jbhiller
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| Bob Caver 275 Power Amp OP, The Carver Crimson 275 is an amazing amp both for the price and for an amp priced double it’s asking—in my opinion. At double though, I’d expect heavier build quality, better caps, etc. What are you looking for sound wise? I just sold a pa... | |
| Capacitor Raul, I’m sorry. I’m having trouble tracking your points. Sounds like you tried other caps, liked them, and later found them to add too much color. So, you went to or back to a good quality Wima cap. I don’t hear material colorations with VCap or ... | |
| Capacitor Raul, I get your points. Well made. Do you work for Wima? Just kidding. I do believe I hear better signal through two of the Vcap lines and others. I agree to disagree. | |
| Capacitor Here’s a great calculator to use when matching output caps. http://www.v-cap.com/coupling-capacitor-calculator.php | |
| Capacitor You can change the value of an output coupling cap and do so safely and do so to better effect. But, as a general principal you want to stay near tolerances as designed. Sometimes people violate rule no 2 above because they want to better match im... | |
| Capacitor Ugh. I’ve seen this on several other threads —people attacking capacitor upgrades in a high handed manner. I purchased a certain budget preamp that allows capacitor rolling with built in binding posts for caps on both output coupling and gain stag... | |
| PrimaLuna Evo 200 underwhelming PL has a warm, pleasant sound. To my ears, it was not too detailed. It is a good amp in my opinion to mate with modern loudspeakers that are detailed, analytical and bright as it balanced those things out nicely. But I too found that over time PL ... | |
| Capacitor I also like ClarityCap. They have great holographic spacing and spatialization. They get large in size as you move up uF. | |
| Capacitor ODAMs are spectacular. Grannyrig is spot on with everything above. I used ODAMS in a Cornwall IV crossover upgrade project. I also used them on the output coupling caps in a Manley Chinook. My sense is they allow more and better signal transfer.... | |
| So where should the tubes be? I have an all tube system now—preamplifier, phono preamp, DAC, and amp. It sounds super. Only downside is diagnosing where the “bad tube” is when it happens. It’s 25 total tubes! Better than it has been here but still lots of tubes to roll and m... | |
| List your breakthrough products that you’ve discovered on this audiophile Journey. Vcap capacitors. | |
| Good fix-- Have you scratched the wood on your Cornwall IVs? @stereo5 , I see nothing wrong with going back to the Golden Ears is you enjoyed them. | |
| Good fix-- Have you scratched the wood on your Cornwall IVs? @mijostyn, Good intel. I think my scratches were so superficial that they just easily vanished using a no-sanding method. I think Klipsch should have a better manual. They should explain how to care for the loudspeaker's finish. I believe Tann... | |
| Anybody else waiting for GaN and Purify to have a baby? Can’t wait! | |
| Klipsch Cornwall IV Way to go @schw06 ! Give us your thoughts when you can. |