Dunno if Aptecpro will even honor the warranty on their (now defunct) Xenos, even if they claim that they will. The little "collar" into which the headphone plug is inserted on my X1HA-EPC broke off(it's made of plastic), so I sent them an email at 2.support@aptecpro.com inquiring about...

Quote: Originally Posted by nikongod ....its amazing how the changing of only a few words flips the quoted paragraph to slam the whole idea of SS designs as hard as it slammed the tube camp with equally valid arguments. I'd say that, overall, there are more posts on this forum...

Quote: Originally Posted by raymondlin A friend's Porsche 911 turbo had to have its clutch replaced after 6 months, he wasn't happy. Since it is class as wear and tear it wasn;t even covered under the warranty. Ouch.... Anyone who pays the kind of money required for purchase of a...

Well, aren't tube amps rather a pain in the ass? Many or most of them are now designed and manufactured in China, where good quality control is generally lacking, materials used in amp and, certainly, tube manufacture not of the highest quality, which makes for all sorts of problems. With a...

The car on which you learn to use a clutch will need a clutch replacement before you know it, guarantied! And routinely balancing your car on a hill using the gas and clutch pedals will wear out the clutch in no time. Yes, clutch replacements are pretty costly.

Thanks, Fran, for your extremely helpful post!

Hmmmm.......... do I smell a scam, here? Why don't you get yourself a credit card that can be used in the US, or have a friend who has one order your K701 for you? I think that anyone on this forum who goes along with what you want is just asking for trouble!

Are there any reasons not to buy a Little Dot II, the first version. I could get one for a very good price, but don't know if it's much inferior to the Little Dot II+ and ++. Were there any problems with the original version?

Ok, then, what mic preamp are you now using, and are there any stereo, tube mic preamps that you could recommend?

Could a tube microphone preamp(used for warming the sound when live recording) be used successfully with a non tube headphone amp for warming the sound ?

35 Dollars US, 110 Brazilian Reals(returned from Brazil a few weeks ago, but just haven't yet bothered to put the Reals away), and two Kimono Micro Thin condoms(don't leave home without them, especially in Brazil.

The downside to lithium-ion batteries, the kind that notebook computers use, is they lose their ability to hold a charge over time. No matter what you do, you'll just get less and less runtime 'till the battery, finally, just won't hold a charge. Lithium-ion batteries last about 3-4 years on...

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I know that I'll get a barrage of smirks and snickers from a lot of folks, here, who are into the rarified air of pricey(overpriced?) boutique amps, but I listened very critically for some time to a friend's AKG 701 and Grado 225 'phones through his Presonus HP4 amp/Presonus EQ3B 3-band...

Oops.....sorry!!!

Yeh, your both likely right, I 'd get more bang for my buck with something else....I'll check out the Pa2v2 and LDM+. Thanks for the feedback!

Two guys, one in Germany and one in the States are selling them on eBay; the one from Germany is $69 w/shipping: http://cgi.ebay.com/Headphone-Amplif...QQcmdZViewItem, and the one from the States is $49 w/shipping: http://cgi.ebay.com/Micro-Cmoy-headp...QQcmdZViewItem The components on each are...