georgehifi
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| Stop compressing our bloody music!!!!!!!!!!! Compression, is all about. Creating a wall of noise, so everything is at the same level, so you can "hear it all" even is noisy situationsUsing it in the car (noisy background)While walking outside (noisy background) Compression also protects eard... | |
| Should I decouple my subs too? Forgot to mention we have a suspended hard wood floorAgain Ron, nothing should be coupled to a suspended wooded floor, as it just becomes a "muddying sound-board" for whatever is coupled to it.Cheers George | |
| Switching to battery power Just a copy/paste from an owner Idiosyncratic, responding on the Stereophile review of it.Cheers George | |
| Discrete R2R Ladder dac from Soekris, Absolute Sounds review. Sorry dsper had to delete the last two, thought I was talking to the "anti Soekris" one. Consider if the DAC has a remote control for the volume. 3 of the 5 Soekris dacs do have remote control, only the bottom 2 don’t and you have to turn the kno... | |
| Gryphon Diablo 300 Has Arrived: First Impressions. The Diablo has a slightly dark quality...... In my experience Purist has a dark quality This usually associated with high bias class-A sound, as it removes (the higher it is) the etched sound of xover distortion of Class-A/B with low bias, and mak... | |
| Discrete R2R Ladder dac from Soekris, Absolute Sounds review. If this was a delta-sigma, you would probably say he was no good.And there it is! | |
| Switching to battery power I have never heard ASR but a friend whose opinion I highly respect on these matters says it’s the best sounding integrated out there. Yes but they can go crazy, and that heatsink cracking and popping is the bias going nutz, very dangerous. Wh... | |
| Discrete R2R Ladder dac from Soekris, Absolute Sounds review. Wow!!! well don’t buy one then, what’s your beef with the Danes, are you Swedish or Norwegian they don’t like them, suppose you don’t care for Gryphon amps either?Like I said Very affordable highly regarded discrete R2R dac from the Dutch Find som... | |
| Discrete R2R Ladder dac from Soekris, Absolute Sounds review. Really? By who? I have never heard of him Settle petal, don’t get around/couldn’t be bothered searching. I said in my opening post "digital designer" not just dac’s Just search at DiyAudio with conversations he has with digital gurus over there an... | |
| Anything SS sounds better than D'Agostino ? inna Anything SS sounds better than D’Agostino ? The Gryphon top range "probably" couldThe 180w Gryphon Antillion 3 x Class-A modes to chose from 10w for Summer and 100w for Winter, and can drive anything thrown at it.https://gryphon-audio.dk/sho... | |
| Discrete R2R Ladder dac from Soekris, Absolute Sounds review. Yep, that’s the way I read it too.What a great thing to have, to know when volume is too high and the load is too hard for the dacs output buffer. It’s got a distortion sensor that blinks the red led, nice. This will prove to you if it’s not loud ... | |
| Discrete R2R Ladder dac from Soekris, Absolute Sounds review. If I am hell bent on hearing some "tube magic" with a solid state amp, I need to use a tube preamp. In that case, where should I set the volume on the DAC? Is it the same answer as above? At least 70% or more so your sure it's not "bit striping... | |
| Wilson Audio Sabrina X Reviewed ! WOW Hard to drive, needs good current, but still need that Class-A sound to keep the upper-mids and highs in check.Just made for Gryphon amplification, especially the Antillion/Mephisto/Diablo300/120, and Essence if you don’t want to go too loud. As t... | |
| CD Transport Repair I can't find anything on that laser/mech, it "looks like" a Philips CDM12 but it's not. (could be unobtainable now?) This guy had a spare laser, maybe he know what it is and if available still.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obr5-jL_td8Cheers George | |
| Low gain dac! Yes agree, all dacs with digital domain volume should have this selectable output max voltage feature, then there’s no risk of "bit stripping" at all when using it direct if the volume is too low (<70%). Wadia I think did it first with 6 x diff... |