crappyjones123

bloody piss. papa pass is an overpronator too! those are some nice looking amps...

holy shit. birgir is actually a baker? i thought it was a running joke. very cool sir. pics of culinary delights?

just got a call back from jaime (after my request to cancel my order) saying that all my emails had been caught mysteriously in a junk mail filter (my university email address - tried from both fau and mit emails so not sure what the heck is going on). also she claimed they never received any of my calls. at this stage dont know if i should continue with the order or just get a refund.

posty doesnt have to worry about the 2399 anymore. :facepalm: it is in safe hands. (well not yet). ps. posty is super cool. pps. would that dact pot require any sort of resistors is series/parallel? or just drop it in and go to town. also any ideas on whether the stock hole in the top plate will accept the dact pot. same question for the tkd pot.

you can never have enough tubes. dew eet. 5998a is the suck. purchased one just to see how it would stack up against the others and it did suck just like nate said it would. standing alone it isnt bad but once you hear an actual tung sol 5998 then you cant really go back.

i have a few 5998s now...the 2399 is one i havent heard of. any thoughts on how it racks up against the 421a nate (or posty)? i havent really used anything other than the 421a as the 5998 and the 6as7g dont seem to do anything better than the 421a to my ears. perhaps i am just trying to justify their cost but i really do like the sound out of the 421a better.

like...?

fack.

just picked up a mullard 12au7 b6h made at the blackburn plant with the original box. was helping one of my moms friends clean out their garage and found a stash of tubes. only thing that didnt look busted/useless was this mullard b code 12au7 and a rca 12au7 which has no sound in the right channel. nice score nonetheless for a mornings worth of work. letting the tubes warm up now but upon an initial listen the mullard + 421a = pretty fucking nice. the acoustic guitar sounds WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY nicer than with the bugle boy 12au7 but the mullard takes a smidgen off of the top end i think. first pair of 12au7s i have been able to tell a marked difference between. maybe its just that i have been listening to the bugle boy for the past week straight and now switching tubes makes the differences more apparent. nonetheless, very very nice tube. you guys are making me want to go ahead with the crazy build now =/ are there any teflon tube sockets that go into the holes of the stock top plate without any modifications?

damn didnt know they were that delicate. is the owner responsible for such accidents (rebuild costs etc) or are they covered under some weird clause of the warranty? starting to get more and more reasons to cancel my jh16 order - the first few being 6 emails and 3 phone calls that havent been replied to and this is after i have already paid of the jh16s...seems like im in the camp of the few that have had to deal with shitty customer service but i have been extremely polite in all my messages. perhaps i need to try to use stronger language.

they just fell on the ground and cracked open? or was there any force/weight involved? pretty damn brittle if just a fall to the ground makes them spit their guts out...

yeah...we do their homework because they dont know how to fucking find means or medians let alone meaningful statistics.

damn. must post more so i get cooler than nebby. any thoughts on how this headphone sounds or would sound with the crack? always wanted to hear it but never had a chance to...

ive heard about 8 or 9 12au7 variants now and havent heard anything as quiet as the amperex bugle boy 12au7. next comes the hytron 5814a. could live with either but 421a + the bugle boy is what i listen to most of the time.

you wont be damning me when you listen to them. the ones from ebay?

i can feed the habit as well. got plenty of crack derivatives to float around

i am far too paranoid. returned the tube to the seller and asked for a replacement. but then again, i am in the same state so shipping back to the place was cheap.

trying to get google voice set up so i can make phone calls from my computer. using windows 7 64 bit. the thinkpad has built in mics which sucks so i am trying to use a zalman mic that i have been using for the past 7 years without issue. i can use the mic in ventrilo (skype like program gamers use) and it works just fine so hardware is fine. current set up is as follows. usb - gamma 2 - crack - 650s (for hearing) zalman mic - thinkpad combo jack (same jack for headphones and mic) built in mics are muted. built in volume control is muted. when i go into volume control settings i only see the settings for the built in mic. when i go into google voice settings i see "default device" and the built in mic. i can hear just fine. usb dac works with google voice. when i select default device for mic, and talk, nothing happens. when i select built in mic and unmute it, the voice meter moves. thoughts on how to use the external mic are more than welcome. been working on this for a while now.

listening to raytheon 6as7g with the amperex 12au7. sounds anemic compared to the 5998 and the 421a. marked lack of bass volume (no boom boom bass) but i think that as a result of that the mids seem more emphasized. really nice for vocals but not so much for bass heavy music. bass note just withers away very quickly. with the 421a the impact seems to stick around for a little bit longer. now at 8 x 6080 variants and 19 x 12au7s :facepalm: but i am finding certain tubes to be better for certain things. however i could just keep the 421a and the bugle boy 12au7 and the amperex 7316 and all it a day. perhaps i should just sell everything else and stock pile those... nebby (or anyone else for that matter) thoughts on yours? or you are too busy listening to the lambdas

tubes are not important speaking of which, moar came in today running 421A and bugle boy now. with all the noise in the background, cant tell the difference between the $20 hytron 5814a and the $70 amperex bugle boy.

i paid $326 for the crack (only)

damn...high praise from gene. wonder how it would stack up against the crack. roughly the same price. hmm...

happy bday sir.

ipod touch arrived today but zagg invisibleshield STILL HASNT SHIPPED >< dont want to take it out without the "shield" (scared i will scratch it and it will look nasty). glad you like it dinny. hope i get to play with it soon enough. is there anything that i can use to chat with sister who has an older ipod touch (no camera) or perhaps use my ipod touch and her laptop (which has a webcam)? any source for apps other than itunes?

tried 421A all day yesterday with a rca blackplate 12au7. then switched to 5998 and couldnt tell as much of a difference. just went back to 421A and theres a marked difference in bass. waaaaaaaay nicer with the 421A. right now running the 421A with a mullard 12au7 (labeled as an amperex). mighty fine midrange. very very nice.