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| Don Sachs DS2 Preamp - too good to be true? Don is amazing. The DS2 is the culmination of his on the job learning. He didn’t exactly design it, though he certainly has the ability to design. What else he knows is circuit perfection. After decades of working on Citation and Macintosh modific... | |
| recommended speaker cables and interconnects Honestly, Chris at VH Audio has amazed me with his capacitors. He also sells cables, and his prices are good. I am basing my recommendation based upon his capacitors. Sounds wrong, but follow my logic. He has single handedly moved the needle with ... | |
| 5AR4 rectifier tube question New Sensor bought the Soviet Block plants, they are not "all the same" as one person mentioned. I have 3 different branded KT88 tubes by their various factories, and they are all quite different. Their flagship brand is based upon Genelex Gold Loi... | |
| Turn off or leave on? NEVER leave tube equipment on unattended. I leave my fussy Yggdrasil DAC on 24 x 7, but expect to be replacing it with a Lampizator after 6 years of faithful service. I don't leave my Levinson amp on though due to power consumption. All electronic... | |
| Vandersteen Speakers.. Are All Other Speaker Makers Doing It Wrong ? One more thing, they are only perfectly time aligned at a particular distance. Greater or lesser distances distort that, and they should be such at a frequency in the midrange of each driver. IOW, the highest and lowest frequencies of a particular... | |
| Vandersteen Speakers.. Are All Other Speaker Makers Doing It Wrong ? Look, I am not up to speed on Vandersteen speakers, but I owned them. Generally speaking there are 2 primary camps which further divide from their primary camps into vast nbers of camps. You have I want pleasing types, who no matter how poorly som... | |
| Audiophile Fuses: Helpful or "Snake Oil"? I have been forced to change my mind on so many things that I won't call much of anything snake oil unless I try it myself, but so far, for me, the money they want for fuses is excessive. As for the cables don't matter crowd, why then did Tektron... | |
| Least Expensive Power Conditioner/Surge Protector That Won't Worsen Sound I haven't used audiophile conditioners. You can get medical grade used isolation transformers from ebay, or you can find a ups that takes in AC, converts it to DC, then inverts it back to AC. I think that this is increasingly common. They used to ... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil Upgrades I am way late to this game! I don't yet believe in fuses making a difference, but I have been wrong about cables, capacitors, etc., so I am not going to say that they can't, I just seriously question it. As for your by-pass caps, there is no way t... | |
| Looking for “just good enuf” for garage man cave If you keep your eyes open, you can find a Radio Shack STA2000 receivers, designed by Foster aka Fostex for a few hundred dollars. The STA-2100's are selling for a LOT more. They are the best receiver I have ever heard, and beat the pants off of p... | |
| An electrical engineer on how power cables can impact sound quality Folks, merely twisting wires won't necessarily do it any more than laying out a conductor, a dialectic, and a conductor makes a 20uf capacitor. A power cable is a capacitive, inductive device, and it can filter some frequencies, but not necessaril... | |
| Kubala Sosna Cables - Reality Check Cables will generally react differently with different systems, which is why one particular cable doesn't dominate. In my system Dueland's tin coated wire, a modern version of Western Electric's cable that AT&T used which allowed impressive cl... | |
| No more "High End" for me...Back to Reality Audio I believe that the best system is the one you can be content with. That said, I would suggest, generally speaking that as an electronics technician who has worked on older audio, video, analog, and now primarily digital gear, that my rule is GIGO,... | |
| Let me end the Premp/Amplifier sound debate ... Folks, it doesn't matter what sounds like what! I know people who's stereos would send most people running out of the listening room holding their ears because the listener has hearing damage in the high frequency area. IF YOU ENJOY X, THEN LISTEN... | |
| Remote Maintenance Use Lithium-ion batteries. They last nearly forever, and they don't corrode. Acid based batteries not only corrode, they also drop in voltage putting stress on the circuitry, Lithium ion batteries are more stable, and drop rapidly so while I suspe... |