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Sep 29, 2014 at 10:59 PM Post #2,011 of 13,800
uncola said:
  First 100 geek pulse boards being made at assembly house.. I guess they then ship them to LH Labs who puts them in the enclosures.. then on to the customer.. so close to shipping.  Hopefully they work out all the kinks in the geek pulse so my geek pulse x is perfect :p
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Agreed. I'm happy that I have a Pulse X and that they're not being manufactured first. The standard Pulse can be the guinea pig that identifies any production issues before my Pulse X ships. I'm hoping that they have a finished Pulse X on the floor at RMAF and that I can give it a listen off the LPS/4 to know what's coming towards the end of the year.
 
Sep 29, 2014 at 11:54 PM Post #2,012 of 13,800
haha yeah I'm hoping they learned their lesson about bugs and quality control testing from the geek out and the pulse has no hiss or volume issues or mechanical problems now that they expanded from a simple usb powered thing to a multi input device.  I've already mentally prepared to go nuclear if that happens haha 
LH Labs = Loud Hiss Labs
 
Here's the indiegogo update in case anyone didn't see it
 
First Batch of Geek Pulse OLED's Have Arrived!

Back on August 29th, I told you there was an issue getting OLED's for Geek Pulse and that our supplier would ship the first 100 pieces on Spetember 28th.  Well, they arrived today.  100 glorious, low-noise OLED's.  So what's next?

Rich is super-busy getting the parts kits (including those elusive OLED's!) together to ship out to our assembly contractor.  The kits will ship out tomorrow and will arrive in Reno, NV on Wednesday.  Then our vendor has the job of going through all the parts they receive, then setting up the pick-and-place machines.  They're rushing as quickly as they can to get the first batch done so we can package them up and ship them your way.

It feels so good right now to be so close to shipping you your Geek Pulse DAC's!

 
Oct 1, 2014 at 8:53 AM Post #2,013 of 13,800
uncola said:
  First 100 geek pulse boards being made at assembly house.. I guess they then ship them to LH Labs who puts them in the enclosures.. then on to the customer.. so close to shipping.  Hopefully they work out all the kinks in the geek pulse so my geek pulse x is perfect :p
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If I can choose, I don't want to be having the first 100 pcs.
 
Oct 2, 2014 at 2:44 PM Post #2,015 of 13,800
An update from Larry regarding the Geek Pulse X's performance:
http://lhlabs.com/force/indiegogogeekpulse/2063-pc-gpx-002-start-testing?start=50#33056
I got flu... :frowning2: So before the fever spikes too high. Let me post some test results here... then I need to go to bed...

GPX, Here you go!!

THD+N on 90KHz bandwidth and -0dBFS. (Same level of output like Geek Pulse)
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Quite amazing. You could cross reference the Geek Pulse (GPU) results.

SNR is even better, 3dB better as expected.
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This is a BIG one. By dual mono design and carefully layout and everything else. We got some crazy nice number here...
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There are many similar results like output level are duplicated with Geek Pulse. So I won't post here.

Next time, I will post the impulse response and detail FFT here.

Enjoy your day, Geeks!

Larry
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Oct 3, 2014 at 11:34 AM Post #2,016 of 13,800
Sexy new pcb pics at the assembly house, and three geek pulses plus the lps pcb being burned in for rmaf.. only 9 days til RMAF and we get our first listening impressions of the geek pulse!
 



 
Oct 3, 2014 at 11:55 AM Post #2,017 of 13,800
uncola said:
  Sexy new pcb pics at the assembly house, and three geek pulses plus the lps pcb being burned in for rmaf.. only 9 days til RMAF and we get our first listening impressions of the geek pulse!
 


 
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i too anxiously await !!
 
Oct 5, 2014 at 7:15 AM Post #2,020 of 13,800
Screencapped for more convenient ogling and hypegrowing!  Looks like jude has a prototype model with the blue oled but it's a regular geek pulse, no xlr on the front like the one we saw on lhlabs forum.  I was just getting used to the silver knob too, but black looks good as well
 

 

 

 
Oct 5, 2014 at 7:17 AM Post #2,021 of 13,800
uncola said:
  Screencapped for more convenient ogling and hypegrowing!  Looks like jude has a prototype model with the blue oled but it's a regular geek pulse, no xlr on the front like the one we saw on lhlabs forum.  I was just getting used to the silver knob too, but black looks good as well
 
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The black knob looks like plastic. Oooh the horror!
 
Oct 5, 2014 at 7:47 PM Post #2,023 of 13,800
I am confused about the price. Wasn't it listed cheaper in indigogo and didnt ppl get it for like 299 or something like that in the fund raiser? Are those ppl still getting it at that price?
 
Oct 5, 2014 at 10:16 PM Post #2,024 of 13,800
grizzlybeast said:
  I am confused about the price. Wasn't it listed cheaper in indigogo and didnt ppl get it for like 299 or something like that in the fund raiser? Are those ppl still getting it at that price?
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The price was cheaper on Indiegogo as it was a crowd funding campaign. A crowd funded campaign is risky as there's no promise of delivery. It's an investment and thus the company which will create the product is not liable for non-delivery and cannot be forced legally to return the money you had invested in them. That's why products are priced much lower than the eventual market prices, to attract people, create buzz and generate investment for the machinery and other production equipment. Now that they have started producing these, the prices are going to shoot up.
 
During the campaign, L Labs had also received a lot of feedback from the Geek forum members and substantially reworked the original design, which meant that it became more expensive and complex to produce, thus raising the retail price higher than what they had planned initially. Also during the campaign, they were selling to us directly, which meant that prices would be much lower as they didn't have to go through intermediaries like dealers which would have raised the prices. Since they selling the Pulse, LPS etc through the dealer network now, the retail prices will now include dealer margins, distribution costs etc.
 
Oct 6, 2014 at 12:35 AM Post #2,025 of 13,800
nicolo said:
   
The price was cheaper on Indiegogo as it was a crowd funding campaign. A crowd funded campaign is risky as there's no promise of delivery. It's an investment and thus the company which will create the product is not liable for non-delivery and cannot be forced legally to return the money you had invested in them. That's why products are priced much lower than the eventual market prices, to attract people, create buzz and generate investment for the machinery and other production equipment. Now that they have started producing these, the prices are going to shoot up.
 
During the campaign, L Labs had also received a lot of feedback from the Geek forum members and substantially reworked the original design, which meant that it became more expensive and complex to produce, thus raising the retail price higher than what they had planned initially. Also during the campaign, they were selling to us directly, which meant that prices would be much lower as they didn't have to go through intermediaries like dealers which would have raised the prices. Since they selling the Pulse, LPS etc through the dealer network now, the retail prices will now include dealer margins, distribution costs etc.
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I went back and took a look at how much I paid for the Pulse X/f/i with the LPS. Let's just say its not cheap at all :)
 
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