jaytor
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| innuos pulse compared to denafrips gaia 12th I would recommend using USB from any streamer into a Denafrips DAC. These DACs reclock the input data. If you use a synchronous input (anything other than USB), you risk FIFO overflow or underflow which will cause audible glitches. I currently ... | |
| Takayuki 300B vs Western Electric NEW Production 300B I decided to test the tubes in my 300B PSET amps today since I haven't done it for nine months or so. I am using a quad set of Western Electric reissue tubes. I've had them installed in my monoblock amps since early Dec 2021. According to my Roon ... | |
| High pass filter capacitors If you're willing to spend more (unfortunately considerably more), many consider the VCap CuTF the best sounding audio cap available. | |
| High pass filter capacitors I'd recommend the Miflex KPCU-03. Very nice sounding cap. I've used it for this same purpose. | |
| Impressions from Capital Audio Fest I was with a friend that was very interested in these speakers, so we had a private after-hours demo for about a half hour and listened to a number of different types of music. I am generally not much of a fan of horn speakers, so keep that in mi... | |
| 300B Tube Amps with 15/16 Watts Per Channel? I built a parallel 300B SET based on an ANK kit with a lot of modifications. I don’t have much experience with a single tube SET, but my amps sound very nice. Check out my virtual system. | |
| Open baffle speakers @mijostyn - I have not had that experience. My OB woofers have smoother in-room response than I have ever been able to achieve with conventional box subs. I suspect this is because they don’t excite the side to side room modes as much because of t... | |
| Open baffle speakers My woofer towers are H-frame open baffle with four servo-controlled 12" drivers. There is obviously cancellation at the lowest frequencies where the backwave wraps around, but the circuitry in the amp does an excellent job compensating for this. T... | |
| A brief review of GR Research Bully After many decades of owning lots of different commercial speakers (including Magneplanar Tympani IVs, Revel Studios, Duntech Sovereigns), I decided to try building a pair of GR NX-Oticas with Triple Threat subs. I was very impressed with the way... | |
| PSVANE Discussion & Impressions Thread I agree. I'd like to see more vendors participating in the forum. | |
| What Power Amplifier Should I Buy? @kevemaher - I suspect the crossover is not the biggest issue. I actually own a Sublime K235 (their newer model) and it seems pretty good although I don't currently have in my system. The graphic equalizer has many more lower-quality op-amps and c... | |
| What Power Amplifier Should I Buy? My guess is that the dbx equalizer and sublime crossover have more to do with the lack of dynamics than anything else. These are both low cost devices with inexpensive opamps. In the case of the equalizer, you have dozens of opamps and cheap slide... | |
| PSVANE Discussion & Impressions Thread @alightronics - are you considering offering a 6DJ8/6922 tube? | |
| DC Offset Issue in Don Sachs Preamp Is this a new behavior? With a capacitor coupled tube preamp, the output capacitor will develop a fairly large DC voltage across the cap. When the preamp is turned off, the voltage on the input of the cap goes to zero, but the DC voltage across t... | |
| Looking at these specific preamps give me your opinions @brbrock - I heard them with the Blackbird monoblock prototypes at the Pacific Audio Fest last summer in the Spatial Audio room. The system sounded very clean and detailed with excellent sound stage. They didn't sound overly warm or have sloppy b... |