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| Jeff Rowland Daemon – Reviewing The JRDG Superintegrated Flagship Amplifier All, I am still doing some testing with minor variants of the current config: X-01 into Daemon DAC + linestage, into M925, into Die Muzik speakers... I will be posting my observation tomorrow instead of tonight. G. | |
| Jeff Rowland Daemon – Reviewing The JRDG Superintegrated Flagship Amplifier Hello DaveyF, Interesting idea...Dedicated circuits 1, 2, and 3 are all 20A. Additional multi-outlet circuit 4 is 15A instead. In general, it is suggested when possible to run monoblocks on separate circuits to minimize any stray cross-channel... | |
| Jeff Rowland Daemon – Reviewing The JRDG Superintegrated Flagship Amplifier In preparation for the next eval phase, I took down the system today at the 1135 hours mark. Seems evolution tapered off asymptotically between 950 and 1000 hours. I re-configured it as follows: * Esoteric X-01 transport into Rowland Daemon DA... | |
| Break in time that extends to months or maybe even years!! Hello Davey… Sure, the next phase of the Rowland Daemon evaluation protocol will come soon. It will consist of Daemon’s DAC + preamplifier subsystems feeding into the Rowland M925 monoblocks using Cardas Clear Reflection XLR balanced ICs. ... | |
| Break in time that extends to months or maybe even years!! Hello @DaveyF, you are correct, I would not want ever to evaluate a strict monoblock amp by breaking-in each chassis on split timelines... Evaluating mono operation chassis by chassis is a pointless exercise. The Rowland M535 I was talking about... | |
| Break in time that extends to months or maybe even years!! I concur with @almarg, @hilde45, and @zavato… Control of independent variables is of the utmost importance in the review process, and should be implemented as much as possible to achieve reasonably meaningful findings. In a perfect world, tw... | |
| Break in time that extends to months or maybe even years!! Hi DaveyF... Actually no, I was referring to an old project.G. | |
| Break in time that extends to months or maybe even years!! Hmmm, actually the longest successful maturation time that I have experienced was on an SS digital component: about 3 months of mostly simmering at low volume 24/7, interspersed with actual listening sessions. Saluti, G. | |
| Jeff Rowland Daemon – Reviewing The JRDG Superintegrated Flagship Amplifier Excellent, DaveyF... I'll look for your new thread.Meantime, by mid next week at the latest, I'll post some new observations on Daemon right here.Saluti, Guido | |
| Jeff Rowland Daemon – Reviewing The JRDG Superintegrated Flagship Amplifier Hello DaveyF, I really feel for your deeply felt audio-lover's Angst. My bad, I interpreted your "... then there is something that isn’t quite right going on, and that the manufacturer should be addressing this in production." to mean "manufacturi... | |
| Jeff Rowland Daemon – Reviewing The JRDG Superintegrated Flagship Amplifier Hi DaveyF, no manufacturing flaws at the Rowland factory, nor at the manufacturing facilities of any other high end brands, on the contrary! In my admittedly modest experience, I found that most components require long exercise of their function t... | |
| Jeff Rowland Daemon – Reviewing The JRDG Superintegrated Flagship Amplifier Hello DaveyF, admittedly I am tediously patient and rather annoyingly unflappable:)M925 took 1500 hours to stabilize... Aeris DAC about 2200, PSU about 70 only, and M535 about 800...It really depends.According to Jeff himself, the major responsibl... | |
| Jeff Rowland Daemon – Reviewing The JRDG Superintegrated Flagship Amplifier All, on Friday, around the 955 hours break-in mark, while Daemon was playing the Post Horn movement of Mahler’s 3rd Symphony, I realized that the critter was still making significant performance strides... In other words, music was even more lumin... | |
| Jeff Rowland Daemon – Reviewing The JRDG Superintegrated Flagship Amplifier Good points, Daveyf. More than likely, there will be audible differences between the two system configurations.So, if I understand you correctly, you would prefer that I test (1) Daemon DAC+linestage into M925 monos first, and later try (2) Aeris ... | |
| Jeff Rowland Daemon – Reviewing The JRDG Superintegrated Flagship Amplifier Daemon has crossed the 900 hours mark last midnight. I am now playing the fabulous performance of Mahler’s 3rd Symphony conducted by James Levine with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (RCA RCD2-1757). While this CD was produced in distant 1977, D... |