ghasley
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| Linn Classik cd/tuner/ integrated amplifier 37-38 wpc at 4ohms. It was cool 20 years ago, its marginal by todays standards. Toslink in was neat at the time…I can only imagine the jitter. | |
| Breaking (burning) in new DAC Betting the circuits can take 50-100 hours depending on the capacitor values etc. Breaking in depends on the individual …. | |
| Ways to make your digital streaming sound better @ditkaditkaditka Its not really clear from your posts….are you a fan of fiber? | |
| Signal tube versus power tube, sound impact? I guess "expensive" is relative. Brent's prices aren't out of line if you are willing to buy genuine vacuum tubes built to exacting standards from a time when the manufacturing of valves was at its apex....I believe a NOS Mullard or Bugle Boy 12ax... | |
| Signal tube versus power tube, sound impact? Start with the small tubes/preamp tubes. If you go with power tubes first, you will correctly wonder if you are hearing them for what they are...and the answer is no. Marginal signal tubes fed to exceptional power tubes stands a better chance of r... | |
| Berkeley Audio Design and MQA? @ptss did you make a purchase based on someone else’s words or are you just bothered by someone else’s words. I don’t know anyone who did make a purchase based on MQA being present although I’m certain there is a long line of Meridien owners who m... | |
| Berkeley Audio Design and MQA? @ptss On the dac end of things, MQA is simply the unfolding of their compression technique in order to feed its reconstructed pcm signal to a given dac’s pre-existing pcm dac. My dac has it however I have never “heard” a MQA track. I can underst... | |
| KT 88 with Leben cs 600 The 600x ships with el34’s or 5881’s. I prefer these two varietals. Ive listened to kt77’s and some prefer them… | |
| Berkeley Audio Design and MQA? @ptss When you demo’d multiple MQA recordings vs th 16/44 versions did they all sound better/worse/the same to you? | |
| Looking for recommendations for integrated with a more “organic” sound. @ghdprentice How does one bias the tubes in the I50? Is it user performed or take it back to the dealer? | |
| KT 88 with Leben cs 600 @mdrone Plate voltage on the Kt88 is dealers choice. With the switch in the “up” position the KT88’s will be slightly more resolute. With the switch in the “down” position, the KT88’s will be slightly softer. You may or may not notice much differe... | |
| Looking for recommendations for integrated with a more “organic” sound. @pennfootball71 if you want a decent integrated amplifier, you need a budget of at least 10-20 grand. I’m sorry anything under that your getting av receiver Best Buy level parts. Respectully, the above statement is untrue. Certainly there are... | |
| Looking for recommendations for integrated with a more “organic” sound. Perhaps a Sugden? Phono stage, no tubes but you would never guess there isnt a tube in there somewhere. | |
| Clock vs Streamer advice Hi @mclinnguy , I hope you are well! I go from router to a Network Acoustics Rubicon Switch, Audioquest Vodka ethernet cable to Grimm MU1, Shunyata Sigma V2 AES cable to DCS Bartok Apex. I also have another Vodka ethernet from switch to Bartok... | |
| Clock vs Streamer advice @zpatenaude37 Perhaps you might check out the Grimm MU1 (disclosure: I’ve onwed one for 2+ years). With the introduction of the MU2 (MU1 with inboard dac) a few preowned MU1’s have popped up for sale. At the time of my purchase I compared with o... |