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Stop touching yourself at night. Every time you touch yourself, god deletes an equipment list.

Woohoo! Titties for everyone!

Do I want to know how you know about NAMBLA?

Nope, she's a perfectly normal Canadian.

No, I'm in Toronto. But I am dating a Princeton swimmerchick.

Dude, they're ALL Princeton chicks.

But does it come with a built-in recharger for vibrators?

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...

Hmmm...the last 2 options are interesting....

Village Idiot. Because every message board needs an official idiot to beat on.

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.

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

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.

Did he send you the schematics by any chance? If so, can we see them?

No, but the funny thing is one of their teammates is, and I've met 2 & 4 in person.

Because I've never started a poll here, and I think it's about time I did.

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.

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?"

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.

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.

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.

Take one for the team! 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.

Back when I worked in a bike shop, a co-worker did the hip thrusting motions to indicate that he'd gotten laid good the night before. Unfortunately he forgot he was free-balling and ended up bouncing his nuts off his taint, after which he doubled over in pain. One of the funniest things I've ever seen.

Step 1: Find an attractive female with a ponytail Step 2: Ask if you can have her hair elastic Step 3: Repeat steps 1 & 2 until you have a nice collection of hair elastics Step 4: Remove the screw in the headband and open it up. Step 5: Replace worn elastic with one of the hair elastics you got

I haven't heard the tube yet, but various sources say it's similar to the 5687 but with lower distortion. However some have complained that it can be a bit lean and too solidstate-like. That's more or less the general consensus I get from diyaudio.com and audioasylum. I was going to grab some for my current amp project but ended up using 6BL7's instead since the local surplus store has a nice stash of them. In theory it should be a nice tube, and at $12 a pop or so the last time I checked it's still pretty affordable.