Yeah thats what I thought. It's probably more psychological thinking I can hear a difference, but if the tweeter stopped working in the future because of it, i'd be annoyed. I just know if i ever tried to sell them on, it would cause issues as someone else would also be worried about the sound...

Hi. I recently bought a set of speakers brand new, when they arrived I checked them over and noticed they have a small line dent in one of the tweeters. My question is are they likely to effect the sound quality? The speakers are SX4's from Mission, so not cheap speakers. I asked the...

All you music lovers out there, I am working with a client and trying to gather a bit of research on the future of music and how we consume music. The aim is to find out as much information as possible on the types of music services you guys like to use, where you like to listen to music and the...

Guys, I'm definitely in providing it doesn't fall on 7th or 14 th May.   Was a good day last year. I have a buffalo 2 dac with custom valve output I can bring and a new panda headphone amp.  

Wow, John you have been busy! These amps look sweet! Nice style you have going on there.           Quote:

Love the stealthy look of this amp! Awesome!     Quote:

Love this, it has a real retro feel to it! nice work!         Quote:

wow super jealous of this thing! I want to build one now.   Quote:

I saw this and just had to post it, the length the guy goes to to make this helmet is amazing. There's even some electronics in there!   Check it out...     http://volpinprops.blogspot.com/2010/07/daft-punk-final.html  ...

i guys sorry for the slow replies, I didn't notice I had comments. I haven't built anything for a while and really need to get back in to it.   Cheers, for your reply John. Yeh the Buffalo dac is amazing, by far my favourite dac. I just need to get it cased up so its more useable,   

  My buffalo II dac with custom 6n6p valve output and ivy. Still needs to be cased properly to make it nice and tidy. I will also design a panel too. I really love the sound of the dac both with the valve output and ivy3, i have to say the valves sound nicer to me. I...

I have the following setups and like the sound that each set up gives me..   Set up 1 balanced buffalo 2 dac with custom 6n6p valve output (output transformers) > b22 balanced amp > HD650   Set up 2 buffalo 2 dac > Aikido valve amp > HD650   set up 3  Modified beresford dac >...

YES they annoy the hell out of me. Its so annoying when you try listen.

@FRED, another nice D.I.Y build! I must have a go a making my own board some day. 

Hi, I got a BOM from Kensei. I have ordered all the parts and will hopefully be putting it together as soon as I get time. Looking forward to building it. kansei kansei

Guys, does anyone have a BOM I could use for parts for the amp. I have read a few of you have tweaked parts based on the attached schematic. I was going to follow the schematic exactly as it is, but if there are a few tweaks that will improve the build, i may as well order them from the start...

Quote: Lovely build!!!!   

Quote:     Thanks :0) glad you like it. Took me long enough to build!!!  

Cheers. its sounds really nice. I had it on show at a meet up in the UK today and it was well received.

Hmm. that does look tempting to try. I have a spare opus dac with metranome, ballsie, receiver board and i was thinking about making it up as a dac to use at work. this would be nicer than the ballsie, but wonder how it sounds. it was eiher a case of using the ballsie, trying the zapfilter or a...

I was looking through some design sites at work and came across this radio ball concept. In a nutshell, the design of the ball acts as a self tuning radio that when rotated tunes to different stations, when you find the station you like you add a marker in to the ball and it remembers the...

Wow, love this!!! Wish i could do my own wooden cases.

  Hi guys, over the past few months i have been working on a project with a friend to build a valve output for my buffalo II dac. It has been a joint effort (although the brains behind this build was my mate Nick) to build a dac that i can use as my main dac with a switchable output using a...

Hi, thanks for the nice comments. I designed the panels and had them made at FPE. The chassis was from HIFI 2000. I'm not sure exactly how much it all cost me, but i can tell you it wasn't cheap! I tried to build the best i could.

Quote: Originally Posted by swt61 Since I also have a balanced β22, I'd love to hear some quick impressions of the DAC and amp synergy, though I can imagine it to be first class. I have so far managed to hear it with my b22, modded x-can v3, graham slee solo, aikido valve amp...