Quote: I use green painters tape.  No residue.   The blue painters tape decreases soundstage.

Quote: Use a length painters tape folded in half.  Get purchase with the tape on both exposed sides of the tube.  Squeeze the tape gently against the tube with with your thumb and forefinger.  With your opposite hand, pull straight up on the length of folded in half tape that you have...

  Quote: Nice camera work   Thanks!

Quote: I run BlueJeans everywhere I care and whatever I find in my epic-box-o-cables where I don't.   Lyrs ships with passable monoprice.    

Quote: I was one of the people that posted about problems with GL.  I ordered matched pairs and one of mine had a very, very obvious low level hiss.  Moderate volume music overtook it but it was definitely there during quieter passages.   Vendor shipped me a new one it arrived today...

Well I can't speak to my own experience as I've never ran the genalexes before but I've sure heard plenty of good things about them.   With my set, one was dead as a doornail quiet, and the other one had a very obvious and quite annoying hiss.  Maybe a bad batch came out or there are some QC...

Quote: Excellent, thank you.   FWIW I had ordered these from thetubestore.com, they've been fantastic in their working with me to get this issue sorted out.

Does anyone know which tube position corresponds to which channel?  I didn't want to pull a tube with the amp hot and I also didn't want to take the amp apart quite yet to find out   I just ordered a pair of matched genalaxes and one of them is really hissy .  I'd like to mark the offending...

Pre-order: 2/10 Email order recieved and paid: 3/21 Shipped: 3/23 Received: 3/25   Duration: 43 days

Quote: Is that little table sturdy enough for that 60 pounds of sexy?

  Quote: Maybe ignorance truly is bliss.

Quote: I think you should run for a political office.  You'd have my support and my vote.

  Quote:   Who gets to do the write up for "Synergy" ?     I'd offerer to do it myself, but I think too many cages would be rattled and I'd become an instant pariah.  

Quote: Use some blue painters tape to fashion something for you to pull on and gently rock.   Take your time and they come right out with no fuss.  

I'm glad 6moons was able to take away from valuable time spent demagnetizing CD's to tell us to turn an amp sideways.  When the amp is turned sidways, does it decrease or increase the soundstage?  What about transparency?  What interconnects have the best synergy with an amp turned on it's...

Yes, the Lyr runs quite hot.  However most of the heat seems well vented and concentrated towards the top.   It does warm up the StageDac some, but not enough to concern me in the least.   eta:  Sometime in the near future I will let it run for several hours and post temperature readings.

  Quote: Mini toslink is just a different form factor.  Not sure why you are stressing about the quality difference, there is none.

Quote: My nightstand rig.    

  Quote: Absolutely.  Trying to troubleshoot/fix a household electrical hum problem can get pretty complicated sometimes.  I once had a motion detector that would actually cause the panel breaker to vibrate so hard you could hear it audibly humming from 10 feet away.  It's a little...

Quote: Right now my bedside rig is a StageDac + Lyr + HD800 (still on the waiting list for the LCD2 lol)   It would take quite a bit of convincing to get me to move up from the StageDac.  And I really can't say enough good things about the crossfeed implementation...  Jan nailed it.

Quote: Just imagine how much more time they would have to write if they weren't busy demagnetizing CD's.  It would be a plague upon the internets.

For music from a computer audio source, I generally use the Isone VST room plugin.  I don't like "roomy" sound from headphones and I have it dialed down basically with a bit of crossfeed and a tiny bit of reverb.  Basically it is somewhere between dry headphones and a nearfield simulation.  ...

Mine was supposed to be here today (Saturday) but FedEx for whatever reason let it sit in California for awhile and they adjusted my delivery date to Tuesday.    Here's hoping good things come to those who wait

I'm enough of a cowboy that it doesn't bother me to run this without knowing a single thing about it, but if you document what it is actually doing / supposed to do, someone might have intelligent feedback. It's just an EXE and it's a mystery what happens until it runs.  And after it runs...

Dang.  An update to the Windows USB audio drivers is long overdue.   There are several hotfixes in SP1 that deal with USB in general that may or may not have an impact on the way your system behaves when streaming via USB audio.  As best I can tell from reading the release notes, there are...