mprime
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| AES / Cary Six Pac - upgrade suggestions If you haven't rolled through several tubes for each, you have no idea how much performance you're leaving in those electronics. From what I've gathered, abb, you have a lot of tube rolling to do!Please do that, before you buy new equipment.Best, | |
| AES/Cary DJH Preamp tube change abb,KenRad deserves their reputation for being bass rich. They also deserve their reputation as being microphonic.RCA is sweet & airy.CBS Hytron is quick and uncolored (for a tube).The EZ81 I have is a Haltron.FWIW, I plan on cycling through m... | |
| AES/Cary DJH Preamp tube change I have not tried the Electo Harmonix, though, I have not heard good things about them.I've tried KenRad VT231's, RCA red-base, and CBS-Hytrons. Each sound quite different, and I'd recommend trying several of these versions to discover the flavor o... | |
| Good, Neutral, Reasonably Priced Cables? Well, okay....To offer closure, in order to achieve the same EM shielding as a typical conductor, carbon must be 500 to 1000 times thicker than such conductors. From this factual statement, one may observe different designs and see how their claim... | |
| Good, Neutral, Reasonably Priced Cables? Fair enough, Sean (though attempting to reconcile claims with physics is not bad-mouthing).My first order understanding of shielding is akin to a Faraday cage (I have yet to see one made out of carbon). Or more precisely, shielding is a function o... | |
| Good, Neutral, Reasonably Priced Cables? While I can appreciate an enthuiastic review of an excellent product, the following statement is pure hokum:"Unfortunately, the SRIIs are so revealing and transient rich that the metal shielding elevates record noise and blurs timing, etc. relativ... | |
| Rives PARC or Tact 2.0 AA for room correction? Onhwy, I don't understand your suggestion that the TACT is inappropriate for this application and assertion that analog equalization is the optimal solution. The reason to add an "extra A/D and D/A" stage in the playback is to remove room effects ... | |
| Rives PARC or Tact 2.0 AA for room correction? Mr. Rives,I appreciate your detailed reply and found it quite topical to my concerns.I can also appreciate the introduction of digital artifacts (you mentioned ringing) with FFT filters (I've studied/designed such devices under Dr. Paul Horowitz).... | |
| Rives PARC or Tact 2.0 AA for room correction? I too am looking into this approach. I must say - on paper - the TACT seems superior to the Rives due to the time correction it offers, which should make speaker placement and other room issue less disruptive of imaging.Rebuttals to the above are ... | |
| Cable coherence - using different cables FWIW....My speaker cables are Goertz MI-2My interconnects from preamp to power amp are VH Audio PulsarMy interconnects from CD to preamp are AU-24I am quite content. | |
| sacd,vinyl, and rebook.... Albert,So we find ourselves in violent agreement :-)The funny thing is I can see - sometime in the distant future - swapping out a lot of my Redbook collection for vinyl; strange to go "backwards" in the quest for higher fidelity.Best, | |
| sacd,vinyl, and rebook.... Albert,Please know I my comments were not a veiled attack on your contribution. Instead, I found it an interesting articulation - in absolute terms - of how small the objective difference is, that leads one to say a $25k turntable would "crush" a ... | |
| sacd,vinyl, and rebook.... Of all the posts, I find Gaudio_eek's quote of Ivor Humphreys the most salient; why do so many of us in this hobby chase tweaking the noise? Really, Albert's referenced article is dealing with a worse case scenario of -40db in the upper register. ... | |
| sistrum vs neuance Ken Lyon wrote:"Most footer devices function primarily as filters which can often be of benefit in band-aiding or masking resonance problems in a more traditional setting but when placed between the component and Neuance, can often impede the smoo... | |
| sistrum vs neuance If there is a point of concensus on this issue, it must rest in the following question: why do component manufacturers design their products so that they are audibly impacted by such devices?In other words: how hard is it to design a good chassis?... |