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About the same here. Right out of the box I found bass very lean and treble in the piercing side of things. Not as much as D5000 or most Grados, though not for the treble quantity but the location of the non linearities. The treble can be shaped by positioning around the ears. Those cups are huge and allow quite some room to find a better response. I wonder how they handled that when measuring them at Headroom. After a few hours, about 6-8, bass started to come out and now is quite leveled with the midrange, but the treble still isn't "there" to be convincing. For the reports here and on Head-fi, I suppose the treble will become righter, though I have some reservations, part of what I'm hearing recalls the type of sound I've heard from some ring radiator tweeters which aren't specially of my liking. This using the Bidat/Lavry DA11 as sources and the B22 amplifying. At this point IMO they're very good dynamic cans, probably the best in current production that I've managed to try or own, but still not good enough to claim for the SOTA status which belongs to discontinued phones. We'll see, burn-in may change a few things, and possibly a tube amp which allows tube matching to fine tune tonal balance can make them sing. Neutral amps like B22 or the Gilmore Reference show very clearly their flaws. However it's very understandable that people being not extensively exposed to "great" cans find them extraordinary, for the most part they are compared to the current offer. I for one wouldn't sell the R10 or PS1 to keep the HD800, but I could sell a lot of midrange phones like the K701, HD600, Ultrasones, D5000, DX1000, even the HP-2 or L3000 if needed.

There're the other kind of noobs who believe they found giant killers everywhere, and praise nonsensically pieces of shitty sounding gear. For instance Little Dot gear which is crap even considering its low prices. There are several dozens of such gear being praised ad nauseam there.

Happy Bday mate, enjoy!!!!

Happy Birthday Justin, I wish you a great one

RIP Have you thought as well that it could be a set up death and that the truth is he's alive and starting a new life? At 50 and being as health concerned as he was, it's hard to believe he suffered a cardiac arrest.

Thanks Nate, I was quite sure you had installed it if it's recommended to drive speakers. Smeggy, will you install a zobel then? Maybe you can add one on the jack adapter you built. Seems easier than putting it inside.

LOL well, unit's looks match the pics at AMB's site, and also has the Nugget Audio plate, but who knows, maybe Nate is outsourcing builds to China

Maybe I've been just lucky, but from the speaker outs (which I still don't know if have the zobel installed, but I suppose it has) the B22 didn't do anything strange, nor suffered any damage, driving the SRD-7/O2 combo for several weeks for more than 4 hours many days. Sound was very good, I must say. Good enough to let me recognize the O2 virtues. We also drove a friend's pair of 303 and the B22/SRD7 literally "trounced" my friend's Stax amp, which IIRC was a SRM-313.

That's a lower impedance than most headphones will load the phones output, but still higher than many speakers', so not sure if the zobel would be still needed. I suppose the zobel is required to have a constant impedance load on the output, to avoid the high current intensity demands from low impedance speakers. While quite powerful and "overkill" maybe the B22 "as is" won't be very happy driving 2 Ohms at 100Hz.

Not that large hehehe. I can't say how the B22 "feels" electrically driving the SRD7 (or the other trafo boxes) and the phones, and if that's any different than driving the boxes alone without phones connected. This last scenario isn't something I've tried, but driving the boxes and phones it didn't get any warmer than usual, or produce any anomalous response I've detected.

I looked at the input circuit of the SRD7 and when switched on to drive the Stax phones, it presents an 8 Ohm impedance to the speakers outs of the amp. It has 2x16 Ohms resistors in parallel for channel. When switched to "speakers" the circuit just drives the signal to the box own speaker outs. So I think it's as a suitable load for the B22 as a pair of speakers as long as the B22 is made to drive them. The trafo box for their electrets (I have two of them) also have those resistors. FWIW my B22 has been driving a SRD7>O2 for several weeks without the slightest problem. Not sure if my B22 has the zobel inside, it's Nate who should tell since he built it.

Congrats!!! And please elaborate, I guess that's a fun reading

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band live in Buenos Aires, 1988. Available for online listening at Wolfgang's Vault. Great site btw.

^ Astonishing, really impressive.

Ahmed Abdul Malik - Jazz Sounds of Africa It's quite funny that the disc cover has a typo on Ahmed's name

Laika Fatien - Misery

Very bad news indeed, Al I hope you find someone close who can fix it, though considering how Mikhail built those amps, maybe rebuilding it were a more correct term. Do you have the circuit schematics and other info that the technician might need? Good luck

Happy Bday mate, have a great one!!!!

Yep. I joined when you had no downloads limit for a quite low fee. Then they changed to the plans system with limited downloads, so I canceled my subscription, but a couple of years later, I decided to join again. They billed me USD9.99 for 40 tracks/month until they started the European branch, then the fee changed to 9.22 euros (dollar wasn't as weak at that time). That's been my fee for a few years, they've tried to convince me to change to other plans, but all them are way more expensive, so I've been enduring. I suppose they're considering my initial joining date, when the deal was so irresistible, to calculate my status.

I have no notifications Looks like they'll keep billing me 9.22 euros monthly for some time. If they raised the quote, then I'd consider canceling my subscription.

I have a similar deal with them but with monthly payments. I got it raised about three years ago when they opened the European branch, so they charge me close to 10 euros for 40 downloads every month. They haven't warned me that any raise is coming yet, but I suppose they'll do sooner or later.

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