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Strange Oscillation
Falconquest, I just checked - it is clean. I used high volume on headphones and speakers.  There is a lot of sibilants, more vivid with headphones, but still clean.  5:19 high voice note is very clean.  You could clean laser with laser cleaning CD... 
Strange Oscillation
I have Cafe Blue, standard CD and cannot hear any high pitch vocal.  In fact, it is the one of the best recorded CDs used for demo in many stores. Can you point to particular song, minutes, seconds?Vibrapods might protect CDP from vibrating shelve... 
What is RED copper & Eutectic Copper speaker cable connectors...??? RHODIUM...
What is Eutectic Copper?  AFAIK term "Eutectic" applies only to alloys.. 
Audirvana 2.x Upgrade Benefits
AFAIK  VLINK192 is asynchronous USB to S/PDIF converter.  Since S/PDIF clock is completely separated from the computer timing, then the only way that playback program can affect the sound is by processing (upsampling etc.), unless there was some s... 
Best solo piano recording...redbook CDs only...Jazz, easy listening, piano bar
Charles Mingus - "Mingus Plays Piano" 
Voltmeter for Vandersteen 5a setup
They most likely want to apply low frequency 1V sinewave signal (100Hz -1kHz) and measure/set -3dB point. Any voltmeter will do (no need for true RMS).  One recommended by Czarivey is pretty good one.  I have cheaper, non-RMS version for more almo... 
Can SMPS based preamps/amps sound organic ?
Patent does not mean much (I have couple of them).  Patenting new principle of operation is practically impossible, so the most of people patent specific use.  You can come up with any weird stuff and register it.  Patent office does not check val... 
Can SMPS based preamps/amps sound organic ?
Bombaywalla, I'm familiar with class G principle of operation.  And you're right - their "invention" is pretty much class G. It does not matter if you switch signal or supplies - it is still switching operation.  Rowland (IMHO) is the leader again... 
ASSEMBLED IN CHINA
chrshanl37I'm glad you mentioned McDonalds. The wage they pay puts people below poverty level and I pay their supplemental income (gov. support) instead of McDonalds.You are right about some audio stores going bankrupt initially, but later buying ... 
Can SMPS based preamps/amps sound organic ?
Bombaywalla, Thank you for the link, very interesting.  The only problem is that what they describe:The digital control circuitry constantly monitors the pulsating waves from the regulator and the rail voltages. It will then make a decision to tu... 
Can SMPS based preamps/amps sound organic ?
Jaybe, I repeat again - most of linear power supplies in power amps are unregulated.  I would bet that 100% of linear power supplies in class A  amps are unregulated.  Can you provide the link?  Sonore, you mentioned are 14W, unless I'm looking at... 
ASSEMBLED IN CHINA
Tim Cook of Apple stated that we lost our manufacturing ability long time ago:“The U.S., over time, began to stop having as many vocational kind of skills,” Cook explained. “I mean, you can take every tool and die maker in the United States and pr... 
Can SMPS based preamps/amps sound organic ?
But I can think of a reason a LPS may sound better in your home. One thing is a transformer will filter out or reduce incoming high frequency electrical noise where especially older SMPS will pass it through. Modern SMPS often contain Power Facto... 
Relationship of amplifier sound to transformer quality?
If the transformer is not wrapped with low frequency high permeability mu metal sound quality will suffer. No two ways about it. The toxic effects of the induced magnetic field extends to everything within what, about a foot of the transformer? ... 
Can SMPS based preamps/amps sound organic ?
Why to design complicated SMPS when the most of customers believe that it has to be big and heavy to sound good?  Small and efficient bring suspicion that something (sound) has to give.  In addition word "switching" suggests electrical noise.