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| Speaker Cables for FRITZ Carbon 7 SE mk2 Thanks for these suggestions Yes, I've been recommended Acoustic Zen before. They are definitely out of my budget but used could be a possibility. Also intersted in Audience , used as well Honestly I hadn't thought about Mogami as I have asso... | |
| Best Liner Notes / Information delivery from Streamers & Streaming Services What is Roon doing to access metadata that Innuos Sense isn’t doing? Is it that there’s more of a search engine built into Roon? Or is it the same info just displayed differently? | |
| My experience with the First Watt F7 thanks @smatsui & @mesch Definitely will consider. As I understand it, apparently what he would do on this particular pre-amp is wire the output of the headphone output to one of the 2 pre-amp out jack pairs on the back of the unit. This... | |
| Preamp gain vs. poweramp sensitivity @mulveling awesome explanation! | |
| My experience with the First Watt F7 I’m looking to potentially pick up an F7 to use with a pair of Fritz Carbon 7 SE mkii speakers. Has anyone successfully used an F7 with Fritz speakers? Was thinking I’d use my Van Alstine RB10 tubed preamp, but not sure that pre/power amp combo ... | |
| SOtM dCBL-CAT8M - Is this the new reference in LAN cables? Responding back with some new info since my last post here on this topic. I’ve been using an SOTM ISO-Cat7 filter and SOTM 30cm Ethernet cable between my router and my streamer for the past month or so. The streamer is an Ifi Zen Stream with an L... | |
| Which preamps use 6922/6DJ8 tubes? Van Alstine Transcendence 10 RB preamp | |
| recommendation of amps @robshaw These DVAM225's posted on US Audio Mart earlier in the week Not sure if they've sold or not but here's the link | |
| recommendation of amps Given that you’re all balanced, perhaps look at Van Alstine DVA M225 mono amps. I haven’t heard them but am considering a pair I’m currently using a Van Alstine RB10 tubed pre into a Van Alstine SET 120 power amp with the Fritz Carbon 7 SE mkii ... | |
| Is an autoformer (AVC) always superior to pots and resistors ? @jmolsberg That's great, how do you like it? What is your amp? Do you feel the autoformers have a sound or not? Can't wait to wrap this thing up..just need to set aside some time to inhale some soldering fumes. @mitch2 , Yes all the Slagle aut... | |
| Is an autoformer (AVC) always superior to pots and resistors ? I’m in the process of building a simple avc attenuator with the budget autoformers from Slagle. To be used with my Sayes SET and Omega single drivers. 2 inputs with a switch and 2 outputs vintage 16 step rotary knob progress pic HERE and FRONT... | |
| Innuos PULSE Mini? @dinov yes the Zen Mini power supply works and is recommended by Innuos. I was just sharing that they are planning to release the same supply in a case that more closely matches the PulseMini visually at some point. The sales manager didn’t ha... | |
| SOtM dCBL-CAT8M - Is this the new reference in LAN cables? Timely posting as I just hooked up an iso-cat7 this morning between my router and streamer. I picked the filter up used and it came with a 30cm cable intended to be used on the streamer side. I don’t know which “flavor” SOtM Ethernet cable it is... | |
| Network Acoustics Eno Streaming System vs SGC Optical Isolation System That’s great news very encouraging I went a more budget route and just received a SOTM iso-Cat7 filter haven’t plugged it in yet Iso Cat7 | |
| Amps What about a tube pre? I have a van Alstine ss power amp and van Alstine tube pre with 2 6dj8’s in it. They both sound best when on for hours id like to leave them on for the most part, but the advice is to plug the power amp into the wall and ... |