Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

[Paladin79]

Winders have you built any of Bob's stuff? One of his colleagues had a DIY headphone tube amp on the site but it was not there the last time I looked (HA12?).

I came pretty close to buying a ST70 or 120 Kit (Dynaco clones) and adding a headphone jack to it. But thought it would be a good way to melt my phones and held off. Having spent time on this forum and building the coaster I now realized that even using the 4 ohm (I was suggested to use the 16ohm tap) tap off the OT on an ST120 probably would not have given a good result with 32 ohm-50 ohm phones. My understanding now is <1ohm (like my Jotunheim) for such low resistance HPs is a better choice. Not to mention that with 60W of power into 8ohms would be way too much even for Audeze.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, it is how I learn.

Winders is perfectly capable of answering this so I will defer. I will just say many headphones handle 3-5 watts and if you put enough current through wire you basically have a fuse.

 

[CAPT Deadpool]

Winders is perfectly capable of answering this so I will defer. I will just say many headphones handle 3-5 watts and if you put enough current through wire you basically have a fuse.

Yeah and I have a young son who likes numbers and turning up dials. Could lose my hearing and phones at the same time.

 

[FLTWS]

Good site! I started out on some Heathkit and Dynaco Dynakits in the early seventies. Refurbishing old equipment is something I want to get back into but it can be very time consuming. Maybe when I retire.

Ditto, I'm retired since 09', still no time somehow?

 

[Paladin79]

Yeah and I have a young son who likes numbers and turning up dials. Could lose my hearing and phones at the same time.

When I first got on headfi there was a conversation about what wire gauge to use to hook to a 200 watt amp and then wire it directly to a headphone cable lol. It was freaking scary. 10 awg wire down to 26 awg then on into the headphone cups.

 

[yonson]

Thank you for another awesome chapter Jason! When I lived out there I had the opportunity to partake at the Brewlab a couple times, I was also quite surprised they never had the same thing more than once...

 

[FrivolsListener]

When I first got on headfi there was a conversation about what wire gauge to use to hook to a 200 watt amp and then wire it directly to a headphone cable lol. It was freaking scary. 10 awg wire down to 26 awg then on into the headphone cups.

That's truly frightening.

 

[Paladin79]

Ditto, I'm retired since 09', still no time somehow?

I will want to travel but even now with driving time I do 11 hour days on weekdays and work on DIY audio and home projects on the weekend. I no longer read a book a day but manage four a week so I am slowing down some. I cannot imagine not being busy so I may consult 20 hours a week in retirement.

 

[Paladin79]

That's truly frightening.

I really wondered what kind of site I walked into, three guys were defending this idea lol. Hifiman headphones need more power! Sure they do, but not that kind of wattage lol.

 

[FrivolsListener]

I really wondered what kind of site I walked into, three guys were defending this idea lol. Hifiman headphones need more power! Sure they do, but not that kind of wattage lol.

You do see some crazy stuff around here, but that one is more than two sigmas out!

 

[US Blues]

Jason- nice chapter, some live music is still worthwhile.

If you had an astrologer on staff you would have known this week would move forward much better than last week. Come October things will be cranking!

 

[CAPT Deadpool]

Jason- nice chapter, some live music is still worthwhile.

If you had an astrologer on staff you would have known this week would move forward much better than last week. Come October things will be cranking!

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[judson_w]

Concerts can be hit or miss. I find the audience can affect things as much as the artist(s). Last concert I went to was Sylvan Esso in Seattle. It was an outdoor concert that had more of a block party feel than a concert. People were talking and it was very unpleasant (I did think how I could hear the music much better and more comfortably in my bedroom system).

Then again, seeing Of Monsters and Men in Iceland was amazing. The crowd was there to appreciate them (some, like me, stood through four opening acts that were meh just to see them and they had to close the doors as they reach capacity. Note: this was a music festival where anyone with a pass could get in, but the venue could not hold that many so it was first come first served). They opened with Thousand Eyes which is one of my favorite songs. They had multiple drums on stage and all of the band joined in for the building climax towards the end. The energy of the concert was great.



Then there are instances like when I saw Torres. I loved (and still love) her albums, but her live performances have a lot more energy to them that is more than just overdriving a system. For a few weeks after those concerts, I had trouble enjoying her albums.

 

[winders]

Winders have you built any of Bob's stuff? One of his colleagues had a DIY headphone tube amp on the site but it was not there the last time I looked (HA12?).

No, I have not. My Don Sachs Model 2 preamp is based on Bob's SP14. Don makes a ton of changes to the design but they are based on the same board. I don't know about the headphone amp. Sorry.

 

[artur9]

They are supposed to make sure the passed laws are executed as written and invalidated if unconstitutional.

You want Roman law, not English law? I don't think you actually do but what do I know.

 

[Timster]

Interesting side note - I read a story a few years ago that power companies were no longer required to maintain strict frequency control over their mains voltage. In the past, the tight 50/60 Hz mains frequencies were what kept clocks accurate. I'm thinking that was when electric clocks were motor driven and not a circuit board full of integrated circuits and a couple crystal oscillators.

It is almost impossible to maintain the tight tolerances to 50/60hz frequency on the grids today, due to the intermittents that are part of the generation mix. Large, thermal power plants were able to keep the grid in very close sync, but generation is far more variable today, so the tolerances had to be relaxed or solar and wind would never work in a grid connected situation. At grid scale, you can only keep stable frequency with large, spinning generation.