The 4 is so good, its easy to hear this most basic and easy tweak- Take out all the buffers, opamp and coat the contact legs with a contact enhancer like Caig Deoxit Gold. Also with the little gold pins that hold the top and bottom main circuit boards together. Interconnect and phone plugs...

Forgot-you can order the 4 with the four switches option which includes high and low impedance switching!

Yes, Sidewinder, you need to have some adjustability for low and high level recordings and even though I didn't hear distortion at 2-3:00 with my amp you don't want to get the volume so high that it gets near distortion levels.

...close to 200 hrs. of burn-in, and the SM has become more transparent up and down the range including the Bass. It doesn't seem like its going to change much from here. Sounds excellent! I thought yesterday that the highs may have sounded somewhat repressed but I had a rough day and it may...

marroyo: Yeah, I agree the old knob is easier to grab by a long shot, but I had problems with it moving too easily in my bag. One trade-off and pref for another, I guess. tnmike: I will take my 4s's to work today and have a run down for you later

There are pics and more info here: http://www.fixup.net/talk/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=4

John: Outside dimensions are: Lenght- 3 7/8" from the tip of the knob to the back of the thumbscrews Width- from the the outside edges of the thumbscrews in the back- 2 1/4" Depth- 15/16" Any SM should easily fit in a Gigabag- Congrats on your new purchase , be interested in hearing what...

I miss hanging out with you, Nanahachi, had a chance to come down to the Palisades, but business got in the way. Are you ever up? I will do some shots with the Leaf back if I can figure out how to post photos here. I was going to take some for Xin anyway. Still can't do it well after all this...

Last Tuesday I received a nice package in the mail. It seems I have received one of the first production SuperMacro 4's from my friend and amp builder Xin Feng. As one who has heard just about every version of Xin's amps since the very first ones; the ex-rocket scientist has cooked up his...

Xanth: Excellent work! I would also add that the SuperMono (prototype I have) powers and sounds great with Senns.

All! My contractors have been putting on the afterburners getting the new place ready. I will be moving out of the loft at the cookie factory around the beginning of Nov. I must withdraw my participation in this meet. Sorry about that, but maybe I can host another time at the new place...

b-man: Sorry I don't. rider: Bottom line: Enjoy enjoy enjoy

Ken, rider: Maybe I can get with blessingx in the near future and do a new comparison with his SR-71 and his version of the SM. He has the one with the "features" package with the 4 switches, don't know which caps. Rbx has been quite busy with a new job, though, so I can't say when. The...

Hi All: I have been comparing two of the basic versions of the SuperMono this week. One with the "big" power caps and one with smaller caps. There is quite a difference in the sound quality. The differences are not subtle, and readily apparent. In short, the amp with the big caps is more...

Guys: The no frills version is the maxed out version. It is generally accepted thinking that the less the sound is processed, the cleaner, clearer it can be.