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Chicken and dumplings (fluffy yankee dumpings, not noodly rebel dumplings)

Markets determine what things are worth. People decide if they're willing to pay what something is worth. Enough people decide things are overpriced, the market changes. If enough people think things are underpriced, the price goes up. Especially with scarce items. People that want something that hasn't been made in 10 years, they have to keep adding money until the owner feels like he's making enough to give it up.

Not the girl, the ascii.

Ok, cool, I didn't realize.

Pretty sure the GS-X doesn't output balanced sources to the unbalanced outs.

You're using the balanced amp as an expensive and inefficient balun. Just buy baluns. Several manufacturers sell XLR->RCA adapters, then you can use your cables. When you decide you want to go balanced end to end, then buy the balanced amp. Or just use the unbalanced outs on your source, which will probably be better.

Ok. You'd rather buy a balanced amp to use with unbalanced phones than use xlr->rca cables or adapters. Interesting. Every balanced amp would work with the right output cable adapter. I'm not sure which balanced amps will let you output balanced inputs to the unbalanced outputs. But if you're gonna spend $900+ on a balanced amp (balanced desktop being the cheapest commercially available balanced amp that I know of), why wouldn't you have your phones reterminated?

If you're not using balanced headphones, just use a single ended amp and xlr->rca cables to use the balanced out from the source.

The price of JPNs and VTGs is going through the roof as more people decide they like them. Considering rarity and age, it's not surprising they are going up. As to the W2002s being better with the HA2002, sure, if you buy the 1 amp they don't sound like ass with, they may sound better. Who wants to buy a specific amp for them. The JPNs and VTGs may not be "best" at anything, but they sure sound good, and if what you want is euphony and not resolution and detail, they're a great choice.

As if that'd work for you

And given how few miles are driven in them, they're not real strains on oil or co2.

Not when used by Joy, but maybe when used by you?

Bruce Campbell is the man.

Does this mean you're no longer going to claim roam's gear as your own?

I also upgraded. I had to manually edit the quicktime preferences to get flash to work, and max is broken until the author fixes a few things. I use and love spaces. I like the new look and feel. I haven't played with time machine, although I still plan on it. I'm using 2gb of ram.

lara's carpet munchers ftw

As others said, cd3000s with wood and ps1 drivers To my ears, yup. But I do have a much better amp now than I did with the ps3000s and hp1. I definitely prefered my hhf1s to the pf1s (woodied ps1s) at the july meet That was my approach as well.

You're VALUED for your diversity, token

We don't hold race against people here.

No one else has wanted them to sound good enough to go to those extremes for them. Like DRArthurWells and CD3000/Whatever Chinese Amp that was...

PS3000 -> HHF1 -> PS1 -> HP1 -> W10VTG -> W11JPN -> Balanced Oracled HD580 -> RS1 -> SR225 -> Darth Beyer V1OC -> K501 -> K701 -> KSC75 -> DT770 -> MDR-V6 -> SR325i UM2 -> ER4P -> AL iM716 -> SuperFi 3

Or who are like my dad, and are just cheap...that's why I drove a 74 Datsun B210 in 1986. These days tho, kids in my situation would have a cheap new car instead of a beater.