manaox2
Headphoneus Supremus
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I wish I could do that! I do have a populated OPUS, but no ballsie. TPA is out of stock of them too. Have to wait for more funds anyway... so no biggie.
My max has really started settling in now. It generally takes about 5 hours for it to really settle though it seems with my voltage meter still, though my tubes have well over 50 hours. It sounds really great after its been on about two hours, but even I can notice some soft clipping before that.
The weirdest thing is that things don't sound like they are located properly in the right earphone. I listen to a lot of holophonic stuff (3D aural recording for headphones) and the right side is kind of collapsed. Things that should sound directly behind me sound off to the left corner of the back end and not the middle, regardless of the three sources (granted that they were pretty low end) I've tried. The right side sounds moved to the back end as well. Now something may be wrong with my HD650s which I will test with some different phones later (not the UE11, don't worry about that), but does anyone else have any ideas on something that could cause this with the amp build?
Its like the front right quarter area of headspace is being almost completely bypassed which I thought might be fixed by burn-in. With binaural or holophonically recorded tracks, it feels like I have had my right ear relocated closer to the back of my head.
Its a very interesting yet fatiguing effect that has me constantly wanting to twist my head around to focus on the source of the sound on the right (and with headphones attached to my head, of course that doesn't work).
I replaced some of the transisters in the left channal when I repaired my mistakes, but things actually sound in their proper places there. So unless its one of those things where the brain interprets audio cues on the left side and they aren't projected properly to connect with the right side noises, I am not sure why the never touched matched transistors would be causing this. At least I can say this is interesting and could be a variety of thing such as source, cable, amp, headphones, hearing, or just brain damage.
I rule out the source and cable just because of them working with other things perfectly fine and my brain or hearing isn't affected without the headphones. That leaves either the headphones or amp. If its actually my amp and I obviously suspect it is, it is a very odd occurence to me.
| Originally Posted by digger945 /img/forum/go_quote.gif manaox, I wanna know if your eyes water when you get the Opus feedin' the Max. Yea that's the only reason I didn't go home (Asheville) this year, cuz I bought way too many diy stuffs and goodies 
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I wish I could do that! I do have a populated OPUS, but no ballsie. TPA is out of stock of them too. Have to wait for more funds anyway... so no biggie.
My max has really started settling in now. It generally takes about 5 hours for it to really settle though it seems with my voltage meter still, though my tubes have well over 50 hours. It sounds really great after its been on about two hours, but even I can notice some soft clipping before that.
The weirdest thing is that things don't sound like they are located properly in the right earphone. I listen to a lot of holophonic stuff (3D aural recording for headphones) and the right side is kind of collapsed. Things that should sound directly behind me sound off to the left corner of the back end and not the middle, regardless of the three sources (granted that they were pretty low end) I've tried. The right side sounds moved to the back end as well. Now something may be wrong with my HD650s which I will test with some different phones later (not the UE11, don't worry about that), but does anyone else have any ideas on something that could cause this with the amp build?
Its like the front right quarter area of headspace is being almost completely bypassed which I thought might be fixed by burn-in. With binaural or holophonically recorded tracks, it feels like I have had my right ear relocated closer to the back of my head.
I replaced some of the transisters in the left channal when I repaired my mistakes, but things actually sound in their proper places there. So unless its one of those things where the brain interprets audio cues on the left side and they aren't projected properly to connect with the right side noises, I am not sure why the never touched matched transistors would be causing this. At least I can say this is interesting and could be a variety of thing such as source, cable, amp, headphones, hearing, or just brain damage.
I rule out the source and cable just because of them working with other things perfectly fine and my brain or hearing isn't affected without the headphones. That leaves either the headphones or amp. If its actually my amp and I obviously suspect it is, it is a very odd occurence to me.
