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corn flakes with fresh raisins and bananas with publix chocolate milk and bread crumbs. greatest snack ever.

well hell, ill chill with dr dre and snoop dogg then.

jp you got the keys to the supply room closet? i need a place to stay looking forward to my first ever trip to the west coast.

i sure as hell hope vicki goes...at least then, technically it wont be a sausage fest.

big meets = lots of alcohol and even more people in one room than would normally fit. in high school they used to call something like that a party.

al, there any cheap motels in the area that would be considered safe? dont want to go through having to ask for floor space yet again. would like to stop before it becomes a tradition

feel free to call me if any manual labor is required. i work weekends and am cheap . sounds exciting mike, looking forward to see how this plays out. good luck.

bh + jades fed by an exemplar 2900 was about the best combo i have heard with headphones so far. o2's might sound better, i cant say it because i never got them to fit me properly so i dont know if anything im missing. say what you want about 650s and r10s being amazing, they are when amped and sourced properly but i dont think the 650s come even close to having the same kind of sound stage as the jades. r10s, i heard a long time ago so i cant say that conclusively. now im not saying that bh + jades are the best combo period, just that its the best ive heard so far. i used to think that you could spend a few more thousand dollars chasing those last few % but with the bh and jades, that increase in sound quality and soundstage was anything but a few %. given the cost of the whole setup i think that i would just stop there. if you can tell the difference between a bh and a bhse and a kgss then pick the one your ears tell you sounds the best.

holy shit. mike was right.

whatever happened to your sds, al?

wonder if thats even possible - anyone being worse than you that is. for me the journey is not as accomplished as some of the other folk namely ^ here. started with a planatronics gaming headset. gave it to my mom for mic duty to talk with people in india. purchased a medusa gaming headset. sold it. purchased the hd555. sold it. purchased the hd595. sold it. purchased an auzentech prelude. sold it. purchased a little dot mk v. sold it. purchased the hd650. sold it. purchased igrados. sold them. purchased shitty sony iems. sold them. received crossroads iems from mike. gave them away. received crossroads portable amp from mike. gave that away. purchased a nugget audio beta 22. sold it (not sure why). purchased an ic from nugget audio. still have it. purchased a single power audio extreme. oh now i remember why i sold the beta. currently being repaired. purchased hd650s again. purchased grado sr 60s. purchased parts for 4 cmoys. built 4 cmoys (2 of which work) that now sit on my shelf. gave one to my sister and she laughed at how ugly it looked and she would never carry it around because she cares too much to look fashionable. blahblahblah. plans for 2009. purchase a pico dac. sell everything except sr 60s and maybe the hd650s. purchase a mini3 or an ec/ss. purchase a speaker rig. (i hate you mike...your damn disease is contagious) didnt think my list would be that long =/ i guess i didnt spend as much money as some other folk.

AND she doesnt look angry like some of his other projects. exact opposite of the menace id say. lovely picture nate.

finally caught the fucker in the act. this is a recording of what i hear in the left channel when the amp decides to behave poorly. right channel moves along just fine. [ame=http://files.filefront.com/static+noise2wav/;12669370;/fileinfo.html]static_noise2.wav - FileFront.com[/ame]

so just got home from mikes place after a great little mini meet. and of course the amp isnt going to give out at his place. the left channel is not producing any sound at all. nil. nada. no sound out of the left channel. im guessing the movement of the amp probably knocked around whatever was loose and made a good enough contact until it was moved again. the amp worked fine for the few minutes it was used at mikes house but now there is no sound in the left channel. only thing i can think of doing now is opening it up and taking tons of pictures and posting them to see if anyone can recognise a fault right away. fucking thing never dies when i have people around and the moment i get home and plug it in again...boom no left channel. love this amp when it does work but hate it at times like these.

i didnt say or insinuate they werent. only that the "research and development" on beta 22 has already been done. now if they were to make it a wee bit nicer and add some headroom flavor to it and throw it in a super nice chassis then id say that a lot of people would go for it. again, im just a mathematician and extremely myopic so i dont know much about market dynamics and what not. im sure tyll would probably be better suited to answer such a question. but given its history i think a beta would do very well in the audiophile market given its ability as a headphone and a speaker amp in one chassis. that said if headroom wants to make some brand new, i doubt ill understand any of what they will be doing with words like solid state and fully discrete but im sure ill probably like the sound they make good luck with everything tyll.

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if you wanna do that you are welcome to. ill be home around 9pm tonight and later tomorrow night. but saturday i will most probably be home. if i do step out to go to school i will drop the amp at your place. if you feel like taking a drive around to my neighborhood i leave that up to you as well. we can talk about it later.

it would have to be after monday morning mike. ive already wasted too much time on this amp and as a result ive fallen behind at school. last final is on monday and then im free. ps. thanks a ton for the offer.

well piss, took the amp to the guy at my school and the left channel didnt die. we let the music play for 30 minutes + and nothing. strong as ever. perhaps a mini meet at mike will make the amp die again. its stupid to wish the sound to die but for some reason i feel that its better to have a problem for certain than to have an intermittent one. anyhow, the guy didnt want to open it up and look inside because he said that he would undoubtedly scratch the case in the process. after flecom, im not sure what other avenues i have besides sending it back to mikhail. last suggestions welcome.

just spoke with a few guys at the ee lab and they all pointed to this guy on campus who works in the broadcasting dept who seems to know whats going on. he things its a capacitor thats leaking which is why it heats up and then the channel cuts out. we shall see tomorrow. taking in the amp to him to see if he can do anything with it. wish me luck.

im so buying those when they come out. wonder how they would sound with the extreme

yes, i finally have some kind of indication that i am not completely insane. the problem with the left channel is consistent now. 4th time i have turned on the amp and it has given me the bloop sound followed by either silence or noise in the left channel ONLY. no longer going to use the amp unless i can show it to someone who can open it up and troubleshoot it. the problem occurs in the left channel only. i tried a tung-sol 6sn7 tube with ge 5998s and all filaments in all 3 tubes were glowing just as that "bloop" happened. only this time instead of the left channel just producing no sound at all, produced that plastic bag in the wind kinda sound that i mentioned in my very first post. i tested that particular tube before i put it in the amp and it read ~80 on the heathkit tester (well into the "good" region). i may or may not be correct in this assumption but i have come to think that the problem is most certainly with the amp and not the tubes since its always just the left channel with *any* tube and it happens about the same amount of time after i turn on the amp (roughly 5 minutes if even that). one similarity between what i just heard now and what i heard when i first had this problem was that the plastic bag rustling sound either grew louder or seemed to be getting closer to my ear with time. i wasnt able to tell the difference. now that i know that there is a consistent problem, i wouldnt mind having any local people having a listen to the amp anytime after the 8th (my last final). i can bring it over anytime/anyday after the 8th. just didnt want to have someone listen to the amp when it intermittently sounded fine and conclude i was making this all up. ps. with the 2c51 tubes, the sound just goes away after the bloop. with the 6sn7 tubes the plastic bag sound comes in right after the bloop and keeps getting louder with time.

can i have an office in the team? cj for pres in the next elections.

nate, i will try to look again tonight. im using a 2c51 tube and they are small enough as is, the filament is very hard to see. ill try with the lights turned off later. too much light in my room right now. i tried listening to the amp earlier today on two separate occasions. both times about 5 minutes into the first song, the left channel doesnt dim and then then die out...it just goes away after a little "bloop" sound. the right channel goes strong as ever but no sound out of the left channel after that "bloop" sound. i will check the filament later and report on it.

headroom beta 22s? who doesnt want a beta?