charles1dad
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| How old is too old for a Dac? Hi Jond,I gave very serious consideration to buying a used Audio Note DAC. At that particular time the then Yamamoto U.S.distributor (Venus HiFi) had been a longtime Audio Note dealer. He was extremely impressed with the new Yamamoto YDA-1 DAC. He... | |
| Why Single-Ended? Yep,Manufacturers develop and sell what they believe in and there're no shortage of beliefs. This suits the marketplace which has listeners of many different sonic and musical preferences. Every single genre of amplifier type will have its adhere... | |
| Why Single-Ended? Herman,Ralph has integrity and believes in his product and is thus understandably passionate in his advocacy of differential balanced topology, fine with me. I happen to share your preference regarding SE low power amplifier choice and matching s... | |
| Why Single-Ended? Herman,Admittedly there is redundancy of topics on audio forums and we all know the drill.Tubes vs solid state.Digital vs analog sources. Passive vs active High efficiency speakers vs lower efficiency speakers. On and on it goes. Yet sometimes mea... | |
| Why Single-Ended? Mac,The OP asked why single ended? He's receiving substantive replies. Charles | |
| Why Single-Ended? This is the good side of an open forum discussion. Two obviously qualified people who can clearly (and politely) present strong positions for the merits of opposing technologies. Kijanki, you have made one of the most reasonable cases for the soni... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Bill,Gary is actually making the same point as you. Unquestionably the power supply affects the audio signal and significantly impacts sound quality. Each part in a power supply has an effect as you've pointed out with your examples. All who as... | |
| Cerious Technologies NEW Graphene Cables Hi Tommy, I do appreciate your feedback regarding the CE Blue power cables. I use the EML XLS 300b in my amplifier and it's an excellent match. Charles | |
| Cerious Technologies NEW Graphene Cables Dave,I've heard your model of Tidal speakers on two occasions and I know how good they are. You have a rare yet extraordinary amplifier so I believe your system has very exceptional resolution and ability to finely discriminate musical nuance and... | |
| Why Single-Ended? Hello Kijanki,That was a very interesting and well reasoned post describing some of the inherent advantages of single ended topology. Just as Ralph presents a compelling case for fully differential balanced circuit. It is quite clear why both to... | |
| Cerious Technologies NEW Graphene Cables Hi Dave (Calloway),Are you using the Cerious Graphene power cables with the Grail mono blocks?Charles | |
| Why Single-Ended? As with John I've heard modest and excellent examples of both single ended and true balanced systems. Needless to say many variables determine the final sound heard with a component or full system. I appreciate the stated advantages of differentia... | |
| Hegel H30 Stereo vs Clayton M300 Monoblocks You were fortunate to have listened to both amplifiers driving the same speaker and that’s good. This puts you in a position better than most to form a credible opinion. Based on your description I’d choose the Clayton as it is fuller and has a m... | |
| Cerious Technologies NEW Graphene Cables With 21 pages and over 1100 posts topics will tend to drift intermittently.Charles | |
| Acoustic Zen Crescendo speaker crossover capacitors ... who makes them? Bill,That approach makes sense and is of very modest cost. I was referring to replacement with film caps at those very high uf values. It’s funny, the stock Crescendo sounds very well "with" the dreaded electrolytic caps. You are really enjoying y... |