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| No-one talks about Rowlands anymore +1 @DBallard601 and @TDimler...See for example my Rowland Daemon Superintegrated review journal at:https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/jeff-rowland-daemon-reviewing-the-jrdg-superintegrated-flagship-ampliSaluti, Guido | |
| Jeff Rowland Daemon – Reviewing The JRDG Superintegrated Flagship Amplifier Hi Davey, I agree completely with you. My observation that the worth of a component like Daemon must primarily justify itself in the musical beauty it enables really should extend to the entire system.Sheer physical elegance of a component, or of ... | |
| Jeff Rowland Daemon – Reviewing The JRDG Superintegrated Flagship Amplifier Hi Davey, while I do not miss any sonic aspects of my vinyl collection, the LPs did have a deep emotional value for me... The collection had been started by my Dad in the1950s, and had been periodically fed by me starting the late 1960s until 1984... | |
| Jeff Rowland Daemon – Reviewing The JRDG Superintegrated Flagship Amplifier Hello DaveyF,actually I used the lovely Valhalla II and the equally lovely Shunyata Z-tron looms with a variety of Rowland gear, although not on Daemon. I sold my vinyl collection to a work colleague four years ago, and I have owned no LP playback... | |
| Jeff Rowland Daemon – Reviewing The JRDG Superintegrated Flagship Amplifier Thank you Daveyf for the recurring suggestion... My current scribblling project is predicated on a modicum of methodology and system consistency. Hence, for the first basic phase, until Daemon has stabilized completely, I intend to keep system c... | |
| Jeff Rowland Daemon – Reviewing The JRDG Superintegrated Flagship Amplifier All, here is an update… At about the 630 hours mark, I seemed to hear a very slight increase in harmonics pressure in the treble region, accompanied by a hardening of transients, perhaps caused by minor intermodulation. The phenomenon seemed... | |
| Jeff Rowland Daemon – Reviewing The JRDG Superintegrated Flagship Amplifier All, the root post has been updated today with all the break-in narrative I posted in fragments until now. Also, I made a number of spelling corrections, and trimmed down some clunky passages. Correct the bit about the Phono Stage... The High Perf... | |
| Jeff Rowland Daemon – Reviewing The JRDG Superintegrated Flagship Amplifier Hi DaveyF, as I had touched upon in my root post, Daemon sits on Nordost Titanium Sort Kones, on top of a two inch thick slab of an exotic African hardwood called Mansonia. The slab forms the upper shelf of a two tier structure, where the lower sh... | |
| Jeff Rowland Daemon – Reviewing The JRDG Superintegrated Flagship Amplifier Hello Davey, you are Right about Rowland amps lighting up the stage… So far, Daemon does this in droves. Of course, while my Die Muzik speakers appear to be loving Daemon’s power reserve, not all speakers are born the same, and many speake... | |
| Jeff Rowland Daemon – Reviewing The JRDG Superintegrated Flagship Amplifier All, time for a performance update… Now approximately half way into the estimated break-in time of 1000 hours, Daemon’s periodic performance dips have attenuated significantly. The integrated has entered a much smoother rising phase. De... | |
| Jeff Rowland Daemon – Reviewing The JRDG Superintegrated Flagship Amplifier Hi Davey, yes class D amps are efficient and run much cooler than class A/B, never mind class A furnaces. Never the less, some entropic heat is released. Some smaller class D amps, such as the M535 do not need heat sinks at all. However, larger am... | |
| Jeff Rowland Daemon – Reviewing The JRDG Superintegrated Flagship Amplifier Hello KLH, my apologies for the delay in responding to you... yes you are absolutely right... I will not try any cable changes until Daemon has stabilized, lest results would be rather meaningless. Nordost is a fine brand. I very much enjoyed t... | |
| Jeff Rowland Daemon – Reviewing The JRDG Superintegrated Flagship Amplifier Hi again @Daveyf, Daemon's power efficiency is extremely high.... Regardless whether it is idling, at medium volume, or playing at concert SPL, its outer temperature remains barely luke-warm across the whole chassis... This has not changed since I... | |
| Jeff Rowland Daemon – Reviewing The JRDG Superintegrated Flagship Amplifier Hello @DaveyF, excellent point... I totally forgot to mention that Daemon is fed by a 20A dedicated line. I have 3 20A dedicated lines for my system. G | |
| Jeff Rowland Daemon – Reviewing The JRDG Superintegrated Flagship Amplifier As promised, here are several links to Daemon pics on my Dropbox -- photos kindly provided by Lucien Pichette at the Rowland factory: Daemon faceplate: https://www.dropbox.com/s/u6qoxbh65yu0dr2/1%20Daemon%20face2.jpg?dl=0 Daemon front p... |