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Just remember everyone, that while it is a great dac, it's still digital and we all know vinyl rules. If anyone ends up buying one, I suggest going through Sweetwater.com. I have no affiliation other than I am a happy customer. Their customer service is the best, by far, that I've had on the net. There is a sales engineer (their term) named Paul Allen who you can ask for if you get one. He can't deal on the price but can upgrade shipping. They also offer their own support for the products they sell.

I didn't realize it had the GNSC mods. Even more impressive.

Great read. It's nice to see a $1500 cdp hold it's own against a $3500 one.

Jp and I saw him in Miami last year. Definitely a must see. He is one of the living legends. Catch him while you can.

I was kidding around, although, they are great speakers at half price.

Now that's a positive attitude. After Voltron's negativity we can use some positive Duet vibes.

Don't be a hater. I know how you feel, once you get yourself a Duet, everything will be better.

I was just going to tell you to dump the Quads and get these: http://buy.audiogon.com/cgia/cls.pl?spkrfull&1205451721 I was just listening to them with these: http://www.caryaudio.com/products/classic/CAD211AE.html

I never bothered to try the headphone out. We need a Duet/NWO/Emm Labs Smackdown. I think the Emm stack is going to come tumbling down.

I'll try to ship tomorrow. I'm guessing the post office is closed Monday for MLK day. Otherwise it will be Tues.

Dan if you want my HD-600s, I can send them and hold onto Tom Hankin's 650s for a little bit longer. Tom will be cool with it. I guess I can send you my excellent (impressions will follow when I get a moment to write something up) Enigma Audion Senn cables.

You got it already? Two days, not bad. Take you time with it since I have the tt I've haven't bothered with anything digital.

I agree with the above. I guess my point was to look at all the factors that might be responsible for an roll off that he is noticing. My Super Hemps are supposed to go down to 40 and I never felt the need for a sub. With the Compact Hemps, I couldn't live without a sub. My current speakers are rated at 45 and the go deeper than the Supers at 40 so I understand what your are saying.

Those Quads are rated to go down to 30hz, do you really need to go beyond that for music? Or is it that you don't feel they are going that low? How big is the room they are in? I'm not hearing what you are hearing but those speakers in a small to medium sized room should do the trick, I would think. If not, you can't be looking to fill in much more low end with a sub, so why not go with something less expensive and see if it does the trick. You can always move up the later. Also, could it be your amp that holding you back?

T1 has a phase switch. Not sure if that's what you are referring to.

I had the T2 when I had the Compact Hemps. It's a nice sub and did the little bit I needed it to do. They don't pop up on Audiogon too often. I know a dealer and may be able to save a bit off retail.

Thanks guys. Amazingly I got it set up and sounding pretty good. I'll have to wait for May for jp to dial it in for me. Now I need to save some dough for the ultimate tt upgrade at the end of '08. Stay tuned. Well, I took the power amp out of the picture and moved in the integrated. Eliminated the mpx3 as a pre and using it as an amp only. The gain problem with the tt is a problem where the slight hum wasn't. The phono I'm using is one I am borrowing and I don't have a manual for the various settings. The only one I could figure out was the gain. I have another phono arriving soon for an audition that might permit some more fine tuning . I will give the mpx3 another chance as a preamp then.

No it won't. Now that you mention that, I just set up a tt. With the gain on the phono set at low, the gain for the mpx3/power amp is high, but not too bad. The problem is when I use either the mpx3 headphone out or he 007t/O2, the gain is way too low, especially with the 007t/O2. If I move the phono to med gain, the gain will be too high with my speaker amp and perfect with the headphone amp. This might be a problem. Gratuitous tt pic:

I have to pick up a second cheater plug tomorrow and I will try out Hirsch's suggestions. If that doesn't work then I will get the attenuator and see if that does the trick.

This is being marketed to me who doesn't want to mess with multiple vendors.

I plan on doing that. Right now all the 6SN7 tubes I have are different so I don't have a matched pair to through in at the moment but do have matched pairs of 5687s. Time to search for another pair of Ken Rads.

I don't have to pretend, you just described me.

90% works for me.

That's worth a try.

With the last week I had and the 4 weeks or so I'm facing, I will need someone to hook up an iv with some of that free vodka. Either that or some heroin would do the trick.