mclinnguy
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| Can using a bad tube hurt an amplifier? Just had Fedex drop off the replacement Gold Lion 300b, inserted it in the amp, and voila, music is playing again. Just one $5 220uf Rubycon capacitor was all that needed replacing. Lucky the cap went first, and not after various other parts a... | |
| Can using a bad tube hurt an amplifier? @buellrider97 Yes we suffer reliably issues, tube issues and the jabs from the SS crowd and now the class D crowd. but those other amps are not bulletproof, I might argue they are no more reliable than tube amps. I wouldn't say I was an earl... | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes Did we ever move past the question: Why does one vibrating stylus in a groove of vinyl sound different than another? Has anyone asked for proof how different turntable setups sound different? Or does everyone just accept that they do? Why don'... | |
| Can using a bad tube hurt an amplifier? Yes, I just had this happen to me: everything working fine for 4 months with the 300b Gold Lion’s in my Coincident Frankenstein stereo amp. The amp and tubes are both 4 months old, I haven’t touched anything in weeks, and I turn it on a few weeks ... | |
| Hlep chosing a streamer/server for my DAC I'm still leaning Innuos. Nothing wrong with that, you will be happy. I favor the Lumin U2, not only for its ability to stream great music, but for its optical ethernet connection as well (optical ethernet could by the wave of the future... | |
| Sound quality differences in streamers @johnsmith55 I tested, tested, demoed, tested, and demoed, against my personal custom built pc. I have read about some other fellow who custom built his own PC for streaming, pushing everything to the n'th degree, testing hundreds of combin... | |
| Do I need upgraded power cables? I admit it is awfully impressive for any company to make a power cable that looks this good for under $80, but use some common sense. Just the knock-off connectors are look alike Furutech FI-50 connectors which retail for several hundred doll... | |
| Sound quality differences in streamers If the unit is just transferring zeros and ones to a DAC can there be differences in say a $300 WiiM and a $3000 dSC streamer? And there is the ignorance, it is not just transferring "1’s and 0’s". Doesn’t common sense tell the ones who have h... | |
| Check This Out! For those of you counting your farads, it was discussed earlier in this thread the shocking values of capacitance the Galle II converter uses, at 2 thousand farad, or 2,000,000,000 uF. I can’t see the number for the Helene, but the Kassandra has... | |
| Best affordable Linear Power Stage @ghdprentice I am sure the best available power supplies are available inside audiophile equipment. Like this one in its separate box that connects to the Aries Cerat Kassandra? No outboard power supply necessary here, no DDC necessary eit... | |
| What is a "reference" system? Thunderbird is my "reference" hooch. The one that I judge all other hooch by. Otherwise, I would never know how good Cisco, Night Train, Tango, Richard's or MD 20/20 is. I have never heard of any of these names. I suppose I need a better fram... | |
| What is a "reference" system? My belief is "reference" implies one has more than one system, and the "reference" is the best one. That may be the most familiar, or most revealing system. If one has only one system then that must be their reference system, regardless of price o... | |
| Is it possible to find a good DAC for under $50, 000? .".. digital distortions are a-musical, and thus may occur at an analog level, that seem minor to a distortion analyzer, but isn't minor to your version 10,000 evolutionary brain. " I like this guy. | |
| Gustard X30 Well it contains a renderer, operates as an endpoint, and therefore is a network player, but can it be called a streamer if you cannot house your Roon core in it? I believe the term streamer contains both server and player parts. ASAIK this is whe... | |
| Considering switching to XLR cables, I like the positive lock of XLR connectors I have had XLR's for years and years, and I only just had to purchase an RCA set for the Coincident Frankenstein 300b amp I just got. I now prefer the tightness of the RCA over the XLR connection- It... |