charles1dad
Responses from charles1dad
| Running DCS Vivladi DIRECT? Regarding silver cable, they all certainly do not sound the same. I use Ocellia Silver Reference IC and SC. It’s the antithesis of, thin, cool, bright etc. In fact it has natural warmth, full bodied tone with terrific fleshed out harmonics. It ha... | |
| Running DCS Vivladi DIRECT? Johndoe,It may be better to run the Vivaldi DAC straight to the power amplifier for you. Folkfreak clearly and thoroughly described his experience doing so and prefers the better sound quality with the ARC REF 40. These are his findings listening ... | |
| Low Watt Solid State Amp Hi gotog, Given your listening levels and the efficiency of the speakers you'll likely remain in the class A range 90 to 95 % of the time.Charles | |
| Tekton Double Impacts Hi jcarcopo,Congratulations!I'm uninterested in your initial listening impressions. Charles | |
| Low Watt Solid State Amp Yep, meant Van Alstine, autospell got me again. Amplifiers such as this which employ simple circuits often sound exceptionally good. I was just curious about how much power in class A before if switches to class B for additional power..Charles | |
| Low Watt Solid State Amp The Van Sistine Vision SET 120 amplifier seems like a well thought out straightforward design. 60 watts class A/B with apparent high bias although not specified how many watts in pure class A. Certainly could be a fine sounding amplifier but it i... | |
| Running DCS Vivladi DIRECT? "Warmth not added but realized" Terrific cursory summation David, spot on. I heard 2 hours of live unamplified piano 1 Week ago at a Steinway piano gallery recital. Wow, full bodied, rich, dense tone and harmonics, just beautiful! Much warmth and ... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts 343mps, I believe that mac48025 (Tom) early on used this amplifier with the Double Impacts. Charles | |
| Running DCS Vivladi DIRECT? Folkfreak. Thanks for taking the time to post your well written listening impressions. Given the description of what you heard I can understand your preference. I would make the same choice. I'll always prefer the more involving and emotionally ... | |
| Running DCS Vivladi DIRECT? Shadorne,Yes, exactly ! I'd expect two different presentations with preference totally dependant on the particular listener. Which sonic flavour appeals more. Subjective by default, the gift of High End audio. Charles | |
| Running DCS Vivladi DIRECT? Folkfreak, ,This is really shaping up into a very interesting listening evaluation. It is essentially a comparison of the quality and implementation of the ARC REF and DCS Vivaldi signal pathways.This is fun and informative. Time to put the ears... | |
| Running DCS Vivladi DIRECT? The preamplifier may have a superior analog output stage than the Vivaldi, who knows? Folkfreak's listening impressions will be interesting. Charles | |
| Running DCS Vivladi DIRECT? Driving the DAC direct to amp has coloration as well. Use a half dozen different DACs to drive an amplifier and you’ll have 6 different sonic characters, they are not straight wire with gain. Common sense approach is what folkfreak is going to do,... | |
| Running DCS Vivladi DIRECT? The Vivaldi driving a 600 ohm load is commendable, no denying that fact. The VTL MB 450 has an input impedance of 42K. So the question is which option provides the best sound quality, DAC direct to the VTL or via the ARC REF 40? Well you have to l... | |
| Tried tubes and LOVED it, now what? As usual a thoughtful and informative post from trelja. I have to agree with him in particular regarding Jadis (really good quality output transformers) amplifiers. They are wonderful sounding music reproducing instruments. AirTight is no doubt a... |