[GumbyDammit223]

What equipment of yours is so broken or poorly placed that you need balance control?

Wait until you develop Left Ear Syndrome (or Right Ear Advantage).

 

[adydula]

Mine does. I have never used it.

ok there is now 1. Next Please.

:>)

 

[Roy G. Biv]

Mine does. I have never used it.

You look like Larry King in the reflection. Just sayin'.

 

[Ableza]

You look like Larry King in the reflection. Just sayin'.

How do you know I'm not?

 

[Odin412]

After going thru soooo many Schiit products I had to buy this:
(Its so dam cute! What's not to love!!! LOL!

And it sounds good too!

 

[Alcophone]

How many other amps for headphones have a balance pot?

SparkoS Aries has two big rotary encoders on either end of the front, and you can swap which one controls the volume and which one controls the balance. Sadly no option to make both control the volume, but that's understandable because they are not motorized and don't spin freely.

 

[adydula]

I listened to 77.78492394% of this and not a single mention of VU Meters...Just sayin'. "SIGH"...Dammit!

ORT

Love the chat...Jason is such a breath of fresh air....just an honest successful engineer, having FUN...and the time of his life!
Glad to see this in America today with all that the country has gone thru...

Enjoy the music!
Life is too short...

:>)

Alex

 

[Roy G. Biv]

How do you know I'm not?

It had occurred to me but I seem to remember LK passing away earlier this year. That, and you don't have as many ex-wives. Or maybe you do. Dunno.

 

[33na3rd]

ok there is now 1. Next Please.

:>)

Melos SHA Gold.
Or did you mean headphone amps built this century only?

 

[Paladin79]

More like a child of Cerberus. That way, one head can eat NC BBQ, while the other 2 gag...!

LMAO!

 

[bcowen]

Hell's kittens that is almost as bad as @bcowen moving from cardboard box to cardboard box. I believe he was raised by wolves, some think he is Romulus, others Remus, but I have no opinion either way.

Bad?!? We upgraded from a single-wall to double-wall when I was in elementary school, and then moved to a nice place near a golf course into a double-wide double-wall when I was in high school. I remember Sunday drives stacked up on the family moped thinking how lucky we were.

 

[Paladin79]

How many other amps for headphones have a balance pot?

Those I build for myself have separate left and right volume pots if that counts. They even have VU meters if I so desire. On one occasion I even messed around with magic eye tubes but that was just to win a bet. I self fund my audio habit. Some are ugly but I generally win the bets. I had to incorporate a blade switch on this one.

 

[tincanear]

You look like Larry King in the reflection. Just sayin'.

How do you know I'm not?

It had occurred to me but I seem to remember LK passing away earlier this year. That, and you don't have as many ex-wives. Or maybe you do. Dunno.

obviously Ableza = Larry King. but maintaining both personas became a very belaboring and time-consuming process, so the logical option was to terminate one of them
(and of course the one talking about audio, booze, cats, etc. couldn't be possibly be eliminated).

 

[corndog71]

My second tube preamp was a Bottlehead Foreplay 2 with dual mono volume controls. Not the best preamp but for the money and simplicity it was a fun kit.

 

[Paladin79]

My second tube preamp was a Bottlehead Foreplay 2 with dual mono volume controls. Not the best preamp but for the money and simplicity it was a fun kit.

My only issue with Bottlehead is i glance at a kit and have a clear vision of what I would change so I am then in for a lot of work.