[Should I buy Quad 22L's as my first real speakers?]

did nate make you some speaker wire?

Yup, we hooked posjack up DIY style.

[Release: ATH-ESW9]

Speaking of stupid connectors, how's your Equation can doing, Nate?

It's got a serious channel imbalance problem so until I can call customer support (they don't do email ) they've been banished to their box.

[Release: ATH-ESW9]

Other than the (stupid) 1/8" connector they don't look portable in my book. For whatever reason my head keeps getting thrown off on the scale of them but once I get readjusted those wood cups seem pretty freaken huge.

[Release: ATH-ESW9]

37,800.00 JPY = 327.301 USD

Japan Yen US Dollars

[Should I buy Quad 22L's as my first real speakers?]

Does that mean that the post person delivered something today?

[Post the last thing you bought!]

Who knows it might sound good on my HD580.

FWIW I liked the Cardas on 580/600s.

[Hardwiring K1000s]

Somehow that analogy is not one that brings comfort.

Didn't mean to make you uncomfortable.

I'm still waiting for my Diablo (the new word from Larry is that we should see them by next week... ).

Now that would be something, wouldn't it? I've always wanted to see what vaporware looked like.

[Hardwiring K1000s]

I don't have nuts either.

I think we were clear on that before, , it was just an analogy and therefore didn't need to directly apply to all involved. Substitute "poke yourself in the eye with a stick" if it makes you more comfortable.

[Post the last thing you bought!]

Sennheiser HD650 with Cardas. Damn that postjack

Personally not a huge fan of the Cardas/650 combo, I actually preferred the stock cable over the Cardas. But you should be able to get about $100 back for the cable and move on from there.

[Hardwiring K1000s]

Could be a good call boomana. I just upgraded to the v2 a few weeks ago and a new version is out already. Hard to stay ahead in this hobby

Yeah it is, so if your K1ks sound good to you don't sweat it. There will always be something newerbetterfasterquicker and constantly chasing it is like punching yourself in the nuts, if you're dumb enough to do it you deserve the result.

[Aww yeah]

You need some real speaker cables, like postjack's.

[Yeah, bitches! Respect my dollar!]

I just want to know if they're finally going to retrofit vending machines to accept Canadian change? And I guess I no longer have to feel like I got screwed when someone gives me Canadian change, eh?

[Hardwiring K1000s]

I always read that as silver plated copper, but I may be way off?

At some point I guess the plating gets thick enough that it's contribution to the cable becomes significant. In this case if the cables are 75% silver, 25% copper I'd no longer call the silver "plating".

[singlepower supra replica]

well i have been working around with high voltages, not with 1000 volts like an 845,

but the scheme i have is with plain 240 volt, i know very dangerous, but i'm actually a

bit very scary of it, so i take enormous precations, when i work on things which are powerd

by more than a few small aa batteries.

Let me clarify, what other amps have you built? What is your experience with DIY electronics in general?

but to be quite honest, i don't think an aikido can match up a supra, (not that i have

heard any of them

Comments like this will get you roasted around here. You haven't heard either and yet you're willing to draw conclusions about relative performance. I don't know what else to say other than the Aikido is a very flexible platform and built properly should be able to compete with just about any capacitor output coupled amp. How can I say that without ever having heard one? Because the design itself is technically sound and the man behind it isn't exactly known for putting out crap.

[singlepower supra replica]

Please pardon the blunt question but what else have you built before this? A high-voltage tube amp isn't a great starting point for DIY and I don't recognize your user name from other sites so I have no idea whether this is your first or 100th project.

[edit]And the example Grawk just pointed to is a very good one, one that I'll hopefully be building some time soon...

[Hardwiring K1000s]

Sounds just like my g/f's uncle.. only liek quadruple the size of that house, and put a beemer or two in the driveway. *sigh* maybe one day...

You do realize that this house in the picture is around ~6000SF (ignoring the basement) and probably cost ~4mil, right? As for beemers in the driveway, they've more than got that covered. IIRC these folks were old Texas oil money.

Back on topic - I liked the Equinox Senn cable that I got to sample a year or so ago but honestly, we had three 650s hooked up all with different cables and in back to back to back testing the differences were pretty small. Sure, there were differences but we certainly weren't hearing night and day. Also, there's that huge wait time issue, which would rule it out for me.

[Hardwiring K1000s]

you designed buildings? sweet. pics?

Mostly, I make them stand up. I'm a structural engineer and do residential and commercial buildings most days of the week. When I do my job well you hardly know I was involved at all. I'll dredge up a few pics and post them some time in the "projects" thread in the DIY forum to not completely derail this thread.

And Vicki, as long as you're happy with it that's all that matters. Since you seemed interested in the whole "buildings" thing as well here's a picture of a little house that I worked on a couple years ago.

And yes, those aholes have sand for a front yard and an unimpeded path to the Atlantic. Worse still, this is the family's fourth house and they only use it a couple times a year.

[Hardwiring K1000s]

between that and my reaction to the incredibly young seeming freshmen on my campus, i feel old beyond my years.

I'm with you there Reks, I was at UNH yesterday looking at a building that I designed and it occurred to me that this year's freshman class will essentially be the last class born of the 80s. Son of a...

[Hardwiring K1000s]

Okay, I'm not older than your mother, but thanks for the clarification. Re women, I trust quite a few, but most, like men, only conditionally. If you ever wanted to buy something from me, you could trust me. I'm too much of a wimp to screw anybody over.

Vicki, you want to post pictures of the damage and see if we can't find some way to spruce it up further? Even if you keep it it'd be nice if it didn't remind you of the BS every time you look at it. You've got all sorts of friends in low places now.

[Cambridge Audio 840a]

I just did, it sounds ok. \ little thin with the MS2i, but I've been on a bit of a bass kick lately. I'll give it a more critical listen some other time.

This thing probably weighs what, 20x the tomahawk. By Raw's law of burn-in that means that at 4000hrs it will really start to open up and at 8000hrs it'll be the bestest evar!!!1!!

[Hardwiring K1000s]

arrrgh. I know. It's soooo tempting. And I have this lonely second system with a Heed integrated amp that would be perfect.

Sell the Heed, save your $$$. Dangit, did I just do a "voice of reason" thing again, my bad, my bad.

And you know that John will let you borrow his, and isn't Gene getting a pair too?

[Cambridge Audio 840a]

No listening impressions, because of course I have no speaker wire. :'(

Check your PM's, you might not have that problem for long...

[Speaker Cable Recommendations]

I just fail to understand how some of these cable companies justify their costs...

So I guess I'll send what others have said, try some of the lesser expensive cables (Blue Jeans, Anti, etc) and see how your dad likes them. Me, I've tried some of the MIT Terminator line but found that both the anti-cables and DIY stuff sounded considerably better at a fraction of the cost.

[Paranoia wi-fi question]

I love living in the boonies where there isn't a single person within range of my wireless network.

[Question For Netflix Users That Order Both DVD's and HD Disks]

So I guess that there is no way to select what type of disk you want manually?

Probably not, since if you weren't pirating the material you'd want the best version available, right? It would seem the logical thing to do would be to chose to go back to all DVD and see if you can occasionally spec the Blu-Ray version if that's what you want.