jcarcopo
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| Holo Audio May DAC Glad you both are enjoying the May! Can't wait to get mine in. Guess I have a month to wait. | |
| Holo Audio May DAC I placed an order for the Holo May KTE this morning after a few days of mulling it over. It measures superbly. Some R2R designs don't measure well at all. I want the simplicity and naturalness of the R2R topology, but not the jitter or added dist... | |
| Holo Audio May DAC I'm considering buying the May KTE DAC as well. It would help if they at least offered a 30 day trial. It's a lot of money to spend on a DAC without listening to it first. If it's not better than my Matrix XSabre Pro MQA DAC than I'd like the opti... | |
| Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions @smodtactical I've been using SET tube amplifiers for 20 years and this is the first solid-state amp to have a beautiful enough midrange to sway me away from tubes while the added weight and heft in the bass region from the XA25's high damping fac... | |
| Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions @sid-hoff-frenchman The Pass Lab engineer told me it was normal considering that deep bass uses 80% of the power of your amp. Sudden transients demand a lot of momentary current. My amp caps out at 10 amps current delivery. That isn't to say the i... | |
| Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions @sid-hoff-frenchman Another good one is Yim Hok-man "Poems of Thunder". That 10 minute track will put my Pass Labs XA25 into protection if I turn my DAC's volume up to -3db which, to be fair, is nearly wide open. So big Kodo Drums 🥁 really strain ... | |
| Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions @david_ten Yes, actually all of it's specifications are superior to the more expensive XA30 and higher amplifiers. I assume it's because he uses only 4 large power transistors per side in a slightly different way in the XA25's. | |
| Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions @david_ten Of course being solid-state, there's a foundational weight and heft to the Pass Lab's XA25 in the bass region due to its 500 damping factor that accompanies its very beautiful midrange. It also only consumes 240w and emits much less hea... | |
| Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions @jsoku I’m not sure if it’s sonically advantageous to front port the midbass drivers or not. I guess there’s pros and cons to both approaches and Eric determined it’s better sonically without the front ports now. Maybe he’s altered the crossover too. | |
| Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions @jsoku I'm very sorry about your hearing loss buddy. This is something I worry about as I get older. I am very happy though you are getting the Encores. You are not crazy. The very best stuff is in the midrange my friend. There's few if any speak... | |
| Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions @coot Yes, I only have 2 digital sources I switch between and I prefer the sound quality running source-direct from my dac. | |
| Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions @squeak_77_king I'll let management know 😁 | |
| Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions I meant do not use the tweeter adjustment binding posts located higher-up on the speaker. You can biwire the speaker to the same amp. You can not biamp the speaker to 2 separate amps to the 2 bottom pairs of jacks. You can use the 2 bottom pairs ... | |
| Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions @ceaglek2782 There’s no Owner’s manual. Just make sure you use the very bottom binding posts and you should be fine in terms of hooking them up. Do not biamp them, they are only bi-wireable to my knowledge.If you have further questions please let ... | |
| Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions @ditusa I own the Pass Labs XA25 and I love it. It’s the only solid-state amp that comes extremely close to a SET tube amplifier and it drives the Encores quite well. ☺ It sounds wonderful, especially in the midrange. It's a very special solid-sta... |