I know a number of head fi-er's have ordered alps pots from ebay seller 'familygate'. How long does it usually take for delivery to the US?   I'm having some issues. First my delivery was sent back to them because my mailing address had my apt and street address swapped. They made me pay for...

Sorry but I am a noob with these NOS capacitors. I bought these NOS Sprague Vitamin Q .47uF 400vdc capacitors over ebay. They only came with one pigtail so I can't tell if they are axial or radial. How do I install these in a circuit? Do I just solder a wire at the other end? What is the...

Anyone in Macau, HK, or Guangdong province willing to give me a hand?   Another hobby of mine is collecting car license plates of places that I have visited. I'm looking for unused car plates from any of the above mentioned let me know if you know where I can find one. Of course I will pay...

Someone was kind enough to provide a link to this amp on ebay in the Matrix M-Stage thread. I thought I would be a great amp around 1/2 the price of the M-Stage and an easy DIY project to pass the time.     EDIT 04/13/2011: You can now buy the Lovely Cube Premium fully assembled...

I bought some cables from Navships on ebay and going to do my first re-cable of my HD650's. The cables I bought are 25' of 22AWG and 25' of 24AWG. Can I use cables of 2 different thicknesses for the re-cable? Do I have enough for about a 4' cable with 25' of cabling with braiding or do I need...

I'm fairly new to DIY so please forgive the dumb question. I want to run two 5v devices, a amb gamma2 and a sony pcdp from one psu. Can I do this with one transformer and a regulator like a thread with the power output split into two connectors?

I'm torn over these two amps. I want to do a budget build and expand in the future. Is it worth it to do a 2CH B22 build or should I don't bother and stick with a regular M^3?