jaytor
Responses from jaytor
| Value of Performa f50 speakers I have a pair in my home theater along with a C50 center channel. I've had to replace a few drivers over the years, but they've given me over 20 years of service and still sound great. I've upgraded everything else in my theater more than once sin... | |
| Wilson not delivering speakers as scheduled I believe Wilson is a lot of composites in their speaker enclosures. I have heard that there is a severe shortage of the reason used to make these materials right now.The company I have making some speaker enclosures for me has been waiting for ma... | |
| Western Electric or Takatsuki 300Bs? You guys are doing a good job convincing me to get the Tak's. I appreciate your comments about your experience with these tube. | |
| Western Electric or Takatsuki 300Bs? If you had asked me a few weeks ago, I would have said I had settled on the Takatsukis. It's only reading of a couple tube failures and the recent positive WE reviews that has me rethinking. I appreciate the positive endorsements for the Takatsuki... | |
| Western Electric or Takatsuki 300Bs? @testpilot - noted, thanks. Kind of makes sense. | |
| Western Electric or Takatsuki 300Bs? @sns - Agreed, although there have been a couple recent WE reviews that have been quite positive. But I think the main thing that is prompting me to more strongly consider the WE reissues is the five year warranty. Perhaps I shouldn't worry about ... | |
| Western Electric or Takatsuki 300Bs? @dekay - I'm basing my amps on the Audio Note Kit C-Core Interstage monoblocks, with a lot of embellishments (build thread - https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/ank-300b-interstage-monoblocks.1112018/#post-27958720). These use cathode bias ("a... | |
| Muzishare R100 300B 805 ... My Review and opinion What solid state amp are you using that has zero feedback? | |
| Question for those who know about open baffle speakers... I have not heard open baffle speakers that use a concentric done driver like this, but I I would share your concern. They could sound very good though. I have heard speakers that were partially open baffle but used a horn upper-mid-range/tweeter t... | |
| Questions to Denafrips Terminator Plus owners (the break-in) I didn't find the T+ overly rough sounding right out of the box, but it definitely improves with time. It took several weeks of 24/7 operation before I thought it sounded better than the Terminator it replaced. My system is on the warm side though... | |
| Recommended streamers/servers? As @tk21 mentioned, adding the Bridge II to your DS Dac might be the best option. This is made specifically for your DAC and is probably the best value option. If you are looking for something that will work with other DACs, the BlueSound Node 2i ... | |
| Electra Tube Connectors and GR Research Speaker Update Kits I'm using tube connectors on my GR-Research speakers. I've also used them on a few of my DIY amplifiers in addition to traditional binding posts. I can't say that I've heard any significant improvement comparing tube connectors to high quality bin... | |
| How important is the pre-amp? As others have said, it is very dependent on the rest of your system. But unless you have a single high-level source with an excellent built in volume control (such as @mikelavigne 's MSB DAC), a good preamp can make a significant different to the... | |
| Helping a kid out Great thread and kudos to the OP for helping a youngster appreciate our hobby. The Bottlehead kit is a great idea. Building something yourself gives you a much better appreciation of how stuff works and what matters in the product. Who knows - it ... | |
| More Roon Questions The 2TB SSD drive is used to store music files. If you are not going to download music or RIP your CD collection, there is no need for this drive. You will want to have a drive to store backups of your Roon database, but you can get a DropBox subs... |