georgehifi
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| Connecting a DAC directly to an amp? It seems this happens every time I try to go without my preamp/buffer. Maybe it is my SMc monos, which have input impedance of only 10K ohms Can't tar everything with the same brush, with this 10k input.10k is a very low input impedance, ther... | |
| Are Shakti Stones effective? Once you get them,Then what do you do? You put them on your head, to remind you of a bad "snake oil" purchase, and never to do again.Cheers George | |
| Opportunity to Purchase Sony DAS-703-ES DAC Old but not a bad dac, it’s one of the rare times Sony decided to use R2R Multibit dacs 2 x PCM53JP-I-K (instead of their 1 bit 🤢CDX ones) The 53 was predecessor to the 56 (Wadia used) and the famous PCM1702 and even better PCM1704.Cheers George | |
| High end Class D amps? bluorion OP Are there ’high end’ Class D amps out there that are just as good as Class A, A/B amps?There is only one so far that has taken Class-D and it’s operation to the technology edge, that "could" even better the best Class-A or A/B’s. And... | |
| Are Shakti Stones effective? mglik Are Shakti Stones effective? About as effective as Shun Mook Pucks, Geoff Kiat’s Pebbles (https://www.machinadynamica.com/mikro-pebbles.jpg), $150 Boutique Fuses, HFT’s and a host of other snake oil products, that convince the gullible to ... | |
| Buying a DAC when you can't try it first mid-fi-crisis Buying a DAC when you can’t try it first Schiit Audio gives 10 days on their products the have some great dacs.https://www.schiit.com/products And their dacs are designed by Mike Moffat the man who made Theta Digital one of the bes... | |
| The value of a good FM tuner?......, now and in the future... The value of a good FM tuner?......, now and in the future... I don’t know when the USA is going DAB (or DAB+) (Digital Audio Broadcast) Radio, (Canada is testing they say), but when you hear it will be coming, do what I did below or you’ll have d... | |
| Audiophile Fuses Some companies offer a 30 Day Satisfaction Guarantee have absolutely nothing to lose "Trust ME!" And there it is!!!! The Naysayer Church wants you to trust their antiquated science Really!! then all your equipment better go into land fill thenHa... | |
| Active external crossover dougthebiker I wouldn't go digital for doing xovers, I tried the Mini DSP 2x4 hd and the Deqx both which had sad sounding dac's (but they are great fiddling/time wasting tools), not worth in any way taking out what my MSB Discrete R2R sounds li... | |
| Audiophile Fuses However, it seems to be the only topic where people want to trout out "blind testing". This only happens on fuses on this forum. That’s because they all sound the same, so long as the fuse and it’s holder are new and clean, and not old crusty one... | |
| Gryphon Diablo 250 vs Hegel390 Both links work fine, they are only pictures, try to turn off your ad blocker or virus guard for a minute. Or here I posted the picks up on Image-HostingGryphon https://ibb.co/t40D5ZrHegal https://ibb.co/4MMfjbzCheers George | |
| Gryphon Diablo 250 vs Hegel390 Diablo 250 guts https://6moons.com/audioreviews/gryphon/open2.jpgHegal 390 guts https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/nKXHVMwgGoII-6JPxecdT5b7SBUcp9BiqqP1jsrS3viAMwoAplHC6vJ7NLpU...My money just on the pics, is with the Gryphon more heatsink, mo... | |
| Hi-Pass Filter Into Amp Yep, just a simple cap will do the job for you 1st order roll-off, not good for much. Get the Loki pebblesr2, you’ll love it like others do, and you’ll have other uses for it as well.Like setting it flat and having a very good discrete buffer sho... | |
| Hi-Pass Filter Into Amp pebblesr2 Hi-Pass Filter Into Amp Just get one of these, they’re discrete no opamps, transparent and very versatile, and cheap. https://www.schiit.com/products/lokiJust look at all the different curves you can attainhttps://www.superbestaudiofri... | |
| Help finding a simple but high quality buffer or preamp for remotely controlling volume I had been using Scitt Freya + He wants black.The only passive pre I found that has remote and is black is this, but I’m still waiting to hear what his input impedances of his amp/s are.Uses an quality Alps "Blue Velvet" for the motorized potent... |