carlsbad
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| Primaluna or not Primaluna I agree with the "less is more" philosophy in a tube amp. I call Primaluna a swiss army knife. You don’t get the full "tube magic" experience with Primaluna. If you have efficient speakers look for a used Decware (18 month waitlist for new) you w... | |
| Cable burn in Harshness isn’t in cables. Good cables can reveal harshness but don’t go back to bad calbles to mask it. Fix the source. You didn’t mention your DAC. Also your tolerance for harshness can change. I fought harshness for a while with an amp. Someti... | |
| Upgrading power system I read pretty well. There suggestions for everything from power conditioners to harmonic resonators, to fancy outlets, to magic boxes in this thread. I think some require you to wear a copper bracelet on your left ankle while listening. I wasn... | |
| Upgrading power system The downside to choosing a physics major in college is that you can never watch and action movie again without noticing all the things that happen that violate the laws of physics. Keep these observations to yourself. Because soon your family wi... | |
| Are Their any Tube Preamp with Home Theater Bypass? Mine that I described above. If I misunderstood your comment is is probably because i've heard so many people that think HT bypass is something in the signal path for 2 channel sound. So I guessed that you were in that camp. There are quite... | |
| Are Their any Tube Preamp with Home Theater Bypass? @lalitk your comments show that you do not understand ht bypass. HT bypass has exactly zero impact on 2 channel sound. But there are many in the same boat who avoid HT bypass because they think it is a compromise. Jerry | |
| Surge protection @12many I would expect the inverters in cheap battery backups to be noisy | |
| Are Their any Tube Preamp with Home Theater Bypass? Not a fan of Primaluna but I think they have an HT bypass. My tube integrated has 2 inputs. I use my DAC as a preamp so I turn up the volume to max on my integrated. With the volume turned up to max, each input is the equivalent to an HT bypass... | |
| Upgrading power system Hate to say it but your Shunyata may be doing more harm that good. Most power conditioners do. I highly recommend PS Audio. One thing they understand better than practically anyone else is getting power to your amp. Wall outlets are a good thing ... | |
| Surge protection Surge protectors can be very, very bad for an amp's performance and aren't generally good for low current components either. Just about all of my important components have custom power supplies. BTW, many surge protectors will not protect agains... | |
| A Question About Time Alignment I haven't studied wilson speakers of their claims. However, as a physicist, I'm pretty sure the speed of sound is independent of frequency. Maybe lower frequencies leave the transducer slightly delayed. My initial reaction is skepticism. Jerry | |
| Luxman Knockoffs or Counterfeits? First, 100 to 120 volts is a step up transformer. Minor point but thought I'd mention it. Why is that a challenge? We spend thousands of dollars on power regenerators or even boutique power cords. Putting a cheap transformer in the power cir... | |
| RS6001 at a garage sale So are you saying you bought them for a dollar and want to know what profit you can make? | |
| 100% USA designed & made DAC A US company that doesn't get much love now but their DACs were once on the Recommended List is Wyred4sound. | |
| Balanced Streamer/DAC to Unbalanced Preamp nope |