n_maher

No, no it's not.

Ooooh, I hadn't seen those. I smell a custom power cable in my near future. I tend to use pretty generic stuff in my power cables, usually sourced from the local big box store. I'll have to look more closely at the VH audio stuff and Neotech for my current project which will have a 10A heater. [edit]scratch Neotech off my list, any company that makes bulk cable that costs $300 a foot is bonkers.

Potentially easier to find and less expensive. I'm not sure how available 4-gang steppers were as little as 5 years ago.

Am I the only one not bothered by the change? Seems pretty fricken benign to me although I can see why it would affect some more than others.

Nice! For my next project I decided to go w/ dual 4-pin Amphenol's.

As long as there's no active ground channel you should be fine.

Good luck with them, I'll be curious to hear your thoughts after getting to know them a bit.

Steve, I'm assuming that the subs are active and have some sort of level adjustment on them. If so, I wouldn't think that their performance would suffer all that much if you fed them from the beta without modification. Heck, you might be able to feed them direct from the Opus depending on what their requirements are.

Thanks for the input Kevin.

Here's your second chance, don't fuck it up.

What are your planned mods? Lower the supply voltage (assuming it's at the stock 30V now) and drop the gain down to 2?

And this goes back to my original question, is it really any surprise that what is basically a speaker amp doesn't make the best preamp? Although I'm still shocked to hear anyone claiming to hear audible noise out of a properly built beta22.

Just an FYI, you can't remote link to any of AMB's amp pages, they'll all take you to the root directory. Also, Ti freely recognized early on that the M

I thought kevin had already posted that somewhere here? Looked and can't find it but I'd swear we had part of this discussion before... Yup, found the other reference to Kevin's comments in your "low power SET" thread. I know that the measured noise on the output of the beta22 is pretty fricken low and that the measured example was setup to be a head/speaker amp, not a preamp. Still, please feel free to PM me what Kevin had to say, I'm curious. It makes one wonder if the b22 in question was setup to be a preamp? I have no idea what Nanoha's beta was setup like but I'm guessing it had the stock gain of 8 which is ridiculous for a preamp. Beyond that it's really a speaker amp first, absurd headphone amp second. Would you try and use any other speaker amp as a preamp? And I have to wonder about anyone claiming to get noise out of one and whether or not they built a single-chassis amp which is damn near impossible to make silent without a shielded trafo. That's user error, not amp error. So I guess what I'm saying is that expecting something that was built to drive moderate speaker loads to be a great preamp seems odd to me. But, properly configured the beta22 should make an excellent preamp. Haj, yours would likely take a little tweaking but at least it's starting life as a two box design which should help.

Animal crackers.

Nah, no more top loading transports for me. And no because I had a pretty rough go of it with the first HiFiDIY transport, customs mangled the box and I was missing about half the fasteners for the kit. My luck with transports/cd/dvd players is epically bad.

Source chain goes like this: SB3 ----> Hertsens DAC or Arcam ----> Hertsens DAC All the Arcam does is read the info and feed the Hertsens a digital signal. It's a fine transport and I really should leave well enough alone. But I'm an idiot, love gadgets and had a hankering for a dedicated transport. I think my need for one has passed and I'll stick with what I've got that works.

I swear, if you don't shut up now I'm going to really start messing with you.

God I love DigiKey - order placed at 10:57am, order shipped at 12:20pm. That's great service.

For now (and probably the foreseeable future) my Arcam CD73. I may send the Wadia in to have the digital output added but I seem to have issues with shipping lately so I'm not exactly excited about that prospect.

I thought you were Mr. Boss Man, bump it back again dude!

Hmmm, I never really thought about it like that. In the end it's a pretty crappy situation for both of us but I have some confidence that as a result of his profession he may have better luck negotiating with UPS than I would have.

A ticket to CanJam?

He's ahead? Could have fooled me. Oh WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Quit trying to act so cool and you'll be fine.