June 18, 201610 yr Only US$37,950 at your friendly MSB purveyor of fine products. Roll up, roll up, get yours now. http://www.msbtech.com/products/headphone.php?Page=../index
June 18, 201610 yr ...and that signal to noise ratio. Not possible in the universe and nothing can measure that low but amazing none the less...
June 18, 201610 yr 10 hours ago, spritzer said: ...and that signal to noise ratio. Not possible in the universe and nothing can measure that low but amazing none the less... and when was the last time YOU measured a $38k amp?
June 18, 201610 yr Good point.... "goes off to draw up plans to build a 39k$ amp and then measure it..."
June 19, 201610 yr Author I'd like to see that. I would suspect it would have the 5 Meg bias resistorinstalled, and no pixie dust, hens teeth, unicorn tears, snake oil filled capacitors or other exotica such as The Judge power cable from Coconut Audio to obfuscate things...... Right...?
June 19, 201610 yr Author I can't wait for someone to butcher up a new Senn Orpheus so the headphone/earspeaker part could run on this. Gotta be the bestest of the best......
June 19, 201610 yr I do predict we will see a normally driven HE1 at some point. I've certainly asked for it.. Ohh and I did request a quote for the HE1 system.
June 19, 201610 yr 1 hour ago, spritzer said: More like solid milled silver housings and shit like that... I should never have told birgir what I was planning on doing to a large chunk of .999 silver and forget about the amplifier, show me any measurement system (audio precision, etc) that can actually measure -170db levels, it does not exist. and an amplifier with 60db of gain has to have at a minimum a specific amount of Johnson noise which is at least 50db above those levels, and that's being kind.
June 19, 201610 yr Legal fees are expensive. If there is any substance to those earlier stories then that MSB founder is going to need all the lawyering money can buy.
June 19, 201610 yr The gain is indeed the real killer here. You can't have super low noise and high gain. Unless you know... magic!!
June 19, 201610 yr sure you can. but not at room temperature I have 2 x cryoprobes that run at 25K. 40 to 60db of gain noise figure less than .3db
June 19, 201610 yr 2 hours ago, mtoc said: actually this thing has no vol control, you have to add a highhigh end preamp. i'll adjust the volume in iTunes
June 19, 201610 yr That's always the best way. Naturally using the line out as we don't need to fancy dac's!!
June 20, 201610 yr Author .... and here I thought the laws of nature could be circumvented with advanced technology - they do it in every episode of Star Trek. Well, as long as there is only one defiance/negation per episode, otherwise it comes out like Flying High. (Leslie Nielson, you scientist)....
August 15, 20169 yr Anyone hear seen the post at HF about the MSB Electrostatic amp? I think it was in the MSB Select DAC thread. Sounds like the guy who heard it compared to the BHSE found it wanting...
August 16, 20169 yr 1 hour ago, astrostar59 said: Anyone hear seen the post at HF about the MSB Electrostatic amp? I think it was in the MSB Select DAC thread. Sounds like the guy who heard it compared to the BHSE found it wanting... No surprises there. MSB are a DAC company - however great their DACs might be, they are very unlikely to nail an electrostatic amp on the first try, regardless of how a large a price tag they stick on it. Then again, I think it hardly matters. If you have the cash to throw at a Select II DAC, the headphone amp is pocket change. I bet MSB will sell enough to make them happy. The fact that it might suck compared to the BHSE or KGSSHV Carbon won't bother them one bit.
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