Recent content by Pharmaboy
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ZMF Aegis Official Thread
I used the 1/4" output @Low impedance setting for everything. It just sounded more solid and foundational to me that way. There's no power penalty for doing so, even though you get more volume out of higher imedance settings and the XLR output. This amp has crazy power, more than enough for...- Pharmaboy
- Post #994
- Forum: Headphone Amps (full-size)
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ZMF Spring Limiteds, CanJam NYC and Estimated Release Schedule for Caldera Closed and BOKEH Open!
My, my. This is flat-out beautiful! I thought from day-1 that the Caldera's screen was a true design statement, as good as patterns found in art installations, fine furniture and architecture. I also appreciate the slight concavity, which minimizes the apparent depth of each earcup and enhances...- Pharmaboy
- Post #570
- Forum: Sponsor Announcements and Deals
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THE WATERCOOLER HEADPHONE EDITION – Headphones, Amps, DACs, and desktop/home audio related – a freewheeling discussion of gear, impressions, music, and musings.
Videos weren't yet major market in the '70s. But they existed, and sometimes they killed. Here's one of my favorite demo cuts*, compellingly supported by the backing video. Favorite line of the intro: "You know, keyboards. I don't say I play them, but I do play them." *Played this alot...- Pharmaboy
- Post #1,018
- Forum: Headphones (full-size)
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ZMF Caldera - New Planar Magnetic from ZMF!
It's not the journey--it's the destination- Pharmaboy
- Post #7,470
- Forum: High-end Audio Forum
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LTA VELO - Headphone Amp / Preamp
Here's how crazy this hobby is: I don't own a Velo yet ... I'm just "interested" in a Velo, mainly because (I'm guessing) its two RCA output pairs can be used simultaneously. Between that & the remote control + stepped pot, it becomes a pretty fascinating preamp possibility.* ...and yet here I...- Pharmaboy
- Post #86
- Forum: Headphone Amps (full-size)
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LTA VELO - Headphone Amp / Preamp
I know about these amazing input tubes only because of you! One of the great audio "finds" of my career.- Pharmaboy
- Post #83
- Forum: Headphone Amps (full-size)
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LTA VELO - Headphone Amp / Preamp
Has anyone used matched Brimar/Footscray CV455s as input tubes? (sorry if an answer was posted here & I mssed it somehow)- Pharmaboy
- Post #80
- Forum: Headphone Amps (full-size)
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THE WATERCOOLER HEADPHONE EDITION – Headphones, Amps, DACs, and desktop/home audio related – a freewheeling discussion of gear, impressions, music, and musings.
Yesterday I stumbled across a review thread on "the other headphone site" for the Lake People G-111 (they trashed it), which led me to an older review thread for the Lake People G-109 (they didn't just trash it--they crushed it). Couldn't do anything but burst out laughing.... My first real...- Pharmaboy
- Post #990
- Forum: Headphones (full-size)
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THE WATERCOOLER HEADPHONE EDITION – Headphones, Amps, DACs, and desktop/home audio related – a freewheeling discussion of gear, impressions, music, and musings.
3 words: "self-protective memory loss"- Pharmaboy
- Post #989
- Forum: Headphones (full-size)
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ZMF Spring Limiteds, CanJam NYC and Estimated Release Schedule for Caldera Closed and BOKEH Open!
ZMF Lifestyle Furnishings - Single Rooms And Complete Houses (hot new DIY channel series) Each room a veritable English manor movie set, but for real - and the sound is amaaaaaaaaaaazing.- Pharmaboy
- Post #513
- Forum: Sponsor Announcements and Deals
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ZMF Spring Limiteds, CanJam NYC and Estimated Release Schedule for Caldera Closed and BOKEH Open!
... perfect, not-smoky fire in fireplace ... crystal glass tumbler of single malt scotch on table ... next to classic leather club chair ... Irish Wolfhound snoozing on bear skin rug- Pharmaboy
- Post #512
- Forum: Sponsor Announcements and Deals
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Show us your Head-Fi station at it's current state. No old pictures please...
As the great philosopher, Kermit the frog, said, "It's not easy being green."- Pharmaboy
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- Forum: Headphones (full-size)
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THE WATERCOOLER HEADPHONE EDITION – Headphones, Amps, DACs, and desktop/home audio related – a freewheeling discussion of gear, impressions, music, and musings.
This a tune I keep circling back to for the vibe of doomed love, what Brazilians call "saudede," a feeling of melancholy longing. Melody Gardot quite often sings in French, but this happens to be English: Another, a stone classic of the samba literature:- Pharmaboy
- Post #973
- Forum: Headphones (full-size)
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Icon Audio HP8/MP 3
Funny! Just spit out a mouthful of iced coffee on the keyboard, somehow (thankfully) missing the HP8.- Pharmaboy
- Post #1,532
- Forum: Headphone Amps (full-size)
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ZMF Aegis Official Thread
don't forget the self-flagellation radius (essential in RabbitHoleLand)- Pharmaboy
- Post #936
- Forum: Headphone Amps (full-size)