decooney
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| Analysis Plus Oval 9 @mdrone - owned three pairs of the Oval 9 RCA interconnects. Kinda warm, weighty, sort of grainy. Lacking some upper register detail, and lacking separation of instruments as it tends to blur things together more so than more refined interconnect... | |
| PSVANE Discussion & Impressions Thread @alightronics its a surprise to see a tube manufacturer drop in on this forum. I'm a long time PSVANE tube user since the early Shuguang and TJ Full Music related tooling buyout days. Never tried Art Series, noting newer versions coming about. Ho... | |
| FirstWatt SIT-3 or Pass Labs XA25 for Avalon Indras? @whiteknee "These are quality amps when system matched properly". Exactly. And yet the OP keeps asking about the lower powered SIT-3, regardless. The more operative question would be has anyone heard SIT-3 paired with your 87db 4ohm Avalon ... | |
| FirstWatt SIT-3 or Pass Labs XA25 for Avalon Indras? "@ulul Power is not the key point, if I listen to music during the day the knob never goes beyond half of the current power amp ... ... The aim is to have magic and involvement at low volume." Others here have already mentioned something sim... | |
| Battle of the Older DAC @mclinnguy "...and deciding for themselves because the "numbers" don’t lie!". And the other question as to whether those measurements include all of the right things in the right way in the same manner humans are actually hearing and interpret... | |
| To all you Cary SLI 80 owners, I'm looking for tube suggestions @immatthewj I forgot to mention bias in the V12 / V12R. The original manual calls for higher settings, and my local tech disagreed with this. We jumped on a call with the design tech after Dennis left cary, and he said they had now recommended lo... | |
| Battle of the Older DAC @jasonbourne71 "Buying a DAC based upon someone’s opinion is stupid. You might as well ask a Ouija board for advice." I bought one of the best measuring DACs on the market and it was based on reports over at ASR, and their opinions about the... | |
| To all you Cary SLI 80 owners, I'm looking for tube suggestions @immatthewj My Cary V12 came with Rubys. At the time, I thought it was a great sound. I was under the impression that these were EL34s that were rebranded by Ruby? For some reason, and I may be wrong, at the time (’01) I was under the impression ... | |
| Battle of the Older DAC @sls883 "decooney i would recommend the Gustard R26. I think it's a really good dac for the money." Hello, okay, thanks and btw I'm not looking for dacs right now and hopefully not again for the near future. Had to check myself to see if I was... | |
| Cardas Clear Reflection advice needed @txp1 If you already tried Golden Reference, what I can share is Clear Reflection is its own cable and presentation among the lineup comparing new to older designs. Having tried many in the Cardas lineup past 30 years, and then strayed away some ... | |
| End of a long quest to vanquish sibilance. Congratulations to you @stuartk for not giving up and continuing to try different things until you figured it out. Glad it worked out and you are back to listening to music once again | |
| Which preamp for Quicksilver mono amps? There is nothing wrong with the standard QS linestage or full function QS preamp, and particularly so for the price new. People like to try different preamps with different tube sets to yield different results. You might be better off trying diffe... | |
| Which preamp for Quicksilver mono amps? @ihcho you could do a lot worse than your AI M3B with a lessor preamp.You have a decent unit now. Echoing @soix ’ fundamental questions about what you are trying to accomplish -or- just to satisfy curiosity itch - do share more. A friend had a p... | |
| Which preamp for Quicksilver mono amps? If you want your QS monos to sing, it's really worth trying some different preamps with them. While I've helped a few friends with the standard QS line stage, and its a value for the $, do try a few nice lower gain (or switchable) 6SN7 preamps at ... | |
| Looking for a great front ported bookshelp speaker recommendation @blackiridium if you are stuck with a bookshelf cabinet for placement, dealing with resonance and sound reflection - are you able to place the speakers where the front slightly overhangs the shelf (about an inch) and angle them toward your listeni... |