jaytor
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| Open Baffle Experience @peter_s - it was the X4 you heard at PAC. That's where I heard them as well. They were pretty impressive, particularly for the price (~8K). Don and Jay from Reference North Audio built my Line Force cabinets. They make a lot of the flat packs f... | |
| Question About Capacitor Upgrade in Tube Amp NOS Allen Bradley Carbon comp resistors are all the rage for tube guitar amps. For their warmth and organic tone. I wonder how they fair in hifi? They do tend to drift in value a fair bit. So maybe not so good in hifi setting. Carbon comp resis... | |
| Open Baffle Experience I've owned a number of Magneplanars in the past, but my first real exposure to open-baffle was when I built a set of GR-Research NX-Oticas with OB servo subs a few years ago. This has been the most enjoyable system I've owned. I recently replaced ... | |
| Question About Capacitor Upgrade in Tube Amp The Vishay Z-foils are very transparent and low-noise. These resistors can be ordered in arbitrary custom values from Texas Components. The latest version is the TX2575. These are only available in sizes from 10 ohm to 100Kohm. The older TX2352 is... | |
| Error message when reordering components in Virtual System I was able to get it to work by logging out and back in again. | |
| GR-Research Line Force First Transparent Speakers? @jerryg123 - Thanks. I haven't had a chance to work on optimizing position or sub settings yet, but just plopped down they sound stunning. The detail is better than my Audeze LCD-2 headphones and vocals sound like the singer is right there in fron... | |
| GR-Research Line Force First Transparent Speakers? @bdp24 - Thanks. I might have mentioned that I owned Tympani IVs in the mid 80's. I used Entec subwoofers (one of the first servo controlled designs), but I was never able to get these to fully integrate. I imagine that your OB subs work MUCH bett... | |
| GR-Research Line Force First Transparent Speakers? I've been waiting to finish building these speakers for two years. I ordered enough Bohlender-Graebener NEO10 drivers from Parts Express before they became unavailable. But the company building the cabinets for me ran into Covid supply chain issue... | |
| Balanced vs. Single Ended Interconnects I second Mike's suggestion to get some cables made from Mogami W2549. You'd have to spend quite a bit more to get better cables. In my experience (with the Terminator and Terminator Plus), the Denafrips DACs perform much better when using balanc... | |
| Question About Capacitor Upgrade in Tube Amp I'm also a strong believer in using high quality film caps. I've had good luck with V-cap ODAMs (very neutral and clear) and Miflex KPCU (a bit warmer with a beautiful midrange tone). A couple things to keep in mind. These caps all take a few hu... | |
| Need 25 foot interconnects The adapter that Emotiva sells does not do balanced to unbalanced conversion. It just dtops the negative phase signal, so you aren't getting any of the benefits of a balanced connection (significantly reduced common mode noise and elimination of g... | |
| Maybe this is the winter you build something! After almost 40 years of not doing any DIY (used to build stuff in college), I decided to build a pair of speakers (just before Covid hit). I got a lot of satisfaction from it and it rekindled my interest in doing more. Since then, I've built a st... | |
| Component placement for open baffles? I found that moving the equipment to the side wall improved the depth and image precision of the soundstage. I also far prefer diffusion behind the speakers over absorption, but I have my OB speakers about 7ft into the room (measured from the fron... | |
| Need 25 foot interconnects The amp and preamp do not have to be fully balanced to get benefit from XLR cables. While it is true that the simple adaptors that convert XLR to RCA are pretty much worthless, the device linked by @holmz is not a simple adapter. This box includes... | |
| Theoretical battery power supply question There is no telling how good the inverter is in this unit. It could produce a ton of distortion and be way worse than your grid power. |