decooney
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| 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 ... | |
| This cable game is making my head spin @blue_collar_audio_guy Thats a negative. Putting the silver cords anywhere in the preamp, amp or both brings out way to much harshness for my liking. Bob Dylan’s harmonica becomes ear screeching for example. ^^ This is telling^^. Btw, I ru... | |
| This cable game is making my head spin @blue_collar_audio_guy if doable, what happens if you swap the Audio Sensibility Impact copper cables upstream closer to your source / phono preamp, and moving the silver cables downstream in the chain - does it smooth out a little more for you? | |
| Cable brands that work well with Cardas? @marco1 Have both orig. and rev 1. Unless you listen side by side you’ll never hear the difference and even if you do probably still won’t. @marco1 Will follow up. iirc, that was about the time they went from soldered to the newer solderless... | |
| Cable brands that work well with Cardas? @rsf507 I once had Cardas Clear interconnects and went to Audiomica and find they had a more musical presentation at a much lower price. Then got Audiomica sc and have never looked back. Do you recall if you had the original version of the "... | |
| Good read: why comparing specifications is pointless @ticat OMG people... Stop Feeding the Trolls! This thread went south a long time ago. | |
| Good read: why comparing specifications is pointless @ghdprentice ..."I would not begin to consider evaluating a single new component without listening to it for a couple months. This would be only after being completely familiar with my system without change for months… many months. ... Exact... | |
| Cables to settle brightness While all of my former Cardas Golden Cross and Golden Reference interconnects found new homes with owners of brighter sounding class A/AB solid-state amplifiers, the new "Clear" line from Cardas is notably different. Then within the clear line, ... | |
| Solid state to tube @ecpninja, Reading there is no tube in your totaldac, and your plan to keep using your ss amplifer, seems to me you are in an ideal situation for a really good tube preamplifier if you want this type of sound. What @yyman23 describes above was my... | |
| Cable brands that work well with Cardas? +Cardas Clear Cygnus vs. Analysis Plus Crystal RCA interconnects ---------------- Past few weeks I've been intermixing both of these within my system too. I was trying to decide to stay all-AP or all-Cardas having full sets of both. Looks l... | |
| Cables to settle brightness @millercarbon what is better than a well-matched system? | |
| Cables to settle brightness DACs and Cables can both impact the sound in unexpected ways. Run a less transparent dac with smoothed over cables, can be veiled over. Run an overly transparent dac with extra transparent interconnects, fatiguing. A neutral non-oversamplin... |