Always interesting to hear music that was originally composed for normal orchestral instruments and was re written to electric guitars. I think they did a fair job, though I'm not through the whole cd yet.

Just found out Julian Bream has passed away, and the world just became a more dreary place for it.

Made out like a bandit at a goodwill that had just opened back up, found a couple of deutsche grammophons, a teldec, 3 philips, 2 cbs, a telarc, an emi and a London silver. All in great shape other than cases, most i have heard but have not owned, very happy.

Another of my watches that is questionable but for whatever reason I have kept. I like the wrist band design, but not the case, movement is decent but barely so, and mineral glass that they chose to laser etch (thats what makes it seem to glow blue when light hits at the right angle) which...

I would like to help, but I have not upgraded dbpoweramp on my computer for a few years now and have not experienced what you are going through. I dont know if it would be better to try to reach out to the company directly or post the question to Google. Apologies and best of luck to you...

12au7 can be heated using either 12 v or 6 v depending on whether you wire the heaters in series or parallel. Crack is setup for and uses 6v, so as long as you use the proper adapter (or if you want to swap the miniature 9 pin base to an octal like I did, make sure you rewire the octal for 6sn7...

congrats, and +1 on keeping the stock pads, yes they have leather, but it does not touch your skin, HD820 has a hybrid design, it has a layer of velour like material that actually touches your skin, works pretty well.

I am really working at being unpopular today, and I want to apologies right out front, particularly to ruinedx, who I respect very highly, he has given a lot of good solid information since I have known him, and his opinions are decent as well. I am going to mildly disagree with him on one...

I'll chime in, though I usually post unpopular opinions. I rip and store all of my music to flac, on my main computer and backups, but i will convert those to mp3 for phone and dap. I use dbpoweramp, and i have a older 12 core processor, so it can convert 12 files concurrently from flac to...

Thats a valuable opinion and I agree for the most part, though a value piece of equipment can still point you in the right direction and is much less of a loss than if you purchased a really expensive piece of equipment. The little dot that the op has is a great first tube amp, and much less of...

Never finished my sentence, though buy a decent value amp and be "satisfied for a while" does imply the second part, that you can buy something more sophisticated later on. It still is a semi dubious expenditure of capital in the beginning as pride of ownership and craftsmanship does not...

You also need to be prepared for listening to subtleties, hype train will tell you that one amp will have a night and day difference than another, but in reality an amp would have to be incredibly poorly designed or mismatched impedance for it to sound that different from another. The human...

+1 ffxiv sound tracks, I dont play the game, but i have purchased most of the sound tracks and they do not reuse hardly any tracks at all. Which is more than impressive considering how long mmo's can be. Kudos for square Enix for hanging on to their talented composers. I used to collect...

So many awesome watches, never get bored of seeing them, keep it going. I don't have many to add, sold most of the ones that would sell, but i still have a few less worthy ones, here's my favorite, simple but effective, pardon the grime, this thing has been with me through a lot

It could be fit I guess, but I don't know, I had some initial problems with fit when I first acquired mine, but since then I've tried a few times to position my hd820 to a way that was really detrimental to the sound quality, and while I did find a few positions that would start off sounding...

Apologies, was out of town for a bit there, so far I really like it, I've had it before I think, or one with a very similar build that I put together years ago and then had to sell, can't compare the sound after so long, but seems to have a good pairing with the hd 820 (the previous amp I had...

That doesn't surprise me too much, European optimized transformers. Regardless, will never own either of those amps, I still can look though.

Thats kind of you to say, it helps to have steady hands (which I don't these days), but often creativity and the right tools can make up for short comings. And the internet, can find anything if you look hard enough. I have to find some time to start teaching my son, he never showed much...

Phonitor x looks amazing good by the specs, and crossfeed is almost necessary for certain high effect mastered cds. It certainly looks more impressive than the v281 that I have been eyeballing (german amps for german phones). The only consolation I can offer is that with those 2000+ dollar...

Been awhile, finally moving about and getting some work done. My son had gotten me a bottlehead crack (preassembled) as a get well present, it had been damaged in shipping and he had a good portion of it in pieces trying to repair it. Had some fun, been awhile since I did any soldering other...

Don't feed the trolls, move along

They make ocd pills!? Where do I sign up. And more importantly do they reduce ocd or increase ocd. Either way is win win for me, i need one that reduces, my wife needs one that increases... i guess it doesn't matter though, i would probably end up losing them like my Alzheimer's pills, i set...

My list of new materials to listen to, grows. I do have some of those, I have a decent collection of John Barry and Jerry Goldsmith, and some of the other soundtracks. May have a few of the others but not on my dap, it will give me plenty of listening material when I get going. I'm more of...

Thanks for all the recommendations, some of them I will have to wait a bit to listen to, but I had a decent bit of them on my fiio, I laughed, Machines of Loving Grace-Golgotha Tenement Blues was one of the songs I used in the review of the hd820 that I never finished. Can't remember all of...

I'll be devils advocate here, I never cared for 2.5mm trrs that much, but got a nice short cable that came with it and I wanted to try it out before I reterminated it to 4.4 so I reterminated a few other cables I had to 2.5 female to make an extension as well as adapter, and i have to say its...