How do you like your Stello DAC100?

Quote: Originally Posted by saintalfonzo I know you're no science wizard, but hardness does not equal strength or durability. Maybe you should've read your science books when you were a lad. I wouldn't consider myself rich, but I make enough money. I bought my 650 and WA6 SE out of a...

Quote: Originally Posted by saintalfonzo elaboration would be appreciated. But he's already elaborated, multiple times. You need to ask a specific question to add to the discussion.

Your English is very good! Good luck - and I am sure that you will do very well

And in Australia, $2400 AUD (=1700 USD or £1160). Typical?

edit: nothing here, move along

Very cool indeed. I'll have to get some adapters now. Thanks for the confirmation.

Quote: Originally Posted by sacd lover Use the 6GU7. The 6GU7 is a drop in substitute .... no adapter needed. Furthermore, the 6GU7s are only $5 tubes. The 6GU7 sounds more open and spacious than the 6CG7 used for gain. Even better, you can use them as output tubes and the 6GU7 will...

A bit of common sense here. Realistically, the HD800 is not going to be a silver bullet. Yes, it may be good: it may even be better than any headphone we have heard before - but perfection is not an attainable goal in hi fi of any sort. It will have its strong points and its weak points -...

You don't have to have money left over when you pay by paypal. There's a tube sites FAQ sticky... in this very forum. Have a look at it - most of the resellers there accept credit card.

Quote: Originally Posted by Skin 40 hours eh? Did you ask him what was in his pipe? I assume he was smoking a pipe while he said this. Either that or he's simply lying to his customers in which case i wouldnt go there again. It takes 45 minutes to assemble one from scratch to finish...

Anyhow back on topic, I was talking to the Australian distributor who mentioned that the HD 800s take "something like 40 hours" to hand make. Still looking forwards to Jude's final review.

OK. I didn't realise it was so quick. I'll give it a go. Thanks.

No support from flac is what's keeping me away from apple ipods. I've got maybe a couple of hundred cds I've personally ripped to flac, and transcoding or reripping from cd is going to be tedious or time consuming to say the least. I have a nice home set up but it would be nice to have some...

Quote: Originally Posted by sacd lover The picture of the amp you originally included showed the tubes were in the wrong slots. I can guarentee you the gain tube is now the center tube to the far left. The older amps had the gain tube on the far right .... the newer SP amps do not...