jazzonthehudson
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| Dunlavy ????? The old website http://www.duntech.com.au/ is pretty static.Kiat has been working on a new model Senator and has mentioned about a new release of the Princess. Maybe he needs some investors. | |
| Reviews of $10k plus ics, speaker wires, and pcs Norm, yes, I am well aware of the 5x parts&labor and it is business 101 in niche electronics markets and I have been involved in some companies. I used to work for Cisco and they had 85% gross margin on their gear in the good years, everybody ... | |
| Reviews of $10k plus ics, speaker wires, and pcs >>How much those cables actually cost to make?About $300-500 max after start up phase, the rest goes to sales/marketing and some to R&D (10-15% for small companies, less than 10% for larger companies), the numbers are derived from discus... | |
| Subwoofer's Front Firing vs. Down Firing +1 >>Bo knows to keep hawking."And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others." Interesting to see Bo keeps on preaching Purist Audio (which i... | |
| Dunlavy ????? +1 for the Dunlavy SC-IVa. I have had the SC III, IV before switching to Duntech PCL-400 and Sovereign 2001 for both my systems. As Pryso mentioned before, Duntech has much better parts: drivers (mostly Dynaudio) and cross overs so in case you got... | |
| Reviews of $10k plus ics, speaker wires, and pcs >> I often write very fast and normally I do not read it back!!I hope you are more Precise with your Listening. Anyway, just my overwhole Impression. | |
| Cable Costs Relative to System Lars of NordOst (used) to challenge the unbelievers that his cables can improve any system -more than often slapping (too) high priced cables in a mid priced level system - and his (former) company spends 80% of the profit in marketing, begging th... | |
| Any opinions on the AMR Digital Processor 777 Dac? Audiofun, thanks for the tip on iFi iTube, I am very tempted to try it and am trying to overcome my reservation of adding a zero gain device to enhance the sound as I had tube buffers before. This implies an additional set of expensive interconnec... | |
| TELEFUNKEN E88CC-TK Well I posted it, I could not find any thread about the reissued 6922 then. Will ask support to delete this thread. | |
| Any opinions on the AMR Digital Processor 777 Dac? Anyone has got the SE upgrade lately? Which NOS tubes in the SE upgrade package are being used?After moving to the Lampi L4G4, I like the sound (more liquid) but miss the, IME, better volume control of the DP-777 and its better designed USB circui... | |
| Reviews of $10k plus ics, speaker wires, and pcs Very well put Mcondon!The implied question could be: how much is it worth to you to have the London Philharmonic playing in your room w/o the coughs of your neighbor or the Carnegie Hall w/o the squeaking of (some) of their chairs? How much worth ... | |
| HiDiamond Power cords... Currently I am using Audience powerChord e for my tube monoblocks and, planning ahead the upgrade, would anyone suggest that the P3 is better than Audience powerChord SE?As for HD, having a full loom of CT1E High Fidelity, I miss some of the densi... | |
| Oppo 105 in place of pre/pro >>I'm not advocating that anyone should give up their tubed preamp+1, I have removed the CJ CT-5 altogether in my main 2 ch setup, after auditioning and then buying the AMR DP-777 which was subsequently replaced by a Lampizator with volume c... | |
| Reviews of $10k plus ics, speaker wires, and pcs There is nothing wrong to know what the references are in each category but if half of a popular magazine or website is dedicated to audio gear that serves only the 1% of the audiophile audience, we need to start asking ourselves if this adds any ... | |
| Bypass caps what value should I use. Chrissain, if you want to dip your toe into rolling caps, you can indeed start with bypassing them as it is very easy to solder them over existing ones. Use the smallest value, i.e. .01 microFarad. The larger value you use, the more you more you a... |