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With the better pictures I'm with Ian, it looks like end grain which is nice, I far and away prefer that to larry-style side grain. This would imply that the only changes are the font and the button. And nice catch Justin, that's a bang up job they did with the lettering.

They've always used end-grain in the past, it's a complete departure (and different manufacturing technique probably) from the previous RS-1 and 2 design. And the horseshoe has always been there Dusty.

Just wondering if anyone else caught the new design of the RS-2s on HF? Items of note: 1. No more endgrain - now done "Larry style" with sidegrain. Pretty weak in my opinion. 2. No more button. I'm sure this was a man'f/labor based decision, one less assembly step and one less thing for folks to bitch about/fall off. 3. New font. Not my cup of tea but I'd have to see it in person to know for sure.

When might you know for sure?

Nah, I'm an asshole, ask Pinky, I should just be ignored. Bring the funnay postjack, bring it old-school.

I'm going to let the Salted one know about this mini-meet as well since he's just down in MA. Maybe he can make the trip?

Lemee guess, he's working on another portable amp.

Talk to thrice or cotdt, I think they've both had newer Denons apart.

My guess is Ray saw Headroom/SP/Rudi/Meier all planning SS balanced amps and figured he'd better join the party. What's funny is that at last fall's Boston Meet Ray and I had a pretty long conversation about how he thought he'd never be able to sell a multi-thousand dollar SS amp and that tubes were the only thing that would work in that category. So I'm not sure he had the Apache in the pipeline all that long.

Being the captain of camp Ray Samuels I'm guessing that the super secret project he's had listed in his sig for half a year now is something from Ray.

Yeah, I read some of those and it sounded like a 50:50 proposition. I just hate it when they don't give a series like that an opportunity to wrap things up in any fashion (from what I've read). I don't need answers to everything but a couple wouldn't be all bad. I'm sure I'll still enjoy the heck out of the next two seasons, I just wish there was going to be more.

My Ipod is going on 3 years strong and it only cooked itself once. [me=nate]knocks furiously on wood[/me]

I can't believe you fucking cocksuckers didn't tell me that Deadwood was canceled after Season 3!!!

I'd much rather have a SB3 and a nice DAC than a Imod/dock.

I'm not pissed off and I don't think anyone else is. Furthermore I'm hardly the compass of what should or should not be posted here. I've just been noticing a trend lately (not related to any one individual either) of less and less actual content. Don't get me wrong, I get a lot of entertainment out of these forums but I thought Head-case was actually progressing towards a good place for serious audio discussion, which I thought was a good thing.

This thread would be better deleted. If people are going to claim this forum as an alternate to head-fi it'd be nice if the entire thing wasn't a mockery, just my 2c.

Sunday is the only day that I could make it. When is jpak due back from his trip?

I've heard that to get the most out of the cryo process you have to use a cryo'd cryo machine. Of course the machine that cryo's the cryo'd cryo should also be cryo'd. And considering that the first cryo machine couldn't possibly be a cryo'd cryo the whole process is rendered null and void.

Deadwood - Season 2 - Episode 1 Shit, piss and corruption, here we go again.

Seems to me that if it's just going to be Ian, deepak and me that we should probably abandon ship rather than sink $100 into a 3 person mini-meet.

Bummer man, huge bummer. Definitely don't trash it - it sounds like the output shorted and the resistors did their job of becoming a fuse. Take it back down to a single board, replace the obviously damaged parts and see what happens. Like Marshall said, there will be people willing to help you out.

Do yourself a favor, get a 4-40 tap and holder. You'll use it more than you ever thought possible if you keep building things.

I wonder what cotdtech charges for labor.

Definitely planning to see it.

Well, for me the excuse used to be that since I didn't have a balanced source (and wasn't really planning to have one) that I might as well build the best performing single-ended rig that I could. Of course that's been rendered moot now with the new DAC but if I was an SE guy I'd still go 3 channel instead of 2, the cost difference isn't that great.