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| Spiking older Thiels pepp11 If you have a suspended floor, don't spike into it, you just make the floor a "sound board" for the bass and it will be muddy and thick. Only spike into a cement slab floor.Cheers George | |
| New Preamp arrived.... The NS 1000, 1000x, 5000’s as do the Soavo1 and 2 (NS-B951), need a 2db boost in the lower mids/upper bass in my room with the Loki (2nd knob from the left to 3o’clock position all others flat), to make them just right to my ear, typical of Japane... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD From the website, this dac appears to deploy the same prime R2R modules (used in all the higher up models);If anyone here has heard/bought this compelling looking model please chime in 👍Correct, I have an MSB discrete dac also, as this thread is ... | |
| Yamaha NS 5000 Yeah @wolf_garcia put me onto this, everyone needs one in their arsenal, they can work wonders. Can't wait if Schiit to maybe bring out a + version with 10 band instead of 4. I emailed them, they said maybe?Cheers George | |
| New Preamp arrived.... "Thousands of dollars to turn up and down the volume is pretty crazy". Yep, and going direct is even better again. If you don’t like it, you don’t like your source. Yea that would be if that’s all it did. Unless you want to add coloration/disto... | |
| Yamaha NS 5000 I havent heard them but it looks like they would need to be custom tuned to match your hearing. If you need to do that, then enter the discrete direct coupled Shiit Loki for $149.Amazingly transparent tool for changing the color of a speaker. htt... | |
| New Preamp arrived.... also to confirm, the sheet included with it noted that it does invert phase so I swapped the - and + of both speakers. I don’t hear a difference but from what I read that’s what one should do. Bit of a funny one that to whether you hear anything.... | |
| Tubes or not nikonnola Currenty I have a Wadia Di22 . Wadia's are great dacs, this Wadia has a great output stage ,<100ohms output impedance and is capable of giving up to 4v se, 8v xlr output!! I hope you took the preamp out (if one was used) and tr... | |
| CAL Alpha produces brutal gain ehollander OP My system is made of Jolida 302 integrated tube amp This is probably your problem, this amp only needs 500mV (0.5v) in for full 50watt output. The Jolida 302 is just a poweramp, with a passive volume control on the input, the gain co... | |
| Do we really need anything greater than 24/96? Opinions? Some of my favorite sounding albums have been HDCD. “Wrecking Ball” by Emmylou Harris and “Sea Change” by Beck are two that come to mind. Amazing music and excellent recordings! 16/44 or 24/96 HDCD through a well sorted R2R multibit dac, is a... | |
| New Preamp arrived.... gochurchgo The volume knob can actually be turned further to get as loud as the Schiit which was surprising. Wouldn’t worry about this, because the Sys has no gain, Schiit probably use a linear volume pot, (which will have better L to R tracking ... | |
| Gryphon Diablo 300 vs Vitus RI-101 Yes Naim have a following, but they don't sound like what the OP wants that's a fact, they are far from neutral.. | |
| Time to buy a class D amp? How can you say "It’s not hifi yet" Because they still have two important problems to improve on, phase shift and dead time. Which the above GaN equipped SE-R1 addresses, but it's not for the common man to afford.Cheers George | |
| Time to buy a class D amp? It’s not hifi yet but getting closer. 👍, Getting closer with development using GaN Tech, but the top one so far SE-R1 or similar is not affordable yet.Cheers George | |
| Gryphon Diablo 300 vs Vitus RI-101 caphill I would pair your Focal Sopra speakers with full warm sounding electronics If I were you. You may have missed what his sound preference is. but I want to try the highend ultra fast yet relaxing sound.To me that says the JC1’s in low bias... |