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I made a purpleheart bracelet and another one out of some orange wood for shop class when I was in school. Gave it a nice sanding down to about 220 grit I think, then put a few coats of clear polyurethane on it, sanding with 320 or 400 grit in between coats. Ended up with a pretty glossy finish on it.

I don't know, I think they're talls but I'm not sure. They look exactly like the one that's 2nd from the left on the tubeworld page.

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I just got my first set last week and have a couple more in the mail. So far I have the O-getter RCA's and they're now my 2nd favourite tube behind the RCA grey glass VT231. Not as warm and intimate as the 231, but shares the same big soundstage and imaging, and with better dynamics in the bass. It's more neutral and has more drive which is great fun for rocking out, but on female vocals it doesn't quite have the magic "holy crap I just got tongued!" quality. Overall a nice tube, recommended by me. Not sure where to buy'em though since I found my set at the local surplus store and vacuumtubes.net only takes credit cards AFAIK.

True enough, but IMO certain tubes are inherently better than others given a decently optimized implementation. For example the ECC40 I'm using has lower distortion than the 12AU7 and a less objectionable distribution of the distortion harmonics, and to me they sound cleaner & more detailed. And of course there are tubes which are even better. I'm just not a fan of the 12AU/T/X7 family of tubes, I've heard very few amps I like which use them.

$13,000US for a hybrid amp that uses cheap-ass $10 tubes? Fuck that shit. For that kinda cash I can have someone custom build me a balanced 300B tube amp with Western Electric tubes.

Instead of coming in a small plain pizza box, it'll come in a medium corrugated pizza box.

This is why internet chat is banned from my computer. Few, if any things have a more detrimental effect on intelligence than internet chat, people lose 20 years off their age and half their IQ points upon entering a chatroom.

No, just one of their dealers on Avenue Road. They updated the Brat, same tweeter now as their big boys instead of the dinky little one they had before.

Thanks! Oh yes, the speakers that I'm writing the review on are the Acoustic Zen Adagio, the Fab Audio Brat, and the Living Voice Avatar. The finish on the Adagio is unreal, it looks like an $8000 speaker but goes for less than half that. Sounds pretty good too.

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As you know, I'm banned from headfi for another 9 days. However I'm in the middle of writing up a mini-review & impressions of some speakers I've heard lately, and I need to pull up some of the posts I've written on head-fi. The google search doesn't pull up the posts I need. Here's what I need. I've posted impressions of the Dynaudio Audience 72SE, the Sonus Faber Concerto, and the B&W 804, most of it is in a thread started by mulveling in the cable forum on head-fi, with a few bits scattered around various other threads. I intend to expand on those posts, add in the impressions of the new speakers I've heard, and put it up as a new post in our speaker forum. So if guys don't mind, do a search on head-fi for my posts and either PM the info or post it here in this thread.

Just saw the schematic. Shouldn't be too hard to build your own, but parts cost is going to be stupidly high. Scrounging high quality audio transformers is almost impossible.

Do any of them mention penis enlargement? I get those in my email all the time....

Hmmm...no mention of tentacle sodomy...mmm...I think I'll pass on this one or wait for the DVD.

I'm not judging by apparent ability, I've actually heard all the speakers mentioned except the B&W 800, and going by the specs in the catalogue it's somewhere between the 801 & 802 in terms of deep bass. The Special 25 does have very strong & deep bass for a bookshelf, but there's no way it matches the 15" woofers on the 801, which I do admit were a bit overpowering in my friend's room which is part of why he sold them, the wife being the other...

My friend who owns the Special 25 has a room that's almost big enough for B&W 801's which he owned before getting the 25's. The C2 dealer's demo room was smaller in area but had a higher ceiling, overall I'm guessing the dealer's room was maybe 10-20% smaller in volume. Anyways, to me fullrange means the speaker equivalent of the Grado PS-1, which means big dinner plate sized woofers to move a ton of air. Examples would be the B&W 802, 801 & 800, Totem Wind or Shaman, something along those lines. Smaller floorstanders such as the B&W 803 & 804, Totem Hawk or Forest, the Living Voice Avatar & OBX-R would not be considered fullrange by me. Same thing with every bookshelf speaker I've heard to date.

Compared to other bookshelfs the Special 25 is definitely not lacking in bass, the only other bookshelf I know of that has as much bass is the Totem Mani-2, but compared to the floorstanding C2 there's a small but noticeable loss. Not much I have to admit, it just doesn't fill the room the way a large floorstander does, nor does it have that truly effortless feel in the lows.

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Looks like a transformer phase-splitter on the input, and I can't make out between that and the transformer outputs.

I heard the C2, wasn't much impressed, it was smooth & had decent detail, but it still had a lack of dynamics and had to be played quite loud to sound decent. In terms of overall balance, I find the Special 25 is still better and doesn't suffer from the veil & lack of dynamics as much, though it gives up some low bass. Also heard half the Focus & Audience series, those were pretty much unlistenable. As a fan of the Grado sound, the Dynaudio sound just ain't gonna work for me, it's too lifeless & sleep inducing.

I don't know, mine don't look anything like that. Mine have black T-shaped plates and the getter is on the bottom, taller bottle too. Reports from Audio Asylum say that there's several styles of GE 6SN7GTA's, and that they mostly sound the same, but I wouldn't know. Apparently I have the GE Canada version which is said to be the best one. BTW, my 2 pairs are actually 12SN7GTA's, same as the 6SN7 except the heater voltage & price.

GE 6SN7GTA's, they look a lot like the '52 Sylvania GT's. Doesn't have the detail, soundstage, refinement, smoothness and all that of say, the RCA grey glass tubes, but it has great drive and nice impact. It's a fun tube, I use it when I want to headbang to hard heavy music.

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