Smeggy

= Of my beta or my l337 diy skillz?

So my mostly completed Beta 22 arrives tomorrow and I'm taking the day off to see if I can get her finished. What does that mean to you lot I hear you say? Funny you should ask.. I'll need all hands on deck guiding me through the precarious operation to bring life to my baby. I'm still not sure what's connected and what's not or how much work is left to do so I'll need some guidance on how not to blow it up Stay tuned... tomorrow will bring pics and questions

Old bikers mantra: If you made it through that last corner you weren't trying hard enough Enjoy the gravel rash, it'll bring back fond memories.

Very nice Fitz, do mine next

Cheers, I'm finding all sorts of new wood to molest

heh, yeah the tip of my thumb is slowly growing back. It's still a little flat on the end

some 75mm bowl jaws, a Sorby bowl gauge and some moar woods

bought some more tools and consumables and started on these.. Mmmmm, yummy wood!

I'm still liking the lacquer myself. Not as plastic feeling as poly.

Ack, Yodabuns!

That is the most awesome idea in audio cables evar!!

apparently underestimated demand on that one!

I think it's damn ugly, not pretty enough to be worth that much. They need to talk to ray about some styling tips

Cool. He seems like a good guy

It's not that simple. New things, especially new expensive things are shiny. On top of shiny, there's also glowy. Never underestimate the beguiling power of shiny and glowy to make things sound awesome.

heh, yeah, my ears get very trixy on me all the time depending on mood etc, knowing this and being realistic in my expectations has saved me a bunch of cash. I still love good gear even though I probably couldn't reliably pick out a mini3 or Beta22 in a blind test with easy to drive phones. Phones and sources make the only substantial audible differences to my ears, it sucks but there ya go.

I don't doubt that people are extremely swayed by any number of factors when listening to amps and that real differences are probably much smaller than we're led to believe. We're very susceptible to mind tricks and I've yet to be reliably convinced by my own ears unless there is something wrong with said amp or it's mismatched in some way. I've never noticed any burn in or cable differences that couldn't be explained by my bad audio memory or wishful thinking. Retesting has always shown me little to no difference and I certainly wouldn't take a wager on it. Warming up, charging, occasional breaking in a physical thing, yes. Other than that, I think it's mostly imagination... or I'm completely cloth eared.

Tritanium from the Enterprise.

Yeah, I know my audio memory is crap and completely unreliable from one minute to the next and I know most others are the same if truth be told which is why I find so many claims in audio gear utterly unreliable to downright unbelievable.

I was just reading through the AC review of the whole shebang, seems like people are somewhat impressed with both price and performance. They do looks extremely nice inside.

Oh they'll read it, then bitch about the lack of ratings..

it's the economy you know, can't afford a whole bag these days

peanut M&M

...with missiles and big bling antennas.

$14.99? that's daylight robbery!