bill_k
Responses from bill_k
| Plinius SA301 Or Bryston 4bsst2? Looks like $10,350 msrp according to audiowaveshifi.com. | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil DAC ?? The "mixed" impressions were from a recent CamJam headphone show, where the DAC was initially not powered up for a sufficient amount of time to reach its best performance. The manual for the Yggdrasil specifically requires the unit to be on contin... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil DAC ?? Ricevs - please share your impressions once you hear it, TIA! | |
| Plinius SA301 Or Bryston 4bsst2? Dave_72 - Plinius SA-Reference Power Amplifier, MSRP is $20,900US | |
| cart height It will make a difference, but how significant is hard to predict. If your arm allows for height adjustment to set the VTA, try lowering the arm to reduce sibilance. | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil DAC ?? Winson - also some good info on MQA available here, although not as extensive as in the new issue of TAS. | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil DAC ?? BTW, an update on Schiit Yggdrasil's availability was just posted, and promised to be less than one week from now!!! | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil DAC ?? Winson - in the new May/June 2015 issue of The Absolute Sound, on pages 50 to 60. Quite impressive! | |
| VPI 3-D tonearm With all due respect to Harry, while the resonance level of the 3D arm may be relatively low, every arm and cartridge combination will still have a resonant frequency. The total effective mass of a tonearm and cartridge will determine where that f... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil DAC ?? Sorry, but there are no tubes in the Yggy. | |
| Clayton Audio Class A amps. Need amp advice Since your Bricasti M1 DAC is a fully balanced design as well, I think it would be foolish to use the RCA outputs and an adapter to feed the Clayton amps. If you already have expensive RCA cables I would recommend selling them and getting similar ... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil DAC ?? I know where you're coming from! It's expected that the initial production run will quickly sell out. I was all set to purchase one, but now with the reports of Meridian's MQA performance I'm reluctant to invest in any new DAC unless it includes t... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil DAC ?? It's currently in production, and the latest expectation for its release is within a couple of weeks. | |
| Increase total Speaker Impedance Question I did make an error in my initial calculations above resulting in the discrepancy, and Al's math is of course correct. I believe that the primary difference in sound quality will be due to a loss of damping factor from the amp when driving the add... | |
| Increase total Speaker Impedance Question The 200 watt power rating of those resistors should be sufficient, but you will then have 3/4.16 or ~72% of your available power being dissipated by the resistors. Only the balance, ~28% of the total power will be available to drive the speakers. |