decooney
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| Cary SLI-80HS modifications @pehare "kitchen sink upgrades from Cary ..." Do you happen to know which capacitors were listed as upgrades on your invoice/receipt ? | |
| First Tube amp suggestions Look for a used Dennis Had Inspire KT88 Firebottle on audiomart sites. He hasn’t built many, but for $2k you get the performance of a $10k SET amp. He built me one last summer, it blows away my Willsenton R800i and Oldchen EL34 for texture, tone ... | |
| First Tube amp suggestions It's more of a short-cut to decide if you are keeping or replacing your current Triangle speakers before you go down the tube amp path. Also highly recommend going to YouTube and looking for videos of techs tearing some of the low cost amps apar... | |
| UPS Driver Literally Drops Package with New Hana Umami Red Pack well, double-wrap, double-box, insure it, and always expect they will throw and drop it. We record it with cameras, and rarely do they ever set it down gently. Any merchant or shipper who is not aware of this by now will hopefully learn in t... | |
| dacs that I have had in my system - a listing @vinylvalet Was not to be my primary dac long term, already had something in the works, and it caught me off guard. I have a 2nd system I was thinking of putting together and thought I’d use it there - making any reasons to try and keep it..., unf... | |
| To Raise or Not to Raise Heresy IV's It’s not an entirely uncommon practice for people to raise them. Trust your ears. | |
| dacs that I have had in my system - a listing @jjss49 decooney i did not... long long story with my efforts over the decades trying to find a high efficiency speaker i can truly live with long term ...but despite my efforts, i continue to strike out after so so many at bats... just too much ... | |
| dacs that I have had in my system - a listing One dac to mention for the $, value, and somewhat in the neutral-clarity camp is the new Schiit Bifrost 2/64, R2R chip (non-tube) with non-oversampling / MegaComboBurrito filter switch. Internally runs two Texas Instruments dac processors chips. ... | |
| Tuneful Cables by High-End Audio "@rlb61 I second the Audio Envy cables. They blew my Cardas GR out of the water." This could be helpful information to others - with a few more supporting details. Audio Envy is on Generation 10 of the Studio Prestige interconnect cable now... | |
| dacs that I have had in my system - a listing Yep! I think all the questions show interest and great admiration of someone truly having a passion for self-learning and validation in ones own system(s) versus taking anyone’s word for it. Just gotta love it. If you can do it, it’s the only way ... | |
| dacs that I have had in my system - a listing @jjss49 I had a similar type of question about the testing process used. It's helpful to learn about the additional cone driver speakers referenced. Thanks for sharing that information. Those are some really nice speakers to test with and compare... | |
| Tuneful Cables by High-End Audio Cardas: Having owned all versions of past Cardas "golden" series (various), and new version hybrid golden/clear series cables, I can share with you all of these sound different from one cable to the next within the Cardas lineup old or new versio... | |
| tube bias conundrum @mazian ..."And yes the amp biases fine with Gold Lion KT88 tubes and Tung Sol KT 120s." Okay so you’ve tried other brand KT88s and it works fine. Perhaps the is why all of us do our best to try and purchase from a reputable tube re-seller, ... | |
| DAC contest: Border Patrol Sei or Chord Qutest? @badgerdms ...But if you actually just let each unit go for about of week of listening and see which one actually lets you enjoy the music more, it’s the Border Patrol. ... The recently new BP SE-I dac model I have with the Jupiter Beeswax c... | |
| DAC contest: Border Patrol Sei or Chord Qutest? @badgerdms "For background, my other stand-alone DAC (in another system) is a Merason DAC1 and I auditioned DACS by Ideon, Matrox, Weiss & Bricasti before going ith the Merason." Nice. Some worthy dac comparison references there. A few c... |