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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.

The sad part is that you're absolutely right. Check this out. http://www6.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=182171 "Waaaahhh!!! You're not allowed to own 4 K340's!!"

Because it's fun. Plus I have a secret hope that one of my put-downs will result in the suicide of a whiner.

Nah nah nah nah! Nah nah nah nah! Hey hey hey, goodbye! Feel free to jump off that highway overpass!

Hard to say, but in general I think they do. I've only heard a couple types of 6BL7's and I haven't heard the super-duper 6SN7's (eg. TS roundplate, '52 Sylvania) yet so I can't make a definitive statement. If run at lower power levels, they don't really open up and end up sounding more like a GE 6SN7GTA than anything else. Not bad, but not great.

Because if no one is making a profit off HF-1's on Head-fi, then we can pretend everything is kosher and dance in the flowery fields with pink unicorns, or something like that. Nevermind that the HF-1's will still be sold on ebay, audiogon, and everywhere else for $400 or whatever the market will support, but hey, if it's not happening on Head-fi then the delusional whiny fucknuts can claim some kind of "moral victory" for the good of the headphone community or something like that. Which is to say it's a load of crock. Tell you what, if you don't like the fact that people are making profits off HF-1 sales, you can always close your eyes, plug your ears, and scream "la-la-la-la-la-la-la I can't hear you it's not happening!", and don't forget to tighten the foil hat around your skull. And if that doesn't work you can always dive headfirst off a highway overpass, you'll never have to worry about HF-1 profiteering again, and we won't have to put up with your endless whining and crying.

Personally I'm waiting for a "Running Man" reality show or a "Thunderdome" show. Two men enter! One man leaves! Also has the bonus of helping to solve the prison overcrowding problem.

Ask Rhydon about that one, comes with some interesting motions, after which you'll get uneasy feelings about wearing them.

BTW, Baby Jesus Butt Plug. Don't ask me how I know of it...

One of them is a variable speed vibrator so that one at least isn't one-note bass, in theory...

My GF has some vibrators but as far as I know she doesn't put them up her butt.

It needs bigger tubes. Get something like a 6AS7 or 5X4 and wire it up so the filaments glow nicely. People will ooooohhh and aaahhh and be tricked into thinking it's some super amp when it's just a Millett.

It's because you touch yourself at night.

I think she's cute. Too bad she's married, and not to me.

Apathy is probably the most common thing in the universe after stupidity.

Neither. I suggest a platinum-iridium alloy for all your wiring needs. It's ludicrously expensive so it must be good, plus I don't think anyone uses it for audio cables yet.

I think I've figured out how your system works: Every time you get a lifetime supply of 6SN7's, you get another amp that uses 6SN7's, which means a few hundred more tubes need to be added to the stockpile.

If I didn't already have a mid-range Grado I would've bought the HF-1 when it first came out, but I do which makes buying one redundant, so I didn't. As for the whiners on Head-fi, my ignore list over there, better known as "the shitlist", has been growing at a pretty good clip lately. The whining & crying is fucking headache inducing, it's almost as bad as dealing with a woman with PMS. "Waaahhh! I want an HF-1 but why does it cost so much?" "Waaahhhh!!! You shouldn't be allowed to profit on an HF-1 sale!" "Waaaahhhh!!!!" Just fucking shut up already.

Click on his name to bring up his user profile, then click "Show general statistics for this member" and it'll give you a nice shiny graph of his posting habits.

Holy crap, how'd he surpass me in total posts this fast?

Fab Audio Model 1 and JAS Orior come to mind off the top of my head. I'm still trying to figure out what the reviewer, Steve Marsh is smoking since his reviews & viewpoints severely contradict each other in many of his writings. I've heard the those 2 speakers myself and conclude that Steve's a whacknut with an agenda.

Finally found a way to get cheap output transformers for my amp after reading this page. All resistors are 1/2W unless otherwise noted, coupling caps should be 250V or better. The power supply capacitors are all 240VAC motor run caps from Aerovox which I scrounged for $5 a pop from the surplus store, and the chokes are also cheap surplus store goodies. You don't have to go nuts on the PSU like I did, I just felt like building an amp with no electrolytic capacitors anywhere in it. The output transformer is actually a 50W toroidal power transformer from Amveco (~$20 each from Digikey). If you have high impedance 'phones or simply listen loud then connect the secondaries in series instead of parallel, or get a 9V or 12V output model instead of the 7V one I use. Good luck getting sockets for ECC40 tubes though. You can a 6CG7 or 12AU7 instead but you'll have to tweak the resistor values on the front end a bit. Tube filament power is from a rack mount PSU I found in the surplus shop. It can run 6V, 12V, and 24V tubes so I can use a large variety of output tubes since I'm too cheap to shell out money for 6SN7's. Go go 12SN7's and 1633's. Learn to scrounge and this amp can be built for $50-100.

I have 2 copies of "Strange Little Girls" just because I wanted one of the alternate CD covers. I think there's 4 different covers, I just had to get another one for variety.

Alcohol makes all my gear sound better, I declare it to be the universal synergizer.