jasonbourne71
Responses from jasonbourne71
| Chord Qutest——>No difference The component with the higher output voltage will always sound better. That's a quirk of human hearing. | |
| Chord Qutest——>No difference If you want a DAC with a sonic signature get one with a tube output stage, like a Lampizator. Then you can tube roll to your heart's content! | |
| Chord Qutest——>No difference No! Practically all of today's DAC's have achieved such low levels of noise and distortion that they are virtually indistinguishable! That's regardless of price! Let the rock throwing by the golden ear crowd begin! | |
| Recommendation Request for Tube Power Amplifier A nicely restored pair of Dynaco MkIII's (60wpc) will work well with those Revel's. Plus the Dyna output trannies are better quality than most of today's iron. I have the Paoli-modded pair. That Paragon E is a keeper! | |
| Do hi-end DACs offer true value or diminishing return... @mahgister +1! A DAC is essentially a sound card. That’s all! Put it in a fancy machined-from-a-solid-billet case and you can charge $50K for the same parts as the $100 KTB DAC. Nobody will be able to tell the difference from, say, the real expens... | |
| Upgrade thoughts I’d be leery of buying any Boulder amps. Comparable sonic quality can be had today for way less. I’d rather buy a pair of the newest Hypex Ncore 500’s for around a few grand than spend 10X that for Boulder! The future of audio is with the newest ... | |
| Upgrade thoughts Speakers can give the best bang-for-buck improvement because they are the least neutral of components! Yet a change can too often be a sideways move! Sonus Faber has a house sound. You could audition a larger model from SF. | |
| Dr. Feickert Analogue Woodpecker turntable Sound advice! A turntable is basically a seismograph reading those minute vibrations engraved on a plastic disk. Better mechanical construction costs more! | |
| Am I broken? Am I stuck? Do I have to return my audiophile card now? Stop being so neurotic! Tomorrow go make the trade. Why torment yourself? | |
| Matched Tubes Quicksilver Line Pre Preamp tubes like the 12A*7, 6S*7,6922/6DJ8/ECC88 don’t really require matching because the amplification factor/mu of each triode half is usually very close and current draw varies little between these small-signal tubes. | |
| Matching the cartridge to the phono stage The Hana SL will work fine into that phono stage. You don't list the gain. I assume it is around 65db. That is a typical figure for phono stages for lomc cartridges. | |
| Will China become the poor man’s dealer for high end audio? Switzerland with CH Precision and DarTZeel stands atop the ultra-hifi business! China will never contend in that segment! | |
| Did I do a good thing or not? Brain fog in the morning made me misstate the inductance of the Shure's coils. I know the difference between micro and millihenries. Anyway, I'd rather listen to a low-inductance Grado MI than a Shure. That high coil inductance makes MM's very sen... | |
| Did I do a good thing or not? With its coil inductance of around 400 microhenries it won't have the speed and snap on transients of lomc cartridges. I have one NIB and a spare Jico stylus. Arm choice is important! A Grace 707 with its straight lightweight arm tube would work w... | |
| Tube arch Change the output tubes when the silver getter flash starts turning brown. |