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    I don't mind telling you I buy from both places. I like Farnell when I don't know who to get from in SLT. Otherwise I have to walk from shop to shop, top to bottom, spending lots of time to source the parts. Farnell shopping can be done at home and if I get more than S$30, there is free delivery.

     

    But things like resistors and capacitors, where I have develop some relationship with the vendors in SLT, I will get from there.

     

    I see. Oh thanks. I dont have much experience with buying parts from the shops around, Farnell'll be fine for me.

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    The M^3 is easy to build with very few parts and sounds nice as the mosfet output gives it a tube like sound characteristic. personally prefer the sound from the ppa's bjt or pimeta's opamp buffer outputs.

     

    i dun have experience with tube amps. actually, i am also interested to build the soha or the millet hybrid max myself.

     

    Im intending to build a SOHA first, haven got any experience with diy tube amp too. Well, from what I heard from head-fi, B22 is currently the best sounding diy amp around. Its still a personal taste thou :)

    Anyway, Im might starting a group buy for this kit by glass jar audio if the number of people interested is sufficent.

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    price of building a beta22 is much higher than the other amps listed and there are much more parts involved which leads to higher possibility of problems arising. if u have never built any amps before, u shld start with other simpler ones

     

     

    Im deciding to go for a SOHA right now. Its easy to build and not that expensive. I see you have a M^3 amp, what to do think of the M^3 amplifier?

     

    Btw, the soha kit sold by glass jar audio cost USD120 without shipping. It includes panasonic and nichion caps, vishay/dale resistors, transformer(of good quality) and hammond enclosure. Is the price good?

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    www.glassjaraudio.com

     

    Are there anyone out there that is still interested in building a SOHA tube amplifier?

    I am interested in getting a complete kit from glass jar audio. It includes everything to build one, plus the case and transformer. And I have contacted their company and gotten a reply on them. Shipping to Singapore is possible, though it is not stated on their website.

     

    Do check out the kit if you are interested and leave a reply to this thread if you are intending to join a group buy. As I will be taking note of the number of people and maybe start a group buy.

     

    UPDATE:

    The weight of the kit is 3pounds. According to Jeff from glassjaraudio, shipping rate is US$23.10 for USPS First Class Mail for a single kit, however, prices are expected to drop with a group buy. Though currently there isnt much response from people.

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    I think It will be much more worthed building a DIY amplifier such as B22 with Sigma22 PSU. Then I can spend more on a pair of hphones :DD

     

    Looking around, everyone seems have built PIMETA, PPAv2 or SOHA.

    DIY tube' too complex for me if any problems crop up( HIGHLY POSSIBLE FOR ME).

    B22 seems relatively easier to build, giving much less problems compared to a diy tube amp(if any).

    Does anyone know how does a M^3 compared against CK^2 III and PPAv2.

    And a B22 against the all of them?

     

    If Im not wrong, M^3 has a similar design as PPA.

    CK^2 III only has a 2channel design but its cheappp.

     

    If B22's sound is good, I might as well go for it, instead of going for M^3, PPAv2 etc.

    The price isnt much compared to paying for a commercial amp - still WAY CHEAPER

    What do you guys think!

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    The performance of iCute IMO is not that good from what I heard the last time. The price's cheap thou :D

     

    With a 1k budget you'll have plenty of choice. I use an Cardas cabled HD650 with a Cayin HA-1A at home, which gives exactly the kind of sound that you describe. My portable rig are the Crossroads Mylar ONe X3 and the iBasso T1 (which I'm going to replace pretty soon).

     

    HMMM. After sometime, Im thinking not spending 1k on the combo, more of $500. Based on my sources, I doubt I can reach the full potential of a system of that price :rclxub:

    I recently heard a BeyerD DT440, its.....well, bad.

    It cant even compare to a grado60/80. The bass's covers the mids (I dont exactly know how to decribe), but its sure not worthed the price IMO.

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    Alright can't address your post directly but here are some things I've noted. Grados are open headphones so changing it to bowls won't really improve isolation. If you wish to reduce the ambient noise, go for closed headphones. AKG, Beyerdynamic and AT just to name a few offer closed headphones.

     

    With regards to your ex71sl, I'm not sure but I think I've read somewhere about how at lower volumes, not all notes are played at the same volume hence the loss of details and less "kick". Has it something to do with the efficiency of the IEMs? Perhaps the others would clarify.

     

    As I'm more into IEMs, I would recommend the sf5p as they sound fine at low or high volumes. But of course louder sound better. Lol.

     

    Headphones, apart from advising you to get closed cans, I gotta admit I don't really know how the different brands sound. Will have to wait for the cans users to advise you there.

     

    From what I heard fr auditioning, bowl pads makes the sound stage wider, or rather the comfies muffles it. And IMO, with bowls, I cant tell much difference between SR60, SR80 and MS1, other than MS1 and SR80 needs amp-ing.

     

    Yea, agreed, closed cans would have much better isolation.

     

    How does a IEM compare against a headphone?

    The soundstage i reckon?

     

    I heard that the crossroads X3 is a good IEM for its price, I have not tried it yet thou.

    Anyone?

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    Hi,

    Im currently looking for a headphone and amplifier with a budget of $1k, hope everyone can give me some insights regarding which headphone/ampilifer to get!

    I have a pair of sony ex71sl and grado sr60.

    My sources are xmod, a sony vaio player, ipod nano.

    I listen to all kind of genres, hip hop, punk, jazz, classical, etc..

     

     

    I'll try to describe 'my taste', hope everyone can understand:

     

    1) Involving music that is warm and rich, without a great loss in clarity and detail

     

    2) I like the deep impact of the bass in many IEMs, which my grado's lack.

     

    3) but not the muddy bass that are over prominent.

     

     

     

    The sr60 sounds fine to me, lots of detail, tight bass, great clarity, treble is not tt high, but IMO its not tt suited for listening to music loudly. The soundstage is not very wide, its lyk the music is "at your ear". And I find it hard to listen anywhere else other than a quiet room, I can hear the noise around me when Im else where. Maybe things'll change when I change to the bowl pads instead of the comfies Im using now.

     

    The ex71sl, the bass's too prominent, muddy, but I still lik the deep impact of the bass. When listening to softer volumes, I get a funny feeling (like how it is when you plug a IEM in yr ears without playing it), and a great lost in details (lyk I cant hear much of the music).

    I wonder will the same thing happen with other IEMs?

     

    Thank you for reading this long help thread written by a picky user :D

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    Hi, Im quite new here. Im intending to make a diy amp. Prob a cmoy2 or pimeta design.

     

    1) Does anyone know where can i get the PCB for either of them?

     

    2)And what exactly is the difference btw a cmoy 2 and pimeta or others of the same complexity? Thanks!

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