I should have thought to look on the website, too. From there, I see that the black version in the product photos has an ampilier power supply, for the main ampilier. At least, in silver, I have an amplifier with an ampilier power supply.   Typos are strange: one can so easily miss a glaring...

OMG. I was dusting my Woo today, and noticed something peculiar.     See if you can spot it.   Is this like owning a postage stamp with Lincoln's head upside down? Or if I ever sell the amp (which I won't, not ever) will people post the Audiogon link to this forum with "fake"...

No bribery required. I travel w-a-y too much, but am around in the Bay Area in late September for a couple of weeks and would be happy to get together.   Quote:  

The same thing happened to me, when my WES was delayed for about a month. Apparently, Woo decided to improve the design (and, a little while later, they added the line "Mills and Kiwame resistors" to the description of the WES on the website, so maybe that was the improvement). I was given the...

FYI, I've been very impressed by PS Audio's repair shop. One of the P600 power units in my home theater blew up: it went "bang" and smoke came out of it, from which I deduced that it was broken . When I unscrewed a lot of allen bolts, I found internal carnage:     I shipped it, and...

The first-sale doctrine covers this situation and it is not a violation of copyright law to buy and enjoy a used CD or LP, or for Goodwill to sell it. This is a limitation in copyright law that allows the resale or lending or giving away of a copyrighted work. Essentially, the copyright holder...

Backups are a pain, but, like insurance, vital when you need them. As a computer user since 1970 (yes, 41 years), I've learned the value of backups. And a backup that isn't validated and tested from time to time is not reliable.   For those of us who rip our CDs and listen to them via...

Thanks, but no. I know that I'll regret it eventually, and it IS useful to listen to a CD that someone brings over for a listening session. It's a fully-depreciated asset at this point.....   Quote:  

It is indeed a Theta David II. It was languishing in my home theater, replaced by a $200 Blu-ray player. So I drafted it for very occasional CD listening. I barely use it; all my music is now from a Macbook running Pure Music, or a PC running J River. Both of those applications do upsampling...

I travel to or through Heathrow every month. There are two Heathrows IMHO: Terminal 5 (BA's dedicated terminal) and the rest. T5 was designed from the outset to be an overpriced mall with runways attached, and so there's plenty of room to move and everything works pretty well. The other...

That would be a sweet system for use on the road. The size would make it impractical for me, sadly. I only take carry-on, and have the misfortune to often route through London Heathrow, where they take a perverse and palpable delight in confiscating regular US-sized carryons; the Heathrow limits...

When I'm on the road, iPod/iPhone/iPad/Macbook with ALAC CD rips->iTunes/Pure Music->Headroom Total BitHead->Etymotic/Klipsch IEMs. The Total BitHead is the limiting factor here, so I'm thinking about other small portable amps. I fly 250k miles a year and never check luggage, so size and weight...

Ummm, no. OCD. And I travel all the time and work out of San Francisco, Mountain View, Lausanne, Beijing, Tokyo, etc. So I'm paperless.....paper is too heavy to lug around.   Quote:  

Ah, you have divined my guilty OCD secret: I hate exposed cabling, unless it's nice-looking thick-as-your-arm power cords in a home theater, or various pretty interconnects.   It's fairly close to what shipsupt stated: The desk is a built-in, constructed on an overengineered but very sturdy...

Given the current SR-009 woes (stop ship, some serious problems in the field), I held off. I listened to a pair at Yodobashi Camera in Akihabara a few weeks ago, back-to-back with the SR-007s. Unfortunately, I couldn't use the same amp for both, and the SR-009s had an intermittent channel...

Riffling indeed. What I'm really wishing is that I'd borrowed the Nagra VI recorder from my Swiss office that has direct-off-the-mixing-desk captures of great Montreux Jazz Festival concerts. 24 bits and lots of kHz, mostly 88.2 and above. Next trip, maybe....   As so many of you have...

My Woo WES arrived just after I left the US on a 3.5-week trip. Oh the agony. But now the pain is over and the pleasure has begun. Right out of the box, it and the SR-007s sound wonderful. The DAC-2 seems like a perfect match. I went to the California Audio Show today, though, and heard the...

I was in the London Science Museum last Friday, staring intently at the nice display of tubes in the first picture below. The basement of the museum has a super display of hundreds of household electrical and electronic things, many of which I remember from my childhood, and some, ahem, that I...

Oh, I'm very sorry to hear that. Audiophiles are almost by definition perfectionists, so I can see how unexplained differences would be exasperating. Just like the quiet tinkling noise in a new car where you can't find the source, or the almost imperceptible speck of dust on a DSLR sensor. Been...

No IOC meetings for me. I work for a Swiss company. But, indeed, the moniker extends from when I used to fly myself around, and run an aircraft charter business on the side (which turned out to be a distressingly hard activity to make money on). I sometimes miss the smell of Jet-A, and pushing...

With respect (really!), not quite. FLAC is an audio-aware algorithm: the compression algorithm is designed and tuned to work well with audio data. It doesn't actually "know" that it's audio, but it tends to function effectively, with about 50% compression, on data that turns out to be audio...

Life would hardly be worth living without a good nit-pick, but I have to nit-pick you back, so that, well, you can do the same   FLAC and ALAC can have more information than WAV, because the file format supports sections that contain all sorts of metadata/tags. But your nit-pick suggests...

If you're using the analog outputs of your sound card, I'd expect it to sound different in a new PC: different electrical noise. A PC is a bad place to have analog stuff going on; it's really electrically noisy inside the Faraday cage that most PCs surround themselves with. If you're using the...

Ah, a computer and information science point here: WAV does not have more information than ALAC or FLAC. It occupies more bits, but that's because the density of the information is lower. If you ignore the additional information that an ALAC or FLAC has, purely because the definition of the...

Quote: Assuming no bugs, FLAC is truly lossless in both the compress and uncompress directions. It's easy to verify this yourself by comparing files bit-for-bit. As an extreme example, you can download a FLAC from, say, HDTracks.com, convert it to ALAC, convert that to WAV, then to FLAC...