Quote:   I have had this username on many forums and never had a problem with it.   I'm thinking that Civil War reenactors and renaissance fairs are also just fantasy role playing.  Maybe the difference is as you say - the ability to seperate the reality from the fantasy.  When you...

Quote:   Wow - OK.  I guess I understand.  That would seems a bit too close to beastiality to me.  I guess what my neighbors want to do is their own affair as long as they keep their blinds closed.   Fursuiters?  Does that mean wearing a full costume with the head and all?  If you are...

Quote:   I see - is it more like the people that dress up as Klingons, Storm Troopers and Super Heroes and attend conventions?  Or the people that dress-up as wizards and knights at the park?

Call me skeptical - why is there a red or blue LED on the tube?  It has a JRC4556 opamp, so what does the tube really do in that design?  How do we know it's not just a tube stuck in the socket with an LED to light it up?  What's the LM317 for?  None of these parts are in the cmoy design...

I'm new here and I'm actually pretty scared about posting in this thread, but I guess I don't have much to lose.  I have a lot of questions about the "furry" world.  First - my only exposure has been from brief mentions on TV shows.  Those shows always had a kinky sex aspect to the furry world. ...

Most comfortable in my ears:  Comply "slim" (sometimes hard to find): http://www.westone.com/store/index.php/westone-music-products/comply-tips-2.html   Best all-around (fit, longevity, price, etc):  Shure Olives http://www.earphonesolutions.com/shpameblfosl.html   It's also not that...

I suspect Occam's Razor would guide me to suspect the hand made DIY components over the commercial products from a normally high-quality brand.   Have you measured the impedance at the output of the DAC?

"One Hundred Percent Lunar Boy" by Stephan Tunney http://www.amazon.com/One-Hundred-Percent-Lunar-Boy/dp/1596923687

Welcome!  I'm an old noob - lurked for a long time and finally recently registered.

Excellent - thank you! 

I think one of the challenges for new amp buyers is the difference between high current, high voltage & high gain.  I know it confuses me!  All I know is that low-impedance headphones tend to hiss and sound bad if the amp's gain is too high - but I really don't know why - I'm guessing it is...

Quote:   A DAC is used to connect the amp to a PC's USB port so that you bypass the PC's crummy soundcard.  If you aren't going to use your PC, then you don't need it.   I don't know those amps so I'll let someone else comment.

I think it entirely depends on what you have now.  If you have 'phones you like, but that are a bit more difficult to drive and need a gain boost, then buying an amp first makes sense.   OTOH, I don't think buying bass-boost amps to "fix" a bad sound signature is a good idea.

The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Cloud

Perhaps, but on the other hand, buying/selling with someone with no posting history is very risky.  This isn't like ebay where there are ways to escalate issues.  I also recently came here, but I understand that this is not really a buy/sell board - it is a discussion forum that also happens to...

Quote:   It looks like this thread is a couple of years old, but the OP is still active - good luck in your quest!