I've been a Cubs fan all my life, and I'd love to see them win a bunch of games and go to the world series, but I know it probably won't happen. What really pisses me off, though, is that now that they have a guy who could really do something amazing, the rest of the team is not structured to...

Well, I'm thinking about dropping down to Cincinnati later this month for their meet as kind of a mid summer quarter break from class and work. I'm having a hard time justifying the cost for just one person to drive down, and I'd feel a little uncomfortable driving back by myself, ya know, it...

I just picked up a Rotel RQ-970BX off of Audiogon for $100. When I got it in, i hooked it up, let it warm up for about 15 minutes, and while it was initially better than the receiver I've been using, I was a little disappointed. It just sounded a little flat, like the receiver, just a little...

Does anyone know of a good place to buy 1.8" drives. My gmini XS200 died after it was dropped, and I would rather put in a new hard drive than send it in and be told that they can't replace it.

Well, vinyl has opened up quite a bit of older/underground music, and at much lower prices when purchased used. My most recent purchases have been Slowhand, Rumours, With Teeth, make believe, London Calling, and The Swiss Army Romance. I have Life for Rent, Undertow, Under the Pink, Warning...

I've decided to complete rework this thread. After quite a bit more listening, this bluenote is unbearably bright, and I've gone back to the reciever. I think I'll take bln's advice and look into a different cartridge, and keep this one for when I give the table to my brother. If I keep the...

I just got my Eddie Current HD25 today. The amp was packaged very well, everything was wrapped in a few layers of bubble wrapped, cushioned with newspaper, boxed up, and then put in a larger box cushioned with newspaper and popcorn. The tubes included were a Svetlana 6AS7G and an Electro...

What would you guys recommend as the best 'bang for the buck' power conditioner preferably for under $150. Which would be a bigger improvement, spending half of that on the conditioning, and half on cables, or just using regular IEC cables, and getting a better conditioner? Thanks

I thought, what the hell, lets compare 'em, then I plugged in the av710, and it was all over. What I once thought to be a pretty good source now sounds like utterly lifeless, muddy, and boring junk. $6 in mods took the 0404 to a completely different level, because when I first got it, I thought...

21 years, I've been alive, and have never ever seen anything like this, in Chicago no less.

Well, I finished modding my 0404. THe output caps are gone, as are the buffer opamps, and the output opamp has been swapped for an LT1364. Each step in the process brought improvements and interesting changes to the sound, and the possibilities are pretty much endless depending on your card...

Tonight I saw a seagate 100 gigabyte 7200 rpm 2.5" hard drive at best buy for $199.99. Seems like it'd be great for those wanting to upgrade an old player.

I got a pair of these in DIP form, as well as the dual channel version in soic form. I have to say, compared to the opa627's you can definately tell these are faster chips, instrument separation is better, and smaller details are improved. At the same time bass gets a little bigger, more punchy...

I'm thinking of getting this as a transport, and was wondering if anyone has used it before. Sony DVPPQ2

Has anyone compared any of the scott Nixon Dacs to either the Benchmark or a modded e-mu card? I'm thinking of getting the tubedac kit, but would rather not if there's not much of a jump from my 0404.

I'm looking at getting something along the lines of an Ear++, WooAudio 3, PPX3-6SN7, or MG head OTL. My source will be a modded E-MU 0404, and headphones will be Beyerdynamic DT770's, and in future one of the metal Grado's. The amp that sticks out most in my mind is the Emmeline HR-2 that I...

With my DT770's in Washington being recabled, I decided to pick up something to keep me listening till they get back. The HP170's popped up on the forums as having pretty good sound for ~$20, so I went down to Target and picked up a pair. They're pretty cheaply made, and the stock cable is just...

I'm thinking about getting my DT770's recabled, but I'm not sure if it would be better just to sell them as they are and get a stock pair of MS-2's. Since I can't audition either, I'd like to hear comments from people who've used either the recabled beyers, and if possible both. Thanks for your...

Well I've finally finished my Meta42, after having the board for months now, and I've begun to mod my 0404(just removing the output caps for now), and I'd like to hear impressions of the sound of different opamps that you guys have used to replace the jrc's in your 0404's. I'm looking to tighten...

can two resistors be used in place of the tle2496, at least temporarily?

I've just recently bought a 30 gig Zen Xtra, and beyer DT770's. I'm really liking both, but this hobby seems to be the wallet killer. I have to decide whether or not it would be better to convert all my music to mp3's or leave it uncompressed and get an 80gig usb drive, and swap it out with the...

Today I discovered just how stupid it is to mess around with untested audio equipment at 5 AM. I was rebuilding my amp, making it more like a PPA than a meta, and was too impatient to find my crap headphones to try it out. I forgot to connect the output jack ground wire, and now my SR-80's are...

I'm not quite sure if this should be posted in the amp or source forum, but here goes. I'm getting about the same RMAA results from my emu 0404 as most of the people here, and about the same with my pimeta clone amp with ~300 ohm cans, but with my grado's, the IMD % is very high ~.5-1% Is this...

Here's some pictures of my second amp. It's a pimeta clone with EL2001 buffers instead of buf634, and it has an onboard 20V regulated power supply. Eventually i'll put it in a nice case with better jacks, but for now it works great. The difference in sound between this and my earlier cmoy is...

I recently put together both a cmoy and a meier bass enhanced crossfeed. At high volumes and low frequencies, it seems like the cmoy loses control over the headphones, and the sound gets really grainy, and the bass seems boomy and bloated. Without the crossfeed filter it sounds fine. I know its...