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| Thor ta-1000 pre cap replacement -- advice I had all of my TA-1000 capacitors replaced with Vcaps. Expensive but definitely worth it. Be forewarned that they will require something like 200 hours of use before they sound their best. I can send photos if you can figure out how to get you... | |
| Thor TA-1000 - inerverting or non-inverting absolute phase? Another big Thor TA-1000 fan here. I’ve had mine for about four years now. All of my caps were upgraded to Vcaps and I have the Khozmo shunt attenuator volume control. It’s in a system with Atma-Sphere OTL amp, McCormack UDP Deluxe disc player, an... | |
| PS Audio PWT - cd transport My PWT sounds wonderful with my 32-bit STARS Audio Aero SE tube DAC, which is the Capitole SE without the transport. However the unit I bought brand new freezes up whenever I leave a CD in it, even for under an hour. I sent it to PS Audio for re... | |
| Anyone Else Heard the Merlin Black Magic TSM? Correction: I bought the version with Master RC's; "Master crossovers" is not an advertised upgrade on this product. Sorry for any confusion. | |
| Synergistic Research HFT + FEQ I'm amazed anyone with a good system likes these things. They ruined my system - degraded the imaging and sucked the life right out of the music. Truly the most awful tweak I've ever had the displeasure to endure. | |
| PS Audio PWT software bugs I had a similar problem very recetnly - mine malfunctioned brand new out of the box with all sorts of weird behavior like freezing up so it doesn't respond to the remote or manual input if you leave a CD sitting in it for any significant length of... | |
| PS Audio PWT software bugs WARNING: The PS Audio PWT Memory Player has serious bugs in the logic. Mine malfunctioned brand new out of the box with all sorts of weird behavior like freezing up so it doesn't respond to the remote or manual input if you leave a CD sitting in i... | |
| Synergistic Research HFT + FEQ Same here - I gave the products a fair chance and they did not perform as advertised. The situation would be vastly different if they had been honest, for instance by telling me that the tweak would change the sound of my system and I might or mig... | |
| Any opinions on Emerald Physics Loudspeakers I had the pleasure of dropping in on Walter at RMAF 2013 and hearing both of his Emerald Physics line of speakers, the CS2.3 MkII and the CS 3.2 MkII. Both cosmetics and sound quality are greatly improved from the prototype-looking previous genera... | |
| Merlin TSM-MMM vs Adam Acoustics Compact MK 3 Thanks, Dave. I've owned the Merlin VSM speaker system for 6 years and have upgraded them three times, each time with rather impressive improvements in sound quality. Wandering around RMAF 2013 last weekend, I was hard pressed to find a room that ... | |
| Cary 805s or Atma Sphere M60s? In my case, I prefer the Atma-Sphere's speed and intimacy. I can hardly imagine anything that could touch the M-60's at their price point. I compared the exceptional BEL 1001 MkV's, 220 Watt solid state monoblocks which I would also pick over the ... | |
| Amplifiers:A Keeper for Life. Do you know of one ? Yeah, the Atma-Sphere M-60 is a very special amp. I was not at all impressed with Odyssey, sorry. Couldn't wait to get it out of my rack, ick! Easily found a better sounding solid state amp then, have since moved on to tubes. I was in the Odyssey ... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Once again a very insightful question. The hitch for me is the need for the Merlin inline bass EQ module (BAM) that constitutes an integral part of my speaker system. In short, Merlin doesn't recommend hooking the BAM directly up to the amp so I s... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Excellent question. I've got the Master BAM upstream of the LSA per Merlin's recommendation when using a preamp, but you have to be cognizant not to overload the LSA. My Audio Aero SE DAC puts out 5.5 Volts (!) so if you boost that by 5dB using th... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? I recently put the Lightspeed up against three active preamps ranging in cost from $2400 to $9000. These are my notes from the comparison with the best of the three preamps. --Preamp Shootout performed 5/14/2012SYSTEMcustom modified Music Hall cd2... |