Torpedo

You can add PICaudio and Torpedo so: luvdunhill - 8 - 4 Naamanf - 6 - 4 looser101 - 4 - 2 n_maher - 4 - 0 Digipete - 8 - 4 Pars - 6 - 2 Fing - 4 - 4 Asr - 0 - 4 Stretch - 0 - 4 PFKMan23 - 0 - 4 Icarium - 4 - 4 Dreadhead - 0 - 4 laxx - 0 - 4 Torpedo - 0 - 4 PICaudio - 8 - 4 This doesn't break the magic of having as many boards requested as offered to build.

Thanks for the input mates. I was considering going just SE for myself. My favourite cans are all SE and I'm not planning to recable them anytime soon. Unless the new HD800 sound damn better balanced, I wouldn't be taking much profit from a balanced amp. Hence my interest to know if it'd be a good thing building it with active ground. In your opinion, what's the ideal gain setting for this circuit?

So your advice is not trying the active ground configuration unless you're very knowledgeable and skilled?

In Madrid, but my friend lives in Galicia, which depending where in Portugal you are, might be closer to you. There's a very active headphones aficionados group over there, they all participate in the Spanish Auriculares.org forum, and we set several meetings along the year. I suppose there will be one when this cold and snow passes. Of course you can come by my place whenever you want, you'll be very welcome

Hi Manuel, thanks a million for your kind offer . My friend Rodrigo is interested in the project and would build his boards and mine too. The active ground issue interests him, so we would wait until there are more opinions about it, eventually Kevin could provide his too. If we decide to go absolute overkill and making two balanced with active ground in SE amps, he'd be building up to 12 boards... Maybe he hasn't thought about it carefully yet And we have no idea about costs yet

Nope, I'm not that skilled as to convert my 3 boards B22 into a non-active ground device for comparison I'm no DIYer/tweaker so I take things "as is" but for some tube rolling on the gear allowing it. I not even know if the Gilmore Reference balanced has active ground

Thanks again for the reply. Well, if there's not a clear benefit, we may leave it without active ground. Much cheaper and easier to build and adjust. As soon as my friend says whether he'd be building some boards for himself and me, I'd contact mods to let him having Casino access and would update the "order status" accordingly. Thanks.

Thanks for the reply Icarium. OK, I'll rephrase my question since "required" isn't the proper word to mean what I wanted to. Are there clear benefits sonically for using active ground in the Dynafet as there are in the B22? Considering that a project like this is better to have it made right at the first trial, I'd like to know if it's worth the expense and trouble building it with active ground or not. For this same reason, I'd like to know too if having a power supply for every 2 boards is overkill or just the way to go.

I'll try again, please read. To make a SE Dynafet do you need just 2 boards, or a third one for active ground is required as in the B22? If the answer to that question is no, then to make a Dynafet to work in SE and balanced with separate outputs, would it be advisable/preferable making it with 6 boards? I'm interested in trying the thing, and I'm convincing a friend to build his and mine, so I wouldn't overload you guys building more boards for me. If he accepts, I think it would be desirable he got Casino access to follow this thread. Would that be possible? He's not a Headcase member yet.

So for a complete ignorant on the Dynafet's topology, please let me know: To make a 2ch SE amp you need two or three boards like in the B22? To make a "proper" balanced and SE thing you need 4 or 6 boards? Moreover, you need 1 S22 for every 2 or 3 boards, or would it be better matching one S22 with a single Dynafet board?

LOL with these credentials I think I'm still less sure to participate

What should I expect soundwise from a Dynafet? A more tube like sound than the B22, but with the same power capabilities and transparency? I have no DIY capabilities, more for the lack of a place where leaving a project as long as needed to finish it than anything else, but also lacking the equipment for the adjustments and measurements, which is important. However I might participate if someone else builds the thing for me. Perhaps a friend of mine is interested, I can ask him, but I'd be thankful if someone having used a Dynafet before posted his impressions.

Happy Bday mate, have a great one

Congrats Al. How does it sound? Do you like it? I hope so

I've read at a Spanish forum that Sennheiser USA has ordered their resellers to not delivering HD800 to customers outside the USA. Maybe they want to avoid distributors wars between EU and USA. Some website in Spain has got the HD800 listed at 835 euros, but they don't say when they're having them available for delivery.

Yep, I think that's why I'm loving mine, it's great being able to fully get what's good in your sources.

Those innards look familiar to me Haven't heard a Zana, so I can't offer any advice or show any preference, but I can say the Beta sounds really good with all the cans I've tried it so far, from modified Grado SR225 to the R10.

Zero 7 - When it Falls [2004] And now getting ready for Zero 7 - Simple things [2001]

Happy Bday

Have you tried it as a CD Transport feeding a known to you DAC? I'd enjoy reading your opinion in which areas do you think the XA5400-ES sounds better than the Esoteric machines. They're not my cup of tea either. It costs 1290 euros here, I guess I can get it for less. Were the transport "good enough" to feed the Bidat, it could be my first SACD player. Not that I'm interested in the format, never heard a SACD player that I liked, but you know, curiosity...

Indeed

Same here using the Spanish version No problems a few minutes ago, this is probably a server's issue, maybe they're implementing new software...

I hope so, I haven't been interested in CDP or DACs for years

Seal - Soul [2008] Checking Beta 22's performance on voices with the bass light R10. Not bad

If there were any correlation from the money spent in R+D and sound quality...