decooney
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| RIP Eddie Van Halen. What was your first stereo you rocked to VH on? Started with Van Halen 1 album, Eruption :) Sansui AU-717 integrated amp, TU-717 tuner, Techniques SLQ2 turntable, ESS AMT Monitor speakers back then. Recently watched an updated video of him piecing the three different guitars together to build... | |
| Poor Fritz @erik_squires ..They are remarkably affordable and yet potential customers put him through the absolute ringer...OP: There are reviews on the Fritz website and he charges something like $3295 for a small BE 2-way speaker, not inexpensive by any me... | |
| Review: Fritz Heiler’s Carrera BE Bookshelf Speakers @hilde45Would you possibly characterize the sound of the Carrera vs. Salks having a tad more mid-bass with the Carreras and slightly more transparent & detailed midrange with the Salks 6M SS? Having built some speakers with a few of these same... | |
| Belles Aria Integrated burn in time If you are a "specific" type of individual, follow the manual, and If I may recommend taking some general listening notes after 40hrs, 80, 150, 250hrs of burn-in. You can simply self-score low, mids, highs, soundstage, general observations and oth... | |
| Thinking about getting a R2R DAC @adam8179Congrats. Pagoda’s with the Burr Brown dual chipset is nice, XLRs if you need them, and same tube compliment. Save this link for later, may not need it but just in case for "burn in and tubes"...http://www.mhdtlab.com/tube.htmThe stock tu... | |
| Thinking about getting a R2R DAC Will never forget the first time I heard an old version high $ Mark Levinson CD player and the old first version Audio Note DAC. Call it warmer or smoother or whatever, just sounded very "natural" to my ears years back. No grain or etch. Non-fatig... | |
| Thinking about getting a R2R DAC @jjss49 I don’t myself, not yet. However, following up with a friend this morning who’s messing with two different psu units for both his streamer and his dac, the psu is not going to work as hoped for the dac itself. Also validated a few others i... | |
| Thinking about getting a R2R DAC @bjesien "...One other thing that the op might want to pay attention to is power supplies. I added a quality external power supply to my Roon Nucleus and that really calmed things down while adding greater focus, space and a more vivid realism..."... | |
| Thinking about getting a R2R DAC @bjesien I did a blind shootout between the Mojo V2x and the Orchid and my updated Ayre QB-9 Twenty. I kept the Mojo- my wife and kids liked it best too. What it's all about, right here. Sounds good to your ears on your system. Better yet, f... | |
| Thinking about getting a R2R DAC @adam8179 OP: Quote - "Thinking about getting a R2R DAC...I was looking at the MHDT Orchid or the Border Patrol".Adam, as the original poster you had a question. Some answered to it, others not so much - going in an entirely different direction ma... | |
| Thinking about getting a R2R DAC Yep. Non-fatiguing. No oversampled or over processed fake echo sound. MHDT, 16-bit, Audio Note, 18 bit. Proven chipsets. Good transformers. "no over sampling, no jitter reduction, no noise shaping and no re-clocking. Digital filtering removed". Le... | |
| Thinking about getting a R2R DAC @adam81796moons review, page-2, MHDT Orchid, ...how it sounds :) https://6moons.com/audioreview_articles/mhdtlab/2/ | |
| KEF LS50 - Question @wassaicwill - "ever"? "Stereophile’s Products of 2013 Budget Component of the Year"https://www.stereophile.com/content/stereophiles-products-2013-budget-component-yearMaybe start here forward...Seems to me reviewers comment quite a bit about it a... | |
| Thinking about getting a R2R DAC @adam8179 "I was looking at the MHDT Orchid or the Border Patrol." It’s worth reading more on BP’s tube rectified power supply approach vs. MHDT Labs tube implementation for the Orchid DAC. The first time I heard my own R2R Ladder tube DAC, it qui... | |
| Quicksilver Mid Mono - power matching @spotconlon Nice, glad you got them, congrats! The QS Linestage Pre is a bargain, fwiw. Add some nice vintage NOS tubes, done. Silver non-remote version is preferred by the sonic purists, remote version comes in Black only. If you use a RCA/out to... |