I cooked a signal beta 22 board when I mistook trimpot 3 for trimpot 2 after the warmup re-adjust. I wound the thing up too high trying to get a measurement that was never gonna happen as it was the wrong pot. Anyway, it cooked a pair of Sigma 22 MOSFETS and I thought that was the end of the...

So I was looking around for something to bling my tubes around the base on the casework and found a nice and cheap way to do it for those little amps like the Starving student and CTH, EHHA and others with wee tubes. Looking around in Lowes hardware stores I found these solid brass Brainerd...

I thought I'd get this thread rolling. This is another of Alex Cavallis amp designs which is available in kit form from Glass Jar audio. It's an interesting design and the basic kit is a very reasonable $110 or so plus shipping etc. The amp also needs a PSU like the AMB Sigma 22 which is...

I know a few here have had circuit boards made either as prototypes or small runs but has anyone ever had flexible PCBs made (flexible circuit ribbons) or know of any reliable places that may do this? The reason I ask is that I'm looking into the possibility of making some ribbon isodynamic...

Ok. I'm a total electrical nub who knows dick about amp electronics but I want to make something half decent, just once. The question is, which one.... M^3 MilletMax SOHA CKKIII Bijou It has to be relatively uncomplicated, easy-ish to build and fault find, and preferably below $200 in...

I'm buying some phones from England but the guy said it would cost 42 quid using Parcelforce for 28 day delivery! It's just a set of headphones so can anyone recommend an alternative that's a lot cheaper. Royal Mail or something. I've bought phones from the UK and Germany before and the postage...

Any of you lucky triport owners like to chip in to describe these pads. Size, softness, sponginess etc and any idea how much they cost as I can't find a price anywhere.

Is there some magical technique to getting those nylon sleeves onto a length of wire? I can push the wire in about 4 inches before it binds. The sleeve feels like the right size for the wire but damned if I can get it in there more than a few inches and it needs to go over 6 feet Any ideas?

I want to find the external and internal XY measurements of the pads. How deep would be nice too

People are saying the Pico, with it's DAC and amp, has sound quality competitive with the Apogee minidac and above. It doesn't sport a dedicated line out but would using it's headphone out to a Power amp be a silly idea or what? Could it be used in this way and expect reasonably good results as...

I have a conundrum. I own 2 pairs of K1000s, I was planning on getting a good/decent (not overly expensive) amp to use with them but life is getting in the way, things happened, cash was spent etc. You know the story... So anyway, my question is this: Do you think I should I swap one set...

So, I'm making a set of phones from bits and bobs and am now looking for earpads. What I want ideally is a big set of really comfy pads that go around the ears with room, that are tapered front to back (thin at front, thick at back ) so it tilts the driver and my ears never touch the housing...

I have an ASUS p4p800 mobo which has a coax spdif out built-in and it works nicely with MediaMonkey KenelStreaming but was wondering if there would be any advantage to using a soundcard instead. Basically it's just to feed my DAC and I'd prefer coax to optical. None of the soundcard features...

With the aid of my wifes amazing randome munber choosing skills, the winner is... chesebert Congrats dude Ok guys 'n' gals, this is the stupendously awesome Koss A250 up for grabs. They're black, They're hot and they're sexy... and not even broken in yet! I got these when Koss was...

Our friend caramelsoul is the winner. Ok, this time the giveaway is an Echo Indigo soundcard. Info here this is not the IO version, this is the standard 2 output version. It's a cardbus device (PCMCIA) so a laptop with a slot is necessary otherwise it's just a paperweight. It's...

My wife decided to have a go at some poetry today and came up with something I thought was pretty cool. Anyone else here tried to dabble? I'm hopeless myself but then, she's always had the brains and writing skills in our little family. No title. The water by the path is not my sea...

I was a little confused at first as the tail has lost nearly all it's wire sleeve colors so I had to guess a bit, the blue looks green, the red is very faint and the back is grey and the white is clear/grey but lighter. When I connected up the first time based on what I thought was correct they...

I was wondering how the old SAC K 1000 amp here compares with more modern amps or tube amps. Reason I'm asking is because amps like the F1 and Red Wine are not really in my (wifes) price range. My options are more in the region of the ASL AKG amp, Dared MP5 or the amp designed for it, the SAC...

Moved to amps forum.

Loads of people are modding their cans so I was wondering where people get their mesh from as I'm going to need some soon. It has to be very sexy mesh mind you, none of that garden fence stuff So, any pointers on-line?

Man am I disappointed. I got the DVD a while ago but only just got around to ripping it for headphone duty. On my speaker rig it sounds pretty nice, reasonably well recorded with some nice song renditions. Well, after ripping I stuck the Stax on my head and.... Ack! what's all that hiss?!? Holy...

Anyone know which Stax models share the SR-X pro drivers? Gamma pro maybe? I want to make my own uber-stax SR-X pro hybrid and need to know which cans to hunt down to make the beast.

We finished work on our latest project here at work a few weeks ago so I took a well deserved rest for a couple of weeks. At home I had my MS-1, Koss A250, Ety's and my KSC75's and thought that would be good enough for a holiday, and it was for the first week but then I started craving my work...

I'm looking (without much success) for a bluetooth audio receiver that has optical out so I can plug my dac into it. Basically just a small box that sits near my amp that will pick up wireless output from my pc's default audio out and send it to my dac. It needs to be universal and get all audio...

Have any of you ever heard of a CF interface card that has a spdif out, I found one with spdif *in* to use as a recorder but so far haven't found one with optical out. My new toy, a Sony Viao UX 90s doesn't have optical out so I'm looking for a CF solution so I can keep it internal to the PC, so...