piedpiper
Responses from piedpiper
| How much does your system retail for? got it, Biometric, although I missed your implication without your explanation. | |
| any DAC recommend for around $1000-1300? You might want to try a Ack! dac. I own one that I swapped the Aura caps with bypassed DynamiCaps with that is stellar. | |
| Benz Ruby 2 vs Ruby 3 Any thoughts about the Cardas Heart, newer or older, which is/was essentially a Ruby with a few holes drilled in the body? | |
| Best Solder?? Never done a direct comparison but many prefer Wonder solder which is what I use. | |
| How much does your system retail for? Do I detect sarcasm, Biomimetic? I have collected and tweeked my gear over many years at used prices on a shoestring budget. I am passionate about music, quality, and value (I have to be since my professional life has been a labor of love that I a... | |
| How much does your system retail for? $44K, almost all of it modded way beyond original quality and value. I like to think it's comparable to two to four times that much, especially given the cherry-picked-for-value nature of each component, to start with. | |
| Air line filter for air bearing arm Maplenoll and its various advisors, Lloyd Walker, Pierre Sprey, recommend putting all doodads close to the pump followed by 500 feet of hose as final smoothing of pulses, resonances and turbulance caused by juncture points, etc.. They use a fuel f... | |
| DAC Help audioengr, the dAck! is very dynamic and CLEAN, not warm and soft. The guy I auditioned it with at first is an excitement addict when it comes to stereo and very into rock. He loved it. A good rock guitar tube amp, just as an example, has tons of ... | |
| Battery powered DAC Another thought, gleaned from musings on the Sutherland PhD: it seems there would be great sonic and logistical advantages to having a cheap AC/DC supply that could be simply switched in for convenience listening and to keep the circuit warmed up.... | |
| Battery powered DAC Dear Viggen, I was outa town. I can't remember which Nixon. It was tubed and in a black plastic case. Incidently, Pierre Sprey of Mapleshade would insist that it would sound much better in a maple wood box. He's very strong about the negative qual... | |
| Battery powered DAC I compared the Nixon with the similar Ack! and immediately chose the Ack!. I have since compared it favorably to the EAD DSP 7000 III and with a very nice and smooth recent Van Alstine. The Ack! runs on batteries, always a major improvement, with ... | |
| The best DAC for the money I compared the Nixon with the similar Ack! and immediately chose the Ack!. I have since compared it favorably to the EAD DSP 7000 III and with a very nice and smooth recent Van Alstine. The Ack! runs on batteries, always a major improvement, with ... | |
| Oversampling/Increased dither: a lot of hype? I've improved my Ack! significantly by replacing the 3.3 mF AuraCaps with Dynamicaps, a pair of 5 mF and a .01 bypass per channel. It really opened up and the bass improved big time. I use it with an EAD T1000 with a Mapleshade/Insound Zepher dig ... | |
| DAC Help I've improved my Ack! significantly by replacing the 3.3 mF AuraCaps with Dynamicaps, a pair of 5 mF and a .01 bypass per channel. It really opened up and the bass improved big time. I use it with an EAD T1000 with a Mapleshade/Insound Zepher dig ... | |
| ACK dac or Muse 2 / older dac to replace Sa8260 I've improved my Ack! significantly by replacing the 3.3 mF AuraCaps with Dynamicaps, a pair of 5 mF and a .01 bypass per channel. It really opened up and the bass improved big time. I use it with an EAD T1000 with a Mapleshade/Insound Zepher dig ... |