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post #121 of 677
12/26/07 at 8:30pm
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You being a Cardiac critical care nurse, Visual Anthropologist, Professional photographer,Where do you find all the time listening and evaluating all of these amps?
As I go back and forth and taking small breaks looking at Headfi, I am listening to music and working on a book from some research with the Aymara Indians in northern Chile. I keep pretty busy. Some time in the future I will post some of the images from northern Chile on my web site. Thank you for asking. If you haven't already I invite you to view some of what I saw in China, Nepal and Tibet on my web site. There are also two UNESCO and UNDESA projects that I did the visual anthropology/natural history photography for.
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post #122 of 677
12/26/07 at 8:35pm
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Of course, he listen to his amp while providing cardiac critical care.
If Ray would donate these fine amps to Cardiac patients to listen to,I'm sure they would be curied,and up and dancing in no time at all!
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post #123 of 677
12/26/07 at 8:40pm
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That would be a site. It is remarkable though how fast some patients get up and around after major open heart surgery. I have had pts walking down the hall 3 days after having their chest split open and some still unable to do very much after a week. It isn't always the physical condition of the pt but that does help. Then I have some that code and either don't make it or go back for another round. Ah, music to make the stay that much more enjoyable and to pass the time. Up dancing with their IV poles would be a strange site.

The Predator has taken on a very fine presentation of the musical stage. The top end is sweet but very detailed and the mids are nice and lush.
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post #124 of 677
12/26/07 at 8:42pm
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As I go back and forth and taking small breaks looking at Headfi, I am listening to music and working on a book from some research with the Aymara Indians in northern Chile. I keep pretty busy. Some time in the future I will post some of the images from northern Chile on my web site. Thank you for asking. If you haven't already I invite you to view some of what I saw in China, Nepal and Tibet on my web site. There are also two UNESCO and UNDESA projects that I did the visual anthropology/natural history photography for.
I was just joking ,I really respect you,and all of your information>I was inspired by you to purchase an iBasso P2,and you were right it sounds great.Keep up the good work,and I shall be reading.
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post #125 of 677
12/26/07 at 9:03pm
This is some weird amp, 475hrs, super bass, then few hours later, back to normal but bright, then at 500hrs, everything is good again? lol
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post #126 of 677
12/26/07 at 9:30pm
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This is some weird amp, 475hrs, super bass, then few hours later, back to normal but bright, then at 500hrs, everything is good again? lol
This is basically what happened with my Hornet and most definitely my Portaphile--went thru all these sonic gyrations before finally settling into a very delightfully musical amp
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post #127 of 677
12/26/07 at 9:41pm
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If Ray would donate these fine amps to Cardiac patients to listen to,I'm sure they would be curied,and up and dancing in no time at all!
As long as you are going to "curry" a curied patient, you might as well add some Roti and Mango Chutney.
West Indian food is delicious.

My Portaphile and Hornet also went through some serious convulsions around 300 hours and then took a stand.
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post #128 of 677
12/28/07 at 5:24pm
Just got my Predator. It sounds I would say, flat, and not that involving at the moment. it's got soundstage, and depth, but not impressive. High, I would say shrill, I would pick my AE-2 anytime. Burning-in is starting now.
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post #129 of 677
12/28/07 at 5:35pm
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Just got my Predator. It sounds I would say, flat, and not that involving at the moment. it's got soundstage, and depth, but not impressive. High, I would say shrill, I would pick my AE-2 anytime. Burning-in is starting now.
Yep, exactly what I got at first. I thought, "whoa, this thing sucks, what was Ray thinking?" It takes some time to open up and goes through more changes than Jim Carrey in The Mask.

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post #130 of 677
12/28/07 at 5:37pm
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Near 600 hours and I am still experiencing changes and not always subtle ones.
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post #131 of 677
12/28/07 at 6:58pm
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What I have is my Monica II dac that I run from battery power that is very stable and has thousands of hours on it and the dac section of the D1. I compare to both of these as a reference point. When I question what I hear I listen to them using the P2 and Xin Reference. I also listen to just the amp section of the Predator. I use a track from Cris Isaak's "Forever Blue" -Forever blue- very often because it has a great sense of acoustical space and when done right, presents him as a very 3d acoustical image. When this track isn't right it can sound flat and lacking in air and transparency.

enjoying a read on some advanced inform regarding the pathophysiology of atherosclerosis right now and listening to some fine muuusac. :^)
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post #132 of 677
12/28/07 at 6:59pm
Gee my predator charging seems endless. I haven't seen the light turns green or blinking even yet! It has been couple of hours!
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post #133 of 677
12/28/07 at 7:01pm
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It doesn't turn green, it just stops blinking so I would guess you have a full charge.
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post #134 of 677
12/28/07 at 7:04pm
So you are testing it against a standard, much better than what I was thinking.
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post #135 of 677
12/28/07 at 7:17pm
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It doesn't turn green, it just stops blinking so I would guess you have a full charge.
Mine doesn't even blink. I haven't seen it blinking yet. is that normal?
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