decooney
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| You want a DAC that sounds *different.* What factor helps you find it? Something *different* on this go-around for another DAC to rotate in includes a different approach with the dac architecture, design, parts used, and USA made. Ordered a dac yesterday and kinda hoping it might even have a little bit *different* s... | |
| Listening after your entire system was powered off cold for a week+ Definitely the DAC, mostly. If I fire up the DAC all day long (at least 4-5hrs) before powering on the tube preamp and tube amps, sure makes a difference. Tube preamp and tube amps do just fine after 1-2hrs warmup, as normal. Mr. R2R NOS chip la... | |
| Less Is Really More - Schiit's New Yggdrasil DAC - Less Is More @wolf_garcia "I have a Bifrost 2 and just ordered the upgrade thing. Weeks...gotta wait weeks..." Latest Schiit Bifrost with 2/64 DACs on the way. Has L.I.M. Here next week. 👍 | |
| Less Is Really More - Schiit's New Yggdrasil DAC - Less Is More @ozzy62 Ahh yes. The ole "smoked it" comment. Mostly used by teenagers and millennial boys who drive Honda Civics with fart can mufflers. Oh my gosh, best post of the year, LOL, hilarious! 🤣 | |
| 12AU7 tubes for a Rouge Audio Sphinx V3 Integrated @mesch if you can, try to take listening notes first 20hrs, 100hrs, 200hrs. Often times people don’t give it enough time with the stock tubes -or- internal caps before replacing them prematurely. Me included on a few occasions. Good lessons learne... | |
| You want a DAC that sounds *different.* What factor helps you find it? Interesting, other than @jond with his AudioNote and @djones51 with his MHDT Pagoda mentioned, surprised we’re not seeing more replies yet about R2R Ladder vs. Delta Sigma DACs and related designs, and implementations. Each of these can sound quit... | |
| 12AU7 tubes for a Rouge Audio Sphinx V3 Integrated @mesch the article @juanmanuelfangioii shared from enjoythemusic makes an interesting comment. I also own some of the absolute best-of-best Blackburn plant Mullard 12au7 cure-tracer close matched triodes from Brent Jesse too, similar to what @deka... | |
| Listening after your entire system was powered off cold for a week+ Yep @terry9 I should know better to expect more from a dead cold system that’s been unplugged/off for a while. Had countless solid state and tube systems past 44 years for audio and do notice similar benefit on my HT as well. Some of my former/be... | |
| Listening after your entire system was powered off cold for a week+ Thanks for this last round of replies, you guys read my posts more closely. Thx. @terry9 may be on to something. Narrowing it down, I now think its my DAC more than anything else in the system. Possibly amps too when dead cold. Last three days... | |
| 12AU7 tubes for a Rouge Audio Sphinx V3 Integrated @rar1 Interestingly enough, I read somewhere (either a magazine review or Rogue literature) that tube rolling was not necessary. Interesting point if this is true, and might be telling about this particular amplifier and it's design - - and ho... | |
| DAC Advice - Benchmark DAC 3 @yyzsantabarbara "The DAC3 with volume is not great at low volume". Super Interesting you mention that point. I had a DAC3B here for a few weeks, and while it had a nice dark and quiet background, huge sound stage, I just could not get use to t... | |
| 12AU7 tubes for a Rouge Audio Sphinx V3 Integrated Hey @mesch you can have fun messing with different 12au7s in that unit. Also seeing the lower version standard white MCaps used in yours stock. You can do better here too. I’d call Rogue first and ask them what upgrades (tubes and cap changes) th... | |
| Cable design is a lot like creating a pizza ...and all kinds of different pizza and varying quality ingredients used in various pizza shops. Results vary quite a bit from garbage to amazing Pizza. Similar situation with junk cable designs with low or high quality conductors, dielectrics, ma... | |
| Listening after your entire system was powered off cold for a week+ To clarify it more, last week with hot weather and unpredictable (brownout) power in our area, I intentionally unplugged my RG power conditioner and everything in the system fully unplugged. Not something I normally do, usually listening every 3 d... | |
| Review on Coda Technologies 16 Amplifier went live today @yyzsantabarbara "The #16 is cleaner sounding like a Benchmark AHB2 but with a bit more Class A warmth.". Is the added Class-A warmth keeping your attention towards the Coda 16 ($16k) vs the Benchmark AHB2 ($3k)? In other words, is that war... |