itsjustme
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| I’m in trouble You are my target market! I sooo wish mine was ready :-) But I'm now in volume-production-subscontractor hell.Interesting place but a time consuming quagmire | |
| How to get into high end digital? (Feeding a DAC) And yes, NUCs (running good streaming software ike Roon or ???) and Raspberry Pis are really strong contenders. That said they both demand attention to clean power, or better yet, segmented power with clean and dirty functions handled independentl... | |
| How to get into high end digital? (Feeding a DAC) I think Hans provides a ton of good, basic, information in a user-friendly format (unlike here). I'm also not terribly interested in his specific product suggestions. The goal is for the OP to triage and make his own (her own? who knows).I canno... | |
| How to get into high end digital? (Feeding a DAC) I'll jump in, with no answers but some suggestions. In fact, i'll suggest that you ignore all specific answers nad spend some time learning. "product X" is almost never the answer.There have been a ton of excellent threads that several folks, me... | |
| Are all amps being built wrong? oops, very late to reply to @atmasphere Output Z of the amps, depending on model is around .1 - .2 (rarely this high) ohms. Small but very clearly not zero.And yes the stability is a very big plus.Of course it means bias stability demands attentio... | |
| Aged components / service!? if its a quality piece,and in good condition, it can go for 40-50- years! The one exception is electrolytic capacitors which can be replaced,and ought to at about 30 years (for top notch high end stuff, sooner for cheaper stuff). Maybe some switch... | |
| SUT Advice - Which Ones Are The Best? "you have to listen". Halleluja! :-)parts quality and construction matter (paraphrased)halleluja!beyond that, i have repeated said here that things like power supplies, coupling strategies, smart parts selection (don't get me going on boutique par... | |
| SUT Advice - Which Ones Are The Best? Not to be difficult, but to get everyone on board with the simple facts rather than vague goals of "simple signal path": how does replacing many active components with one passive component, that in fact performs an impedance transformation rathe... | |
| SUT Advice - Which Ones Are The Best? There is no way that your Kleos can in any way sounds with better quality level through a SUT in your system when you own a very good phono preamp that handled any LOMC cartridge.When you add a SUT to your specific system you are adding an additio... | |
| SUT Advice - Which Ones Are The Best? 70s era Mitch Cotter strapable transformer like i have LOL?(but am not presently using since I'm in the hell of trouble shooting a configurable FET/BJT cost effective module- noise gremlins lurk everywhere when the effective gain from the needle ... | |
| High end high quality int. amp for low level listening I think you need to back up and ask more fundamental questions. First, is there any evidence of the amp reaching clipping (or coming near)? if no, and if you are listening at -60 dB i doubt it, there ought to be little if no benefit. heck, get ... | |
| why do so many discussions turn contentious? I actually think there are (at least) two root causes.One is people who are somehow angry and take things off topic to rant. Those are pretty transparent and to me therefore, less troublesome. Since they are so far off topic, easily ignored entire... | |
| APPLE PHONES.......NO SERVICE I’m not sure why you are rantin here, but anyway.If you want assistance, why not explain what happened, what you did etc.1. Any background info2. Who is your carrier?3. How did you activate it on their network?4. Did it ever work?5. If so, when di... | |
| Are all amps being built wrong? This isn’t quite correct, just so you know. Try putting your amp on a Sound Lab ESL sometime. One of my business partners at the time had West Sound Lab monsters and used, of course, my amps. Sounded terrific (all speakers are, of course, to someo... | |
| Upgrade my CD player or futile effort? you ought ot like the Densfrips. But keep in mind that it you feed it dirty, jittery, input (its actually not digital, its semi analog due to timing, which is the problem) you can still get very mediocre sound.You must pay attention to the front ... |