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MC402 vs FPB 300cx
Could be...My experience in the past with Nordost was too bright. 
MC402 vs FPB 300cx
So at the moment, I am doing an A/B test between two single ended IC's in my system from source to Pre. One is my current Nordost Tyr and the other a lesser IC in the Nordost line up...Interesting differences. When I pull the Tyr out I loose a fai... 
MC402 vs FPB 300cx
Dbld-thanks so much for your write up, helps to hear you had a similar experience. I am getting a set of Aud 23's just to listen to in a week or so. I will start my search with those as far as speaker cables goes, then move along if they don't wor... 
Primer on Music Servers?
Holographic could very well beat out SSD as well. 
MC402 vs FPB 300cx
I am going to contact Krell tomorrow and ask if there is the possibility that they could have forgot to ad them etc, and ask them to send me some as well. I might as well see what happens when I put them in there. Although the more I listen the le... 
MC402 vs FPB 300cx
I just opened the amp, and the the jumpers are NOT there..Meaning, caps are engaged, question answered. But who the heck took them off is the new question. 
MC402 vs FPB 300cx
Audphile1-you just answered a question I had in my head...I was wondering that last night when I was looking inside, if there could be residual electricity. I will be careful. I will tell, ya is marvelous looking inside this thing, incredible engi... 
MC402 vs FPB 300cx
Audphile1-you just reminded me I have to call them..The directions on the coupling caps were less than good. I lifted the hood on it last night and was hesitant to unplug what I thought were the jumpers they were instructing. Things just didn't ma... 
MC402 vs FPB 300cx
Nwavesailor, I hear you...But I stand behind most of what I said about the Mac though. At the risk of this topic coming up again, the MC402 still sounded slow, etched, not smooth, predictable, no emotion and so on-in my system...I got a very good ... 
MC402 vs FPB 300cx
Aball, Cosecant resolved about 80% of the sibilance I was experiencing. I am at a loss for words with the sound of this thing. I am thinking the small remaining glare I might get could easily be resolved by a tweak. 
Primer on Music Servers?
There is no hold up, they're here now. Problem isn't necessarily the ability to manufacture audiophile-grade USB equipment. Technology is out there. The problem as I see it is very simple, and two-fold...The mass market is slow to adopt new techno... 
Tube USB Preamp
I own the Cosecant, it is a non-upsampling USB Zero Dac, with a Tubed output stage. And like Paradales said there is a version that can act as a Premp with Volume. Actually Wavelength now has 3 different USB Dacs in the line-up, with varying versi... 
MC402 vs FPB 300cx
Interesting....So I will put that to the test for sure this week. Currently my front end is the Wavelength Brick, and will be the Cosecant this week, possibly today actually. The Cosecant is supposed to be significantly different so I will see if ... 
MC402 vs FPB 300cx
Good point, but it only happened/happened when they were inserted into the system. 
MC402 vs FPB 300cx
Thanks Aball...Some good points you made. I am going to lift the hood on the amp today and remove the jumpers (per instructions from Krell) on the input stage of the amp itself.VTL is capacitively coupled on the output, so it is now double CC'd. I...