Mom just walked in the door. Saw the topless torpedo and asked what it was. Naturally, I asked her to sit in my chair and gave her my headphones.    "Oh wow! This sounds nicer than my headphones [iBuds]. How much did it cost?"    $XXX.XX   "WHAT??? DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY HEADPHONES I...

I replaced the tubes today with ge 5844s and I can't hear any hum without the top cover and the impedance switch at low. At high I can hear it but it is low. Low enough to where I can kinda hear it throughout the range of the pot with no source. With an iPhone as source, it is there but I can't...

650s plugged in. high impedance. no source. volume all the way down first. then volume all the way up. as quiet as i will have a listening environment.    case on - hum as before.    case off - very low hum but audible nonetheless even with the a/c unit going outside the door. but now i...

The amp is located next to quite a bit of electronic equipment. I will try the amp in a quiter place when I get home today. Last nights tests were with an iPhone and iPad yielding identical hum levels. This morning I tried te amp without the top cover on and the noise was reduced a LOT. i can...

Finished the build today. Powered on with no issues. Playing some tunes right now but I have a bad case of the hum with hd650s :(. Persists with ibuds as well. Just a constant volume hum that stays even with music playing. I have the a/c unit just on the other side of the door so it's not...

The box from tom is finally in my possession as of 15 minutes ago. Holy mother of all things well packaged...Tom, I hope you don't take this the wrong way but you are insane brother man. i used to think I was a fairly cautious packer but you put me to shame and swept the floor with me.  Still...

Quote: this is quite possibly the dumbest statement ever made on this website.    what happened to head fi...

you can try a used pair of igrados, if you can find it for that price. for $30 you cant really do much better than the koss portapros.

havent visited this thread in a while. excellent direction it has taken. i come back with sad news though dropped one of my beloved silver rotring 600s on the floor and the nib bent. i tried straightening it out to the best of my abilities but i cant get it perfect. given the bent tip, the...

damn that looks cool. dont have any analog gear but craig makes some good looking gear. never seen an ugly moth/ec piece of gear.

email sent. wewt wewt never won anything in a raffle before.

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looking forward to listening to the zu audio speakers. great stuff mike.

has anyone heard from mark? i tried calling him a few times with no response. emailed him once. same result.

good lord those things are expensive guess i have to wait a few weeks to get one of those babies. i figured they might be in the same range as the pencils plus a little but thats plus a lot =/ are thoughts on the new style 600? i think it either goes by newton or lava. i can never keep the...