Thanks to everyone for the help, I'm going to make this my next project.

I've been looking for all the parts to build one of these and it seems that no place stocks everything, or even the tubes for that matter. I'm in Australia and this is really annoying me, I'd love one of these amps to death, but honestly, It's getting really daunting trying to find the parts...

Quote: What warranty issues? The only warranty issues I have ever heard about was when one guy bricked his DAP by opening it up and soldering a new chip into the circuit.

Well, I don't even have iTunes installed on any computer that I own, and I have my S:Flo2 for music and movies, so right now it's a nonissue, but still an annoying one. But the updates, well, they are just attrocious; my phone came with the new 4.0 iOS and it's crippled it, standby battery life...

Quote: Well, it sets people up for a bad start. I know people who have ripped entire 200-300 CD collections in the default 128CBR MP3 settings, then researched audio files.   And now, considering the speed of the internet, there is NO reason not to offer high quality downloads. I...

  Quote: I beg to differ. I went to a private school that fell for the Mac hype; we dealt with overheating laptops, a few cases of spontaneously combusting batteries, many, many crashes and the software left a lot to be desired when it came to education.   We actually used to leave...

Quote: Well there's messing around with iTunes, dealing with its incompetent sorting, poor quality downloads, over priced downloads, its habit of being a general system hog and the fact that it doesn't support many codecs at all.   To add to this, it's extremely expensive for what...

  Quote: I'm, reluctantly, using an iPhone as my general phone (Any other phone on my plan would have cost an extra $15 a month) and this is the "Feature" that annoys me the most. I own the phone, I should be able to drag and drop my own damn files.   It has, in fact, prevented me...

I can confirm that the latest pre-order batch will ship with Firmware 2.30.   Quote:

Quote: Definitely going to try those out when I can.

Quote: I'll make sure to add those to the list of Headphones to try.

Right now I'm looking to buy a pair of headphones in the $150-$200 AUD range. I do have a problem though, I have an Industrial piercing (http://wiki.bmezine.com/index.php/Industrial_Piercing). This causes no issues with my IEMs, but it does get quite painful to wear most headphones for an...

Quote:   MP4Nation are EXTREMELY fast with their responses to support tickets, however, you will have to ship the earphones back to them, wait for them to test them (at most a day) and then await a new pair.   So, it all depends on what shipping you use, if it's EMS Priority then I'm...

Quote: Definitely, but right now I value mine more than house and home.  

Quote: About a year or so ago AFAIK. If you check the site, specifically the forums, the only PMPs being worked on are the Nanite N2, Nanite N3 and the OS-34.   So I don't think we'll be seeing a new S:Flo within the coming months, but who knows. Just waiting for the Balanced...