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Ah yes, the 300B Stax amp, not only was it gold plated, it was personalized with a custom engraved badge. I don't think I've ever seen an amp with more chrome & gold.

High-end is when you start leaving the beaten path and really start pushing the limits of what hi-fi can do instead of recycling the same basic circuits & parts over & over again. The Moon Audio Luna would be high-end, as is the Espressivo, as would my friend's all DHT 2A3 amp. Stuff like a Woo Audio 5, a Raptor, a Bada PH12 that some idiot stuffed full of V-caps, Blackgates, and bling resistors, that shit ain't high-end. That's like a $1000 Cmoy buiilt with unobtanium military parts and Kondo wires with jacks that are worth $200 each. It may cost $1000 but it sure as hell ain't gonna sound like it.

Actually, I'd argue that death can be considered a win if someone's life sucked enough.

I think you should do that, and then show the video to the crazy chick. If she still wants your dick after seeing where it's been, then clearly, she is the one.

You must let her come to you, and then fuck her up the ass, literally.

Because Friday 13th is a special day?

See, you have to strike the right mix of delusional whack-a-loony and entertaining, like Patrick82.

Go for it. Just make sure to send us the links and take screencaps before the Nazis send your posts and your account to the gas chambers.

Damn. Looks like Seas Excel midrange & woofer with the Scanspeak Super Revelator tweeter. That's just fucking sweet!

Piece of cake, if you can handle soldering a bunch of SMDs. Most people can't solder SMDs, especially not the fun stuff like smaller chips and transistors.

Head-case is clearly trying to oppress you.

Probably the same source that said there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq...

If the above happened, I suspect the L3000 will indeed retain its value due to it being a limited edition item. I think a good analogy would be say, cars. Let's take the Jaguar E-Type or the Mercedes Gullwing, both of them can be said to be pretty darn good way back in the day with performance that was pretty hard to match. In later years, Mercedes & Jaguar have both built cars which will smoke them in performance, but the damn things not only hold their value, they actually cost more with each passing year.

I've had tinnitus ever since I went to a Slayer concert. I wore earplugs, but it was loud beyond loud and my hearing was still muffled & weird the next day. Most of the time it's only noticeable in a dead quiet room, some days it's gone entirely and some days when I don't get enough sleep it gets worse.

Run for your lives! The alien pod people have come to kill us, and they've already got granodemostasa!

Clearly, Head-case members are being taken over by the alien pod people.

I'll have to disagree with this part, though rectifier bottles are quieter & smoother sounding than solidstate diodes they can't match the goodness of TV damper diodes in my amp. The TV damper diodes are quieter & have a lower noise floor and the dynamics are also better. As far as I can tell they don't have a sound and that's the way I like it, if I want tubey fat tone I'll do it by using an RCA grey-glass 'SN7 in the amp circuit somewhere. The rectification should stay out of the way IMO, it's there to make quiet DC and get it to the rest of the amp.

No doubt, but I find it's more comforting and usually faster to do it by hand.

It's pretty sad that about the only writing I do these days is when I fill out my income tax return and when I draw schematics. The computer pretty much does everything else.

The easy solution is to go with 12SN7's which are still a fair bit cheaper than the 6V version. A 25V version of the 6SN7 also exists but as far as I know the only variant available is the RCA grey glass one. There's also 12 & 25V versions of the 6080 (6081 & 6082) which as far as I know is a drop in substitute for the 6AS7, and usually a lot cheaper too.

I haven't heard the M3 yet, but I've heard the PPA, warmish and PPA go together like Richard Simmons and a homophobe. Which is to say the PPA is on the cool and somewhat dry and analytical side. I didn't like it with my Grado 225's, it's more for Senn 650's.

A Sarah McLachlan poster. The GF is experiencing mixed emotions...

Get a Benchmade 690, it'll look great next to the RS-1.

I wouldn't even know what the price on those things is these days, I got mine for just over half that price a few years back. I think that's around the going price, but check with jpak or someone who's bought them in the last year or so for the scoop.