213cobra
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| Zu Druid & Definition Roundup Spirit,The only changes I made to my Black Shadows were 1/ tubes, and 2/ recapped the power supplies with Nichicon. Bob Hovland did the work, but he and I both agreed on Nichicon because our mutual experience was that when caps are similar rating ... | |
| Zu Druid & Definition Roundup >>To ad to Charles's thought, adding an additional chassis should raise production costs in itself.<<If everything else is the same, yes. But if the collective power supply components are smaller and less costly, there may be net savin... | |
| Zu Druid & Definition Roundup Chas & GB,The Audion Elite, as I understand it, was developed to keep the cost of the Black Shadow circuit in check. So it costs less than than a pair of Black Shadows despite having the cost of a third chassis. The Elite doesn't have "an extr... | |
| Zu Druid & Definition Roundup Spirit,I have listened to Music First copper & silver, S&B-based Django and several DAC-direct examples into Black Shadows and Golden Dreams sans preamp. Into the 300B PSET amps, TVCs were successful -- not better than my preamps but diffe... | |
| Zu Druid & Definition Roundup Spirit,A few items from your SET experiment:1/ These SET amps, and especially 845 SET, can be sensitive to mechanically-transmitted resonance and vibration. With Black Shadow monoblocks, one tends to place them close to the speakers and run relati... | |
| Zu Druid & Definition Roundup Spirit,Sounds like the essence of Audion speed, resolution and tone -- especially when hitched to Zu -- are registering with you. Good start.Phil | |
| Zu Druid & Definition Roundup >>So can SETs, Audion or NAT in my case, return the presentation to a more tonal mids centred presentation without losing the real cognitive ease I have with the system as is with the Hovlands?<<Yes. But you can't determine this for su... | |
| Zu Druid & Definition Roundup >>...the Telefunken route for the Hov pre after hearing my desire for speed and transparency rather than a traditional warm, fuzzy tube sound....<<Telefunken NOS tubes don't yield fuzzy but I wouldn't have sent you on that path for spe... | |
| Zu Druid & Definition Roundup Spirit,With small glass preamps, the question is, are you a vintage Telefunken or vintage Siemans listener?Back in the day of early High End, when Absolute Sound was getting started, we used to resolve this question in the Audio Research SP3, SP3a... | |
| Zu Druid & Definition Roundup I don't have extensive experience with the NAT amps but when I've heard them, they were energetic but totally dark and while relatively quite good they did not exhibit to me the same league of speed & transparency that distinguishes Audion. Th... | |
| Zu Druid & Definition Roundup >>....who loved the system for it's dynamic range, bass impact and transparency, REALLY felt there was a shortfall in vocals solidity and tone. Me? I heard it, but it had to be pointed out to me, and even then didn't jar me in the least, but... | |
| Zu Druid & Definition Roundup >>...this is the second time the 4s have been described as lean-sounding, first by Roy Gregory in his Audio Beat web review, and now by you.<<The Def4s are not "lean" sounding. They are just more objective than most of what passes for ... | |
| Zu Druid & Definition Roundup >>Can an amp be more earthy, bass orientated, and still present more treble info?<<Yes, I have this argument all the time with people I don't think are listening carefully enough. There is a difference between the apparent extension of... | |
| Zu Druid & Definition Roundup >>Def4 users, can you post your setup arrangements?<<9' and inches apart, each baffle 11.25' to listener's skull centerpoint.The snap point for focus will be room dependent, and there is a dial between scale and pinpoint focus, which i... | |
| Zu Druid & Definition Roundup In HT2.0, Definition 4 excels. Frankly, all Definition versions work beautifully in HT2.0 / 2ch Music applications. The dual FRD array truncates floor and ceiling effects, and induces horizontal spread considerably wider than the single FRD Zu spe... |