#1 - Spending more money on gear than music. #2 - Not always trusting my ears. When something sounds "magical" to you, my advice is to stop the relentless upgrade journey and enjoy what you have for awhile. (A long while.) There is a strong tendency to disrupt your system with an...

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Almost every Chinese restaraunt near my neighborhood knows me by name. Running a close second is anything sushi, followed by mexican. Why did it take almost three decades for decent asian food to come to my town? -coma

I've gone through several speakers over the past year in the price range of the Paradigm Atom and somewhat higher, all driven by the lowly T-amp. The list includes the Paradigm Titan, Visaton B200 (DIY kept it cheap), Triangle Titus 202, Cambridge Soundworks MC200, etc. I've also driven these...

Thanks for that link--I may need some custom glass cables soon. BTW, has anyone tried an optical to coaxial converter box (or vice versa)? It just seems like a bad idea to me, but perhaps there are no issues to be concerned about. I ran out of optical inputs on one of my receivers and may...

Kernel streaming has always worked great for me (1212m, AV710). ASIO4ALL also worked fine, but required too much tweaking to avoid the occasional "pop". I'm pretty happy with the previous version of Foobar and am in no rush to upgrade. -coma

BTW, on a more serious note, I achieved a huge noise reduction in my PC by purchasing a big copper heatpipe CPU cooler (SilverStone NT01...only about $50), strapping a 80mm Panaflo to that cooler, replacing the PSU fan with another Panaflo, and putting both fans on potentiometers so I can turn...

This method has my vote if you have the right room arrangement (PC in adjacent room). Put noisy things in another room, far away from you. Works with children too. -coma

Got $8.6k back. Bought a pair of... (drum roll) ...used MS-1's. Audio is a slippery slope. Better to stay clear of the edge.

Possibly your best solution: Sell and buy SR125's.

Ok, thanks everyone. I bought several of these amps and then proceeded to experiment with them. I ran one at 15 volts for a long time and it didn't seem to mind. 3 others died ugly smoking, stinking deaths from my playing around (over-volting, reversing polarity, or both). I bought the T-amps...

I have 3 Sonic Impact T-amps where I overvolted or reversed polarity accidentally on the power supply, so they are "blown", "fried", or whatever. Specifically, what burns out on these amps when you do this? I'd like to just replace whatever part/parts I destroyed and have 3 working amps...

Quote: Originally Posted by sbulack Because of the excellent "sweet spot" tips that I have received from Head-Fiers such as Fewtch, Wodgy and Morsel (as well as the selflessly generous contributors to this community such as tigger, AOS, Grover and ppl)... The members you listed...

That looks *cool*. I love how you can recase these things in almost anything and have the sound be so impressive. Yeah, that's really neat. -coma

I hope you can "get motived". I'd like to see your finished amp. -coma