m17xr2b

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Hoarding or saving for a rainy day? Jul 20, 2019 at 2:54 AM

m17xr2b was last seen:: Viewing thread Focal Clear, Jul 21, 2019 at 4:00 AM

1. m17xr2b
  Hoarding or saving for a rainy day?
  
  Jul 20, 2019 at 2:54 AM
  1. David De Lucena likes this.
  2. m17xr2b
    http://tinypic.com/r/sm7vro/9
    And it's not even all of them...alright I might have a problem
    
    Jul 20, 2019 at 2:55 AM
    
    abraxas666, Lyer25 and Jinxy245 like this.
  3. Senorx12562
    A bigger problem would exist if you actually have gear in which to use them all.
    
    Jul 20, 2019 at 4:06 AM
    
    Lyer25 likes this.
2. m17xr2b
  been spending far too much time on old changstar
  
  Jul 1, 2019
  1. Deep Funk likes this.
  2. frenchbat
    Nostalgia is bad mmkay ...
    
    Jul 2, 2019
  3. Deep Funk
    A fun place...
    
    Jul 2, 2019
3. m17xr2b
  balanced armature drivers suck big ass
  
  Jun 24, 2019
  1. famish99, dubharmonic, Kunlun and 1 other person like this.
  2. YMO
    How can you suck ass? I can't suck my GF's butt.
    
    Jun 24, 2019
  3. Priidik
    YMO, you wanna work your way down, can't just barge right in, if you want to eat breakfast together.
    
    Jun 24, 2019
    
    Syzygy, LetMeBeFrank, 9suns and 4 others like this.
  4. Thad E Ginathom
    And might not be a good idea to use the words arse and big together.
    
    Jun 24, 2019
4. m17xr2b
  My bose car stereo sounds better after the andoid auto upgrade. Thank you Mazda.
  
  May 31, 2019
  1. OldDude04, Griffon and Jinxy245 like this.
5. m17xr2b
  Hardest part of amp building, waiting 6-8 weeks for the parts to arrive.
  
  May 24, 2019
  1. atomicbob, hikergrl, Jerry and 4 others like this.
  2. MisterRogers
    Truth. I try to not even start until I have everything in-house. Sometimes I cave.
    
    May 24, 2019
  3. Hrodulf
    Nonsense. Casing is harder.
    
    May 24, 2019
    
    philipmorgan, gurubhai and MisterRogers like this.
  4. MisterRogers
    truth.
    
    May 24, 2019
    
    philipmorgan likes this.
6. Kunlun
  Best wishes on your surgery!
  
  May 22, 2019
  1. Wilson, Ash1412, Thad E Ginathom and 5 others like this.
  2. m17xr2b
    Too many of us are having surgery in such a short time.
    
    May 22, 2019
    
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7. m17xr2b
  10% chance of full recovery with surgery. Should get a cane and and change my name to House.
  
  May 22, 2019
  1. ChaChaRealSmooth, Ash1412, BenjaminBore and 16 others like this.
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  3. Thad E Ginathom
    All the best!
    
    May 22, 2019
  4. Thad E Ginathom
    All the best. May there be pretty nurses, and may you get well soon
    
    May 22, 2019
  5. GanGreinke
    Wish you the best!
    
    May 23, 2019
8. m17xr2b
  That planar bass
  
  May 8, 2019
  1. Ash1412, ChaChaRealSmooth, Jinxy245 and 1 other person like this.
  2. m17xr2b
    Got the HE6se from the HF tour. Initial impressions are quite positive.
    
    May 8, 2019
    
    Jinxy245 and Lyer25 like this.
  3. Lyer25
    Looking forward to a write up!
    
    May 8, 2019
  4. m17xr2b
    Will dedicate time over the weekend for critical listening and impressions.
    
    May 8, 2019
    
    jexby and Jinxy245 like this.
9. m17xr2b
  A month after my original injury my knee is much worse. Can't wait to get a solicitor on Monday and sue the shit out of my insurer.
  
  Apr 27, 2019
  1. Griffon and jazztherapist like this.
  2. BenjaminBore
    How awful, I’m really sorry to hear that. It must be incredibly frustrating. Did they prevent appropriate treatment in some way?
    
    Apr 27, 2019
    
    jazztherapist and Elnrik like this.
  3. Thad E Ginathom
    Sorry about the knee. Hope it gets fixed soon.
    
    Apr 27, 2019
10. m17xr2b
  After MySphere all my headphones sound muddy with excessive midbass. Shit.
  
  Apr 10, 2019
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  3. BenjaminBore
    That’s what no pads or damping will get you, a mudless life. How well do they extend and punch in the low frequencies?
    
    Apr 10, 2019
  4. m17xr2b
    Mid bass punch is great on the 3.2 with good weight and excellent focus. Low bass is mostly non existent on both 3.1 and 3.2. Damn I miss them.
    
    Apr 10, 2019
  5. BenjaminBore
    I think it’s time to strap the Harbeths to your head. Call it intimate-field.
    
    Apr 10, 2019
11. m17xr2b
  Staying up later than I've done in years. Stellaris/Mysphere is keeping me awake.
  
  Mar 29, 2019
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  3. HAL9000
    I am interested to read your impressions... both are on my RADAR...
    
    Mar 30, 2019
  4. m17xr2b
    After the loan period I'll do a write up. There's a lot to take into account and still testing. Suffice to say I want one.
    
    Mar 31, 2019
  5. m17xr2b
    Day 5, still can't put these down.
    
    Apr 2, 2019
    
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12. m17xr2b
  Was searching for a tube I couldn't find, twisted my knee, now I can't walk.
  
  Mar 28, 2019
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  3. m17xr2b
    I got 2W posh resistors and didn't realise the lead is thicker than the speedball circuit board holes. Managed to solder them somehow and ordered proper 1/4W resistors. I'm actually using the E80CC's predecessor, the ECC40, same bias applies and it combines the best of all 6SN7, E80CC and 12AU7.
    
    Mar 29, 2019
  4. m17xr2b
    @e.schell, you were right, I have a torn medial meniscus. The sacrifices I endure for this hobby...
    
    Apr 15, 2019
    
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  5. e.schell
    You're willingness to endure is inspiration to us little people! Onward!
    
    Apr 15, 2019
13. m17xr2b
  By weird chance I ended up with both BH Crack and darkvoice 336. Why do I have 5 amps?
  
  Mar 27, 2019
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  3. dubharmonic
    Did the wall color come before or after the DNA amp? :-)
    
    Mar 27, 2019
  4. m17xr2b
    After
    
    Mar 27, 2019
    
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  5. atomicbob
    Many amps allow one to experiment and reconfigure on a whim. BH Crack is like having an MGB among many high end sports cars in the garage. Sometimes fun factor outweighs other attributes for the day.
    
    Mar 29, 2019
14. m17xr2b
  Got to hear my K1K on a speaker amp for the first time among other things.
  
  Mar 16, 2019
  2. m17xr2b
    http://i67.tinypic.com/2i1nqtj.jpg
    
    Mar 16, 2019
  3. brencho
    That thing is huge. What is it btw looks like vitus.
    
    Mar 16, 2019
  4. m17xr2b
    Vitus SS101, 80kg of hernia.
    
    Mar 17, 2019
    
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15. m17xr2b
  New workplace, people have ultrawide monitors but use 16:9 rez and the monitors stretch to fit. The horror.
  
  Mar 4, 2019
  1. obsiCO, 9suns, Griffon and 12 others like this.
  2. famish99
    Time to quit then
    
    Mar 4, 2019
    
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  3. m17xr2b
    Nah, it's all good, the devs know what they're doing and it wouldn't be a corporation if they didn't severely under use the available hardware.
    
    Mar 5, 2019
16. m17xr2b
  I've ordered the test trail for Mysphere. If anyone in the UK wants to give it a go let me know. Should arrive in the next weeks.
  
  Feb 28, 2019
  1. Jinxy245 and Lyer25 like this.
17. m17xr2b
  Highlight of my day, got called an assholl on HF PM.
  
  Feb 27, 2019
  1. Kunlun, netforce, atomicbob and 5 others like this.
  2. restrav3
    In the words of homer Simpson: "highlight of your day, so far"
    
    Feb 27, 2019
    
    dubharmonic likes this.
  3. ButtUglyJeff
    You are HFing right...
    
    Feb 27, 2019
    
    Thad E Ginathom, OldDude04 and mitochondrium like this.
  4. JustAnotherRando
    On HF? A badge of honour.
    
    Feb 27, 2019
    
    Thad E Ginathom and Elnrik like this.
18. m17xr2b
  one user hailed the marconi B65 as excellent, now all the overpriced philips 6SN7 marconi rebrands are gone from ebay
  
  Feb 7, 2019
  2. Thad E Ginathom
    I thought you said... macaroni
    
    Feb 7, 2019
  3. m17xr2b
    now I'm hungry
    
    Feb 7, 2019
    
    BenjaminBore and Thad E Ginathom like this.
19. m17xr2b
  Shortly after introducing a 2K cable, Danacable unveiled the Nirvana...3.5K for a HP cable. Next up the Orgasmatron for 6K. Poor suckers...
  
  Jan 29, 2019
  1. YMO likes this.
  2. Riotvan
    That Orgasmatron better be thicc
    
    Jan 29, 2019
    
    Griffon, LetMeBeFrank, Merrick and 1 other person like this.
  3. YMO
    Eight inches thick.
    
    Jan 29, 2019
    
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20. m17xr2b
  HD580 bested all my other headphones and everything else I've heard ever. Scaling is over HD650/HD800
  
  Jan 20, 2019
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  3. brencho
    tite tite tite
    
    Jan 20, 2019
    
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  4. Merrick
    Modded or stock? I think a lot of us have settled on 580s.
    
    Jan 20, 2019
  5. m17xr2b
    Dynamat, coin and no back foam with DIY cable. The headphones themselves are the cheapest component in my system and by a good margin even after tubes, cables, source etc.
    
    Jan 20, 2019
    
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Gender:

Male

Birthday:

Sep 21, 1989 (Age: 29)

Location:

United kingdomland of fish and chips

Occupation:

Something between IT and do it all guy

Gear List:

Power:
PS Audio DirectStream P12
Wywires silver mains cables

Transport:
AES16e with HDPlex LPS
Wywires Litespd custom AES/EBU

Dac:
Metrum Pavane with DAC TWO modules
Wywires platinum IC

Amps:
DNA Stellaris 422A/AVVT 2A3/ECC40
Woo WA5LE 422A/Elrog 300B/ECC40
Bottlehead Crack GEC 6AS7G/ECC40

Headphones:
HD580M with HE60 pads, DIY double gauge wywires platinum and duelund solid core balanced cable
HD650M - not really using them
HD650 stock

Speakers:
Harbeth P3ESR
Dual TBI Millenia
Bottlehead Quickie

Got in order and sold except current
HD598 - 2011
Creative Xfi Titanium
HD700
Bottlehead Crack
AD Labs RD26
Bottlehead Quickie
LCD-3PF
TBI Millenia used as HP amp at first
LH Labs geek 1000
Heir Audio 8.0
Project Ember 2.1
HEK
HD650
HD800SDR
Yggdrasil
Q Acoustics 2020i
DNA Stratus
GSX-MK2
Norne Zoetic(reterminated many many times)
Abyss
Moon 600i as amp for Abyss
DXIO PRO3Z
Bottlehead BeePre
ZMF Eikon
HD800SDR again
LCD-3F
HD650M
LCD-4
Lynx E22
DH Labs D110 transport cable
Woo WA5-LE
Trilogy 931
DHC Complement 4 10feet cable for hardwire HD800SDR
Metrum Pavane Level 2
Harbeth P3ESR
WyWires Platinum IC
Abyss again
PS Audio P5
HD650M V2(never sold original HD650M V1)
Schiit Saga
AKG K1000
WyWires red and platinum HD650 cables
Yggdrasil A2
WyWires Silver mains cables
PS Audio P12
Jensen PC-2XR
Lynx AES16 with LPS
Apex Teton
Cavalli Liquid Glass
DNA Stellaris with AN input transformers
Don Audio Phoenix Switch-Box
Apex Peak/Teton
Lynx AES16e with HDPlex LPS
Sennheiser HD250 Linear I 600ohm
Sennheiser HD58X
Wywires Litespd platinum AES/EBU
Sennheiser HD580

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