Quote: Originally Posted by funch Thanks. Building it will be more fun. Maybe not so much fun, but I can attest to the enjoyment of buying funch's PPAv2. It _is_ beautiful. BTW The 637s sound great with it. Thanks again funch, especially for the support!

Quote: Originally Posted by linuxworks (v6 from sony, which I used to love as a kid but just can't stomach that sound anymore) A couple of years ago a work colleague came to me asking for headphone recommendations, saying he wanted to find something better than the junk he'd...

Quote: Originally Posted by Currawong Audio-gd HDAM discreet opamps. Head-fi pseudo-review: http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f5/opa...pdates-372219/

Quote: Originally Posted by funch I experienced it with my first PPAv2, so I switched to 3R3's and the hiss went away. Yea, no hiss with my PPAv2

There is so much information about these subjects, buried within the forums. I'd recommend using search and research. Also look into the forums at HeadWize - Breaking News and diyAudio.com - audio projects by fanatics, for fanatics . This is a good starting page to read about op-amps...

You should send the pic in to Creek, see what he says!

Nice. Does it still fit into the case?

<stopped myself trolling>

Quote: Originally Posted by digger945 You probably don't know just how many times I have read your posts about DAC's and just about everything else, not to mention personally helping me with sourcing parts for a project.... I love reading this kind of enthusiasm and excitement...

I have horror stories with FedEx and I've some great experiences with UPS. I think it's probably safe to say all of them can suck and all of them can be great. I just wonder what the average satisfaction is for various scenarios. Something we're never going to get by sharing our little stories...

Quote: Originally Posted by linuxworks ... at the time they had some special where they gave away some sennheiser handheld effects box of sorts. I am not even sure I ever hooked it up to be honest. Ohh, that sounds interesting. Go get it out, use it, and report back!

Hey Linuxworks, nice job and nice project title Quote: Originally Posted by linuxworks they don't sound THAT different from the 580. I could tell immediately if I put some sony cans on; but the 580 to the 650 is not day and night. It's my understanding that what made the...

Quote: Originally Posted by n_maher If he thinks he's able to offend or hurt my feelings via an internet forum he's even more deluded than I first thought. /me farts in your general direction!

Quote: Originally Posted by millwood personally, I don't understand the fascination with dc-coupled amps because as far as I know, no speakers can reproduce DC, no functioning audio sources produce DC, and no humans can hear DC. Are you being serious? I don't mean to be an a-hole...

Quote: Originally Posted by millwood rds, a nice quote. would have been helpful had you remembered that before calling bicmos "a bipolar bjt + cmos", . But isn't that exactly what BiCMOS is? BiCMOS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "In integrated circuit technologies...