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| Liquid Amps Atmasphere's suggestion for weighting the type of distortion is excellent. What's even more important than the type of distortion is where is the distortion located. Our ears hardly care or notice distortion in the bass regions relative to other... | |
| Liquid Amps @atmasphere explains well why it's a little tough to find "liquid" SS amps.However, there are many issues with tubes too. I have both SS (McCormack, McIntosh, digital amps, and others) and tubes (ARC Reference), so it's not like I'm prejudiced to... | |
| Krell KSA100 vs Threshold 400A vs McCormack DNA 0.5 I've owned plenty of McCormack products (several of his preamps and still have two modded amps). I've had multiple rounds of mods over the years, so I'm intimately aware of the performance from stock to various levels of mods in history up to as ... | |
| Music Server Recommendation There have been good suggestions in this thread, but my personal favorite is the Lampizator superkomputer. A lot of the performance is hardware, but also software and operating system.I've found the Lampizator both had impeccable hardware and pow... | |
| Removing spikes... Now my speakers sing @hifiman5 The sand box I'm referring to is actually almost identical to the the height of spikes. Bright Star audio made these sand boxes (mainly for equipment), but could be used for speakers too. You don't need the spikes, so it's not like dou... | |
| What is an excellent power cable? I've got quite a few brands of power cords from all budget ranges including many mentioned previously in this thread (i.e. Shunyata, Verastarr, Signal, Maze, Pangea, Supra, MIT and others).Other than avoiding anything by Synergistic Research like ... | |
| Removing spikes... Now my speakers sing Generally, it's best to follow the directions of the speaker mfg with regard to whether use spikes or other footers based on type of floor. You especially don't want to mess with speakers that already account for a certain resonance with their ca... | |
| McCormack DNA 0.5 Gold or what? @hifiman5 Gratz on the recent upgrade.I know exactly what you're talking about. I recently had a Rev A Platinum updated with similar experience. I even had him use a smaller version of the Bocchino IEC that he uses on his $20k power distributor.I... | |
| McCormack DNA 0.5 Gold or what? I know a lot about these amps. It's an awesome route to take because you will never have to buy another amp again... Just send it to Steve for whatever next level upgrade you can afford or he crafts.That being said, you should actually just buy a... | |
| Preamp dillema for McCormack Ultra Platinum It's hard to go wrong with either a CJ or ARC preamp in your budget. Both brands have remotes and retain their value when you buy them used. There are other brands of course, but those two have quite a legacy and performance standard that make t... | |
| Preamp dillema for McCormack Ultra Platinum I have several of Steve's upgraded amps. In fact, I just got back a modded DNA125 with some new stuff he hasn't done before. It's phenomenal. I also have legacy DNA.5 Platinum stereo amps and a single monoblock that I use for center channel. I... | |
| How to re-terminate Valhalla How long does it take you to get bocchinos? I hear there is a lengthy wait and sometimes issues with consistency. In terms of performance though, I understand it's hard to beat. | |
| Shunyata or Synergistic for power conditioning? When you see Synergistic Research in any reviewer or audiophile's system, it's a huge red flag of either the person being tone deaf, on the take from SR, or just gullible beyond belief.The guy is a total joke and has zero qualifications for anythi... | |
| Gryphon vs. D'Agostino Based on the recent review in Stereophile, I wouldn't touch a D'Agostino at that price point (or maybe any price point TBH). It took 2 samples before they found one that wasn't broken in some way and, as usual for Stereophile, the clueless review... | |
| Opinions on Various McCormack amps I have an amp with Steve now getting modded. I have several of his modified amps... Including monoblock conversion, balanced inputs, etc.One of mine is a Rev A Platinum, but he really doesn't categorize mods like that anymore. It's more customized... |