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| Dedicated Power Line Project Thank you for your reply. Very helpful!Today I flipped off the breaker and started testing outlets to figure out everything that’s on the existing line. It’s worse than I thought. Included is at least 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom which includes rough... | |
| General question about tube preamps and gain My bad, Class B isn’t common. Let’s not throw the baby out with the bath water. | |
| General question about tube preamps and gain My gut tells me yes. Driving a tube harder should result in an increase in even and odd order harmonic distortion which is a big part of “tube sound,” however it also depends on the implementation: Class A, AB, B, etc. | |
| General question about tube preamps and gain gochurchgo, what you are asking makes sense. Putting a resistor downstream of the tube preamp isn’t all that different than putting a passive preamp downstream of the tube preamp. The only difference is that you get a “resistor” with volume contro... | |
| Herbie’s Super Black Hole CD Mat - Wow! I’ve found that with some CDs the mat works great but with others I can hear the drive mechanism sounding like it’s unbalanced, which obviously isn’t good for sound. Could this be because I’m not seating the mat properly and the center of mass of ... | |
| Tell us about your acoustic treatments Thanks for the reply. I’ll have to check out that adjustable bass trap. It makes a lot of sense. One of these days I will build or buy some traps. I use DSP which really helps. I wonder if you can reduce the number of bass traps you need by adding... | |
| Dedicated Power Line Project Thank you for your help, Miller and Cleeds! I’ve had the same thought about eliminating as many connections as possible and trying to avoid any junction boxes and pigtails. Maybe I can find a specialty outlet or make an electrically safe modificat... | |
| Tell us about your acoustic treatments Thanks Mike. I’m not familiar with all the products you use. Is it mainly absorptive bass traps? Any limp membranes? Tuned traps? Resonators? | |
| Interconnect Directionality I wonder if Ohno continuous cast (OCC) wires are direction to the same degree as drawn copper. If it has to do with the copper grains, perhaps grain-free OCC wires have no direction to them. Food for thought. | |
| Interconnect Directionality Last night I swapped the direction of my digital coax cable between the CD transport and DAC. It sounds like I’m hearing more detail, even though the cable is now going “against” the direction of the arrow printed on it. | |
| External Linear Power Supplies Don’t know if it was break in or me adjusting to the sound but everything is sounding cleaner and more dynamic now! That’s with a linear power supply on my DAC. Does anyone know if I would get benefit out of a linear power supply on my tube buffer... | |
| Tell us about your acoustic treatments Can someone who has done extensive bass trapping chime in on the significance of the treatment. Was it a “yeah, that’s better,” or was it a “wow, this completely transformed the low end and was more than worth every dollar spent.” It’s seems to me... | |
| External Linear Power Supplies An update on my previous post after more listening: This upgraded linear power supply is way better than my previous power supply! I’m finding myself listening to the songs on CDs that I don’t normally listen to because this new power supply has g... | |
| External Linear Power Supplies Reporting in after receiving my Teradak power supply and using it to power my DAC. I’ve only had one short listening session and what I notice off the bat is a small increase in detail and a reduction of digital glare. (The annoying sibilance in t... | |
| External Linear Power Supplies I use many of the iFi low-noise power supplies. In my experience they are well-worth the money. Definitely better than the cheap wall warts that come with the equipment. I haven’t ventured into the linear power supply realm yet, but I have a Terad... |