philodox
Headphoneus Supremus
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Hi all,
Sorry I took so long to get around to this. I know that some of you have been waiting to see Peter's amp and read some impressions. Kevin [Pixel Pusher] was the camera man so he is unfortunately not in any of the pictures.
Here are the impressions of Steve's [swt61] ZapFilter Zhaolu I already posted --- http://www6.head-fi.org/forums/showp...&postcount=628
Pictures!!!
Peter and I, with me listening to his fantastic amp with the Eastsound E5/Zapfilter Zhaolu as source. My K340's are 'naked' at the moment as I got some new 'glue' to affix the wood with. I've also decided that I am going to do a bit more modding by sanding down the cups level and painting with some stuff that is similar in properties to krylon fusion.
The PL10, Renato's modded MS-1's and a pewter Gandalf holding the cables in place. This particular PL10 is tube rectified, though Peter himself prefers solid state rectification. As they saying goes though, the customer is always right.
Steve's Zhaolu with a custom faceplate that is going to my friend Jason [JBLoudG20] I hear as Steve has whipped up a new one since the headphone amp section has been removed in his DAC.
Am I hearing something I've never heard before or giving the MS-1's the finger?
A nice shot of the PL10 and my woody E5. Anyone who has seen an Eastsound CD player in real life will appreciate the size of Peter's amp.
Somebody said something funny.
Me hatching out a plan to force Peter to leave the amp... unfortunately it has already been sold. Oh well, I will likely see mine sometime in September, I can wait.
Floating ZapFilter!
The ZapFilter PSU was resting on my Anniversary Edition D&D book, with forward by Vin Deisel.
Hmmm?
Hmmm!
LOL, sorry, that just fit for some reason. Those pictures are both of Renato [looser101] while listening to my K340's.
It looks like Peter and I are about to have a game of dice, but we are actually both holding a pair of Neutrik chassis mount female XLR's.
Showing off all the left over parts from my failed amp build. Peter will try to incorporate these into the amp he is building for me. Bumby seems quite interested.
The same.
The Zhaolooser101 DAC, as Steve calls it.
Penny, NOOO!!! I know, it looks like a cute picture. In actuality, Penny is biteing through the headphone cable on my K81DJs. I think she was a little overstimulated as Peter really likes cats and Penny really likes attention. I was planning on recabling them anyways, now I have incentive.
I will try to have some impressions up before the end of the day.
As a teaser though, that amp is the Peter McAlister PL10 Headphone amp. My balanced amp that he is building me is based on the PL12, which is a model up from this. Also, since it is balanced it should have twice the amount of 'stuff' sprouting out of the top [13 tubes in total, I'm told] and should weigh a ton as the PL10 was not light. Apparently he should be able to still fit it in the same chassis though.
Sorry I took so long to get around to this. I know that some of you have been waiting to see Peter's amp and read some impressions. Kevin [Pixel Pusher] was the camera man so he is unfortunately not in any of the pictures.
Here are the impressions of Steve's [swt61] ZapFilter Zhaolu I already posted --- http://www6.head-fi.org/forums/showp...&postcount=628
Pictures!!!
Peter and I, with me listening to his fantastic amp with the Eastsound E5/Zapfilter Zhaolu as source. My K340's are 'naked' at the moment as I got some new 'glue' to affix the wood with. I've also decided that I am going to do a bit more modding by sanding down the cups level and painting with some stuff that is similar in properties to krylon fusion.
The PL10, Renato's modded MS-1's and a pewter Gandalf holding the cables in place. This particular PL10 is tube rectified, though Peter himself prefers solid state rectification. As they saying goes though, the customer is always right.
Steve's Zhaolu with a custom faceplate that is going to my friend Jason [JBLoudG20] I hear as Steve has whipped up a new one since the headphone amp section has been removed in his DAC.
Am I hearing something I've never heard before or giving the MS-1's the finger?
A nice shot of the PL10 and my woody E5. Anyone who has seen an Eastsound CD player in real life will appreciate the size of Peter's amp.
Somebody said something funny.
Me hatching out a plan to force Peter to leave the amp... unfortunately it has already been sold. Oh well, I will likely see mine sometime in September, I can wait.
Floating ZapFilter!
The ZapFilter PSU was resting on my Anniversary Edition D&D book, with forward by Vin Deisel.
Hmmm?
Hmmm!
LOL, sorry, that just fit for some reason. Those pictures are both of Renato [looser101] while listening to my K340's.
It looks like Peter and I are about to have a game of dice, but we are actually both holding a pair of Neutrik chassis mount female XLR's.
Showing off all the left over parts from my failed amp build. Peter will try to incorporate these into the amp he is building for me. Bumby seems quite interested.
The same.
The Zhaolooser101 DAC, as Steve calls it.
Penny, NOOO!!! I know, it looks like a cute picture. In actuality, Penny is biteing through the headphone cable on my K81DJs. I think she was a little overstimulated as Peter really likes cats and Penny really likes attention. I was planning on recabling them anyways, now I have incentive.
I will try to have some impressions up before the end of the day.
As a teaser though, that amp is the Peter McAlister PL10 Headphone amp. My balanced amp that he is building me is based on the PL12, which is a model up from this. Also, since it is balanced it should have twice the amount of 'stuff' sprouting out of the top [13 tubes in total, I'm told] and should weigh a ton as the PL10 was not light. Apparently he should be able to still fit it in the same chassis though.
