Shiny brand new second hand things in my system today V1.2

[mmichbam]

Bought myself a pair of used Sennheiser HD6xx, first listen of them and I’m rather pleased.

[Mrs_Maureen_OPinion]

Congratulations on taking the first step back onto the rocky road…

[mmichbam]

Back on the rocky road, this arrived this morning.

[Spider]

Yes you’re back.
That’s good news.

[mmichbam]

Thanks Tim

[thebiglebowski]

Innuos Zen Mini mk3, an expensive LMS and squeezelite player

Does sound good though

[Spenagio]

Great bit of kit, I loved mine. That will get the best from your Sennheiser’s. I took mine to a headphone show and it was only outperformed by stacks that were multiple thousands.

[htm_1968]

I’ve got the 4TB version of the bigger brother (Zen?) which I use with Roon. Great bit of kit. I really like the Innuos ripping and library software, it is really, really easy to use.

[thebiglebowski]

I was running LMS on an Intel NUC with a SBT but the Innuos OS 2.0 looks really good (when it finally comes out)

I’ve done away with Roon now as the licence expires tomorrow and just wanted a single box solution, that and I’ve got some CDs I want to rip and can’t be arsed building a vortexbox.

PS do you leave your Pandora DAC switched on 24/7?

[htm_1968]

Nope, I never leave anything on 24/7. The Pandora goes on only when I intend to use it.

[mmichbam]

Having a listen to them both now and I’m very impressed.

[MJ2]

You escaped, and then you blew it

[thebiglebowski]

It’s on for around 8 hrs per day anyway so thought I may just leave it on 24/7. Only issue is I’ve just put some funky NOS valves and on 24/7 they’d be dead in a year or so

[mmichbam]

There is no escape

[htm_1968]

@thebiglebowski

. Only issue is I’ve just put some funky NOS valves and on 24/7 they’d be dead in a year or so

That is why I turn the DAC and the phono stage off when they are not in use.

[Myrman]

On the Calypso pre the manual states :

‘While in standby, power is applied to all circuits except the vacuum tube heaters. The high voltage supply is reduced to a level that is safe for the vacuum tubes’

Not sure if that is the same on the Pandora/Romulus or on the Rhea

[htm_1968]

Good point. It is more accurate to say I put the Pandora into standby mode when I am not using it. The power supply for the phono stage gets switched off though.

[Bolts]

Japanese maple in da house

[Mickyricky]

Good to see you back in Hifi land Mike .Do you want a headphone stand for them …FOC pm me your addy and I’ll post them off to you …

[freefallrob]

Octa speed is the bestest speed, good to see you back mate