I can only guess that the inrush current to the tuner sent a pulse to the amp, which the preamp section only made stronger. Anyway, it's a wonderful preamp!

Almost a year ago, I stupidly killed my Cyrus 2 amp. I unplugged the tuner, thinking it was the turntable, and plugged it back in...while the amp was playing. Did I say "stupidly"? There was a thump, and then silence. I popped the hood to find that the heatsink was VERY hot. Dead, very...

Yeah, Laz drops in once in a while. It's been quite a while this time...

My solution was to position my Proton 300/301 table radio (with right channel speaker) on either side of my bed. It was basic near-field listening, and with comfort. These Protons, btw, are powered speakers (two-way, biamped) with attached tuner-preamp. They sound great, as well.

I was one of those few attendees, and am grateful to the library (our venue) for providing us with a nice large room to set up in. The JDS gear, some of it FREE to take home was well made, and I was especially impressed by the headphone amp. However, I was hugely impressed by a pair of Sony...

I'm picking out gear/cables/'phones/music to bring. Will there be tables there, or do we need to bring our own?

I haven't been to a meet for a while, but if Twangfest doesn't fall on the same day, I will be there. The only gear I can think of at the moment is a Cyrus 2/PSX amp I'd like people to audition with headphones, as I recapped it some time ago.

Sorry guys! I dropped the ball about having a meet, and now my wife and I are moving back to the Kansas City area. Back to Misery/Missouri...

Two posts just minutes apart after two years, and I had really forgotten about this thread! As you may know, there is a Head-Fi meet in Phoenix on the 23rd, but see about that in another thread on this sub-forum. Anybody want to have something more local, or shall we all carpool to P-town? I'm...

Laz is not sure - may make it, there are no conflicts, as I'm retired. I no longer have much amazing HP gear, having let go of my Yamaha Orthos, and my Stax. A lot of my gear is packed or getting packed for moving, so that's an issue too. We'll see...

Typical Klipsch speakers are easy to drive.  I've been using a pair of Hereseys for some time now, and am told they do well with about ten watts of tube power.  I'm using them with seventy watts of high-current power, but the bass control is incredible.  A Marantz 1030 might do very well, or...

Laz might just come over from C-bad - haven't been to a Head-Fi meet in quite a while...

I'm in Carlsbad, and have been on Head-Fi for a long time.  Used to attend meets in Lawrence, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri.  A meet in New Mexico would be cool.  

You're depending on bestbuy.com for your information?  Let your ears decide.  No, really.  

Wired up the cheap chip amp pulled from a cheap pair of computer speakers to a pair of good speakers (Mission 70), a CD player, and a 6V lantern battery.  Amazing!  Made my day, but now I'm dreaming of a REAL chip amp...  

Quote: Sorry about your wallet, and why has it taken so long for someone to say that?   488.  Even headphones get old.  Everything gets old.

Just the 6112's in my Musical Fidelity X-10v3.

Let's not forget the tan-colored things that used to come with those little transistor radios.  Mono, park-in=the-ear, and horrible sound quality.  I took one apart once, decades ago, and the diaphragm was metal sitting on top of a ring magnet.  Horrible!  

Music Lover #1:  Yeah, I went to hear Carmena Barina last night - loved it!   Music Lover #2:  You mean "Carmina Burana."   Music Lover #1:  No, it was Carmena Barina.   Music Lover #2:  You say "Carmena," I say "Carmina."  You say "Barina," I say "Burana."  Carmena, Carmina, Barina...

Quote: I recently scored a ten inch Sabatier professional, carbon steel, not the pretty stainless you see today.  I cleaned off the surface rust and worked the edge down with medium and fine diamond hones, and finished off with a Fiskars ceramic pull-thru.  The edge is even, smooth, and I...

Have you considered small speakers on either side of the bed?  I used to do that, and good near-field speakers really do give you the best of both worlds.  You have the speakers on stands, and they don't have to play loud because they are only a foot or so from each ear.   

I scored these two days ago at a sale in a dark, unheated outbuilding:   matching red and blue (pearlescent plastic) Esterbrook fountain pens (lever fill) - made in USA   burgundy plastic Wearever Flexfine fountain pen - made in USA   grey/chrome Schaeffer pump fill with wrap-around...

Sorry, wrong thread...

It's the last step for the man still a giant leap for mankind.

Years ago, about 1991, I bought a CD of her music.  Now I know why she performs barefoot - it reminds me of Edison [though I'm not a fan of Edison] who, so I was told, bit into his phonograph machines to hear better, as he was partially deaf.