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http://www.proxybrowsing.com/ Unless of course your work has blocked that site...

Your mom is a non-sequitur.

Sounds like you got the stock version of the one philodox has, I think that's the best one out there. Also, since you're getting a 2nd pair, will there be any plans to mod one of them?

In my system it barely matters, if I had to take a guess it's like the last 1-2% or so, chances are I wouldn't notice it 95% of the time. Why? I don't know, maybe my gear just doesn't care about cables. Strangely enough power cord changes are pretty darn obvious, but that's getting off topic.

Since I don't have to mail-order it, my personal favourites are magnet wire and Cat6 network cable. Sometimes I'll also use RG-6 TV cable, I strip off the outer coating and shield and use only the inner wire along with its thick foamy insulator.

Pretty nice capacitors which I don't think are made anymore, said to the be 2nd best after Teflon. Available only in small values under 1uF as far as I know, mostly in the pF & nF range. Generally found in phono stages & pre-amps.

There was another company other than Solen which made large value film caps, can't remember the name though since it's been a few years. My personal cheapskate solution is to use motor run capacitors which can be found on ebay as well as industrial supply and airconditioning places. The one downside is they're bigger than the Solen caps, a 75uF cap is about the size of a Coke can. As for Blackgates, they might be better than a standard electrolytic cap, but in terms of performance they ain't anywhere close to a film cap. We're talking orders of magnitude, not little dinky percentages here. Electrolytics are evil, kill them wherever you can.

Your genitals. You don't want all that radiation, RFI, EMI, and all that other stuff frying your most valuable of valuable parts do you?

I've heard nearly their entire range except the Evidence series, other than the Special 25 I can't stand them. It's like they took the worst of the Senn 580 and AKG K701 and made a speaker out of it, to me they're veiled & dead sounding while at the same time managing to be harsh in the treble & lacking in detail & resolution. The top speaker on my list would be the Living Voice Avatar, it looks like a blocky piece of crap but it's ridiculously good. Very high resolution, clarity, & detail, yet it remains musical and will not make sub-par recordings sound like crap, everything sounds good. It's slightly rolled off on top compared to say, a Wilson Benesch, and the bass doesn't go down to 20Hz, but everything else is top notch. Was my reference speaker for perfect sound until I heard the Avatar OBX-R. Another choice would be the Opera SP Callas, which is good enough that it can be mistaken for a Quad ESL57 if it weren't for the bass. Not quite as detailed, dynamic & fast as the Avatar, but ridiculously good for what it costs. Haven't heard the Diva yet, but I'm guessing it would be a warmer sounding Avatar based on my listening experience with the Divina & SP.

Fnord?

There was a Darkvoice at the last Toronto meet, I don't know if you got to it before it died. I gave it a couple minutes of listening but the channel balance was completely fucked so I can't make any real judgements on it. Maybe. I think it does just fine at low volume, much better than my Senn 580 or Grado 225. But that's out of my amp which I've custom tuned to the damn thing so results may vary etc. etc.

My future wife.

Cool, so when are you two getting married?

Top or bottom? Pitching or catching?

C'mon now, it's not like you really need two kidneys to survive...

I read it for the articles, really, I do.

Go to the Ontario Science Centre and get them to zap it with their big Tesla coil.

Gee, maybe they should rethink those extreme closeups? It's porn, not an anatomy lesson.

You do realize you've just earned yourself a one-way trip to the Gitmo resort facility...

Angry Surgeon Chops Off Manhood I don't think I need to comment on this, the article speaks for itself.

Yeah, I know, it's not easy being me. Getting back on topic and expanding on my previous post. Back in the old days of Head-fi, it was pretty easy to learn things, members were for the most part helpful and offered pretty good advice with the exception of some flaming idiots like Sovkiller, but almost everyone knew about them anyway so it didn't affect things much. I could read reviews, do searches, ask questions, and generally get pointed in the right direction. Nowadays, well, good luck. Fanboys everywhere shilling whatever they own, dissenting opinions getting oppressed and deleted right & left, it's damn near impossible to find good information and trustworthy opinions over there. There's massive commercial conflicts of interest and hidden agendas getting played out every day, there's just too much crap to wade through before coming across something with a kernel of truth. It's no wonder newbies are hopelessly overwhelmed and lost with all the bullshit that goes on over there. The part which really saddens & angers me is how Head-fi takes advantage of the lost by shoving crap at them and relieving them of their money. Great for the short term, you get to move lots of product and raise the profile of Head-fi, but long-term, it's going to backfire on them as people become disgusted and/or disillusioned. It ain't gonna be healthy for the hobby in the long run.

If everyone were as smart as me we wouldn't have this problem. Unfortunately "smart" and "average Head-fi member" don't belong in the same sentence without the word "aren't". Of course the admin ain't exactly helping things along with their blatant censorship and propaganda. In short, lack of unbiased information, people buy into the hype and it snowballs from there.

They're the quantum matrix wave phase discriminator reduction devices.

My guess is the opamps aren't in the signal path, could be something like the DC servo in KG's amps but without a board in front of me so I can trace out the circuit I can't say for sure.

Yes I have heard a Zapfilter, don't remember the CD player at the moment except that the CD's went in label side down. Now unless we're talking about a completely different Zapfilter, the opamps chips are the 2 orange rectangles on the top of the board in this picture. Same chips as in the balanced outputs of my CD player based on what I can see of the pin-outs and partial model numbers. Transformer output straight off a pair of differential DAC chips (PCM1702) for each channel. Does the I/V conversion and whacks the RF noise coming off the converter.