paulcreed
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| Help with tube choice Bugle boy, if you want to save some money Brent Jesse has some Hewlett-Packard 6dj8 that are just rebranded Bugle Boys for a cheaper price. There are many to choose from but the Bugle Boy is a nice place to start a collection. | |
| Suggestions for Giant Killer rca coax digital cable under $500 used charyro, new dac would be nice but would like to try a cable first. Does spdif not have as big of an if impact as your typical interconnect? What do most people use USB or balanced or other? I listen to mostly records so not even sure if sp... | |
| Suggestions for Giant Killer rca coax digital cable under $500 used Honestly I never called with any concerns with ohm’s and never brought it up. I only asked which is better cable the mc2 or Absolute and he told me how balanced mc2 has higher ohm’s and rca has lower and Absolute is 75 ohm’s. He then recommended t... | |
| Suggestions for Giant Killer rca coax digital cable under $500 used I’m same way I care less about ohm’s just if it sounds good. Why would AZ prefer the absolute over the mc2. I’ve heard nothing but good things about mc2. Mc2 is only cable I considered or knew about before this post. | |
| Suggestions for Giant Killer rca coax digital cable under $500 used I called Acoustic Zen they said The mc2 in rca is about 55 ohm’s and recommended the AZ Absolute, true 75 ohm rca. I’m not very knowledgeable with digital, I know my JPS superconductors 2’s are true 75ohm but have no idea how that equates to s... | |
| Suggestions for Giant Killer rca coax digital cable under $500 used Thank you both for advice. I did consider the AZ mc2 but was a little concerned with more silver in the mix. Sometimes the AZ silver ref 2 can come across a slight bit tipped up on some recordings. I will switch out to some copper interconnects wh... | |
| 6sn7 to 6922 adapter: good idea or bad idea? I used Garage 1217 6922 and 6sn7 adapters with great results in a couple MHDT dac’s. The 6sn7 and 6922 tube replaced the 5670 tube and sounded very nice in comparison. I had a large stash of very nice 6922 and 6sn7’s and was told by manufactur... | |
| 6sn7 to 6922 adapter: good idea or bad idea? I would be very cautious but if it’s a go by Cary look at Garage 1217 tube adapters vey nice quality. If you buy from tube depot or Garage 1217 make sure you don’t push the adapter tube pins to far down in the amps tube sockets, just make sure you... | |
| Auralic Vega G2 or Denafrips Pontus II 12th + streamer? That’s funny “you don’t want a brick in a couple years” if so I would keep it separate. I’m where you are now. I got into streaming over a year ago and prefer my records but streaming is so easy. I’m using Auralic steamers, I started with Aura... | |
| Gustard R26 - good but not the one I don’t understand how to compare a 5 year old dac to a 3 day old dac. I would guess at 3 days it would sound possibly it’s worst ever. I owned a used Qutest for a few months. I’m not sure it would best a nice r2r dac, at least for my personal tas... | |
| Crossover Redo on my Amrita Audio Floorstanders Clarity cap CMR’s and Mills resistors or Path can be a nice option maybe start off on tweeter section. There are a lot of nice caps out there. just need to know if you like the Juniper or Vcap sound or what’s in between. Do the best you can wit... | |
| Does anyone repair.... Sounds like bad cap in power supply | |
| Does anyone repair.... I believe a call to Wilson audio couldn’t hurt. They have moved to Across the lake and are now more focused on repair than ever before. | |
| Plinius repairs Have you checked the set screw on the knob? Sounds like knob is pushed in to far and knob has friction with faceplate. If you loosen set screw pull knob back very slightly then tighten down set screw knob should move freely. I’m not familiar with ... | |
| Who else is using old cables/interconnects, and is happy? Glad to see I’m not the only one still enjoying their old cables. I still rotate my Audience au24 speaker and interconnects, Bob Crumps TG Audio solid core silver speaker cable and silver power cords. XLO signature interconnects, JPS power cords, ... |