Hi all, going through the M^3 BOM to setup building my own, so I figured I would post my updated version. I couldn't find the M^3 thread, and I think AMB says it was lost in a great head-fi disaster. It has all of the updated pricing from Mouser, and also all the parts if you wanted Digikey. I...

I saw that the M^3 can have a variable gain with another Alps pot where the bass boost pot goes, and it sounds like an awesome idea. I did see though that the C1 values change depending on your gain, so what caps should be put in with a variable gain that will go from 2 - 11? (Btw, this may...

I have a stack of probably 25-30 records that I bought when I was in high school, part of a large bunch. I don't listen to them, and I want to get rid of them, but some are of questionable quality. Lots of 80's metal. What are the usual course of action. I don't feel like trying to make money...

New Vampire Weekend album streaming from their site. Vampire Weekend - Contra

Just bought a Sony CDP-203 CD player and a Sony SR-AV460 receiver off craigslist for $25 a pop. What a great move, they match up well with my $30 Jensen early '90's speakers. If this were 1992 I would have a nice stereo system lol. A whole setup for $80, and the speakers sound great, and the...

So looking over the various top lists of '09 (Spin, RS, Pitchfork, etc) I have to say I am dissapointed by all of them. Lots of albums that don't deserve the top 100 let alone top 10. RS making U2 #1 of 09? Give me a break. Thoughts?

Edit: Fixed, working perfectly now. So the Beezar SSH kit is all together, but flipping the powerswitch does nada. Not quite sure where to go from here with troubleshooting since all of the connections seem good, and the solder joints all look good. The only thing I can think of is that the...

So I have been lusting after a Starving Student for a while, but I am not sure if this amp is in the realm of possibility anymore with the tube shortages for it. I may attempt to get a Beezar kit but the odds of that seem pretty low. I wanted the SS Hybrid for my Grados as suggested in multiple...

Ok so on the HBO show "Hung" what headphones were those Tanya was wearing at the end of the latest episode?

Bulk V-Moda Vibe Flashblack Chrome Headphones iPod New - eBay (item 320403227375 end time Aug-22-09 14:42:59 PDT) It says 100% authentic, and the guy has 1845 100% feedback but I am always skeptical of this kind of stuff on ebay. What do you think legit or total scam?

(Not sure if this is the right forum, mods move it to where it is appr.) So I finally got around to peering at the speakers that are in my grandfathers basement. It is part of a set, because the turntable is the middle of a big chest, with vinyl storage the right side and the amp on the left...

So I was over a friends house and I got a chance to listen to two sets of Bose headphones that he has. They had the standard Bose over-ear headphones and a set of on-ear noise canceling cans. Before taking a listen I skeptical of all the Bose hate on head-fi, but I knew they were a bit...

This is little note that I thought sci/eng nerds/majors like me might be into. We were going over pressure measurements in my ME measurements class and the prof was defining dB's in terms of pressure. Calculating dB's follows this equation: dB = 20log(10)(Pressure/2e-5 Pa) Converting...

So I finally got around to finishing the LOD I had started a month ago, and all I can say is the difference is astounding, but there is much more than just quality. It seems now that most of the vocals and the drums are shifted to the left. I don't think there is anything wrong with the LOD...

I was searching through the best live album thread but couldn't find much in there from archive.org. I have been searching and found some great stuff from Derek Trucks, Kaki King, Bela Fleck, and Explosions in the Sky. I am wondering if anyone has any faves that they have downloaded from the...

I finished my buffered Cmoy and it works great (other than the IC opamp adapter, which is an unstable pain in the ass), but to get it working I had to tear out the BUF634 I had in parallel with my TLE2426. The voltage was split across the TLE but the buffer was dumping it to one side. The only...

So i just finished a kind of hybrid with the buffered powered section of the A47 and the amp section of the Cmoy. My amp is all set and I know that all the soldering and everything is fine, but my amp overheated and I think it is blown but I can't see why. I have it running off of 2x4 stacks of...

I have most of the parts ready to build the Apheared 47 amp for my set of Grado SR80's, but I am debating what to do about power. The tutorial by Feist has it powered by a wall-wart, but I wanted to make mine portable. A friend of mine told me to use AA NiMH or NiCd instead of 9V because of the...

I just got my first pair of real headphones for xmas with the SR80's, and I had been planning to build a cmoy for my ipod and other assorted applications, but I couldn't find anyone posts about a mod to the cmoy for the low impedence grados. I know I can do the current buffer with another set...