aerius
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I think I'm experiencing a time warp alternate reality or something. Every time I hear about the movie "Crash", I think about the 1996 David Cronenberg film about people who got off in car crashes. That was one weird film, car crash fetishists, who woulda thunk?
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I'm using some ~1/2" thick foam-rubber sheets I found at the dollar store, I think they're for children's playground floors. I use them to support my amp and keep it from sliding around. I don't think it does anything for the sound, but for a dollar, I'm not expecting miracles. I put my CD player on 1/2" thick glass block because it looks kinda cool, again, no effect on sound as far as I can tell.
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Oh jeez are those caps? o.O
Yup, industrial motor run capacitors. Metallized polypropylene in oil, the ones on the left are 75uF each and there's about 240V on them, the ones on the right are 50uF, used as cathode bypass caps.
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Wait, your amp is balanced now?!?! Bring it over biatch! I'm getting the Lavry with Renato on Thursday!!!
Balanced outputs, but single-ended inputs, and without a big re-wiring job on the front end it can't accept balanced inputs. And it uses a 4-pin XLR on the output so I don't think it's going to help on your K340. Plus it's still mounted on a pine board (literally) so it's not going anywhere.
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What amp are you using? Your objective-interim thingamawhatsis?
That's the one, though I do need to come up with a new name for it one day. That is, if I can put my soldering iron down and stop tweaking it.
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Pics?
They're in the 2nd Hamilton meet thread somewhere, but as I'm banned from head-fi at the moment I can't exactly access them.
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I believe this is one of those things where if one understands, no explanation is needed, and if one doesn't understand, no explanation is possible. All I know it started around when the Cincinnati meet thread and my Bada thread went insane.
Actually I do know the meaning of the pretzel, but if I told you I'd have to kill you...with a pretzel.
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Well, my amp definitely wins the "it's not a bomb!" award...
Right now I'm thinking about building an amp based on the first 2 stages of The Karna, but substituting 26's for the ECC99 so I have directly heated triodes for the entire amp. Would also need a new output transformer as well and a few other things, but that's in the far future unless I win the lottery or somehow come across an obscene amount of money.
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Can't wait to hear my K340's balanced... as far as I know, nobody has.
Mine is now. Significant improvement, well worth it, though I do not have a balanced source yet to complete the chain.
So far the only headphones I've heard balanced are my Senn 580, a friend's 650, and my own K340. Of those the 650 & K340 improve the most while the 580 only has modest gains, which could probably be equaled by upgrading to a better single-ended amp.
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What my parents did when I was a crawler was to sandwich the wallunit and some tables when I was up and about, and then pull them out into the proper listening position once I was safely asleep. In the "safe" position they were still fine for background music so my parents could still enjoy some tunes during the day, but they definitely sounded a lot better when slid out into the room.
Best Film goes to....WHAAAAA!?!?!
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In that case, you might want to check out Vulgar. If a movie about a transvestite party clown isn't weird enough, I don't know what is.