[eric343]

...well, after *MUCH* ado and even more slacking off, the Infamous KGSS is now sitting on my workbench playing Sousa into a pair of Stax Lambdas! And they sound remarkably good*, too!

Wooohooo!

*for a pair of Lambdas, that is.

 

[ServinginEcuador]

Wow, congrats on the completed job there Eric! Now make sure to post some thoughts on how you like it with the HE90. I am dying to get mine so it would be nice to hear what you thing of how it sounds.

If the phone rings, that would be Guinness calling to get the full spelling on your name for the world record for longest time taken to build a KGSS.

Also, what was wrong with the unit? Was it just a bad component, wiring, or something else that caused all your headaches and delays?

 

[eric343]

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Originally posted by ServinginEcuador Also, what was wrong with the unit? Was it just a bad component, wiring, or something else that caused all your headaches and delays?

Hmm... There was probably a bad component in there somewhere, certainly some bad wiring, lots of "d'oh!" mistakes (including one that *BOTH* Teucer and I made when laying out our boards), lots of time spent waiting for parts to come (I'll have to post a pic of my "used transistor" pile), and even more time spent slacking off (doing things like school or simply not feeling like I want to work on the amp).

 

[binary_digit]

This is coming to the Seattle meet I hope?

 

[kevin gilmore]

Pictures are required!

Next step blue hawaii.

Then the mig amp.

Then the uberamp.
And the home built water chiller that goes with it.

 

[erix]

Congrats, Other Eric!

ok,
erix

 

[eric343]

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Originally posted by kevin gilmore Pictures are required! Next step blue hawaii. Then the mig amp. Then the uberamp. And the home built water chiller that goes with it.

The mig amp?

And yes, I know pics are required, I just have to get Linux installed on this farking webserver which does NOT want any OS installed on it at all... (funny, first time I tried installing something on it was about around the time I started the KGSS... coincidence?

)

...someone wanna lend me a G4 cube? I need something that just works...

 

[robert]

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Originally posted by eric343 ...someone wanna lend me a G4 cube? I need something that just works...

um, i thought no one in Bill Land was allowed to use those???!!

 

[eric343]

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Originally posted by robert um, i thought no one in Bill Land was allowed to use those???!!

Shhh, but I'm here as a spotter to ensure the nukes land correctly on Microsoft headquarters.

Seriously, though, there's a lot of Mac users in Seattle. In fact, Apple just opened a store here recently, there's that many...

 

[kevin gilmore]

pictures from eric hosted by me here

http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/dscn3299.jpg

http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/dscn3303.jpg

http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/dscn3306.jpg

http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/dscn3307.jpg

Pretty good job for a young squirt.

 

[Wilson M.]

Ack! Why did he have to include the pictures with me in them??

I was very impressed by what I heard from the Orpheus and KGSS. There was a little hum/buzz when the volume was quiet and it was a bit disconcerting that touching the volume knob would stop the hum/buzz.

Electrostatics still sound a little bit cool to me. Perhaps they are too detailed and accurate for my inferior brain. Maybe it was all of those years listening to a LP12.

 

[spritzer]

Congrats Eric!

Those He 90's sure look stunning

Damn I hope I won't run into as much trouble as you did when I start building my KGSS...

 

[eric343]

Wilson - how it usually works is that pics get posted of a meet, and if you don't want to be in a pic, you simply don't identify yourself, and nobody need know...

 

[Wilson M.]

Eric: I was just trying to give you a hard time.

I know what the SOP is but I think that it would have come out since there aren't exactly a lot of people in any of the pics. I might as well get the all of the embarrassment over with sooner than later.

I'm more worried about whether I'll ever like the Omega IIs after hearing the HE90s. I might have just been terminally spoiled but damn they were nice.

But now that I've seen a KGSS in the flesh, I'm not quite so scared of building one in the future.

 

[kevin gilmore]

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I'm more worried about whether I'll ever like the Omega IIs after hearing the HE90s. I might have just been terminally spoiled but damn they were nice

I don't have a pair of he90's, but i do have a pair of he60's which
are almost identical. (glass vs phenolic stators)

I do listen to the omega2's and the he60's. They are different.
Which is better is very hard to determine. Compared to everything
else, when driven with the proper amplifier, they kick ass.

I hear rumors from sennheiser that a new he90 like headphone
set with a much more substantial amplifier (solid state) is in
the works.

Have any of you read this?

http://www4.head-fi.org/forums/showt...threadid=41424

darth-nut is back. Need to find a way for someone to build
him a blue hawaii...