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| Best room EQ? I know about ARC, but its a problem - its software based, and I don’t think the EQ algorithms are as good as Weiss. But, whats important is I need a hardware unit which can run on the signal regardless of the source. I should add, although I ment... | |
| ATC or Audio Note (2-way) I looked at some ATC xovers.. they do have custom caps and inductors. Well, who knows! | |
| ATC or Audio Note (2-way) I believe AN has the most transparent crossover components (which are available for DIY), seasoning-to-taste not withstanding...no way a company like ATC which mass produces parts is going to have something better. If you've ever done xover or int... | |
| AN Niobium versus Tantalum resistors? Yes thats especially similar with NOS tubes. Somehow people accept tubes work on this principle, but not cables, resistors, caps...all are nothing but materials which energy flows though, coloring the behavior and result. But I guess some people f... | |
| AN Niobium versus Tantalum resistors? @teo_audio I've come to liken it to comparing high-end glass for lenses. Zeiss, Leica, or a simple prism from grade school show you what happens when turbulence and time shift occur with light - prismatic effects, halo, chromatic aberrations. Elec... | |
| AN Niobium versus Tantalum resistors? I recommend replace one position of either the Takman or Z-foil with Niobium. I tried a few combos of this.. small differences of these locations, but in all cases the improvement of Niobium was great! | |
| The sound quality from DACs - is it all the same? If you look up the definition of a religion, ASR fits 100%. | |
| AN Niobium versus Tantalum resistors? They are .5W because of space issues, I was not able to go higher. I use standard Niobium, which are higher resolution and fuller sounding than Z-Foils, as a comparison. They are the highest resolution resistor I have tried so far and the tone cur... | |
| ATC or Audio Note (2-way) @gregm yes, upgrading vintage Japanese speakers is on my list! Seen Kendrick Sound's channel on YT? Does crossover and tweeter upgrades. I also want to get into old Tannoys. Seems getting out and finding things to listen to is the hard part. | |
| ATC or Audio Note (2-way) Thanks for responses. Re:modding..I’ve done extensive modding and very familiar with AN parts in particular...having talked a bunch with the Qvortrup’s who were impressed with some of my ideas. You can easily take the lower end gear if you know w... | |
| ATC or Audio Note (2-way) Very different? I've heard ATC but not AN. (I've used a lot of AN components in various DIY, though). Thought both were very mid-centric? | |
| AN Niobium versus Tantalum resistors? UPDATE: I was concerned the Niobiums were too tubey and compressed sounding, so I swapped all the resistors to Z-Foil. There was instant gratification of low noise and high resolution, but after several hundred hours they did sound thin and there... | |
| AN Niobium versus Tantalum resistors? Typically I use the full 300 hours my Furutech solder needs, so its painfully slow. Audionote recommended 100hrs for their resistors. In fact, the Niobium are making some progress..so I’ll report back after a couple hundred hours. But for example,... | |
| AN Niobium versus Tantalum resistors? I’ve had the Niobiums in a couple days, also replacing Takman Metal. Knowing the improvement the Z’s did, initially I’m not super impressed. I had hoped for the radically low noise/linearity of Kaisei, but these are more on the carbon/tant vibe o... | |
| AN Niobium versus Tantalum resistors? I added the Z-Foils first. This is for the resistor which the interconnect immediately connects to, so I decided to make this transparent. The Niobium will go downstream in a feedback circuit. First impression is surprise. I was told the Takman c... |