k4rstar

I’m seeing early signs of burn out.

K4star is keeping the vintage HD580. He knows the value of a good basic audio system. He got lucky.

I also have 6 pairs of Senns at home, probably offset by 15-20 years though

bixby + tommy - I have a small amount of dynamat and similar materials left for now, but may need more for continued HE6se modding later on if you two have enough left to send to me as well.

@k4rstar, never heard of Cat Power until I looked up your new avatar. Listening to Wanderer now and digging it. Have you heard of Cate Le Bon? She's a Welsh artist you might like. Mug Museum is a favorite of mine. Also give me heads up if you need some more dynamat. I have some left over from modding my turntable.

somehow I had never heard of her either until this popped up in my youtube recommendations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW2PcOyAWwM

a cutie to end all other cuties. I will check out your recommendation as well, thanks

Startup life?

I don't know your boss / organization, but have you spun this back on him? It may have been dumb of me (long term behind the scenes feels stuff) and caused initial ire with person I challenged, but it was a net positive in the long run the times I've challenged similar stuff. Granted challenge for right reasons, not just to "be right" or even to make the company money per se.

My boss once gave me an urgent job to do. He then chatted to me for half an hour, and, after that, asked me why I had not done the job. I asked him what I'd been doing for past half hour.

I was not particularly constrained to be polite to that boss and often wasn't. None the less, my mates and I considered him to be a true man-ager.

If you are lucky you can start a new cult now. The gospel of the DT48-sound is baffling.

@Deep Funk From what I remember, I could see the combination of their "inside the head" lack of soundstage depth together with their continuity (relative gaplessness) in soundstage width being addicting to some.

I have 6 philips based machines now. in the not so distant future I will be selling 5 of them. the goal is to keep the CD880 and one TDA1540 based machine. first I have to listen to everything, compare, take pictures.

Congrats! I both love and hate how it looks.

Double crown chips I presume?

yup lol, my first impression was 'sweet'. I will have a cable made out of Gotham wire soon to compare to something 'neutral'

@E_Schaaf from my small sample size, the black screen HD600 is much better than any previous silver screen iteration I've owned, modded or not.

I didn't really like the Cardas Cross cable when I tried with HD600 a few years ago, though the smurf blue did match the HD600 well. I thought the Clear Light was a better cable, but not worth spending on. Curious to hear how you like the Gotham. I had one made from Mogami 2534.

Debbie Harry in Rock and Rule

Manic pixie dream girl - not.

actually, there are a number of sites selling restored vintage radios with built in bluetooth receivers and DACs, some quite luxurious.

Does this have anything to do with binge-watching Mad Men as mentioned in post below? GF and I are doing this, and yeah, I've seen some really neat stuff from my childhood - cars, clothes, radios, etc.

haha, not exactly. I have been getting into increasingly esoteric branches of vintage audio over the past year, and I have especially come to admire equipment from West Germany. the next leap will be an acoustic gramophone! perhaps an HMV 102?

I should find where in my basement my pair is. I forgot I owned those.

for whatever reason I have an itch to try an AT phone, its between the og AD2K and the og W5K.

https://www.head-fi.org/threads/fs-audio-technica-ath-ad2000-non-x.939717/

Isn't it almost 4am in Toronto?

yes, working from home for 4 months straight has ruined my sleep schedule. currently binge watching Mad Men

Headphones arrived, look kinda cool and sturdy as well. I like the weight. They also work thankfully. Now we need to get them across the sea.

Put a shoutout on Twitter. One of the trolls would probably be willing to help.

I'm no Russian, but I speak their tongue.

@Zampotech?

thank you. actually it is due to YouTube recommendations. in the past year I became interested in Soviet pop from the 70s, singers like Anna German, Alla Pugacheva, Maria Pakhomenko. it started to recommend me stage and film music as well.

I watched "guest from the future", "prisoner of the caucasus" and "big space journey" with english subtitles. to be honest the scores of these productions are some of the most beautiful music I have heard. obviously there is a culture and class to Soviet film and music before the dissolution of the USSR that was already rapidly eroded in the West.

You learn this from Confucius?

He /taught/ it to Confucius!

In short: stop being lazy, cook a good meal and eat; you might attract a lady and you eat together.

Both of you get a week off for crapping up the forum.

WTF was that all about? Oh, never mind. I missed it. Life is too short.

Matt’s amps are just gorgeous.

Is he going to 78 rpm next?

Hi friend. If you need help, call me. I’m a psychiatrist. Lol

I like breaking records best

another one
https://i.imgur.com/BHN3rqw.jpg

How does it hold a sandwich or drink?

Whoa, linear tonearm

@m17xr2b yes 45s with an 80. it can also accept 2A3s with a 5Z3.

The toolshed guy is into Klipsch and apparently gave some feedback to Steve Jain during development of the HP-3. He has recommended it to me heavily so I plan on getting a pair to check out.

As for the JAR I do have a stock pair to compare it to but haven't gotten around to it yet. Will do so for the sake of science once the amp is broken in.

Very cool. I modded the stellaris to accept 45s, won't be perfect but good enough, just waiting on the globes to be delivered.
You can use 5U4 with adaptor instead of 5Z3, same tube just different base as I remember

I somehow really rather doubt it'll suit your preferences, but it might make for an excellent flavour can. Looking forward to both sets of impressions!