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| Anyone replace ceramic caps with film? Thanks for the responses. I spoke to the circuit designer and he said he used them because they are cheap and last a long time. He said the Amtrans film caps I found look great. Never assume. :) I'll do some listening tests and hopefully the fi... | |
| Apple Music Lossless sounds great Sibilance on the leading edges of notes and sounds. | |
| Apple Music Lossless sounds great @fuzztone whats it like being that jaded with life? | |
| Synergistic Research Fuses vs cheaper ceramic fuses Its funny how nobody talks about the fact that system upgrades are all relative.Replacing a fuse in a garbage amplifier made of 6 wires and radio shack components will do little. But removing a radio shack fuse made of junk metal in a $40k Kondo a... | |
| Cables for Leben/Devore- Nordost? I own Leben and tried Auditorium and Tellurium (Silver + Black). Shockingly bad.Then I stepped up to Furutech DSS and a DPS for power. Completely amazing. So far out of the league of those other brands on imaging, transparency, and resolution. Ple... | |
| Purifi Class D: Junk? I did not replace the Molex from the hypex power unit to the amp module, but its on my list. I would have to source the right cabling for this. I did remove the Molex that connects to the IEC inlet and soldered the DPS directly to that board. I us... | |
| Furutech GTX NCF receptical break in, how long One thing to be aware of is the Furutech products increase _transparency_, not euphonics. What this means is that, often times, I have used a test song or album that progressively sounded worse as the cables broke in. The dynamic range became smal... | |
| Purifi Class D: Junk? I got the VTV with their buffer. I tried all of the op amps, (each requiring at least 36-50 hrs break-in with noticeable changes), and the Weiss, which is from their $25k Medeus DAC, absolutely blew everything out of the water. Pure transparency. ... | |
| Furutech GTX NCF receptical break in, how long All Furutech products are basically the same burn in story because its their Alpha OCC materials, the exception being their teflon DSS cable which is a whopping 500-700hrs or their 55N PC which is like 800 hrs. (My DSS literally sounded worse at 3... |