Smeggy

+ for cheaperer too

I've still never heard one though Colin said he'd send his over for a listen so that should be fun.

Yep, the Yammys are right in the middle of the orthos drive-wise. My 120s are made worse because I have them mounted in such a way that you need even more power to drive them. Ericj has my Wharfedales and he says they are the least efficient orthos he's come across. I suspect most headphone amps are much happier putting out volts into efficient loads, not what you'd want for an ortho.

My gain is set high, however it does a damn good job driving them, as good as my speaker amps. The mini seems to put out plenty of clean power that does a very nice job driving them with no trouble at all. Many complain of a lack of deep powerul bass with orthos, this always confused me because I was getting earth grumblingly powerful bass. Once they tried more powerful (speaker) amps the sound blossomed. You need an amp with reasonably good current delivery and the mini seems to be quite happy doing that. At the expense of batter life that is. I only average about 6-7 hours on a charge I was very surprised and pleased at the results from it. The T50RP isn't too difficult a load but the SFI 120 is a pig and the Yammy orthos are middling. I'm pretty sure the B22 will be in a whole different league. Just in case you were wondering, it's not a case of them just going loud, it's loud, clean, no clipping/distortion or strain of any kind right down to <20 hz. I'm not sure how the mini3 does it but I suspect it's the speed it can drain a battery into my phones

Yep, good old solid engineering that does the job right, and even the most basic UK plug is more audiophile than any overpriced, oversized and dressed up lipstick-on-a-pig US plug.

Pfft, that's not a plug... THIS is a plug! Check the size of those pins bitches. 240V 13 Amp and they dont bend when you look at them wrong. Manly plugs attached to manly mains voltage. Much more deadly than puny US voltage. UK plugs > US girly plug.

They are wee terrors that eat most amps for breakfast! I still find it amazing that the mini3 can do such an awesome job of driving orthos. All except for the most difficult orthos sound really good with it. Superb bass control and power with the T50RP and SFI 120s though the 120s have the volume at 2/3 as opposed to 1/2 for the T50. I'm not even going to try the Wharfedales on it though, they need shitloads of power which is why they came with speaker adapters. I imagine the Beta22 will do them all justice

Yes, those cups are a nice shape and a big improvement over the standard shape imo. That cable does look a bit more sturdy than the older stuff and hopefully won't kink as easily.

Sweet, I kinda like the looks except for the plastic block/rod mounting. I'd expect a better setup than the SR-60. Especially with the extra cup weight. I had trouble keeping my MS-1 from readjusting itself every time I looked at them. A more positive hold/adjustment system would be good but then these aren't designed for the likes of me

It's the new Grado injection series, they gave up on normally aspirated cans. It's nice to see a new flagship that might actually be worth that title.. if it's close to the old models.

I'd never even encountered the stuff before so I just went with brute force and ignorance

Yes. It took weeks to grow the tread back on my fingers after that little episode... Oh, I wouldn't exactly say it slid over.

Is there any closely estimated cost per populated board yet?

Nice review, however, my eyes and interest still get drawn to that old 2100.

I think it might sound better if they didn't call it ultradock as that makes it sound more like a dedicated dock. Maybe DACDOK would work better

Pah, Fostex T50RPs are like so last week. I'm starting a new FOTM with the Fostex T20RPIIn which just arrived in the mail;)

I want the chat window to be resizable so it works on mobile devices

Happy Birthday Colin! :prettyprincess:

heh, I remember my first go at sleeving with techflex... yeah, that was fun. NOT!!

Stiffer than techflex? Hmm, snagging and dirt collection aren't my favorite attributes for sleeving.

Sweet! cheers Fungi

$2000 to dock a fucking ipod.....

where do people find nice soft nylon covering to fit stuff like mogami miniquad? It might be cheap, no reason it can't look expensive though.

damn aliens... Anyway, glad it's working and sounding good.

I'm still hoping that a pair of populated boards is all I'll need along with a little help with info on strapping the rest together.