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    Taiwan Meet?

    funny, i just left there yesterday.
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    VA / MD / DC meet - Saturday, January 18, 2014

    I'll probably be there. No idea what I will have this time, surprises.
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    VA / MD / DC meet - Saturday, January 18, 2014

    More like you didnt read the title of the listing
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    VA / MD / DC meet - Saturday, August 31, 2013

    will be there with some stuff tube amps and some headphones
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    DIY HE Adapter

    Quote: You are very welcome, Im glad you could use my help.
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    Reply to review by 'spriggs' on item 'Grado RA1 - Headphone amplifier'

    im pretty sure designs useing a single op amp exsisted well before grado came along. and the some chumoy amps do sound better.
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    Review by 'Spriggs' on item 'Grado RA1 - Headphone amplifier'

    So to keep it simple and short this amp is simple nothing fancy one opamp and it sounds just like the ones in a altoids tin(in fact some of those might sound better) for the money it sounds terrible. the outside looks nice the wood has a nice ish finish the insides are a diffrent story, the...
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    DIY HE Adapter

    Quote: the resistors in series doesnt have to nonind, id say some allen bradley carbon comp resistors or some audionote tantalums. the mundorf m resist should be fine as the resistors in parallel.    to be clear i am talking about an adapter that consists of one parallel resistor and...
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    AMP / DAC under $300

    what im saying is for 400 a tube amp will allow for good sound now id say even better than most ss in the same price range and for better sound in the future when or if you start to tube roll.
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    AMP / DAC under $300

    Quote: on what amp ? The design of the amp is most important than what tubes you use a bad design will sound bad, a good design will sound better even with the same tubes as the bad design.
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    AMP / DAC under $300

    Quote: well the amp ofcourse comes with stock tubes, if your on a budget just use those till you can afford to start useing nos tube, also depends on the amp and the tubes it uses like the bottle head crack is what a 6as7 and a 12au7 some tube types are super expencive some are not.   A...
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    AMP / DAC under $300

    Quote: he has a budget of 500, for that money you can get some nice tube amps. like i  said if you get the modi dac which is 100 and then you would have 400 left, for 400 you can get some really nice tube amps. it really just depends now on whether op wants a otl amp or a transformer...
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    AMP / DAC under $300

       
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    AMP / DAC under $300

    Quote: Id have to agree and disagree at the same time, some tube amps mainly otl tube amps dont play nicely with low impedance headphones, ive found some still work well, a hybrid amp is ok but a real tube amp ive found is the best, now there are transformer coupled tube amps (otl stands...
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