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I have a 640P modded by Andy Bartha. The mods done are as follows: Four op amps replaced with National LM 4562 op amps Coupling caps (.01 UF) replaced with larger bypass caps (.22 UP Polyprop) All power supply caps replaced with Nichicon caps and by passed with .01 UF Wilma MKP caps. Power supply diodes replaced with low noise Schottky type 100v diodes and by passed with .01 UF Wilma MKP caps. High frequency bypass caps on the op amps, which were ceramic disk type are replaced with silver mica caps. I haven't compared to a stock 640P but can say that it is close if not on par with the ASR Mini Basis I used to have.

Just work your way up slowly and in no time, 6 miles will be a breeze. I remember getting on a bike a number of years ago for the first time in many years and I was surprised by how hard it was. Within the year I was doing regular 20 to 30 mile rides on the weekend.

My wife and daughter will be out of town the weekend of 7/17 - 7/19. I am considering a small meet at the house, sort of like Gene has done. I have bedrooms with beds, one with a air mattress and 3 sleepable couches. I am not sure whether about this but if the interest is there, I might consider it. I have a trial about 10 days later so it may depend on how intense the preparation is for it. I would like to limit the meet to about 10 including room for about 6 in the house. Not expecting any out of towners with CJ just passed and DanJam coming up. You are all welcome but I understand if the usuals are unable to make it.

Not much to add to what JP has said. I'm very happy with my Serac. If I decide to upgrade, it will be to a Gavia. Thom has an excellent upgrade policy, basically giving you full value of your trade in towards the next level. I have heard the HR-X a bunch of times and it's an excellent tt. I've never heard the Aries 3, but I expect it's similar to the HR-X. For the money, I think the Serac is something to consider.

Can't wait to see the pics! Have fun.

The view after 8 miles, with 2 to go:

I had no idea they had a connection. I bought the ERC-1 from Emotiva. I'm tempted to pick up the XPA-2 power amp to give it a try. I'm pretty happy with the Odyssey Stratos Mono but curiosity may get the best of me.

I was getting ready to put in an order and got called away from my desk for 30 minutes. When I returned the sale was gone.

It's up and running and all I will say at this point is that it doesn't suck. The packaging for this cdp was excellent. This company, does it right. I ordered late Tuesday and it was here on Friday. It is a substantial piece weighing in at 17.5 lbs. The remote is about as nice as I've seen from a cdp at pretty much any price. The most important button on the remote is the Dim switch. This thing has a lot of blue light but when you hit the Dim switch, most of it is gone. I had been using the Duet and the power output of the cdp is higher than the Duet.

This arrived today:

Muddy Waters - Folk Singer

Good luck with the new job!

Be happy you missed the bar mitzvah circuit. I'm guessing I've been to close to 30.

Congrats Al!

Really, stop looking at them and listen to them. Either that or return them.

Fixed it.

When I bought my P-1 I was wondering whether I should save the extra money and wait for the P-200. Having heard it, I'm glad I went with the P-1. That's not to say the P-200 isn't good and for those whom the P-1 is out of reach, it's a nice amp. I just prefer the P-1 in terms of sq and in terms of the overall look. I should qualify this by saying I heard the P-200 at CJ for a brief time without a P-1 to compare it to.

B-52 poisoning. The real question is whether there is a cure. The P-1 and the HD800 sounds about as good as I've heard the HD800, in addition to the WA5, BUDA and Nugget B22.

Cool.

Where did you get the firmware from?

Enjoy the new cdp. Look forward to hearing more impressions.

Assuming that the P-1 mkii is an improvement over the P-1, I guess with the differential in price there should still be a market for the my P-1 once the mkii is released, without taking too big of a hit. This assumes that I would pay extra for the mkii.

I don't know, they just dropped the price, upped the speed, added an SD card slot, fw, far better battery life than a PC notebook will ever get, it is solid aluminum so it doesn't flex at all, glass multi-touch trackpad and they aren't POS. On the other subject, if you say so.

Get a MacBook Pro and you will not have those problems.

I'm curious about the amps as well. Since I have the Odyssey amps and the McCormack (being repaired) I figured I would hold off on trying one of the amps until I get rid of one of the ones I have. That left the cdp to try out.