Quote: The Onkyo is a genuine digital out from the ipod Podtweaker - was looking at them myself recently.

I love the statement in the auction   "comes from smoke free home of an avid audio enthusiast"   I wonder if he can assure potential purchasers that their homes will continue to be smoke free if they buy the amp? - Based on this thread I doubt it somehow!!

Quote: So I'm wrong when a person states something is a general opinion and then changes that to it being just his personal opinion and I should have known that all along? Take a read of the thread....   I didnt base my purchase off reviews - I used them as a guide as I would with any...

Quote: Yet earlier on you stated that it was common opinion around here (about the 650's)...Maybe I find you hard to understand but you appear to be contradicting yourself now and I wasn't gifted with Jedi like powers of interpretation I'm afraid.

Quote: I'm not taking things too seriously, I just have an issue with the way you describe things I guess, you are more than entitled to your opinion, but if in the first case you had written "The 650 lacks bass punch compared to phones that emphasise bass" then I would have known what...

Quote: Ah, so we have moved from the 650's having "No punch and that's a fact" to the 650's now have no bass emphasis - compared to bass driven headphones.   How on earth can you write something (being critical about a headphone) such as "the 650 has no punch and that's a fact" when...

Quote: I think you mean that it is true there is a general opinion about the 650's not being punchy, not that its a general opinion which is therefore automatically true.   What your'e effectively suggesting is that I am satisfied with a phone that everyone else thinks cannot deliver...

Quote: Electrostatics are....  

Quote: Fed from my Rotel cd player and headphone amp my 650's produce bass that is both very deep and very punchy.   Fed from my ipod and arcam dock they lose a bit of that, but still sound mighty impressive, to say they have "no punch" and that it's fact is just utter rubbish. 

EQ's have their place in some applications, for example in a car where the environment is awful for good sound reproduction, but on a home hifi system you shouldn't really need to be using an EQ.   Good well designed EQ's will boost/cut frequencies by very subtle amounts, but distortion can...

Quote: The Neco needs an 18v AC supply, so wherever you are in the world, if you can get a decent linear 18v psu then your'e up and running.   The matrix looks a very nice amplifier indeed, although with the price difference I don't suppose you can directly compare them - both great...

Quote: High resistance and dry joints are acceptable then are they?

Running a Neco V1 with 650's and can highly recommend both the amp and Neco as a seller.   The v2 I am told by Neco is full class A output and just has the edge in terms of SQ over the V1 version.   His amps with the ad8620 option produce a powerful punchy sound that is very refined and...

What's scary is that the seller obviously thinks he makes great tube amps   

Quote: I don't insist anything Jazz...