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post #12136 of 13627
3/19/13 at 4:30am

Trust me, I have that power supply a long good look.  But, it came down to not trusting my ability to cut the power cord and get the right wires into the right places.  Plus, I love matching gear, so the V-PSU ii it was!  Thanks for the link, though.  beerchug.gif

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This is also a great clean power alternative.  At $32 it made a huge difference in sound quality, mainly the bass.

 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002JTD2K/ref=oh_details_o00_s01_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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post #12137 of 13627
3/19/13 at 7:44am

Not unless there was a new law passed in the last 10 months.

 

 

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You know that driving with headphones on in Texas is illegal right?
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post #12138 of 13627
3/19/13 at 8:01am

Ah, well I've been told by my parents for the entirety of my life, and in Driver's Ed the other day that it was,

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post #12139 of 13627
3/19/13 at 8:49am
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Ah, well I've been told by my parents for the entirety of my life, and in Driver's Ed the other day that it was,

I mean, it's a bad idea, but not illegal. :)

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post #12140 of 13627
3/19/13 at 11:26am
@maxvla I liked them a lot listened on the wa5se
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post #12141 of 13627
3/19/13 at 11:30am
Where did you hear a WA5?
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post #12142 of 13627
3/19/13 at 12:09pm
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My MCA DT880's are shipping out tomorrow from him.

 

 

Also, just ordered Heir Audio 4.Ai"+", can't wait to get them. Buck Eye Burl wood.

 

This hobby is going to cost costing me.. 

 

Cheers

 

Niiiiiiice.

 

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post #12143 of 13627
3/19/13 at 12:23pm

Wood headphones (any kind of wood) always look soooooooooooo nice :)

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post #12144 of 13627
3/19/13 at 3:29pm
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Wood headphones (any kind of wood) always look soooooooooooo nice :)

I love wood cups, hence all my headphones are wood(just 2..)

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post #12145 of 13627
3/19/13 at 3:38pm
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I forgot to take a pic but I must have looked quite the sight with my HE-500s on while driving the 40 hours to and from San Antonio and the OC last week. I have a 350 watt inverter that powered my MiniMax amp briantly which was stashed under the drivers seat, I was afraid that the tubes might be a little noisy with the road movement but as far as I could tell they were quiet. I did get a couple of double takes as I passed people with these huge cans on my head, but boy was I happy biggrin.gif

That is amazing. I wish you'd taken a pic though...probably the ultimate in car stereo regardless of what kinds of looks people were giving you. It'd be better to find an amp with dc input though and run your headphones with it. Rather than convert dc to ac and then back to dc in the power supply again
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post #12146 of 13627
3/19/13 at 4:42pm

@MorbidToaster @AHorseNamedJeff @TheCopWhoMightHavePulledMeOver my excuse was that they're open and I can hear ambient noise through them cool.gif, it's not like I was wearing IEMs with -30db isolation ;)  I was also taught that it's a bad idea to wear headphones and I don't do it while driving in the city, but if you've ever been on I-10 E 100 miles east of El Paso at 2:30 AM there is not a whole lot going on. :)

 

One thing I have noticed more and more lately is that a lot of people are starting to wear headphones in their cars while driving.  California has hands free laws and if my dad is any kind of a representative sample the only decent SQ he can get from a hands free device is with a wired headset with an inline mic.  I was surprised how many I noticed while my wife was driving the day shift through Texas (which does not have any hands free laws that I'm aware of).  And I do agree that it's a pretty bad idea to wear them while city driving when more concentration is needed.

 
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That is amazing. I wish you'd taken a pic though...probably the ultimate in car stereo regardless of what kinds of looks people were giving you. It'd be better to find an amp with dc input though and run your headphones with it. Rather than convert dc to ac and then back to dc in the power supply again

 

Yeah, horribly inefficient but it worked :) I was actually wondering how feasible it would be to build a tube amp for a car, perhaps floating the whole thing in some sort of viscous oil to provide damping or mounting it on oil filled dampers like they use for photography.

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post #12147 of 13627
3/19/13 at 4:45pm

I'll have to call the fleet off then... (signals to crowd of horses behind)

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post #12148 of 13627
3/19/13 at 4:48pm
I drive with my UERM, it's actually my main use for them, but only on long highway trips, not around town. It's nice to be isolated from the road noise almost entirely and really on a divded 2 lane highway, there's nothing you can't do with just your eyes.

Also my car doesn't have bluetooth or auxiliary input so I'd have to burn CDs of anything I wanted to listen to instead of having access to a large portion of my library via my phone. One thing I'm really looking forward to if I get a new car soon.
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post #12149 of 13627
3/19/13 at 4:50pm

Pssh who needs a new car when theres STAX to be bought?

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post #12150 of 13627
3/19/13 at 4:56pm
Been there done that, not interested. smily_headphones1.gif
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