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| MHDT or Border Patrol kalali...I would like to "upgrade" to a non-OS tube DAC just to see if it adds more body and texture to the music without losing detail. >>MHDT Orchid<<. Done for a while, Thankfully. Came close to acquiring the BP DAC. Finally settled... | |
| Best player for Spotify Arcam rPlay. Use DTSPlayFi for Spotify, or use Tidal. The Internal DAC is okay, not the best. When paired up with a really nice DAC, sounds really good. Super easy to use. Nice and compact. Not the cheapest by any means. Nice build quality. Pairs ... | |
| DAC's : The missing feature: Signal quality I just returned a very highly regarded high-end low noise DAC. It has some of the best specs in the industry, lowest distortion, lowest jitter, super quiet dark background. It produced super clean, open, two dimensional "sound". Not "MUSIC". While... | |
| Coupling cap upgrade for Cary CAD-805C help Dear all,I'm going to swap the coupling caps of my Cary CAD-805C (those with 845 triodes). The original are strange "Audio 1" PIO capacitors - they looks like Vitamin Q maybe. I'd like to put there Mundorf SG, to have a more dinamic sound. Service... | |
| Coupling cap upgrade for Cary CAD-805C help Dear all,I'm going to swap the coupling caps of my Cary CAD-805C (those with 845 triodes). The original are strange "Audio 1" PIO capacitors - they looks like Vitamin Q maybe. I'd like to put there Mundorf SG, to have a more dinamic sound. Service... | |
| Interconnects and non-believers If the rest of the system and speakers are mediocre, better cables likely won’t make a notable difference. Probably not worth the investment. With more revealing audio systems, there can be a notable difference. Over the years I had tried various ... | |
| Pre amps cost vs. value ... what I discovered last month. kw6Brian pls try a Linear tube audio Micro z2 or Audible Illusion L3A or Cary Slp-98! ThanksInteresting I wondered the same reading this thread, and with those exact same units, and not the most expensive either. None of my own modified Cary tube ... | |
| Ess Company I was there mid '83 at Oates at the main bldg far area assembly. Don't recall a cafeteria. That must have been part of the glory days there before my time I guess. I heard stories about how it was before I got there, but missed some of that fun s... | |
| Ess Company I worked at ESS in the early 80s on the assembly line. I still play a bit with custom builds today. More recently, last week I had the opportunity to evaluate some of the newer version speakers made by ESS and visited SoCal location a few months... | |
| Bookshelf speakers that sound good on a SHELF or SIDEBOARD I have some Totem Model 1 Signature speakers. Original owner. Includes two Totem Signature main speakers, a center channel, and standard model 1s too. Initially they were used for reference validation, and now saved for a future 2nd den room refer... | |
| Triode or Ultralinear mode crwindy, the results partly depend on your speakers. What speakers do you have? db?My Cary SLI-80 and Cary V12R tube amps definitely do not sound "dead" in Triode mode. I design/build my own custom speakers for fun and have tried various combos. ... | |
| Full-sounding SS amps (besides Pass) The new Cary SA-200.2 solid state amp has been good for me so far. However, I’m cheating a little by using a Cary SLP-98 tube preamp in front of it. :) Full, huge, sound. The detail/softness can be tuned with interconnects too. Cary Audio and anot... | |
| For tube sound, which is more important: preamp or power amp? Which is more important - you ask? It’s kinda like ice cream, it's about different flavors and what you like in the end. I was an all solid state owner for too long. Should have tried tube preamps sooner than I did several decades later. Today, I ... | |
| Cary Audio: Tube preamp (SLP-98) paired with (SA-200.2) solid state amplifier? After five months of running the Cary V12R tube amp in Triode mode with recent cap upgrades to the new Mundorf Silver-Gold caps, I decided pull the V12R and put the SA-200.2 solid state amp back in rotation for a while. Wow, had forgotten how nice... | |
| Looking for help retubing Cary V12R mono blocks I was kind of thinking about replacing my Ruby EL34BSTR tubes just to try something else in the V-12R, then a local dealer friend with the same amp at home recommended I keep trying different front-end tubes to realize a bigger change, and perhaps... |