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You mean the amp experts on Head-fi are lying to me? Those bastards, they ought to be sodomized with a cattle prod.

Remember, all you need to do is add a bunch of 2nd harmonic distortion to any solidstate amp and it'll sound just like a tube amp.

If I were to take a guess, I'd say it has something to do with the tubes and the amp design. It's possible that one of the tubes was slightly wonky and did something stupid when it was warming up, which then did bad things to the amp and fried the RS-1 driver. This is why I plug in my sacrificial headphones when I'm firing up new tubes for the first time on my amp, you never know where the tubes have been and what they'll do. Alternatively, build a protection circuit of some kind for the amp to keep it from doing wonky shit. Moving a couple posts back: 1) This is a bad thing, you're making & breaking ground contacts & loops which can result in big thumps, hums, and pops which may damage the headphone. 2) Depends on the amp design. Some amps really don't like this, others don't care.

Someone should do that with one of the huge picture threads like the "damn you head-fi" thread. It would be pretty funny to scroll through the posts of people's systems and then suddenly come upon a picture of Tubgirl.

It tastes like chicken.

I've seen nude Van den Hul cartridges and I'm like "damn it would suck if I had shaky hands". This one doesn't look quite as bad since there's actually a way to hold on to it without using tweezers. How's the sound on it?

How about stretching your budget and getting the Manley Reference DAC?

I'd much rather go with this. Sells on audiogon for around $1000 or so.

In other words, business as usual at head-fuck-up.

After reading through John Atwood's DC filament supply test, I did some thinking and decided to give DC heating another try using the parts I have at my disposal. I went with a variation of circuit #4 from the report, but with a couple extra RC stages and different parts values. Damn, now we're talking, this little simple circuit is as good as the big benchtop power supply, it works, and it's so simple it's not even funny. I only converted the input tubes to DC since I don't have enough room to do all the tubes, but yeah, this was worth it.

600mA at 100V is a cool 60W. The tubes would quickly melt into slag if you tried to put that much power through them, that is if they don't implode. To get 60W from an OTL will take a large number of 6AS7's as in the Atmasphere designs or a really crazy tube like the 833A.

Ask 5687, he seems to get a constant stream of Singlepower gear delivered to his home.

Sure, there's Thorsten Loesch's Full Monkey design about 2/3 of the way down the page. WE 437A's ain't exactly cheap but at least there's only one of them per channel.

I came across this on DIYaudio. 200,000, that's right, 200,000 tubes going for the low price of $5000. That's like 2.5 cents a tube! Transporting them all is going to be a bitch though, but seriously, 200,000 tubes.

Played some Talking Heads and Depeche Mode, and I can't remember the others. The owner's a great guy, he's a member of the local audio club and he's hosted a few small meets at his store in the past. Lots of amazing gear in there, Quad ESL 57's & 63's, Lowthers, Wilson Benesch, Opera, Audio Aero, and more turntables than I can count. Every single drawer & cabinet is also stuffed full of LP's, you could probably spend months in there listening 24/7 to vinyl before going through them all.

Look on the bright side, at least you weren't ass raped by some guy who got into your apartment before you and was lying in wait for you. I believe the movie you're looking for is Sliver, with Sharon Stone and one of them damn Baldwin brothers.

Let's see, speakers aound $12k CDP $16.8k amp ~$7k preamp - no clue probably $5-10k turntable & arm ~$10k cartridge - no clue cables - probably a couple grand power conditioning & RFI prevention - a lot My rough ballpark figure with loads of guesswork comes out to something like $65k or thereabouts.

Yeah, it was sweet. Audio Aero Prestige CD/SACD player, EAR preamp, Gamut amps, Opera Divina speakers, it's a pretty sweet system. Analog setup was a Nottingham Dais turntable with Anna arm and Van den Hul Grasshopper IV cartridge. The turntable setup is ridiculously fast & clean while remaining quite musical, the music wraps around and basically, there is no front to the soundstage. It's like wham, here's a dude with a guitar like 3' to the right of me, and another time it was bird chirps and monkey calls coming from behind me. The first time I heard that setup a couple months ago I was like this can't be real, where the hell are the hidden speakers? I'd like to own the system one day, but I'd have to sell a kidney and a lung.

Me & philodox met up at a local store yesterday where he was introduced to vinyl and had Massive Attack ruined for him. I'll let him fill in the rest of the details, but suffice to say, we had a fun time listening to cool music & gear.

I think jpak's being sarcastic, the K340's are a pain in the ass to drive, in an OTL amp I personally wouldn't use anything less than a 6BL7 and with transformer output a 6SN7 is about as low as I'd want to go. A 6BZ7 just doesn't make sense to me.

Biggie has a well known love for Sony and Audio Technica headphones.

Don't forget the gratuitous Boomer nudie scene, and the one with Six's naked butt.

Meh, it's just another one of the countless 6SL7-6SN7-300B amps, nothing special, those things are a dime a dozen. Not bad, but nothing special other than the 2-chassis design. What I'm saying is, go nuts, get really out there on the fringe and build something like The Karna. Push-pull 5687 to 2A3 to 300B, loads more power & control, sounds radically different from the traditional single-ended 300B. The only downside is it's gonna cost a fortune and you need to get someone to custom-build it.

Go totally nuts and get someone to custom build a push-pull 300B tube amp.

So basically my parents' Dual 721 turntable is mine along the classic Shure V15 type III cartridge. I don't even have a proper phonostage so I just plugged it into the phono inputs of my pawn shop special Technics receiver and put my Senn 580 right into its headphone out. It's a ghetto setup if there ever was one. Shockingly, my Senns don't suck anymore, they actually sound pretty good. Yeah there's still a bit of 3-blob effect in the soundstage and the imaging is still fuzzy compared to my K340, but the veil & sulky midrange is pretty much gone. The damn thing can actually do tone and rock out, a Senn with groove, who the fuck would've thought? Playing the live version of "Duke of Earl" by The Nylons is a trip, they groove and they jive, and carry a mean rhythm. So now I actually have a use for my Senns besides listening to MP3's on my computer. Next I plugged my K340's into the system, I got more betterness but there wasn't enough bass. Technics in their wisdom provided a handy knob for cranking up the bass, so I did, and all was good with the world. It turns out my K340 is also a hell of a lot better than I thought it was, I thought the soundstage layering & imaging was good before, now it's more like K1000 soundstage with all the K340 goodness and bass slam. Currently playing "Life's Rich Pageant" by R.E.M. which I've heard on CD countless times, but not like this, the LP squashes the CD like a grape. It's ridiculous, I could buy the setup I'm listening to at the pawn shops for maybe 200-300 bucks and it murders my custom built & modded CDP & tube amp rig. Fuck this shit, I'm not typing anymore, I'm breaking out the rest of my LP's.