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I failed that mantra ages ago.

I guess I just didn't find that one. I looked at other model numbers but couldn't find one that had the all-important digital output.

I looked for one a short while back and couldn't find anything. I think they went out of production 2 to 3 years ago now and haven't been on Ebay for a while.

I have not had good luck at all w/ cheap transports so unless your goal is cheap sound and to throw away $$$ I'd advise against it.

Nice, Steve. I almost built one of those for my/your Bugle. Me, I just bought a few more tubes. My favorite output tube for the Menace appears to becoming more rare and I'd like to get them while they're still reasonable. Not to mention that I had a brand new one go bad this weekend.

Pffft, the measly 555' tall monument would barely stretch half way. The yard, front to back is ~1000'. Oh hell yes - the good old '72 John Deere. Yup, sticks it is. And Dusty, I live in a rural area but not that rural.

1. Thinking about it. 2. Thankfully I don't mow it all, all the time. You can see the dividing line in that picture. I shave about an acre off when I don't do the lower 40. 3. I'd love to, Wife says no. 4. See #3. 5. Profit.

Not what I did today, but I didn't want to post about mowing again without providing better visual evidence of the yard. So, Friday, I left work early to deal with the beast. We have an irrigation system so it has to be mowed once a week, all summer.

Agree, does nothing for me. Situationally dependent, she can be rather sexy when she wants to be. Again, depends. I never have, no will I ever, understand the SJP phenomenon.

Very sorry to hear that George.

See, now there were at least three lines within the Arai family when I bought my last helmet and each fit very differently. One was clearly for round heads, another for narrower and the third I can't remember.

I have to say I'd never buy a helmet online. Helmets to me are like diving masks, you have to try them on to make sure they fit. So I guess if you can go and try on a helmet at your local shop and then buy it online that's ok but otherwise I'd rather go to the local guy.

I'm with Ian, Afterglow left me feeling like she'd given up and should have stopped in 1997.

I'm guessing that we'd need ~10 of us to make this work. And I'm not sure how I feel about making the chassis part of it, that tends to be a very individual selection and given the cost impact in both raw cost and shipping expenses I'd prefer to leave it out. About the KGSS, isn't there a parts availability problem with some of the parts involved?

Congrats on nuking your own PM account. That's special.

All set here as well.

LIES! Team Budget-Stat, Unite! Seriously though, what needs to happen is to get enough of us together around a pretty straightforward SS design (maybe an adapted SRM-1) so that we can group buy the expensive stuff and save some $$. If I had any skills at pcb layout I'd have a go at it but alas, I'm a fish out of water when it comes to that.

My eyes are pretty sensitive as well, I don't go anywhere without sun glasses. I've also found that plastic framed sun glasses usually play pretty well with helmets (metal frames do not) and are far more effective and easier to deal with compared with a tinted shield. There are lots of times, especially during the summer, that I can't live without the shield up.

Best of luck with the mirrored shield, I've never had much luck with them and they suck after the sun goes down.

I have this sinking suspicion that I'll be building one of these...

One more thing that I should have mentioned earlier, in both of my experiences I found that the K340 needed to be driven hard (i.e. louder) to sound complete to my ears. Listening at what I typically do db-wise was very unsatisfying with the stock pair that I had first and while better with the second modded pair I still found myself wanting to listen louder than I would with other cans. I was probably still in the safe zone in either case but my environment is very quiet so elevated levels are rarely required.

You could also think about a DIY/custom built better version of the SRD7, couldn't you? I wonder what the Stax experts opinion's would be on how much better quality trafos would run you? Otherwise there isn't much to the thing internally from what I understand.

It would probably work ok, but I don't know what type of current output capacity that amp has. It's got plenty of gain (and probably voltage swing) but it is pretty cheaply made and certainly not the best pairing. If money is tight the K340 is not the headphone to buy.

Glad to see you learned your lesson. From what I've seen your options are few and far between and your only way to get a lower price is to either buy used or to import them and deal with limited warranty support.

Holy heck, at that price I'd probably just go w/ an RK50.