Are you related to Bill Gates or something? LOL
HAH, I wish! I just work a lot (24 yrs, https://www.linkedin.com/in/craftmike, I'm 38, and have invested almost all of my money in this stupid stuff instead of something smart like gold
) and don't have much of a life outside of that. I also have been addicted to slickdeals and eBay for a long time... you can see the gear I mentioned I purchased recently there even... my eBay id is craftyhack since 1997, and I have gotten some great deals from the classifieds here too, and it turns out the folks from eBay were from here too
. I am also liquidating some firearms/ammo and other HT gear for stuff I will actually use like this, and I am not going to keep all of this (I don't think), just spend a few months going through gear until I find a few setups I really like. My home theater gear(in my profile) and firearm/ammo/blade collection is much worse; oh yeah... and camera gear... and tools... and Audi's... and computer crap (the WORST addiction for an OCD person into the latest and greatest TOTL stuff).... and I will stop now, it is clear I have a problem :/. Once I get get rid of a bunch of it I should be able to get more head-fi gear as well to do some more reviews on my path to find what I like the most.
As far as amp's I only really have Firefly's on the list (with the new tube PS) for sure which other ones yet.
The ONLY thing I have paid anywhere close to retail is the HA-1 the second it came in stock and I saw it. Even got $200 off the AK240 on Amazon (new from auth reseller even) which was great I thought until I saw the FP deal here on the UE/AK combos. I really HAD to at least try it, Jude talked me into it along with Currawong, their reviews made me drool as I watched them over and over... although it was expensive as hell!!! Since I am definitely keeping that though(unless those SOBs better come out with another flagship
), I am gonna get it RWAK'ed after I have done all of the reviews with it, so that I can do all of the reviews with it again
. Definitely cannot afford to buy another to compare at the same time tho
.
I forgot to mention that a set of PM-1's is also on the very short list (next 30 days), how could I forget! I am wondering if that is going to be the magic set if it was designed to be paired with this HA-1.