jaytor
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| Stupid Asking Prices- Why Don't Sellers Read Audiogon The Blue Book First? If you don't want to pay for Audiogon's Blue Book, it's easy to use hifishark.com to look up completed listings to see what products sold for. | |
| Anyone regretting Pontus 2 firmware upgrade Others have reported that this update is reversible and at least one person reported that they went back to the old firmware successfully. Edit - I should note that going back will require another firmware update similar to this update so will... | |
| Denafrips Pontus II Clicks Or Static? @whipsaw - I am making some assumptions here on the exact implementation of Denafrips' designs, since they have never really published a detailed description. As I understand it, the input data is clocked into the FIFO using the source device's c... | |
| Thanks to Paul McGowan @optimize Paul may not be a brilliant electronics engineer, but he has been able to attract strong talent and build a successful high-end audio company with some longevity. There are very few independent US hifi companies that have been as success... | |
| Denafrips Pontus II Clicks Or Static? @whipsaw - You can call it a hardware problem if you want, but IMO, it was (is) a rational approach to solving the problem of jitter reduction of source-clocked digital data. I'm sorry you experienced problems with your DAC. With their implementa... | |
| PS Audio Power Plant P3 to P12 @tunefuldude - I played with the Multiwave a bit today. Multiwave may be a slight improvement over Sine - it's certainly no worse - but it's pretty subtle in my system. I am not using the P12 for my amps though. I would imagine it would have more ... | |
| Law Of Diminishing Returns? My opinion - you need to spend $8K-$10K retail (maybe half that with smart used purchases) to get a decent sounding system. Twice that can achieve an excellent sounding system in a decent room, but still with some compromises. I wouldn't go so ... | |
| PS Audio Power Plant P3 to P12 @tunefuldude - I used Auto Tune on the phase setting and it selected +1 (I assume this is degrees). I have not played with MultiWave yet. Mine is set for Sine Wave output. I have it configured for minimum distortion and 120V. My input distortion ... | |
| PS Audio Power Plant P3 to P12 @tunefuldude - yes, I’ve had the P12 in my system for a couple weeks. It took a few days to break in, but is sounding really nice. I think it is an improvement over the P3, but I can’t be totally sure. With the P3, I occasionally had songs or even... | |
| Absorption, Diffusion or a combination of it all? As with everything else in this hobby, it takes a lot of experimentation to get the best results. You can get a head start by hiring an experienced acoustician to come an evaluate your room and provide recommendations, but your personal tastes nee... | |
| Recommendations for a vacum tube tester I bought the Amplitrex AT1000, which admittedly is fairly expensive and is not very fast, but it is fairly powerful. This is obviously way out of the OP's price range, but for others that might be looking for a high-end unit, this is worth a look. | |
| Denafrips FPGA Firmware Update @rowlocktrysail - Thanks for providing your impressions of the update. I'm looking forward to trying this update on my Terminator Plus. It already sounds great, so will be interesting to hear how it can be improved. btw - I'm not sure what you m... | |
| Absorption, Diffusion or a combination of it all? @drbond - Have you tried diffusion behind your electrostatics? I started out with GIK Alpha Absorber/Diffusors behind my dipole speakers and was not happy with the soundstage and liveliness of the music. I switched to ATS Quadratic Residue Diffuso... | |
| Help with V-Cap ODAM directionality in crossover Nice! I have found that quality resistors, caps and inductors are well worth it. Next think for you to consider is replacing the inductors with foil inductors. I think this is less important than resistors and caps, particularly since you alrea... | |
| Thanks to Paul McGowan @fertguy - Paul's book is also available as an audiobook, read by Paul himself. He does an excellent job reading the book. Very entertaining. |