grannyring
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| DIY question on a preamp problem could use help... The tubes came from Upscale Audio and they do a great job testing. Great points all, but I have been there and done that. I use unshielded ic's by Anti Cables, but also tried the well shielded IC from Blue Jean cables and the same hiss was present... | |
| DIY question on a preamp problem could use help... My speakers are 87db and thus not very efficient. My dac has a volume which I use to cut the output level my preamp sees. I know the pre can be modified to help with this tube hiss or rush. Not sure how to do it? | |
| DIY question on a preamp problem could use help... I have purchased low noise tubes specially sorted. | |
| DACs With Killer Built-In Preamps The Ayon is a very nice player and enjoy it! The Dude is simply the finest sounding preamp on the planet based on my experience with all manner of preamps. It simply play s music with the scale and ease one hears in a great live setting. If you li... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Reporting back on these JB JFX caps and they are wonderful folks. I can't say it more clearly. They compete with any cap and I don't care of the cost. I have used them in two different preamps and one amp. All tubed units. I used them as coupling ... | |
| CD transport recommendations You could pay $10,000 for a stand alone transport and it will not be as good as today's better and more affordable options. Yes, they will still be very good. | |
| CD transport recommendations You are correct. The 1X is better for sure. | |
| CD transport recommendations Owned a CEC 51, 5100 and years ago a Panasonic belt drive unit CEC made for them. All sounded very good indeed. They do not however offer the same 3D stage and black background as the best implemented computer based transports.The times they are a... | |
| can u cut longer interconnects and reterminate? Ya, I do it all the time and you just need someone with some technical ability or experience. Very simple to do really with some experience. | |
| CD transport recommendations Get a 2009 Mac Mini and purchase a Mojo Audio power supply for it. Read up on how to optimize it for music only. Also, the Mini should only play music from the SSD drive. I got a 256 SSD drive for it. I paid $1400 total and the combo is killer. Ki... | |
| can u cut longer interconnects and reterminate? No issue at all. | |
| CD transport recommendations Sorry for the typos. Well, I have not tried all top CD players etc....but many top rated ones:-)Have fun learning and do read Steve's stuff from Empirical Audio. | |
| CD transport recommendations The reason is because properly done computer based audio/transport is more 3D sounding. Every CD player or dac/transport I have owned sounds flat in comparison. The other big area of improvement is less, far less digiital noise. You don't even kno... | |
| Can u make interconnect from speaker cables No, no you can't do that. Previous posts are spot on and good advice. | |
| Sneaky new internet tax pushing through fast Charle1dad is spot on Agon folks. Come on. Don't give a poor money manager more money to waste. What are we coming to as a country? Goodness the very last thing we need to do is to pay more in taxes to a government that has no clue on how to right... |