dgarretson
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| Former Merlin Owners I never heard the SuperBam, but I moved the std. BBAM way ahead by removing voltage regulation from the unit & powering it with large SLA batteries and fast parallel cap arrays. Also the VSM-MXs take very well to a sub to fill out that last bo... | |
| APL NWO2.5 ? Guidocorona, if it's 6350 tubes perhaps he's talking Joule, not Atma (6SN7). Not to quibble but the Atma MP-1 is far better than "reasonably competent." | |
| APL NWO2.5 ? "Buy the best source first and then work back towards the speakers. Only then can you know for sure how up to snuff the rest of your gear really is."I agree with Drubin & Alex as well. Garbage in, garbage out. Each improvement to my modded CDP... | |
| Review: Bent Audio Tap Linestage John mentioned recently that has no near-term plan for silver transformers in the TAP. For the TAP, S&B makes special unpotted copper transformers with relay switching on a PCB integrated with the traffo housing. This eliminates the rat's nest... | |
| Meldau/Metheny: Thoughts? Not a bad collaboration, but not the equal of either artist's most recent ensemble work: Metheny's "The Way up" and Meldau's "House on Hill." | |
| Have anyone replace VPI SSM belt with string? Semi, yes with the TNT/single motor/flywheel it is easier because only the long thread around the platter must be cut exactly in order to be self-tensioning. | |
| APL NWO2.5 ? With the lights dimmed we might miss all the log-rolling. | |
| How to get rid of Hiss Assuming you add a cable isolation transformer like the Jensen or the Magic Eye, most hum/buzz problems from preamp are usually resolved by relocating the pre and its ICs away from AC transformers (Tice) and AC cables. | |
| Have anyone replace VPI SSM belt with string? I've used carpet/button thread with a TNT III/flywheel set-up and can report quite an improvement in focus & musicality & relief from slurring in the bass region. If the string can't be tensioned, the tricked is to tie knots within knots t... | |
| Best "album" of 2006 & Tom Verlaine's "Songs & Other Things" | |
| Best "album" of 2006 Thom y, it's a decent list. I would add:Ray LaMontagne: Till the Sun Turns BlackRobyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3: Ole TarantulaRay Davies: Other Peoples LivesIsobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan: Ballad of the Broken SeasWillie Nelson: SongbirdPear... | |
| Cost effective mods for a Sony SCD-777ES Tvad,The refined players you have experienced have probably been cleansed of many compromises & arrived at a purer flavor defined by choice of DAC chipset, filter, tube vs. ss output. Now you're talking caviars rather than fast food hamburgers... | |
| Cost effective mods for a Sony SCD-777ES Chuck hits the mark that if the cost of the mule plus the mods produces a player that matches commercial offers costing 2-3 times as much, the mod has been justified financially & also in terms of personal satisfaction, regardless of resale is... | |
| Cost effective mods for a Sony SCD-777ES Tvad, Of 30 odd mod/test cycles I've been through with the SCD-1, all but one or two changes were steps in a positive direction without any downside. The one or two mods I would consider "flavor" preferences-- i.e., mods that improve in one area w... | |
| Cost effective mods for a Sony SCD-777ES Modding is the way to get off the endless merry-go-round of swaps and upgrades. And with the SCD-1/777ES there is pretty much no diminishing return on improvements. Better is simply better until you get near SOTA, at which point Tvad's point about... |