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I like my GDA-600, though I paid much less than $275CAD for it. Also very little memory of it stock. There is one on Canuck Audio Mart for $200, though its a province over from you.

Happy Birthday!

Airfare to/from Ft. Lauderdale for the first week in December.

Last few times I will really be free to do so. Tickets purchased!

I will be there. If anyone will have a couch or floorspace they dont mind me crashing on, that would be great.

Yeah, tubes can do just fine. The mentioned spud would have about 4ohm output impedance, plus the DCR of the transformer secondary (another 4ohm), and 375mA max current output.

Don't you know, you are supposed to ship F5s partially unassembled by just tossing them in a box. They dont need padding or any of that fluff. Heck, probably dont even need a box.

Woot! The Lambda Sigs are gone, but replaced by SR007mk1, so definitely a good trade IMO. Right now, I just have a millett max and Hafler DH-120 here, though I expect to get my E810F or D3A spud amp running between now and then. Only stupid 1/4" terminations on my stuff for now, though I dunno what Dusty has. Can spread out from my room if needed, we will make it work. I will also, you know, try and maybe clean up a bit (aka, throw all the crap I can into the closet). Woot, F5!

Yeah, those tend to be on the low side for heatsinking, and then to make it worse, they stuff the heatsinks inside the case, so no good way for the heat to escape.

He will be, considering the length of the edit window.

I cant imagine the output filter on a tripath amp works too well into a 120ohm impedance load, considering that it is designed for probably 8ohm. No idea if there are other issues, but this is certainly one, especially since I am pretty sure the tripath amps dont include said filter within their feedback loop.

MOAR DACs!

Not seeing what this would hope to accomplish.

Death has blue eyes.

Silver and champagne are the colors I only buy if they are much cheaper than black.

Yeah. I have the go ahead though to try different pads on it, and I have a spare set of O2 pads here. Should definitely help the bass out. Certainly feel free to bring other headphones. Sweet! The LCD2 is near the top of my want to hear list right now. Yeah, I kinda suspect that you will be disappointed by the bass on these. What is there is good, but its definitely not NoNoNoNoNoNo bass.

Happy 2005th, Al!

I could probably support a few people, but it would have to be a real minimeet, and only with people I know. As Dan and Justin can attest, I really dont have much space in my bedroom, and cant really spread out from there. Weekends work fine for me, I dont think I have anything scheduled on a saturday or sunday for the next month. Returning them to Fang at the NYC meet 11/14.

Yeah, much more finished looking than the Canjam pair. Needs more bass. Dont get me wrong, the bass is good, but I would like more. Still prefer stuff like my SR007. If you want to come up for a listen though sometime this month, my schedule is fairly flexible. I wouldnt call it bright, doesnt hurt my ears at all, and it really is one of the best dynamics/orthos I have heard thus far. I didnt order them. At Canjam, Fang told me he wanted to loan me a pair, and these are those. Arrived yesterday, but I only got home today, so this is the first I have had to hear them.

Just got back from helping a buddy move into his new apartment. 4 hours last night, crashed there, and then 8 more today, but it is all taken care of. Well, the place is a huge mess, but not my problem. Ate some pizza, drank some beer, now listening to a new set of hifiman he-5.

What does ice feel like underfoot at -40? Just like cold ground?

I was under the impression that Nuclear Blast and CMDistro were basically the same thing. I assume that you have heard Resign to Surrender as well, good stuff.

You have good taste, my man. Bummer about the vinyl though. I actually almost went for it too.