rayshader
New Head-Fier
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Quote:Cool let us know how it'll perform! I'm really curious about it^^
Well that's surely a bummer.
Therefore I would never buy such crucial parts from a chinese guy at ebay. Because you will certainly always get fake parts no matter how genuine these may look like. I think that this should be clear to everybody and thats truly a fault by the buyer to some extend. You just can't expect that you will get real quality parts at low price thats naive. (at least not in china) Thats just the risk you should be aware of if you're buying things over there.
But on the other hand fake parts allow poor guys like me to get a headamp which I can afford. I'm just not able to spend vast amounts of money for a headamp as a student.
Also you throw every fake part in the same pot. There should be mentioned that fake parts also differ from quality. Those in the LC or M-Stage seem to be relatively good if you're considering that Headfonia mentioned the M-Stage playing at a satisfying level even in comparison to the HA-160. Also I've never heard that one of these amps caught fire or so. I'm not defending fake parts it's just my honest opinion.
Well... that the M-Stage killed someones headphones is a real pity.
Fortunately the LC is getting tested before shipping^^
Whoa! Sorry didn't mean to touch a raw nerve here...But, after a couple of friends re-worked their Lovely Cubes, one of them encouraged me to post this stuff up here..
After all we buy these Kits because they are a lot cheaper than the USD$800 for the real McCoy...but to get fake parts on top of that - I guess you take it or leave it; I figured you could do better, as when I had the chance to listen to these two side by side, the gap was bigger than the Grand Cannon IMO...The genuine Lehmann kicked arse - no wonder Lehmann wasn't on EBay getting the Lovely Cube pulled under a breach of US copyright - which incidentally is probably one of the most draconian pieces of legislation ever devised by industry and passed off as a Government initiative IMO!
In the mods we came up with, we started trying to make the Lovely Cube sound like the original, when we figured we'd got there we went out and tried to make it sound better...this is where this post will go...
IMO the Lovely Cube PCB is about the best thing, buying it on it's own and putting your own parts into the PCB saved a friend around 50% on buying the finished thing from those guys on EBay selling the completed PBA. (PBA= PCB with parts installed - industry term).
Fakes to me are like playing Russian Roulette, yet get lucky sometimes, sometimes you don't - that was my case...I don't see any point in justifying why fakes should be supported IMO, but neither am I telling you what to eat for lunch either...
For me, it took me all of 20mins to cut out the fake BD139s and BD140s from the Lovely Cube PCB, unscrew the BJTs from the board clean out the holes with a soldering iron and some solder wick, then install some new Fairchild devices! Switched it back on and was really taken back by the sound. Replacing the BC550 and BC560 with the higher gain BC560C and BC550C really picked things up - it took away a harshness that I would get with some music listening with my T1s.
The rest of the MODs were fine tuning...
While you have advocated against "fake" items, you then highlighted mods with the "real" stuff based on the so called inferior fake? The saving of 50% on the finished item? Talk about being thick or grateful. The 50% mounts to be around $100 for the time and effort spent by the seller is fully justified IMHO. If you so firmly believes in the real item, get the real BCL instead. You should mail Lehmann on your mod on how just a few tweaks to improve the real thing exponentially. You never know you may end up getting a free pass to a German factory and earn royalities from your expertise. A real plus for someone against fakes.