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Fundamentals? Any 16/44.1 card should create a rather perfect 10KHz fundamental sine wave. The problems come from the harmonics that a perfect square wave has, which are above the 20KHz limit of 16/44.1 digital.

LOL too hot in the summer, quite cold in the winter, much humidity for the river being very close, street climbing to go anywhere... The best thing is that by AVE -high speed train- you can go to Madrid in about 20 minutes, were you sick of living in a really small town.

I suppose they were just using a 16/44.1 capable card, otherwise they could have managed to generate such signal... or not? What frequency do reach the higher harmonics of a 10KHz square wave?

Let's see how it works the damn orthographic corrector... kind of perfect. I had some difficulties to get the US version installed, the damn Mozilla site always wanted me to download a Spanish version, even tried the Argentinian one LOL Grawk, I find utmost interesting your comment about the O2 needing a KGBH or KGSS to be "better" than the PS-1. Supposing you feed the O2 with such an expensive amp, in what things do you think the O2 is superior to the PS-1 and on what ones is the PS-1 still better? I kind of guess the answer, but provided I haven't tried the O2 and my experience with Stax HP is limited, I'd enjoy reading your opinion. Regarding the HP-2 vs PS-1 comparison... I can agree the HP2 is superior in neutrality and frequency response balance, but I don't think it's more resolving, spacious, dynamic or fun. I like both nonetheless

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll try it. It will save you some work

Found it! I was wrong about my confusion... I always have difficulties with words doubling consonants, I tend to invent them. Once I learned discussion has double ss (in Spanish it's "discusi

Oooops, I have to tell some English teacher I had. He was spanish though This is the source of my confussion. In Spanish we have the noun "diversi

Hahahaha, funnily enough my intention was to mean funnier, because on my limited English skills, I understand that cans providing some fun are funny, so the ones providing more fun should be funnier. Is that right? I appreciate indeed your interest correcting my mistakes, it'd be great that everybody here did the same. I'd learn a lot to express myself better, which is quite important dealing with smart people as prone to play upon words as HC's population Rgrds

Thanks for correcting the uncle mistake on the quote. It wasn't a typo I don't know either, but it's quite likely the german distributor had something to say about the result and gave some directions. Be as it may, definitely the PS-1 don't have the same John Grado sound of other models.

Hehehehe, a friend of mine purchased the Joule Electra VZN-100 monoblocks: He sold them one month later for his cannot standing the heat into his room. Sound was lovely, but not even listening in shorts and T-shirt it was possible to stay there for more than 10-15 minutes and not being completely wet in sweat. Their VZN-220 monoblocks really scare:

I see. Funnily enough I didn't perceive the DB like funny at all. The DX-1000 are way funnier for instance. I had the same evolution as you about Grado. I never listened to any current production model that interested me in the least (I have to listen the GS-1000 yet), but once I knew PS-1 and HP2 I had to change my mind. It's quite surprising PS-1 are John's design. Maybe his oncle helped?

Yep, I agree that HP-2 are more neutral, but again quite different to the PS-1. Has anyone of you seen or got frequency response graphs of the PS-1 and/or HP-2?? I asked that at HF and someone addressed me to Tyll. I sent him an e-mail, but never replied I'm quite curious about their frequency response. I can't get my sound engineer friend with the right equipment to measure them. He's too busy. I had a short and not significative exposure to the DB. Despite the limitations, I had more or less the same feelings that Duggeh once wrote about them at HF. I think the PS-1 are completely different animals.

Quit Fucking Trolling/Talking? Quote For Truth? Questions For Thought? I'm really confused I rather agree with Grawk. The PS-1 are my favourite Grados and IMO aren't comparable to HD6xx, not for being better or worse, just for being such a different "sound phylosophy", delivering a different perspective of sound and approach to the music... Like comparing Merlot and Chardonnay. If you're speaking about price/performance ratio, probably HD-6X0 are among the best options available for dynamic phones, period. The PS-1, like most very expensive items, is the kind of thing that if you love its performance is worth the price, but if it doesn't appeal to your taste, then could be considered a rip-off. I wouldn't sell a kidney to get them and wouldn't advice them to anyone looking for "the best". But if you have the spare cash and have the curiosity... why not! they could make you very happy.

I can't say for this pair, but I got confirmation from the own John Grado that the funds from former pairs sold this way went for charity.

Yep, he's the own John Grado selling the PS-1s in his private collection. It starts to seem to me a too big private collection. I wonder if he keeps producing some PS-1 from time to time using the spare parts he keeps. On previous similar auctions he gave the profits for charity. Let's see for how much do these end up

LOL.. I'm an envious cat right now. My day didn't go that nice. Spent two and a half hours at my lawyer's office planning a lawsuit

^ So you're a Broken Minds Engineer. Repairing neuronal interconnections, that would be good for ICs design

I wouldn't go that far, especially for the features after the fifth one, but some among the first five ones could fit quite well. Who knows

I know very very little about electronics, a little more about audio, and a bit more about human psychology. I need it daily at work to "catch" how my interlocutor's mind works. IMHO Stacy doesn't give a damn about HC members' opinion about herself or about sound, audio, electronics... I don't think she wants to be educated, and it's quite obvious that she won't change the perception of a world which isn't spinning around her. She lives in a Stacy-centric universe, which is good for having helped her to overcome her personal ghosts and limitations, which I'm not completely sure she already knows. But she'd never recognize even if she knew. I'm amazed for Boomana's kindness and thoughtful hints, but this is like preaching in the desert to a deaf audience. I wish Stacy proved me wrong, but I have very little hopes. @Boomana: I like better "to each one his own" than "everyone is entitled to his opinion" Maybe I've been many years over audio forums and I've got tired of trying to get worth discussions with most people, so if someone is not willing to listen and looking at things from a different perspective, I won't waste my valuable time. Not for being it worthier than anybody else's, but just for being the only one I have left for the rest of my life. Rgrds

In my little office at home, which is way smaller than yours, I have a PC based system. I formerly used a pair of Spendor SP3/5SE loudspeakers, and now I run a pair of Celestion SL600 which are bigger. I have them on Partington Dreadnought stands. For amps in the winter I use a pair of Manley Tiny Triode tube monoblocks The one in that picture posted at the Manley's website is one of my own amps In the summer I switch to a YBA SS integrated for heat reasons. I'm very happy with this secondary system and it gets a lot of playtime. My layout is quite similar to your projected one. Speakers in front of me with the amps in between them. Long mini to RCA interconnect from soundcard to the monoblocks or the integrated and that's all. Well, some speakers wire too hehehe. If you already have all the components, do it! you won't regret. Rgrds.

The best of lucks mate, take care.

Sam Tellig is an audio ignorant who happens to have a lot of power inside Stereophile. Have you noticed that NONE of the components Sam reviews are ever measured? His "reviews" are always rave but vague, uninformative and never straight to the point. I know from reliable sources which I can't disclose that he has economical interests with some manufacturers and that he has been responsible of dropping products from Class A to class B, which he not even listened to , just to make his "related products" to look better than they're. He's the paradigm of what high-end audio, magazines and most manufacturers have become, yet another consumist area where quality and performance aren't important, just keeping the wheel fueled to get as many morons buying as possible On the other hand John Marks at Stereophile is quite reliable, he has his taste and you may agree or not, but he doesn't invent things, nor raves about products he's not even listened to.

You're really bad guys The RPX-100 could be better made and using better parts for the price, but soundwise isn't a bad amp provided you use the "high-gain" output and just a pair of phones loading it. It is quite powerful and manages to drive any of my cans efficiently, with a nice "I'm not here" character, I mean that it lets my sources offer their sound which I know well after several years together, and also allowing you to hear the cans own signature. However I'm quite sure there're more affordable options delivering all that. It's just that I haven't tried them

Yes it has, and not only in the volume level . Fortunately we seldom use two phones at the same time.

Thanks a lot for replying Justin That was my guess. I'm quite pissed, I haven't been able to listen with HPs in the whole afternoon. I'm waiting for a delivery, if I use phones I don't hear the street door intercom bell, so here I am with a new toy not being able to enjoy it Rgrds