cal3713
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| RMAF 2019! @pranabindu If you're at all handy, you might consider building your own Nelson pass design... https://www.diyaudio.com/forums/pass-labs/. Changed my life going there. And I came to a similar conclusion about the directstream. It seems like some p... | |
| Another new DAC: Audio Mirror Also, for people interested in tube rolling, I asked Vlad and got the following: "My other favorite tubes are 6N1P(EV). The ones with “rocket” logo are in general better than others. There is been some hype about 6N5P triple mica.I tried them, to ... | |
| Another new DAC: Audio Mirror @musichead indeed. I think if you've either a) got a bright and detailed system, or b) love a natural, organic sound, then you should really audition this dac. It won't jump out and tell you how great it is, but the more carefully you listen, the ... | |
| Preamp Output Capacitor: Mundorf Supreme vs. Supreme Silver Oil Also, I just discovered the thread I cited above did have some s/g/o to silver in oil comparisons. It was hard to explicitly search for differences because the only difference in terms is gold (and people write out the cap names variably).Looks li... | |
| Preamp Output Capacitor: Mundorf Supreme vs. Supreme Silver Oil @imhififan If you read a lot of capacitor discussions, you can see some other people finding that the bass response of the s/g/o decreases over the first 300 hours (e.g. https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/mundorf-silver-gold-in-oil-supreme-cap... | |
| Another new DAC: Audio Mirror This dac is soo much better than my directstream. Finally heard what my system (https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/7983) is capable of (and I’m in trouble with my girl). Love it, you should buy it. | |
| PS Audio Direcstream Snowmass Versions For what it's worth, I ended up selling the DSD and going back to the Perfect Wave DAC. In the end, I just became convinced that the DSD didn't "sound right". The PWD was more natural sounding. Currently trying out a Audio Mirror Tubadour. I ke... | |
| Supratek Great. Thanks Tammy | |
| Yggdrasil or iFi pro dac very curious to hear the report too. All I've seen in ways of comparisons is one single two line comment about PSA's Directstream being a "warmer" dac than the Evo. | |
| A moderate priced dac It does need the bridge to sound it's best though | |
| A moderate priced dac @mountainsong I even found the perfect wave dac mk2 to outperform psa's directstream. Tried to upgrade to the dsd twice over there past five years and ended up reselling the dsd both times. | |
| Phonostage Recommendations for my PS Audio + Thiel setup @bighempin Sorry to mislead you... I was getting gear at 60% *of* retail, so 40% off. HPS implied that the discount was going up now that they were liquidating, but I never checked. | |
| PS Audio Directstream DAC Jr is discontinued - would you buy it now? Have you heard a Directstream unit in an extended listening session? I'd make sure you do, as most people love them, but for others they just don't sound right. Not sure what's going on, but I'm in the latter camp, and I've owned a PerfectWave D... | |
| Jupiter Copper Foil, Paper & Wax Cap Versus Jensen Cap 0.10uF 630Vdc Copper Foil Ceramic Adding to my threads to save for later... good information in here folks. | |
| DAC Event in Phoenix AZ August 24th Great, looking forward to it. |