bill_k
Responses from bill_k
| Is your tube amp really a tube amp? FYI - A tube rectifier is the tube equivalent of a diode, rectifying the AC into DC. | |
| Is your tube amp really a tube amp? Using tube rectifiers and regulators in the power supply instead of solid state equivalents is also considered by many tube purists as being required for a pure tube design. | |
| Hegel H300 Is it possible that 55 lbs. is the shipping weight with the box and all packing? | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Found this additional info: Signet's 'statement' cartridge, the TK100LC, was made in the mid-1980's and originally cost $1200.00. It does look like it is based on the TK10ML but has a gold and red body and a ruby cantilever. | |
| Best Minimalist DAC? Steve - Many of your posts provide information that is very helpful to other members by generously sharing your expertise. With all due respect however, this post is nothing but an obviously biased and free advertisement for your product. Why don'... | |
| Wells Audio Akasha Amplifier- Any owners here? Not that model, but I did have an audition of their Innamorata amp at a recent AXPONA show. It was used in a system playing master tapes driving TAD speakers, and I have to admit that the system was one of the best I've ever heard. There was an am... | |
| esoteric products +2 Zd542. With all due respect I suspect that Buconero117 has been drinking a bit too much of that Oppo Kool-Aid! Anyone that actually compared the build quality and sonics of Oppo vs. Esoteric could not reach that conclusion. | |
| Bricasti M1 DAC vs PS Audio Direct Stream DAC Ricred1 - I can tell you that Bricasti has demoed their M1 DAC directly driving their new mono power amps at recent shows, and the sound has been reported by several reviewers as one of the best of the shows. So it has the capability to perform ex... | |
| USB cable hype "No noise, no jitter, no errors! What more could you ask for?" While those are good goals to theoretically try to achieve, I'm sorry to say that in the real world you will never completely eliminate noise, jitter, or errors. You can minimize them ... | |
| Purpose of Dome on Tweeter... The dome of a dome tweeter is the diaphragm, the part that moves the air to create high frequency sound. It is driven by current moving through the voice coil which is in contact with the dome just behind it. Without the dome in place the voice co... | |
| Turntable sibilance With all due respect, the first two responders must not be familiar with the Nottingham Horizon table. While they are correct that the Rega arm itself does not have adjustable VTA, the arm mount of the Horizon provides that adjustment. There are t... | |
| For VPI Unipivot Owners, do you use antiskating? Stringreen - If you're still using a VPI tonearm as in your system listing, you seem to be ignoring the fact that it has some inherent anti-skating force that the wire loop provides. So it appears that you are in agreement with HW from VPI that it... | |
| Bricasti M1 DAC vs PS Audio Direct Stream DAC Ricred1 - Sorry if my post upset you, I was merely following up on your post about other superior DACs which you 'guaranteed' exist. By your statement I thought that you had personally experienced some, but apparently not. I was only politely requ... | |
| For VPI Unipivot Owners, do you use antiskating? Yogiboy - I have read that using the grooveless record setup in the way you describe is not truly accurate, since the skating force is different when the stylus is actually in a groove. Anti-skating force is more accurately set by optimizing sound... | |
| Bricasti M1 DAC vs PS Audio Direct Stream DAC Ricred1 - Would you please share more about which other DACs you find superior to the M1 and in what ways? TIA! |