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IQ related to hearing now? What an arrogant sonovabitch......

Agreed. Or a CKKIII.

Does this mean new DIY designs coming our way? Huzzah!

Just be warned, the collective headphone communities will find you and kill you if you are lying to us......

Love the dog photo, Old Pa

All the fawning, grovelling and sucking-up that you are used to over at Head-Fi has softened you up, chum. Grow a pair for fuck's sake. Buddy Jesus is proud of you.

Mmmmmmmm, HAM......

The Dynahi is a whole different beast. In many respects, even more insane than a B22 for just headphones. I believe that some of the parts are also a bitch to find.

In Australia, super-cheap cameras are almost always grey imports out of Hong Kong. They are generally the real deal product, but without local tech support or warranty support. Not sure how it is in the US though. It is the exact same situation down here with cheap headphones.

Nikon D90 Nikkor 18-200VR Sandisk ExtremeIII 8Gb SDHC Hoya Pro1 Super HMC UV filter Have to wait a couple of weeks to play with it though. My old man is taking it out of the country for me to get the sales tax refund......

Just curious...... how high would we be talking for a 'standard' design?

Yes, I see your point \ On the flipside, even an iPod and ESW9 reveals the recording deficiency of much of my music. I was listening to Breed Obsession by Gyroscope today, and there was an insane amount of clipping. You might expect that from a WA rock band, but even so...... There are very few that I have seen, unfortunately. Dare I say that most DIY'ers don't just give out equipment to shills masquerading as reviewers. I would love to do a 'proper' review of my Buffalo, but I don't have a high end source for comparison, or appropriate phones to really do such a review justice. Not to mention the fact that I'm pretty sure my hearing sucks arse, and my brain is extremely pliable to expectation. My lady friend barely tolerates this hobby as it is - I doubt she would help me out with double blind tests!

Most here would think that about the majority of high-end DACs, wouldn't they? 'Source first' does start at the recording after all...... But even then, I can't quite work out from the article how he's got it hooked up. He mentions the Ballsie in pg5, para 2, but then proceeds to say 'audio output feeds into a 3A5 dual triode per channel' suggesting he uses outputs straight from the DAC. If this is the case, he might get different results by including a dedicated filter and line stage between the DAC and the amp.

It is probably fairly lame by most standards here, but there is an interesting article on PC audio that has just been published on my favourite PC tech site, Anandtech. It particularly caught my eye in that the test involved a Twisted Pair Opus in dual mono config......

This thread resurrection is timely...... I might be moving from Australia to Halifax, NS for work in March. 35C hot summer days straight to -5C snowy winter. I don't know how I'll cope \

Great build Nate, and congrats on snapping it up boomana! Those shaft extenders make a world of difference to the cleanliness of builds like this. And I take it that those custom shielded SumR transformers are working out well for you?

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I think you need to Zap the Buffalo!

Nice write up I'm always curious as to whether the upgrade packages that Woo Audio offers actually make any difference to the sound quality. As in DBT-noticable-improvements, versus audiophile babble......

FINALLY bought some Audio Technica ESW9...... the bass is intoxicating on these compared to my AD900, which while punchy, are very bass light

Just a comic made by a gigantic nerd: xkcd - A Webcomic - Theft of the Magi

I find only about half of them funny...... mostly the ones that pick up on my own personality characteristics. In particular: But Dinosaur Comics? I jut don't get it I'm afraid \

I'm still confused...... what the hell is the stuff?!?!?

..... something interesting that I can't see in the High Roller's room In any case, welcome back!

The incoming USB power on the y1 seems pretty well filtered by ferrites and capacitors, through a power multiplexer, and then regulated for each section of the DAC.