jaytor
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| 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... | |
| Building crossovers Here's a guy that does quality crossover builds. https://ezeescrossovers.com/ | |
| Looking at these specific preamps give me your opinions I heard the prototype Raven as well. That’s what I’d choose. | |
| Have you noticed as your system improves? Yep. Generally listen in the mid 70s now but occasionally like to turn it up. | |
| Replacing My Maggie 3.6R I've also been a Maggie fan for many decades and have owned several models since the late 70's. I loved the open, airy soundstage and how the speakers disappear, but was always somewhat disappointed with the lack of dynamic impact. I tried a num... | |
| "The Art of Speaker Design" by Lynn Olson @lynn_olson is a member and contributor here. He and Don Sachs have recently provided a lot of great info on their new preamp that is being produced by Spatial Audio. | |
| why expensive streamers @mdalton - I agree that it would be possible to measure differences between streamers in a test environment that includes a known source and known DAC. But this isn’t really measuring the streamer - it’s measuring the combined system. This could s... | |
| why expensive streamers It would be quite straight-forward to measure the noise, rise and fall time, etc. on streamer outputs with the inputs shorted, but this is not particularly valuable since the streamer isn't doing any work under these conditions. I don't believe th... | |
| why expensive streamers @delmatae - yes, that is the approach used by many DACs (including my Denafrips Terminator Plus), and this helps, but doesn't fully solve the problem. A FIFO buffer can be used to reduce timing errors, but as @andy2 notes, this doesn't really deal... | |
| Would I benefit with Roon? Buying the lifetime subscription to Roon was the single best investment I have made in my audio system. At the time, it was $500. I've spent way more than that on a single cable, and there is no comparison on the value and satisfaction I have rece... | |
| why expensive streamers I seriously doubt that the difference in streamers has anything to do with data integrity. I would expect that every streamer can deliver the digital information to the DAC without introducing any data errors. But DACs are very sensitive to anal... | |
| The D'Appolito, MTM Configuration I owned Duntech Sovereign speakers in the late 80's/early 90's these used this approach for all the drivers, but John Dunlavy used shadow first order crossovers. The big disadvantage of this design is that the tweeters had far less per handling ca... |