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| Tube sound with no tubes Spaz,1st, I love the moniker. That is how I feel about my usual approach to equipment "upgrades" and auditions. I too have a Pass Labs amp, the X250.5. I recently sold a BAT Vk5i preamp, used it with a Cary SLP 05, and for a long time an ARC LS15.... | |
| What does Jitter sound like? Shadorne, I know what you mean. There is a point after which it really is just a silly excess. I've had just as much emotional involvement with my music through the years of upgrades, as I do with my car system. ALl the upgrades have never changed... | |
| What does Jitter sound like? Dgarretson: great example of a controlled experiment. I wonder how much the improved clock circuitry reduced radiated emmisions, reduced injected noise into the ground planes, vs the degree it reduced actual clock jitter. I'll always have a hard t... | |
| What does Jitter sound like? -Impossible to quantify unless you can tweak the actual jitter specs in the same DAC/cdp. -If a designer has taken the road less travelled in reducing jitter to minimal levels other areas of the DAC/CDP (power supply, filtering, analog section, is... | |
| The most important link in the chain... 1)Ears2)Bank account3)Room4)Speakers5)Amplifier6)Preamp7)Source | |
| Are passive preamps better? Pubul57,I have used three different tube preamps with my Pass X250.5: ARC LS15, Cary SLP-05, BAT Vk5i. I have used these with my two digital sources, Marantz SA11S1, and a Squeezebox 3 (with overkill linear PS). I have also used a TVC for a few mo... | |
| Are passive preamps better? Don't assume that you need a tube preamp to give you "warm" liquid sound. I have found that with the right amp and speakers, an all solid state configuration can provide the same "tube magic" and depth of field (plus all the other usual hi fi soun... | |
| Brand preference and opinions Pass Labs, Balanced Audio Technologies, Cary, Audio Research, Lamm, EMM, Dynaudio, Wilson, Krell, Levison, Rowland, B&W, Theta.You could do much worse | |
| How to determine wear on a stylus? ahem, ah when it sounds dull??? | |
| life without audio dealers I tend to agree with MrTennis on this topic. As an analogy, consider digital photography. Look at dpreviews . com and study the style of the "reviwers". They patently will not tell you what they would buy, but how the products perform; both measur... | |
| What Volume do you listen at? as loud as you can (without upsetting your significant other) but its a good thing if it sounds bigger and more open as you raise volume, as if you are increasing the window of the performance; otherwise it may be distortion or compression that ma... | |
| What do you do when you listen to music? chase my toddler around!! if i'm lucky sit in the "sweet spot" for a few moments at a time. It's a majestic sound that makes me sad I can't enjoy more of it sans interruptus. Eventually i will get more of that time back alone but then again the fa... | |
| Which Mundorf for my tubes? Mingles,I'm not 100% sure but I think they are rebranded Jensen PIO. They got leaky over time and made noisy sounds (especially pop on mute) when the unit was warmed up for some time. A while back I put Dynamicap 4uF 425 V into my (then) ARC lS15,... | |
| Which Mundorf for my tubes? Just put Mundorf MCap Supreme Silver/Oil in my BAT VK5i, and let me tell you, they floored me. Not fully broken in, but they allow such an open urestrictive view into the music I could hardly believe it was possible. Insert all your favorite audio... | |
| "The Death of High Fidelity" Chilling account of the morbid trend. Makes me rub my face, but at the same time appreciate those diamond in the rough recordings (and me gear), that much more.The truth is more than 75% of my collection results in such an ear bleeding sound I vac... |