Carys sound good. Me? I've grown to hate that sound, so Carys and amps that sound like'em sound bad to me.

Where is the real postjack, and what have you done with him?

Pretty much all of them, once you hear the Wavelength Audio and Artemis Labs 300B's.

You mean they're not the same bunny? Damnit, why does TV keep lying to me like this?

Definitely not the bunny. Unless those Cadbury commercials are lying to me, the Easter Bunny just sits around and lays eggs.

I swear by Taiyo Yurden discs since I've yet to have one fail in the 10 years or so that I've been using them. I have well over 100 of them and they're all still mint and read like new. I just drop by the store every now and then and pick up a pack of the made in Japan Fujifilm CDR's, they just plain work. I've also heard great things from the local audio guys about the Mitsui Gold discs which are made in Colorado, but I have no experience with them so I can't comment.

Installing more games on my calculator.

Billy has an evil twin.

See if you can find a pair of these somewhere. Heil tweeter, not cold or clinical.

Spent the last 5 hours chasing down a hum problem in my amp. Fixed it by putting shielded cables all over the place. Now it's quiet, and I can listen in peace.

The Tea Party, "Winter Solstice" - If the speaker or headphone has a midrange colouration, the acoustic guitars from this track will nail it Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, "Red Right Hand" - Bass groove, texture, and dynamics Sarah Slean, "Sweet Ones" - resolution test, along with midrange issues Tori Amos, "Mother" - Sibilance test, also resolution The Tea Party, "Sun Going Down" - Dynamics and freedom from congestion. Also soundstage depth. Blue Rodeo, "What is this love" - Cymbal decays, male & female vocals test Cowboy Junkies, "Trinity Sessions" album - resolution, low level details, soundstaging SRV & Albert King, "Pride & Joy" - Groove & soul test Cowboy Junkies, "He Will Call You Baby" - soul & emotion, does it make me feel? The Tea Party, "Psychopomp" - dense production test, sees if things turn to mush or stays clean

But the outriggers aren't black, whereas the stand on the Reference 3A is also black.

Just so that you know, the Reference 3A MM de Capo is totally black.

Wow, that's taking stupid to a new level. So with a 12AX7 on the input the stealth would have an output impedance of something like 40k or more, and with a 12AU7 it would be around 1/10th of that? I didn't think it was possible for a "designer" to be that incompetant.

Wow, you can use big words and sound all sophisticated, you must feel fucking special. It just makes you look like a fucking pretentious twat.

Thiel fanboy!!!!

1. 909 is a fucking semantics whore. 2. 909 needs to stop writing in fucking lawyer speak.

Wilson-Benesch Chimera, because someone needs to get one, and you can afford it.

I don't get it...there's no pink in the headphones...perhaps I'm being too literal...? anyways, nice job! I've always liked the looks & comfort of the stock W100 but I had issues with the sound, unfortunately.

Kinda like this...

It made some marginal improvements in imaging and midrange naturalness. Small enough that I probably wouldn't notice it if someone switched it back.