Having two segments means they'll have the third, very top design at a later date?

Hard to test what you can't hear...

Once upon a time it was said "you get what you pay for". I like the older adage of "there's a sucker born every minute". I've owned the HighWayRobbers phones and they have been very cheaply constructed. I was an early HE-5 adopter and was an unwitting beta tester. A new model was introduced...

Every phone has an idiosyncratic tendency, don't care the price. The "audiophile" will listen to six to twelve recordings that flatter the response characteristic of the headphone system. When the response anomaly becomes apparent when a new piece of music is introduced? The phone looses...

Some cleavage is really cloven... like two continents with an ocean of space.

If you hyped hype? Just what is the resultant? Hyperbole?

Or drink the bathwater and tickle the baby?

.......'been middle of the month since June?

Oh coolio!!!

Before I buy one, is their something wrong with the stock supply? Is the stock supply a switching supply? I'm not a fan of the switching supply.

I've had three differing Beta's, several of the Gilmores. The best of the bunch is the Peak (S/N 2) with Volcano.... I have the Arete also. The "honest" amps with the portray actual, your best served by the best source you can afford. I like the gold metal base (nickel bottom) Sylvanias also for...

Telefunken was the brand of radio.... before Grundig in Germany. From wire recorders to microphones from the old masters of Telefunken.

Yes, linearity is better with better construction and materials (ah, the good old days). Yet, a properly functioning tube makes more difference in a Berning circuit than anything else. I still have Telefunken's on the inlet and the nickel base 6SN7's from Sylvania on the outer edge.... hey I'm...

Not so much in a hysteresis free circuit.... a good functioning tube with the call characteristic's of it's part number are what's important. The other designs that assign transformers for matching duties have much more influence with grid transfer changes. The ZOTL stands alone and is...

Right behind you Davey!

You can roll tubes till the cows have returned and you won't improve the fundamentals of the design. Why is this? It's because David could wrap his head around the transformer..... that's why! Transformers never transfer... that is the problem. It's not just the fundamental frequency under...

Jam on baby!

You get it Rich! Research and reflection will springboard you past the typical affiliate of head-fi. You can skip the very high costs and the resulting anxiety,settling right in and concentrating on your love of music. Bypassing the sad (yet comical) chasing of your tail. All audiophiles know...

You got it! "Smooth" usually means soft(er), too round, foregoing the details and limiting the resolve. "Detail" is a blanket term that might be more associated with the unrelenting, aggressive, fatiguing, brittle hardness that limits the amount listening because of creating fatigue. I wouldn't...

It's the natural leading edge transient from the Berning design. Conventional tube designs (SET's, other OTL'S and ultra linear) start and rise rather slow (that's most, not all IMO). Many transistor designs (not all) ring and bleed on the lead in uptake, then it goes downhill from there...

I was another bothering David and Alan concerning a new headphone amp from David. It was only a few separate occasions and I didn't want to seem all that pesky. "The squeaky wheel gets the grease" was an old adage my Grandmother used to spout..... it works! I have another amp from David that was...

@richard51.... "It's not that experience is the best teacher.... it's the only teacher". You have to ask yourself the relevant questions, from the type of music that is important to you, reaching all the way to just how much disposable income you'll dispose on the hobby. You have to educate...

I love time traveling and putting good source in front of the original micro-ZOTL and use the Grado HP-2. I have a pair of HP-2's that papa Joe reworked back in 07' (NOS drivers and upgraded wire). I like a host of great music and count Opera in the scheme. The Berning and Grado combine to offer...

I have an original micro-ZOTL headphone amp.... and an ZH270. I will have to put one of these is the acquisition radar. Huge fan of David's designs!

I'm salivating all over myself.... great pics! Todd (TTVJ) got his demo today also and was marveling at the lack of discontinuity at the crossover point. It's high enough that air and space is it's main concern. I want!!