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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: denti alligator on August 16, 2013, 01:17:04 PM
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... that I can't get anymore Bottleheads amps until we've a) paid off our debt, b) bought a house, and c) bought a new car.
What a spoil sport!
Thankfully the BH DAC isn't technically an "amplifier" ;)
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Yep Sam, thats how you get them! Trip em up on semantics... Yea, we all know thats bull shit... They just come back with - Oh I just got this ring, you know, since you got your "amp".
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Start playing songs like "Our D-I-V-O-R-C-E becomes final todayyyyyyyyy" through the old amp.
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Ahhhhh, I'm so thankful that mine gives me this hobby!
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I had to put up a good fight to get this. It was I don't drink, no money spent on sports, no pay per view, no money sunken into a car, all my music movies and games are downloaded vs her nails, make-up, fake eyelashes, ANOTHER pair of black shoes, every extra channel cable has to offer, etc.... It's a very winnable battle with the right strategy. As for no more amps? She probably wouldn't even notice if a different one was there the same way I don't notice another pair of black shoes.
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somehow I knew this would be a "touchy" subject!.. Its like breathing... audiophiles have to pay for it some way or another. I dont get it...
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I never understood the shoes thing.
Its like saying I'd buy a pair of caps, or tubes, that I will only listen to once...John
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I am SO grateful I dont have the "shoe" thing with my wife. Thats nuts, again, IMO. haahaaa
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Nah, the shoes get worn over and over. The one that kills me is going to something formal. Dress shopping for a $300 dress that is worn by her once, then by a hanger in the closet forever. If you ask me, we can play semantics all we want. They say they're getting their nails done, but come home $75 later with fingers done, toes done, some design on them that requires a microscope to see, and some eyebrows waxed..... are we all going to have to get some No Ma'am shirts?
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I've made it a habit of asking on one random day per week if a particular article of clothing she's wearing is new. It keeps her on her toes a bit.
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I even suggest certain things to wear. But then, she looks great in just about everything, so I guess I am a winner in just about every catagory...'cept money.
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My heart goes out to you guys in the struggle. After giving a Pete Riggle Woody tonearm the go ahead last January, Molly has now told me that its OK if we save up for a pair of Feastrex D9 Monster Alnico's to go with our SR45's running EML 45's. (our NF5ex need the Paramounts to truly shine and we want something to pair perfectly with the 45s as well). Granted, its all technically "for the business," and I ALWAYS make sure to keep our listening area very tidy ;) ... but she was enamored with this pastime long before we got married. I got really lucky! So I'll keep trying my best to design and make high WAF components for all of our benefit!!!
But still... even in my case the ethic is the same...gotta improve the sound system with whatever means are necessary!
Cheers,
-Clark
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It's all about picking your battles gentlemen. We can't all be so lucky to have a significant other that is on board with high end audio (lucky bastard), some of us have wives that don't care how good it is as long as it plays britney spears.
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This thread would just get me in trouble. I'm smarter than that.
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I'm not Clark, but we have no debt, we own our house, and I just paid off my wife's car.
That's why I now own the all DHT Stereomour.
BH-DAC, here I come! ;D
Oh shit, now I see Mike is having a sale!
You guys are killing me!
Why do I feel like a woman in a department store at a shoe sale?
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Remember guys, "It's better to beg for forgiveness than to ask for permission."
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Maybe if we learned to just listen . . .
http://vimeo.com/66753575
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So..... why did she marry a man if she didn't want a "fixer?"
Men want to fix things. I painted the front door today. The shutters had been taken down and repainted and it made the door look like crap. So I fixed it!
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Clark, I just had to view those monster drivers one more time. Now, you have to tell us more about them, pleeeease.
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I've been buying gear with the money I made from the "remember that amp I sold? money" forever. Must have been an Ongaku :)
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Why don't you teach your wife to solder and let her build a kit :-)
Debra
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After giving a Pete Riggle Woody tonearm the go ahead last January,
Cheers,
-Clark
Clark
What do you think of the Woody tonearm? I am thinking of getting one as a future upgrade for my new table
Debra
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better have her write that out and have her sign and date it, then take it to be noterised just to be safe.
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Solidarity!
Yeah, I'll be okay. I figure the DAC will hold me over :). And having a house would be nice, too. So I can see eye to eye on that one.
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Why don't you teach your wife to solder and let her build a kit :-)
Debra
Oooh, I like this!
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Why don't you teach your wife to solder and let her build a kit :-)
Debra
I have a Quickie out in the garage waiting for the wife to build at some point...
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Because she needs to take care of four (actually five counting me).
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My wife used to refer to soldering as "gluing with metal"
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There is no way JOSE, that my wife would EVER be interesting in soldering. She likes the music, she doesnt perceive how, or why its got better over the years. She's a girly girl. Thats ok! Thats why I married her 25yrs ago!
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I've been buying gear with the money I made from the "remember that amp I sold? money" forever. Must have been an Ongaku :)
LMFAO!
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I've been buying gear with the money I made from the "remember that amp I sold? money" forever. Must have been an Ongaku :)
LMFAO!
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After giving a Pete Riggle Woody tonearm the go ahead last January,
Cheers,
-Clark
Clark
What do you think of the Woody tonearm? I am thinking of getting one as a future upgrade for my new table
Debra
Debra,
The woody is sublime. I've also sold Pete a decent sized stock of highly figured mahogany that's to be used beyond my order with him so that he can use the same wood for other folks. Some really special stuff, but I forgot to take pictures prior to delivering it.
I'm old friends of Pete and the eastern washington crew he rolls with and have heard his woody through his and others' systems many times over the years. I'll probably just use a stock DL-103 at least initially as its been the cart ive been happiest with on his arm so far. For me, it is a purchase of the ultimate tonearm for *me*. Highly musical, well engineered but not over engineered, with woodwork and finish quality (true french polish) that will humble us for many years to come. Also, Pete is really good about giving advice on system setup to optimize global performance. These are the same values with which we run our company so its only natural that the woody is the tonearm for us.
Greg - the 9" feastrex Monster Alnico holds the world record for the largest alnico magnetic circuit attached to a 8"-9" fullrange driver. 30kgs/pr. They are really beautiful sounding - as they really dont skimp on parts quality. Alnico grade 5-7, and the circuit is charged as an entire piece after assembly. The primary circuit is hydrogen annealed pure iron, the pole piece and top plate (the voice coil gap) are capped with pieces of hydrogen annealed permendur. The sound is heavy, "blue," (synesthesia) and extremely pure and warm.
Granted, there are other fullrange drivers out there that use permendur, but Feastrex has a custom mettalurgist to make theirs... And it is actually a rather large company, not a cottage industry mettalurgist. Also, not purchased from chinese rare earth alloy market (which typically gives no guarantee for purity and ratios of metals in the alloy.). Suffice it to say, that the folks out there who have any doubts that the approach of using a widerange/fullrange single driver works (for the reasons of dynamics and FR and all the typical gripes), really owes this class of FR driver a listen.
Shoot - Ill give a free pair of kick ass cabinets for D9 MA to the person who supplies me with a pair of the drivers to keep for myself. (Buy two pair drivers, one pair returns to you installed in cabinets). They are currently being sold at a reduced price because of Feastrex's coming changeover to an all field coil lineup.
Cheers,
Clark
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Clark, I love insanity when it comes to drivers. Ok, who is to say that ALL drivers shouldn't be made this way? But, something about it's appearance says there are extra horses under the hood. Thanks so much for the info. Now everybody will think I am exaggerating at the water cooler, "hydrogen annealing?" "who does think he is anyway?" "Anything for attention huh Greg?"
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Haha for sure!
annealing in a pure hydrogen environment ups the maximum flux density that a metal can host.
All drivers should be made this way. They really, and truly should.
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So we just got a $1k couch, because that was deemed "necessary," and because the furniture store had 24 months 0% financing.
So what we need is a Bottlehead credit card ;)
I did, however, get $250 from my inlaws for my birthday, which I'm promptly putting into "BH savings" ... with any luck I'll have enough stored away for the DAC when it arrives.
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That is what Dan needs, 24 months free financing! Seriously, folks, I don't mean that.
But that has been the deal closer more than once for my wife.
Happily, she allows me to buy whatever I want. So I am very, very careful not to abuse this privilege.
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Haha for sure!
annealing in a pure hydrogen environment ups the maximum flux density that a metal can host.
All drivers should be made this way. They really, and truly should.
I need to read up on this. I've always heard hydrogen to be a bad thing (hydrogen embrittlement and all that)