aerius

Yup. Straight from the horse's mouth on diyAudio.

About $1000 for a non-oversampling DAC on a block of wood. Uh, no thanks. I'd much rather go for the K & K Audio DAC kit and get one of the DIY guys to assemble it and case it up for you if you can't build it yourself.

I learned this one from the owner of a local hi-fi store. If you want to play with wood blocks for vibration control, go to a toy store and get a box of Jenga blocks. Keep as many as you need, then sell off the rest on Audiogon or whatever with a description of "like Cardas golden cuboid blocks!!"

1) The speakers have to be bigger since you need to fit an amp in them 2) You will be limited in power & sound quality unless you build a fairly large speaker 3) You can rule out tube amps or Class A amps unless you want to set the speaker on fire 4) Related to 1), you can't optimize the shape of both the speaker & amp layout for best performance There's probably more, but those are the issues I can think of off the top of my head.

Ok, what the heck is this "Dragon" thing? As far as I can tell it's some sort of Singlepower tube amp, and doing a search for "Dragon" brings up a bunch of stuff on audio cables, but not amps of any sort. Any details on this thing?

Upgrades happen, might as well get ahead of the curve while you can...

The last time I checked, which admittedly was about 5 minutes ago, Head-case doesn't have any sponsors.

*aerius is lost, so he'll say something about boobs*

Now you know why I almost failed my typing class in high school.

Noooooo!!!!! Buy TheSloth's Adagios! linky

At my university, some of our music was like that too, usually the rarer stuff that's worth money or something. We could sign out most of the stuff they had, but I admit that some of our libraries required a rather large amount of paperwork before they let me take stuff out.

I use my local libraries. If you're in a larger college or university, you should be able to get access to more music than you can imagine from their libraries & archives. My university had countless thousands of classical LPs stashed away in various places.

Might as well ask for a bigger penis and a rich supermodel wife while you're at it.

PMS?

It's funny, my local BestBuy has practically every edition of "Dark Side of the Moon" known to man, yet it's missing a third of the Pink Floyd catalogue on a good day.

The one which sounds better to you, whichever pair that happens to be.

Burn his ass then, report all his sales with the links to the relevant ebay/audiogon/whatever auctions. Don't just talk about it, get to work on fucking him over.

So I guess there's going to be an unofficial Head-case Photoshop caption contest for the picture(s)?

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What??!! You mean Grawk wasn't telling me the whole truth? And no, I can't say I've studied the American civil war, as I'm not American, but I do know a little bit about it.

Ah! That's what I thought. Cause when I see cotton it's always in rolls or balls, thus I thought it's just like polyester or nylon where they make it in a factory somewhere. Good to see I'm not mistaken in my beliefs.

You mean cotton grows on plants or something? I learn something new every day...

See, this is what pisses me off, along with a lot of other people here on Head-case. You haven't heard the damn thing and yet you stilll claim to know what it'll sound like. That's just bullshit, especially since this is a CD player where you don't even have the specs & schematics for either one of them to make an educated guess. Do you know what DAC chips they use? Filter algorithms? The analog output circuitry? If you answered "no" to any of the above, and you haven't even heard damn thing, you do not have a basis for making any judgements on its sound beyond "I don't know".

It's like breasts, some people like large breasts while others like smaller breasts.

I've done Larry's mods to my stock pair, in short, it tightens up the bass, takes away some of the fullness and trades it for more treble extension, detail, and soundstaging. In your case, I think that would be going in the wrong direction. I'm assuming you have a completely stock pair and nothing has been tampered with, you or jpack can correct me if I'm wrong. First step, open them up and pull out all the old cotton stuffing, it's probably all packed down and compacted, not the best thing to have. But don't throw it away yet. Then take a few balls of cotton and unroll them into strips, as shown in the picture below. Put a couple layers in each cup, put the headphone back together, and listen. Is it better or worse? As a general rule, more cotton, up to a point, will take the edge off the treble and add fullness to the bass, after that point it starts sucking the life out of the music without really doing much. Adjust the amount of cotton until you feel you have the best sound. That'll give you something to play with for a few days. You may find that the original cotton is best, which is why I said to save it, just in case. Unlikely, but possible. It may not be possible to get a balance that you're 100% happy with, that's fine, as there are other tools available for tweaking the sound.