taylor
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Bought mine a couple weeks ago, very happy with it.
I'm running AKG K340s, a beastly can that's 2x400 ohm, even higher impedance than the famous HD650.
My serial number starts with 2009.
Has anyone dimmed or replaced the LED? I like having an indication that my equipment is on, but the blue LED is so bright that I can't look at it without seeing spots. Being that I have it on a shelf to the side of my monitor near eye level, that isn't a good thing. Right now, I have about half a dozen layers of scotch tape over the LED, and it's bearable, but I'm curious if anyone else has had problems with this or has done anything about it. I'm tempted to either replace the resistor, or replace it with a dimmer white LED.
Aside from that, has anyone tried adjusting the gain?
I figured that with my difficult-to-drive high impedance cans, I'd have to crank it (and was actually worried the headphone section wouldn't be enough for them), but it's the opposite. There are 30 notches on the volume control. At 0, 1, and 2, there is no audible music. At 3, it is slightly above a normal listening level, and at 4, it's too loud. Oddly enough, with my Shure E2Cs, there is also no music at 0, 1, and 2, but 3 is way too loud.
Otherwise, there is a lot of background noise on this thing, but I think it's just dirty AC power, because every amp I've used in this building has had this scratching buzzing hum noise when nothing was playing. I'm thinking about picking up one of those $60 Furman power conditioners. My friend has one, so I was planning on bringing the D1 over there and testing it with and without the power conditioner to see if it does anything.
I'm running AKG K340s, a beastly can that's 2x400 ohm, even higher impedance than the famous HD650.
My serial number starts with 2009.
Has anyone dimmed or replaced the LED? I like having an indication that my equipment is on, but the blue LED is so bright that I can't look at it without seeing spots. Being that I have it on a shelf to the side of my monitor near eye level, that isn't a good thing. Right now, I have about half a dozen layers of scotch tape over the LED, and it's bearable, but I'm curious if anyone else has had problems with this or has done anything about it. I'm tempted to either replace the resistor, or replace it with a dimmer white LED.
Aside from that, has anyone tried adjusting the gain?
I figured that with my difficult-to-drive high impedance cans, I'd have to crank it (and was actually worried the headphone section wouldn't be enough for them), but it's the opposite. There are 30 notches on the volume control. At 0, 1, and 2, there is no audible music. At 3, it is slightly above a normal listening level, and at 4, it's too loud. Oddly enough, with my Shure E2Cs, there is also no music at 0, 1, and 2, but 3 is way too loud.
Otherwise, there is a lot of background noise on this thing, but I think it's just dirty AC power, because every amp I've used in this building has had this scratching buzzing hum noise when nothing was playing. I'm thinking about picking up one of those $60 Furman power conditioners. My friend has one, so I was planning on bringing the D1 over there and testing it with and without the power conditioner to see if it does anything.