Would someone mind measuring the diameter of the tips on the A8? Curious if they’ve had to widen them beyond 5mm to accommodate all four tubes.

Tour kit has finally left the Pacific Northwest and is here in the crazy Bay Area!   I've only had the kit for less than an hour, so no comments on the sound just yet.  Everything is great, BTW - I'm using my own Spiral Dot tips and I think they stretch better than the included tips (of which...

Try Stephen Guo at custom-iem.com or unique-melody.com

given my experience with Tamiya acrylic paints, I'm using Hard As Nails to thicken the canal because nail polish takes much less time to dry than the paint. I'm on the fifth coat right now and it definitely feels more snug, so maybe in your case only one or two would be okay? Also, it's a...

A 12AX7 is a dual triode tube, and some -- not ALL -- variants of the 12A*7 family can be used in the same position as it is in right now. (I assume that your Ear+ has two 12BH4s and and a 12AX7.) Your best (and safest) bet is to e-mail Dr. Peppard which tube (series) you'd like to use. When...

I liked both GE and RCA tubes with my Grados. Have you tried using a 5751 tube and 12AT7?

Hi Justin, I hope it's not too late to jump onto the ordering thread! I'd like a Pico with DAC, black all over (boring, but I like it). No need for a USB cable as I have plenty of A to mini-B cables lying around. Thanks.

I'll see if I can make it to the meet as well, so mark me down as 'tentative'. If I can go, I'll bring my amp for anyone who wants to hear it.

The predecessor to the DAC707 - theDAC67 is *tiny* (see here). It currently needs a massive battery (or an AC adapter), and I'm not sure of the sound quality (it works, that's for sure), but it can be made really small.

I've heard Rega's Planet (2000?) and Apollo on headphones, and I really liked them. I've also heard the Cambridge's 340c, and have auditioned 640c and 740c on speaker setups. I liked the Apollo. The Rega line is very inviting and warm, which I think is good with vocal music. Cambridge hasn't...

I agree with the above. Good equipment will last long, and even more so if it's well treated. My parents are still using the setups they bought years ago (1980 and 1993) and they're still going strong on zero maintenance. Okay, a pre-amp fried, but it was really a freak accident (and it's been...

if you're going to SF via the airport, be sure to stop at that one audio shop around the check-in area. They have the entire Shure line-up, and when I was there last year the guy let me listen to E500s for as long as I wanted.

Instead of working (as I should be), I took time today to compare the Corda Opera to my system, which consists of a Stello DA100 and a Mapletree HD150. I switched between USB DACs on foobar, and connected the Mapletree (a GE 12BH7A and GE 5751) to the Opera's pre-amp out. I'm not a fan of...

I felt the W5000s were more "plasticy" smooth leather, while the Denons were "comfortable-to-sink-into" leather. Definitely nothing like the sponges (velvet?) of the beyers and senns, or the stiff cups on the K701s, or the weird scratchy bowls of Grados.

I'm going to make this a one-off post... I heard the W5000 and the D5000 at the int'l meet yesterday, off Agile_One's laptop-apogee Mini-DAC-Yamamoto HA-02 setup. Many thanks to the guys in the high-end room who let me hog the setup I can see why Skylab likes the D5000s - I'd call them a...