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| Digital amps overhyped ? Regarding burn-in, I left Rowland Continuum 500 playing music 24/7 for two weeks to achieve 300-hours, from which point I've noted no further improvement. It's easy to set the volume down to where it's barely audible and just let it run a CD on re... | |
| Digital amps overhyped ? I said "Spectron" in my post and meant "Spectral". Sorry.Dave | |
| Digital amps overhyped ? It's not "digital", just a switching power supply. ICEPower is a Class D-like circuit licensed from B&O and is maturing into the basis very good amplifier option. (Many makers greatly modify the ICEPower unit). If you like the Classe' then go ... | |
| Jeff Rowland Capri preamp Thanks for the references Ckoffend, I stand corrected. ;-)I would never say that the Capri is "tube-like" but maybe that's because I don't necessarily see that as a plus. I know that many seek a euphonic experience and often receive it with tubes.... | |
| Jeff Rowland Capri preamp Choffend said:"... The Capri, reported by many (herein included) to be sort of tube sounding, especially for a SS preamp."I don't recall anyone ever saying such a thing about the Capri. Was it here on Agon? I'm curious to read that post.I like you... | |
| Jeff Rowland amp in unbalanced mode Good stuff Rafael. I don't plan to touch the Continuum's output, thank you. You raise one more good question to ask Mr. Rowland. Guido, will you do the honors?Dave | |
| Directional interconnect cables Did you burn them in each time that you changed direction? What about the charge in the insulation (it's a dielectric)? I suspect that if you burn them in after each directional change, then you will have reversed directionality.Dave | |
| Directional interconnect cables How do you remove the dielectric effect??? | |
| class d Despite what one may read, Onkyo and PS-A are not in the elite class of ICEPower or Class D. They're good value for the money, but not really top contenders. PS and Onkyo have significant marketing budgets that garner them many reviews vs. the bou... | |
| class d Never say "never", but I've not seen a Class D preamp and don't expect to. Class D is a method of producing high power with low heat, compact size and low weight. Since preampss are low power devices, the advantages of Class D are not really neede... | |
| New Rowland Criterion 2-chassis battery pre Yes Guido, I think that will happen soon. I also very much want to compare a Continuum 500 with a Capri/312/PC1 combination. I really don't feel like lugging both my MPS-5 and C-5 to Austin, but...Dave | |
| Which is the best CD-Player up to $ 10k ? Read the reviews here and at the Audioasylum of Playback Designs MPS-5. It's gone head to head with a couple of Emms in those reviews. I'm taking mine to Austin in September to A-B vs. a dcS stack. A new owner wrote me a couple of weeks ago that i... | |
| New Rowland Criterion 2-chassis battery pre I'll be pleasantly surprised if the new Criterion elevates very far beyond the Capri, mainly adding flexibility to the Capri's limited switching possibilities. The ability to use the Capri in DC mode by placing the PC1 power factor correction unit... | |
| Vienna Mozart Grand or Beethoven Baby Grand I compared and bought the Baby Grands. They're full range down to 30hz and should work fine with your amp; however, more power is useful to get the last nth out of them. They're very musical.Dave | |
| class d Very nice MrT. Thank you.That area of "fowardness" is where most of us hear the improvement with mucho burn-in.Dave |