August 17, 200817 yr Practically all circuits already exist at this point, the trick with any amp manufacturer is to put your own flavor on it (without violating intellectual property rights, of course). Which is what I thought everyone -- including Mikhail -- does. That is very true most of the time and there is nothing wrong with using a preexisting design and do your own spin on it by adding a nice PSU and CCS or something like that. Claiming it was all patent pending and world best just adds insult to injury. That DAC is just an epic and I'm certain that it cost him a lot less then 50$ if he bought a few in one go.
August 17, 200817 yr Is it possible it could be an OEM type thing, like the ICE amps? Sure, it's possible. There are countless cases of one company rebranding another's tech for use in their own product. Of course no one but Mikhail knows whether or not Xitel knows what is going on.
August 17, 200817 yr At least it's the fast approach to adding a DAC. That and using all the remote control switching and attenuator products from Liteaudio of china, changing the led's to blue and then saying its completely custom. Its actually fun to try and get into a designers head and figure out how they come up with stuff. Clearly stuff from john curl, nelson pass, james bongiono, dan d'agostino, charles hanson... all have very distinctive and different, and immediately noticable design philosophy's. When i try to get into mikhail's head all i see is re-runs of "yellow submarine" and a lot of this stuff C20 H25 N3 O ((6aR,9R)-N,N-diethyl-7-methyl-4,6,6a,7,8,9-hexahydroindolo-[4,3-fg]quinoline-9-carboxamide) And to be fair, when i try and get into ray's head, all i see is the vast vacuum of space.
August 17, 200817 yr I have figured out where mikhail got his output stage from and i have notified that person. Care to share any proof?
August 18, 200817 yr I have figured out where mikhail got his output stage from and i have notified that person. Oh, snap. How has he got away with this shit for so long
August 18, 200817 yr don't worry, the HC design police would use American style police action and simply shoot your neightbor to death during a para-military raid on the wrong house. Good thing i gave my RSA XP-7 to my neighbor. That should keep the design patrol off my trail for awhile. But seeing the utter genius for sniffing out the worst in everything, they might still find me. Maybe I can fool them by letting them actually listen to one of the products they despise so much. Knowing the public safety/caribinieri mind though, this concept may be too confusing for the rationally obsessed know-it-all.
August 18, 200817 yr Well Mikhail has also created 8 channels from 4: MINI-REVIEW of Single Power Square Wave XL Balanced (vs Melos SHA Gold and Zana Deux) - Page 2 - Head-Fi: Covering Headphones, Earphones and Portable Audio
August 18, 200817 yr where is my shovel. I need to bury something. So my understanding is that a "push" is an amplifier, and a "pull" is another amplifier and for balanced you have a total of 8. New math, gotta love it. Then the standard square wave is a 4 channel amp??
August 18, 200817 yr Well Mikhail has also created 8 channels from 4: MINI-REVIEW of Single Power Square Wave XL Balanced (vs Melos SHA Gold and Zana Deux) - Page 2 - Head-Fi: Covering Headphones, Earphones and Portable Audio Thanks for that. I feel dumber now.
August 18, 200817 yr Author Someone needs to point out the glaring misinformation in HeadphoneAddict's posts, both of them. (Not me.)
August 18, 200817 yr Heh. Seems like many others out there, under the same logic, could have "8 channel" amps.
August 18, 200817 yr I think somehow the headphones that particular person is addicted to have intelligence-degrading effects. Either that or he snorts every hour...but then nah because I am aware of some members here with such intakes who maintained more braincells than I have after a month with the Ultrasones. Wasn't he the second biggest Edition 9 proponent after Sovkiller?
August 18, 200817 yr No clue. He seems like a nice enough guy though. I kind of shy away/skim/skip over ultrasone threads/posts, so don't know who's really supporting em.
August 18, 200817 yr Heh. Seems like many others out there, under the same logic, could have "8 channel" amps. If I am interpreting this correctly then the GS-X is an 8 channel amp, so is balanced b22 and dynamite
August 18, 200817 yr If I am interpreting this correctly then the GS-X is an 8 channel amp Quick, raise your prices!
August 18, 200817 yr But wait, there is more. Each individual output transistor is its own amplifier. So a balanced dynafet would be a 32 channel amp. But wait there is even more. A krell master reference monoblock as as stereo pair would be a 240 channel amplifier. The crap flowing from mikhail's mouth is just plain stupid. Like his steadfast insistence that the cathode resistor on the extreme is not really a resistor but rather a current sink. Same thing with the plate resistor on the ES1. Nope, its not a resistor, but rather a current source. Both sure look like resistors to me... Even ray has finally shut up about his $200 an inch military wire...
August 19, 200817 yr I wanted to read the stuff you are talking about the 8-channel configuration in that thread, but I can't find it..... Am I looking in the wrong place?
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