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| From an MHDT to an Audio Mirror, quick impressions @wlutke are you utilizing the exact same digital input and output cables on the AM dac as you did with your Orchid - in other words did one cable/type change by chance? Also did you ever try the other Tesla -or- Western Electric optional/recomme... | |
| From an MHDT to an Audio Mirror, quick impressions @wlutke would be so hard to advise on this not seeing or hearing your system. The factory caps are good too, and I did not experience glare with my Orchid in stock form before upgrading the tube and caps. btw, Are your speakers toed in or faced... | |
| From an MHDT to an Audio Mirror, quick impressions @wlutke @decooney Thanks for the heads up. I’ve tube rolled the Orchid including 6922 family to some effect. Per my last post the biggest reason for moving on from the Orchid was predominant glare. How is your output cap mod in that area? It woul... | |
| Cable brands that work well with Cardas? @dr3 "also sounded harsh - as if they were not broken in enough, although they were trade-ins, not brand new." Fwiw, the exact same occurred for me, on my first go-around. I came from the direction you want to revert to now. I had just resold ... | |
| From an MHDT to an Audio Mirror, quick impressions @wlutke not to digress too much but curious to know if your prior Orchid dac had the stock coupling caps in it from MHDT, or if they were upgraded? Reason for the question is the stock caps are fairly smoothed over. Nice, yet can be optimized not... | |
| Cary Audio SLP-5 Preamp @couger4u Congratulations on the new Cary SLP-05 preamp, and enjoy! | |
| Cable brands that work well with Cardas? @dr3 Clear Reflection cables which had awesome bass but unexpectedly set off my hot tweeters (Parsec is good at taming that). ...Now I’m thinking of upgrading one of the Parsec IC to big old Cardas (not Clear) or Transparent. Another angle to ... | |
| I've been selling heavier gear for lighter gear I parted with my beloved 87lb stereo tube amp for two 42lb mono tube amps partly for this reason. Speakers get disassembled just to move them myself. Argh. | |
| Cardas Clear Beyond Interconnects ? @jgladden36 have you tried the scenario of using Clear Reflection ICs for both of you your sources (DAC and Phono) upstream, and then a Clear Rev1 -or- Clear Beyond IC downstream between your Holo Serene preamp to your AHB2 amplifier? I’m doing s... | |
| How crucial is the quality of a digital cable? @nonoise if you get a chance, check out that test video done by reviewer named Passion for Sound on YT. He does a form of audio signal playback test with a general USB cable and five other known brand shielded USB cables. For the preparation proce... | |
| How crucial is the quality of a digital cable? @motown-l How crucial is the quality of a digital cable? More crucial than I had recalled. Validated it again yesterday. Quite surprising. After running an Analysis Plus Solo Crystal SPDIF Digital coax -or- Cardas Lightening 15 digital cabl... | |
| Solid state to tube @ecpninja that's good. I'd recommend following his advice him knowing the design and how different tubes respond. Also good to see he recommended those particular rectifier tubes if you don't already have them installed now. | |
| Solid state to tube @ecpninja So I bought the modwright 9.0 and hooked it up. First impression. Wow!! Nice! Did it come with the factory supplied tubes only, or any extra tubes passed along by the prior owner to try as well? Modwright: "Tube Complement... | |
| Cable brands that work well with Cardas? @marco1 cool, thanks for giving it a try. Fwiw, my conclusion is I like the AP/Crystals more downstream in the system than upstream at the source where I place the Cardas. As you may recall, when you pull those out [uncoil them] and put them in ... | |
| Cable brands that work well with Cardas? @marco1 yep, and the factoid results may vary for others, yet one thing I tried a few years back was to send in two pairs of the older Cardas Golden Cross 1M RCA interconnects and had the soldered-on connectors removed, and re-terminated with the ... |