Me too. (In fact, if you do a search on my name, you'll find a thread that has a blow-by-blow of the e-bay auction.) p.s.: It has been wonderful so far. I'll post more details in a couple of weeks, once the season calms down a bit, but I've got a sony portable CD player --> beautiful Melos...

Yep, me. More than I wanted to pay for an amp, but various christmas-gift-giving forces agreed to chip in. And from what I understand, $521 is a reasonable price to pay for such a creature. Many thanks go to all the members here. This all started with me being annoyed at how noisy my...

Arrggh... Outbid to the tune of $460. And this with a day to go. Still a reasonable price, to be sure, but this dashes my hopes of getting a Melos for the price of an MG Head (which was what I was going to buy otherwise, and is, unlike the current price for the Melos, actually within my...

Apparently, he's right. And word to the wise: if you up an e-bay bid and it thereby crosses the reserve, the system raises your current (i.e., active) bid to the reserve. I was unaware of this (I assumed it would simply keep my current bid, but raise my hidden max), and it came as something...

Yes, I'm wondering that myself. (and, yes, my post above was a joke. I'm currently the high bidder, and I'd prefer it if you all just went about your business. Nothing to see here, ladies & gents.)

Nonsense. There is no such listing on e-bay. Besides, even if there were such a listing, I've heard terrible things about the seller. And you can never trust e-bay anyway. I mean, why even bid -- it is probably some fraud, just waiting to take your money. Take it from me -- best...

I take it, then, that this modification will make this amp less of a match for high impedence headphones (e.g., my spanking new DT831's, which I love btw)? Did I read all this right? Thanks, David

I'd be interested in hearing more about the lowest prices on this, too. I was also lurking on that E-Bay auction. I had sniping software place a bid of $276 about 15 seconds before the end (with me away at lunch, no less), but it got denied because the amount wasn't high enough about the...

Alright -- this has all been quite helpful. I think, taking inferences from the posts above, that perhaps I should first purchase a headphone amp, then later consider a new CDP (and perhaps even then reconsider my Tjoeb leanings). In case you're following the progress, I'm therefore now...

p.s.: I did a search on Stereophile & Tjoeb, and it appears that you may be refering to this: http://www.stereophile.com/contents900.shtml Unfortunately, that is only the contents page, with none of the meat available (free at least) online. Anyone have this issue laying around? I'd be...

If anyone has links to (negative) Tjoeb reviews, I'd love it if you posted them. As far as positive reviews go, the AudioReview people love these players, and a collection of additional positive (not surprising, this is the US dealer) reviews can be found here...

As a newbie to the forum I found the various exchanges about the Chinese "Opera" headphone amp fascinating, if for no other reason than they were an interesting triumph of this group's dynamics (I mean, banding together to finagle several hundred pounds of audio equipment from a faraway land...

Thank you for the input so far. Keep it coming. After I posted this, I posted a similar question over at headwize, and I'd be curious for your answer it... Which of the following two scenarios will likely yield more satisfaction: (recognizing that both are flawed) Good headphones (in this...

I've just begun a new job, and there are a variety of noises here impinging on me, so I'm going to take the plunge & experiment with a CD player/headphone set-up. I'm simultaneously planning on giving in to another temptation: the fascinating Ah! Tjoeb CD player (the 4000 in this case). I've...