rhythmdevils

you mean lets get rid of the dead garbage inventory day?

I bought some (hopefully) nice pens from Target today.

@bixby thats fun. The little things :) I've got nothing against buying things but national holidays devoted to it is a bit much.

Not a big eBay buyer, but isn't paypal owned by eBay, or otherwise related corporately?

Weird

Happened to my dad on his phone recently. Tried another device (laptop) when we got home and worked first try. Something is up on your device causing a loop or failure to load. Might be time to clear your cache.

There’s also this cable splitter

https://a.co/d/0gIrkDc9

@atomicbob

No on the first xlr switchers . Good way to degrade the digital stream.
Maybe on the cable splitter.
Yes on the whirlwind.
Here is what I use:
https://www.markertek.com/product/ets-pa830/ets-pa830-aes-ebu-110-ohm-digital-audio-splitter-xlrf-to-2-xlrm
proven to work and tested with dScope jitter analysis.

Thank you @atomicbob ! I bought the one you use and have tested. :)

I had planned to buy earpads from this place as its in the US: https://hifiheaven.net/product/sennheiser-534411-earpads-for-hd800-headphones/

Yeah I used Hifi Heaven.

Thank you!

@rhythmdevils I'm sure plenty of us would be interested in a RD800... I know I would!

Cool I'll send something out tomorrow!

Thanks Clay!

But every tube company seemingly except Mullard has their good models and some models they don't do as well at. Mullard somehow seemed to do every single tube model one of the best in the industry. Anyways, maybe I've just missed the good Fivre tubes? Their 2a3's go for like 2k. :-0

Mullard was purchased by Philips in the late 1920s. Dutch engineers at Philips invented the pentode tube and from there would go on to introduce many new vacuum tube types as audio amplification technology progressed. Mullard would become the principal manufacturing house and brand for the export of Philips tube designs to the rest of the western world.

It all depends on the tube. Are those fivre 2a3s very early models or single plates or have something unique to their build? I persondlly am not the biggest mullard fan outside the ole' GZ34 rectifiers. The more balanced holland and US tubes do it for me. Just like some say GEC is the top of all, well yeah if you like the british heavy mid focus sound, but there are tons of other wonderful things out there i prefer.

Hi Nicholas! :)

I can’t buy it myself because registration requires an EU phone number. Thanks!

Sure i can help i have an account there, dm me

@Riotvan bought the amp for me! Thanks so much! <3

I picked some KLEI banana connectors from PartsConnexion. I like them better than the gold plated brass or copper plugs.

Connectors are always a weak point. Bananas are even worse if they are the screw down type because that's such a weak point of contact. Anything with a welded spade would have the best surface contact by a longshot.

I really like the KLE rca connectors.

Or maybe don't do t00bs.

I’d rather die than listen to SS shite @YMO

You got cursed with t00bs. I like b00bs over t00bs.

Maybe it is like cars. Supply chain issues pushed up the price of new, and so made used command a premium. Now the supply chain is fixed and used cars no longer have that premium anymore.

@rhythmdevils - Not saying you are chasing new toys, rather that those now buying are, hence the lack of demand price for your really good slightly older stuff. Peeps often chase new even when new is not better.

@bixby oh cheers! Yeah I'm buying some new amps but a lot of older or obscure stuff that's definitely not FOTM! haha. I wish I could go to meets, it would free me from most of these purchases and the loss from resale. And then I could buy more orthos to modify! :D

@rhythmdevils were you running the stock tube?

Stock tube is serviceable, but a bit flat. granted, i didn't put more than 8-10 hours on the stock tube, but unless there are more than the normal sonic gains associated with a tube burning in, the stock Russian tube is safe, if a bit boring.

@joch no the WE369a in the Vali 3 I haven’t tried the stock tube because I have a big bag of NOS 2C51 tubes. :)
The Drop TA-84 is such a great amp for the price I’m going to get a review sample for SBAF as soon as possible.

@Thad E Ginathom , sorry to hear about your gods missing hands...I can pray about that.

@rhythmdevils as soon as I saw the note, I was 99% sure it was him, that tone is so him, unmistakable! I’ve been buying tubes from him for years. A great seller. He’s funny, but with an old school feel to his character.

I didn't know if he was being serious or not but either way it gave me a good laugh :D

Depending on the volume of work you could get away finding someone to record audio for cheaper than the cost of one of those TTS services. That's ignoring the whole "using robots when you can pay a (voice) artist" debacle, but I will readily point out that a lot of folks' audio is just outright bad.

@Lyander id love to have a human record my writing but I don’t have time. I’m tweaking my writing right up to when I post it. It would take a few days to organize someone recording a voice recording for me. Unfortunately

The irony being that although audio makes things seemingly more accessible in terms of initial cognitive demand, as it is a passive vs active activity, I find it more demanding on limited energy reserves vs reading.

They are egg-shaped headphones!

A hidden city is the last thing I want in my bushes.

Hmmm... Wait... OK, maybe!

^ hence why I think this is yet another way for IRS / gov to try to control us.

OTOH we also cannot underestimate some of the stupid things that companies will do to "make money" ... even if they do not actually make money from it.

@penguins well PayPal makes money off this because they don’t pay sellers until the item is confirmed to have arrived. So if there is a problem they just don’t give the seller the money. Rather than paying the seller upfront in a possible scam where the seller makes out with it and PayPal has to pay themselves to make it right with the buyer.

But that’s soooo unlikely with a user who has zero questionable incidents over 25 years.

L(yander)LM

ROFL. If there ends up being a language learning model patterened after MY writing the internet's gonna run out of space just from all the purple prose that ends up churning out /s

LOL, would probably end up being true for me, though.
Then again those LLMs already generate way too long texts with lots of disclaimers. But in this case it's best to ask a professional who can better judge how long a text a LLM would create. Whether the internet would run out of space depends not only on the amount of content being written, but also based on the compression and total storage space available.

Balanced hd800 sounded better from the phonitor vs Se he 800 when using stock cables for both. I guess ymmv.

@Cellist88 well the Phonitor has tons of space to make a balanced design. Potables sacrifice a ton of needed internal space for the huge 4.4mm female plug. I’m just curious if that space was used in an SE circuit if it would sound better. But the Phonitor can just make the amp bigger to accommodate bal connections and circuits so it’s not quite the same situation. <3

The problem with most implementation of balance plugs is that they’re not even truly balanced. It’s a waste. It’s for convenience and marketing as suggested above. If they’re gonna do true balance, I think XLR4 or miniXLR4 should be the way to go. Straight 4-5 poles are not really good designs for balance. If you need small…go wireless :P

Would it be too sacrilegious to reach out to someone like steve deckert head honcho at decware?

@yotacowboy i can’t imagine him being interested in trying to fix someone else’s design instead of making his own amps. I guess I could try though. There has to be a way this is like 5-6k invested here. Not to mention precious works of art.

Maybe its worth contacting a custom amp builder like Oliver Sayes, James Burgess or Ming Yang and ask if they would be willing to repair?

Outside of trawling Aliexpress or a custom metal shop, you could see if there are any magnetic step up rings for lens filters that would work. I see some in the 105mm range but no idea if the polarity would be right.

is it just a flat plate? you could get one laser cut

https://www.superbestaudiofriends.org/index.php?threads/resources-for-diyers.10300/#post-329087

something like this perhaps:
https://www.amazon.com/105mm-Stainless-Steel-Internal-Retaining/dp/B07YN4MND2