It's been a while since I wrote my initial impressions about the V5i SS on this amp... And now I must say that I don't wanna return the V5i SS to Charles :smile_phones: j/k. To echo what others have said; the V5i sounds big and punchy, has good imaging/sense of space, mids that I would say as...

I'm currently listening to the Spotify Premium on rMBP > NS-08E (stock tubes + Burson V5i SS opamps) > Senn HD25-1 setup. Max volume on the rMBP, volume knob is set a couple clicks past the 9 o'clock mark on the NS-08E. Connecting them both is a 3.5-to-3.5 I made out of Mogami 2534 and a pair of...

Cool! Which tubes are you pairing them with? I'm currently listening to them with the stock tubes on.

These babies just came in the mail. Left my hex keys at home though... Won't be able to try them out in the NS-08E until sometime tonight. *sigh*

Looks like I'll be picking up a few pair of opamps from Mouser within 1-2 weeks: OPA2134, OPA2604, OPA2227, LM4562. Valvo and Mullard tubes also comes to mind. I think I need to cancel my PayPal account and credit cards... :dizzy_face:

Looks like a pair of NE5532s:

For $46, it's a keeper. I'm rocking rMBP > Hifiman HM-101 > Mogami 2534 + Oyaide lookalike 3.5mm plugs > NS08E > HD25 (Mogami 2534 & Rean NYS231BG 3.5mm), and the whole shebang sounds -- for the lack of a better term -- balanced, at least to my ears. Live recordings like John Mayer's Where The...

Mine has finally arrived! Well-packaged: Against the Note 5 for scale: Tubes on, ready to rock: Them glowing tubes:

According to my country's PO, my NS08E package has arrived and on the way to the PO closest to me. Hopefully I'll have the package by this weekend. Can't wait to try it!

sign me up. I've been wanting to have an amp for work but never got around to building one, so I ordered the NS08E off of fleabay a week ago. but now that there's a chance of SSMH made available again, I'd wanna build one for work and relegate the NS08E to my home/bedside setup. PS: I bought...

Another Mogami-paracord cable job, this time for my IM50:

Just pulled the trigger on this amp. Wonder how the rMBP > Hifiman HM-101 > NS08E > HD25 combo would sound.

Unsheathed, paracord-sleeved Mogami 2534 for my HD25:

just got my pair of IM50s yesterday, and I couldn't be happier. nothing describes this pair better than "fun" and "very enjoyable". if you listen to a lot of EDM, hip-hop, R & B, rock, and/or alternative... give these a try. Krewella's "Live for the Night", Calvin Harris' "Summer", and Cash...

reading the first 15 or so pages from this thread made me pull the trigger on two 6AS7s; a grayplate Sylvania 6AS7G and a RCA 6080. I'm searching for 6SN7(s) as I'm typing this post.   and I haven't even owned the amp. 

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EDIT: double posted, my bad.

heard the FiiO E10 a few weeks ago at Headfonia's headquarters, and I must say that it was quite impressing. full mids, strong bass kick, details were nice too. makes a TERRIFIC pair with the Senn HD25-1.   24/96 out of the box, enough juice to drive the LCD-2 even on low gain, fun sound...

the itch was irresistible, so I built the grubDAC last Sunday. took me around 3hrs (it was my first time doing a project with so much SMT parts), and it immediately worked the first time I plugged it into my MacBook. pictures will follow. will have to come home sometime this week, as I am...

my kit has arrived! yay! ordered them from beezar.com on 8/8 and the local post office sent me a pickup notice yesterday. picked the package up this morning. almost a month (first-class mail, oh well), but it was worth the wait. kudos to tomb for the swift service and overkill packaging! :D...

hehehe, those pesky enameled wires. I usually use a lighter to burn the enamel off :D

take the pads off first. you should then see four screws on each driver cover. loose them, and just lift the driver cover w/ your fingernails (slip it between the driver cover & housing, and pull the driver cover towards the outside). it'll come off and you should now have access to the driver's...

plug a mini-to-mini cable into the female jack, touch one of the DMM's probe to one of the terminals on the free end of the mini-to-mini cable, and touch the other to the female jack's each solder lugs. when you have connectivity (usually a beep if the DMM has that function, the display will...

a humble CMoy:     board was made by psychaudio of audiophile-id. resistors are 1/8W Roederstein, caps are 2x 220uF Elna Cerafines, and there's the class-A biased AD825.   caps were piggybacked and zip-tied simply because... I had nothing to do, and I wanted to smell some solder...

my latest CMoy build: sorry for the ugly pictures, was taken with a MacBook Pro camera specs: * TLE2426 * Panasonic FM power supply caps, 470uF before the TLE and 2x 1000uF after the TLE * generic 1/4W 1% gain resistors, Vishay-Roederstein input grounding resistors *...