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| the sound of massed violins in classical orchestral recordings Violin sound testing is the ultimate testing on your audio system. The most important components are speaker and amp. Ribbon or esl speakers with single ended triode amp tend to do better job in playing whole violin spectrum without distortion. Ca... | |
| Best speakers out there for Midrange and Highs My vote is quad 57 for best mid range. Adding a good ribbon tweet crossing at 5k hz, even high frequency is excellent when placement of ribbon is correct. | |
| Difference Between DAC Types Any r2r dav can play dsd stream? Also, any phono stage with more than 4 dual triodes are not good engineering practice,ihmo.I build my phone stage with 2 6922s with a pair of cascaded fets at cathodes, plus a couple of ccs on top, have enough clea... | |
| Just Got My Oppo 205! Lancelock,You should be shamed of not chuncking.the so called dan wright mod is fundalmentally flawed from cost no object mod point of view as i pointed out in my othet post. With this amount of money, first of all, any tube amplication should be... | |
| Just Got My Oppo 205! Adg101,Please do not tell people spening more than the cost of a equipment to do a mod is not getting ripped off,unless you change definition of rip off from englih dictionary.That put aside, let us focus on what i weak points of 205 as a dac.1. B... | |
| Just Got My Oppo 205! Browndt,Are you some kind of sells person for modwright?People,this mod is rip off. I made mod on my 205 w/ less than $350 parts cost, and achieved hugh improvement, better dynamics,silky high frequency and better seperation of instruments. | |
| Looking for vintage Quad ESL's - or my wife thinks a "shrink" becase she says I'm crazy! Mark,God loves "juju", and we will pray for your happiness. One nation under god, no thread is beyond this sea of loving. No Kneeling down and no smile, just pretend. | |
| Looking for vintage Quad ESL's - or my wife thinks a "shrink" becase she says I'm crazy! Terry9,I do not think you really is a audiophiler since you can not tell the difference between quad 57s being driven by transformer coupled tube and otl amps. I have owned 4 diff otl type amps to drive both sound lab and quad electrostatic speak... | |
| Integrateds: Why do they all SUCK? Good Integrated tube power amps are hard to design and make, except cost no limit amps.The reason behind this is any power amp with variable gain stage need ladder resistor network or multi section input transformers combined with switches, they a... | |
| Looking for vintage Quad ESL's - or my wife thinks a "shrink" becase she says I'm crazy! I have a pair of stacked quad 57s since 1996 and i love it for playing string music and female voice.the problem with quad is that it is not reliable, especially can not play too loud so that they start arcing.I built a infinite middle range ribbo... | |
| Speaker Suggestions for 300b SET Amp The fatal weakness of so called circutron otl push pull power amp design is that the power grounding have to go through both legs‘ cathodes, thus power path mingle with the signal path, introducing distortion and noises.Furthermore, after some exp... | |
| Quad ESL-63 and low-powered amps; Sun Audio, Atma I have used 6336 single ened amp to drive stacked quad57 to my best satisfction. Stay away from low damp factor tubep such as otl amps. Do not use sub woofer unless you are not capable of detect any phase shift of the speakers. | |
| Best used or new DAC under $3500 Yggdrasil is old news, it does not support usb mounted file play back nor dsd. This is old bb product, beafed up at analogue output but less rhan a true vacume tube iv / buffer stage.My old bb 1704 based moded sonic frontier family dac even sounds... | |
| What’s in your system today that you also had 10 years ago? Stacked quad 57sOracle turntableHome made speaker system composed of altec 515s and jbl 375Vt-25a tube based single-ended ultrapath (aka parafeed) power amp. | |
| Speaker Suggestions for 300b SET Amp I am sick and tired of someone trying to promote his own amp by demoting other type if amps, specially singleended transform coupled low power high quality amps.Eg. Transformless push pull amps produces extream high odd order distortions and extr... |