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| Quest for an external Dac has resulted in me way down the rabbit hole To the OP, your other components should be your starting point. DACs can make a HUGE difference in a resolving system, but would hardly make a sonic difference if the rest of the components are of lessor quality (which is why you like your current... | |
| Sharing my experience with cables Too much to read through all the previous posts, but the one thing that has never been explained to me (satisfactorily) is if PCs make such a profound difference, and if matching is so critical, why don't Amp (and any component) manufacturers help... | |
| What difference do power cables make? @dayglow Your experience of different outcomes when improving the input AC speaks to what someone else said about the internal power supply of the end component being more important to the equation than the power cord, et al. Any cord or cable is ... | |
| Is an isolation transformer better than a power conditioner? @ghdprentice Haha, I use Blue Jeans cables to great affect in my rather resolving system! Many of the highend brands use Belden cable as the basis for their own (fancy jackets and dielectrics) cables and the buyer is none the wiser! As I said, bef... | |
| Is an isolation transformer better than a power conditioner? @ghdprentice Thanks for your response! Thank you for addressing what I asked about and not getting off on a tangent that wasn't relevant to the question. I was just reading about a speaker designer who cautioned to beware of changes that make an a... | |
| Is an isolation transformer better than a power conditioner? @clearthink My pockets are not empty, but neither are they brimming over to the point that I want to spend $4-10K on a PC if the gains are marginal at best. I’m not suggesting that the potential differences are marginal, but you completely ignored... | |
| Is an isolation transformer better than a power conditioner? The problem I have with evaluating PC's is the subjective impressions of improvement relative to what they had before adding such gear. The responses would suggest (at least to a laymen) that what you had before wasn't really that good, and by add... | |
| Awaiting a 1st impression @ozzy62 It goes to show that the interweb isn't the end all be all for communication! I'm 57yo and have been into highend gear since my early teens! I am however, new to (owning) tube gear, but I am reasonably familiar with the main-stream brands,... | |
| Awaiting a 1st impression @ozzy62 As usual, people don't read for content. The whole point I was making is that I haven't heard of them. I hadn't heard of the Amp I purchased until good marketing presented it to me. My point is that if American companies want to get notice... | |
| Awaiting a 1st impression I'm not familiar with Aesthetix as a brand. I wasn't a Tube guy until the Willsenton R8 was getting great reviews and LOTS of press from reviewers all over the world! There are many 'business' mistakes that US based brands make and one of them is ... | |
| Awaiting a 1st impression To those bashing MIC, there are manufacturing techniques that can only be done in China because the US (and others) don't possess the technique! So MIC can and does mean high quality and precision. The days of cheap Chinese goods are essentially o... | |
| HELIOS Speaker Kit Your cabinet thickness on most sides should yield quite an inert structure. The No-Rez is probably the best material to use for the CDL layer. I wanted to experiment with the Polyurethane because it was easily sourced at local Box stores. I applie... | |
| HELIOS Speaker Kit I forgot to mention that these are not at all efficient! Probably in the 83-85db range. I tried to power them with a 60wpc Tube Amp and that didn't go well at all! They didn't come alive until I hooked them up to my Mark Levinson 585 and now they ... | |
| HELIOS Speaker Kit I just completed the Helios build this month. I went a little overboard with cabinet bracing (I went off scrip from Javad’s design but basically the same). I built basically a box within a box with 3/4" Baltic Birch inner box and bracing, and 1/2"... | |
| Best audiophile earwax removal system? I originally said 70% Hydrogen Peroxide and I meant 3%! Sorry about that!... |