aerius
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I can't see why we'd need such a system, as it is the idiots get exposed and driven off pretty effectively.
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my equipment list is wiped out
.Stop touching yourself at night. Every time you touch yourself, god deletes an equipment list.
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Woohoo! Titties for everyone!
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Do I want to know how you know about NAMBLA?
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Cool, is she a brainwashed zombie like the rest of the hord that goes to that "school"?
Nope, she's a perfectly normal Canadian.
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Well, you can't go wrong then!! Btw, are you at Princeton??
No, I'm in Toronto. But I am dating a Princeton swimmerchick.
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Dude, they're ALL Princeton chicks.
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But does it come with a built-in recharger for vibrators?
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I don't know about that extra sloppy...too moist isn't good...not moist enough isn't good either...it's got to be somewhere in the middle
I'd say not moist enough not is not as bad as too moist because you can always add some Astroglide. Drying it up on the other hand is rather more involved...
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Hmmm...the last 2 options are interesting....
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registration is open, so if he wants to... maybe we should have a contest to figure out what custom title he should get if he registers.
Village Idiot. Because every message board needs an official idiot to beat on.
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Wow Hungrych you booted a 13 yrold kid from a online chat room....
thats so fucking cool man, I so look up to you now.
(dipshit
)A 13 year old kid who deserves every bit of abuse & ridicule thrown his way. I'm sorry, my sympathy meter for Jagwire remains firmly pegged at zero, he's a 13 year old who acts like a 5 year old. He's a spoiled attention whoring brat who needs some sense beaten into him.
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I think it's time Aerius told us three things -
1)Who are these girls?
2)What is his relationship to them?
3)How did he vote?
1) Members of the Princeton swim team
2) They're teammates of my GF, and I'm friends with a couple of them
3) I voted for all 6 of them
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One thing that he said which sounded interesting is that he uses a seperate tube off the plate of the gain tubes to create an 'infinite plate resistance circuit' [at least I think that is what he said] which allows the tubes to perform quite a bit better and lowers the impact of tuberolling. [ie. crap tubes sound nearly as good as 'great' tubes.]
A tube based constant current source, that should be interesting. Though it will make tubes sound better, you still don't want to use a crap-ass tube like the 1970's RCA/GE coin bases. As the saying goes, you can't polish a turd.
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Yep, Peter McAlister... He is the guy that builds that low cost electrostatic amp, the EA-1. He also has a bunch of dynamic tube amps. Inexpensive, but mine is going to be a little more 'overdone' of course. He has some interesting design choices. We talked over the design and I came away very impressed with his knowledge.
Did he send you the schematics by any chance? If so, can we see them?
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Here is hoping that none of these chicks are Eaphans girlfriend.
No, but the funny thing is one of their teammates is, and I've met 2 & 4 in person.
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Because I've never started a poll here, and I think it's about time I did.
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Whos making your pro star amp? ^^
Biggie.
I think he mentioned some MccAlister guy or something like that on Head-fi.
Personally I like tube rectification, I find it has less hiss & noise in my system and gives a blacker background. I can finally use Grados with my amp without the hiss bugging the hell out of me at night. Smoother sound too. The local surplus shop has hundreds of rectifier tubes lying around so I don't have to worry about tracking down stock on ebay.
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I saw the picture in UHF magazine's Vegas show report, and my first thought was "wait a sec, is that a bathroom scale or am I going blind?"
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I really don't see how a rescreen can be a bad thing. Just makes things more tranparent by getting rid of all that plastic. I say go for it.
It can be a bad thing because it's non-reversible. That is unless you have an extra set of screens lying around or getting a new one fabricated from scratch. If you don't like it, you're fucked, whereas all the other mods can be reversed if the results don't agree with you. I'm a believer in Murphy's Law so I like to have a way to step back in case things don't work out as expected.
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From your description your K340 is probably the same version that phi...err..Jay has, which sounds rather different from mine so the results I had with mods may be a bit different. With that said I'll cover the mods one by one in the order that I did them on my K340.
1) New cables. Opened up the sound and gave it a bit more highs, quite welcome since mine were lacking in highs.
2) Closing up the housing. Mine had gobs of loose bass when it was stock, think PS-1 quantities but loose, slow & flabby like the K240S. Closing up the back tightened up the bass a lot as well as reducing the bass volume a bit. Adds a lot of speed & detail to the low end and makes the imaging a lot more precise. Another welcome change.
3) PCB bypass. I had a nasty midrange colouration, sounded like a big spike & dip right beside each other combined with an echoey sound, it wasn't pretty. The bypass greatly reduces this problem as well as giving more speed & detail to the midrange. Also opened up the treble a bit more and gave more extension up there as well as improving the soundstage & imaging some more.
4) Blue-tack & cotton. Removed most of the cotton stuffing and added Blu-tack to various places on the housing & other internal parts. The amount of cotton stuffing changes the balance between bass & treble, more cotton tilts it towards the bass while less gives more treble. Blu-tack is for killing the last bit of that pesky midrange colouration on my pair.
5) Screen mod. I made a fabric screen out of some super thin fabric I found, and made a frame for it with cardboard & sheetmetal. I didn't really like it. A bit more extension up top, but the details sounded washed out, like they were playing on a grey or lighter coloured background. Plus it carries the risk of giving you a nice shock to the ears.
Given that you're quite happy with how your pair currently sounds, I'd say get everything done except the rescreening. Ask Larry to voice them such that the frequency balance stays pretty much the same as it is, but with more detail, speed, and all that other good stuff.
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My headphones arrived at home, but I'm at work. Damn, seem to be developing flu symptoms rapidly...
Biggie.
They come broken in too since I had a buddy at Postal pull them off the line so I could test them out at home.
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According to the this brief intro/impressions, it's better than a Wadia...grain of salt as always, but seems promising. Oh yeah, and it costs $10k.
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