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| VAC 160iSE integrated with NOLA speakers Yes, I do actually. I am using two on each output tube. | |
| Review: Concert Fidelity DAC-040 DA converter For those running the CF DAC-040 for computer audio, a suggestion that could be handy. I have been using a Berkeley USB converter that has worked very well for the last year or so. Yesterday, I received my new amber Uptone Audio USB Regen device, ... | |
| VAC 160iSE integrated with NOLA speakers Just to mention as a further update, that I now find that double damping all tubes in the VAC 160iSE - i.e., preamp, input, output sections - works better than single damping. That is I am now using two of Herbie's HAL-O III dampers on each tube i... | |
| VAC 160iSE integrated with NOLA speakers I understand that Mike Oltz of Xtreme Fidelity has a fully loaded demo VAC 160iSE for sale with he moving coil and balanced output options. If anyone has an interest you might get in touch with him. | |
| VAC 160iSE integrated with NOLA speakers Just an update about what I now find to be the best placement of the two Stillpoints LPIs I have. The first one remains in the triangle between V2, V6 and V8. The second one is in the very front left, in front of the two phono tubes V1 & V2. T... | |
| VAC 160iSE integrated with NOLA speakers An update on my continued success with resonance control experiments. First, as I mentioned earlier above, I had excellent luck with one Stillpoints LPI which I just happened to have lying around that I placed between V8, V6 and V2. With this know... | |
| VAC 160iSE integrated with NOLA speakers FPlanner2000, I checked out your very impressive main system at your Audiogon link. We heard much the same IQ setup with Focals in VAC's main room at the Brooklyn show last year and it was just great. I do think the 160iSE probably gets close to t... | |
| VAC 160iSE integrated with NOLA speakers I think I got it. For the 160i I believe the SR Red arrow should point downwards. That does sound better than the other way around. Actually that is the way I had it originally too by accident. Thanks for the help Wig and Knghifi. | |
| VAC 160iSE integrated with NOLA speakers Thanks Wig. I got it to work after a quick chat with Brent. Didn't realize the active fuse moved out sideways, that is to say left-right and not up-down. The spare fuse comes out up-down but not the active one. From my crouching position behind th... | |
| VAC 160iSE integrated with NOLA speakers Did not compare it to anything but the stock fuse. Certainly improved but at the time I had made so many changes it is hard for me to pinpoint the exact difference. I don't recall it was like the difference when I swap tubes. But I do want to try ... | |
| VAC 160iSE integrated with NOLA speakers By the way, I have to tell you that the Stillpoints LPI is the real deal for taming resonance in the VAC chassis. The place to put it is in the space between V8 (leftmost KT88), V2 (right phono 12ax7) and V6 (leftmost driver 12au7). I think you wi... | |
| VAC 160iSE integrated with NOLA speakers Still jammed. Must be doing something wrong. Can't be that the caps on both ends of the fuse are too thick to go through the clip. Will check further with VAC and SR. Thanks for the help though. | |
| VAC 160iSE integrated with NOLA speakers I've used as much force as I dare in trying to remove the fuse from its clip. Seems that the silver cap on the lower end of the inside fuse can't make it through the clip - it just jams. I did put it in there originally so you would think it would... | |
| VAC 160iSE integrated with NOLA speakers I must admit that I haven't been able to try reversing direction as the fuse is very tightly stuck in its socket. Not the spare outer fuse which comes out fine, but the active fuse which is on the inside and very tight. Do you have to use a fair a... | |
| VAC 160iSE integrated with NOLA speakers Thanks Wig for the idea. I'll try it. |