kiertijai
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@CEE TEE purrin's "modded 'stat". Is this the modded HE audio Jade?
Any experience on Electra + HE90?
Any experience on Electra + HE90?
Mine are a stock as stock can be.
Did you hear the one at the Headroom table?
are they any pix or more of a description of your latest diy creation? your builds consistently look better than a lot of commercial endeavors and are often aesthetic masterpieces!
actually it'd be great if a thread could be assembled with photos of your various projects. i'm sure many here would love to see that!
if you could give a brief description of the diy 'stats for those of us unfamiliar with them that'd also be helpful.
From what I understand it was a very expensive build, so how does it sound?
Phil's Beta22 amp. Really beautiful.
It's built with the lowest gain (2 per board, effectively 4 per channel balanced) which drives the HD800 and LCD2/3 very nicely but doesn't really have enough juice for the HE-6 unless you prefer to listen at lower to mid levels. Since it wasn't built for speaker use I wanted the gain optimized for most dynamic phones, and low gain sounds the cleanest. It gets plenty loud with the HD800 around the 12:00 position and plenty loud with the LCD2/3 around the 2:30 position (6:00 is mute, 5:30 is max). You can build them with gain settings of 2, 5, 8, and 11. If I had been using a top quality pot like the RK50 I might have gone with 5 which is also nearly as clean, but a 23 position (plus mute) DACT stepped attenuator doesn't give you as much range though it did allow for a remote motor drive which the ALPS did not. That, in my opinion, is the one downside to the Beta22 – it's lack of variable gain. For more range I can always use my Transporter's digital volume control which has 0.5dB steps if I needed, but I find the 23 steps are fine with the HD800.
How did the name cards sound with the LCD-2s?
You were wearing a pair of Grados (metal ones) around your neck and you had a cool portable rig. You tried out a pair of Pioneer portables I had brought and you said they weren't too bad. Quick question, who are you?
LOL. I like the O2 better because of its more consistent performance. But I know what you guys mean. The ODAC at its best is very very good.
So who's up for a mini-meet in South OC? I'm bummed that I wasn't able to meet many of you. By the time I got done with my chores, I walked to some of your guys' tables, but many of you were off listening to other stuff.
You're thinking of sluker -- who had a backpack full of Magnum builds of various sorts. He stopped by the registration desk and let me have at it with all of them -- very cool stuff.
So whens this mini-meet?