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| How Big of a Difference? IF you have money to burn through, the best cables I have heard were Goetz and Western Electric's or Dueland's imitations which may sound even better than the originals. 50 years ago Western Electric cables delivered clear voices from coast to coa... | |
| Please recommend speakers <$800 for newbie I am not up on current fashions, but the thing that you need to determine before you buy anything is what exactly do you want? I am sure that we could divide listeners into thousands of groups, SS vs tubes, et. al. I simplify it into two camps. Ca... | |
| Primaluna? Don Sachs used to upgrade/modify Macintosh and HK Citation gear until he ran across some gear designed by Roy Mottram. Some was to upgrade Dynaco amps, and he also had a beautiful sounding preamp of his own design. Don found that he could apply ma... | |
| Need help choosing a new DAC mr-m, Thanks, I like to forget that name for some reason, so much so that I am no longer aware that I have done it... | |
| Are tubes psychological? Last I knew recording studios virtually always have tubes in the microphone amplifiers because they do somehow produce a warmer, less sterile sound.. What does that actually mean? I'm not sure, but the folks who make a living from music prefer tub... | |
| Need help choosing a new DAC @Terrapin77, I wrote this before realizing that you had already pulled the trigger. My DS2 doesn’t have a balanced in, but you can get balanced to RCA conversion connectors, and that’s what I use on the outputs of my Yggdrasil. If you are not i... | |
| Line Stage Preamps that blew you away $2500 Edition The Doug Sach's 2, DS2 should be in that price range and using 6SN7 tubes it is one awesome preamp. Doug has managed to master quiet power so that it doesn’t get in the way of the sound, and has found components that has the most minimal impact on... | |
| Anybody use a single ended component with one that is balanced? My Yggdrasil sounds far better using the balanced outs, but my DS2 prep and ML 27.5 only have SE inputs, so I have a balanced to RCA adapter coming from the Yggdrasil. You can get a straight adapter or one with the XLR on one end and an RCA on the... | |
| Appreciate Some Dac Advice This is all gleaned hearsay, so ultimately I don’t know. Pontus II is supposedly #3, between 1 & 2 supposedly would be the Holo Audio Spring 3, and the Yggdrasil around that price point. I have had the Yggdrasil 2.0 since it first came out, th... | |
| Best repair people for my Threshold 400a? Jon Soderberg. He was a tech at the original Threshold corporation, he has matched parts on the shelf, he’s professional and has probably seen every issue there is. Everyone I know who has had him repair, or modify their gear have been quite happy... | |
| Mc 240 vs. Prima Luna Don Sachs used to do mods to Macintosh gear. He now builds amps which he says are far better sounding than any Citation or Macintosh amp ever built. Prima Luna is okay, I have one of their amps, but if I wasn't building my own amplifier which is n... | |
| Listening to music I don’t particularly like I listen to different things all the time. You can only watch the same TV show some many times. The same goes for music. Come Together, Whole Lotta Love, etc, just gets boring. I hated Sinatra as a child, and now I like his work, but I have gotten... | |
| Tube Preamps that work well with SS amps? Don Sach Model 2 preamp, unless you want to spend a lot more on your preamp. | |
| Tube Vs. SS Preamps There is no correct answer to your question. Different designers are going to focus on different things. For me Don Sach's DS2 preamp with the right tubes is the most accurate preamp I have had in my system. It drives my ML 29L amp perfectly. One ... | |
| why do so many discussions turn contentious? Why do so many discussions turn out so contentious? For the same reason worthless sounding equipment get good reviews in magazines. Everyone wants their beliefs affirmed. IME there are several groups of listeners. The 2 primary groups are those lo... |