Lil' Knight

I've just skimmed pcx to see if I could find anything to take advantage of their 20% off. Just wondering if I could replace the ixys10m90s with this http://www.partsconnexion.com/product7566.html? Also, how does this http://www.partsconnexion.com/product1290.html compare with the one on the BOM?

Makes sense, thanks. The reason I asked this is I'm thinking of adding one more channel to 'upgrade' my 3-channel B22 to balanced, but my main source is only SE. Asked amb about this and was told doing that way would only make the amp pseudo-balanced. I'm not 100% sure if this would apply to Dr Gilmore's designs so I just asked to make sure.

Could you elaborate this?

What would be the negative effects when just using SE source? Would the voltage swing be the same?

I suppose we could use both SE and balanced source, right?

Count me in for a board and kit set, Kevin. Would be great if the Stax jack and maybe the 2.5" heatsinks are also options for the kit.

^ Great news. Much sooner than I expected. Now just wait for the Dev Team releasing the unlock for my bricked iPhone 3g

It's surely a good pet and may be a pillow.

Happy Birthday, Nate!

I bought the Belkin Gold usb cable off ebay for 2 bucks. Better look and build than other generic cables. Doesn't hurt to give it try.

Great to see they switch from the 3 conductor to 4 conductor cable.

Not sure about now, but last time I did, I just emailed them in advance to let them know I sent the stuffs in. All you need to do is to include the impressions, the IEMs and a small piece of note, telling them exactly what you want (color, cable, name on shell and shipping address). They will call you for the CC info when they finish the order. They don't take Paypal. Looks like they have the order form now but a simple note would do the trick.

Well, it's hard to 'measure' the difference but the JH13 is still better on every way. The only thing the SE530 can stand against the JH13 is the mids. I love its fun, colored mids Comparing with the stock SE530s, the remold has better comfort (surely), soundstage and the highs are less rolled off. I bought the SE530 in beaten up condition for ~100$ so for a total of 210$, I'd say it's a steal.

Mine was 5 days when they were still 'inactive'. Right now they're swamped with orders and I saw the turnaround is around 10-14 days. Not a big deal though. The company Nate mentioned is Unique Melody in China. Their build quality is top-notch, I must confess. Much better than any custom IEMs I've ever seen. The problem here is their response and English is very bad. A couples pics to compare my JH13s with their remold SE530: They said they won't go up the price. @edit: They won't do the Etys. Only BA drivers.

I forgot about the impressions cost because I sent in my JH13 for the negative cast. I remember Nate has the Livewires, no?

Hmm, it only cost 80$ + cable + shipping for remolding your TF10. The company is Fisher Hearing, located in Florida. I went through the process of remolding my SE530 (and TF10 this week) with them and result is really good.

Well, I don't know if it's true or not, but according to the numbers of prototypes, they should have begun the project quite a long time ago.

Looks like the race has begun. Yet another world 'first' portable balanced amp. Never tried their amps before though.

That's no surprise cos all of his portable amps have gain switches, even the Shadow has.

He said it has balanced output, not input. They grey switch would be the gain switch, I guess.

The only thing I'm interested in the new portable amps these days is the digital volume control since all the amps I tried with the JH13s did have hiss, which is so annoying. Does the differential output stage mean that this amp is not truly balanced?

Honestly I really don't mind if it's a little bit thicker, as long as it still sounds great. Does it mean the battery will also be 50% less when going balanced? And yeah, I agree with Beefy that a standard plug that can't rotate is a fail.

This only makes me want a balanced Pico Slim

thanks

I kept thinking about the USB cable in the order and forgot the adapter. Do you have the length of the adapter?