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| Best 5814a tubes for DAC? Thanks for your responses. Does anyone care to comment on sound character of any of the various 5814a? For use in a DAC, I'm looking for the greatest detail, balance and accurate tonality. Maximal information is the key here; I can "tune" with the... | |
| Best 5814a tubes for DAC? Yes, yes, the 7316 is very good... but I'm specifically asking about 5814s. | |
| Best 5814a tubes for DAC? Correction: 5814a tubes, not 5815a. | |
| Silverline SR17.5 crossover modifications? Alan uses a 1st order crossover with a custom inductor and one Chinese cap and one Chinese sand-cast resistor. I won't touch the inductor but it sure looks like the cap and resistor can be improved. Like Reynolds 853, I'm going to try replacing th... | |
| Best Male & IEC plug for high current power cords? Violet ZII with gold-plated Furutech plugs has finally fully broken in and it works wonders with taming the digititus of my solid state gear but it's not as focused as I'd like with my tube system. It maintains excellent detail with solid state an... | |
| Silverline SR17.5 crossover modifications? Reynolds853, YES! I would be grateful to have the photos of your crossover work. Thanks again for a great post. | |
| Silverline SR17.5 crossover modifications? Reynold853, Thanks, that was just the sort of response I was hoping to get -- practical, not theoretical, detailed and specific. The crossover upgrade consideration is back on! | |
| Best Male & IEC plug for high current power cords? Rja, You're absolutely right about the component iecs. That's my next step. Thanks. | |
| Best Male & IEC plug for high current power cords? Update: outside of this forum I just talked to two people, dedicated DIYers, who did a heads-up comparison of the Neotech and Furutech plugs, both of whom found the Neotech to be sonically superior. Neotech copper male and iec, ditto Furutech (F1-... | |
| Generally wise/unwise to mix metals in AC plugs? It's not so hard for music as structure to get through the labyrinth of elements -- even the tinny little radio I had as a kid in the 50's did that -- what's so amazing is that such a fully embodied verisimilitude of reality can do so. We have com... | |
| Generally wise/unwise to mix metals in AC plugs? So... maybe replace the male end with copper? I wonder what gold and silver would do? | |
| Generally wise/unwise to mix metals in AC plugs? Just got a pc with gold plated plugs on both ends and the effect is to soften and merge contours -- "voices" sound like they're coming through a soft cotton scrim. Used on my dac. It's great for the many lo-fi historical opera recordings I listen ... | |
| Best Male & IEC plug for high current power cords? Rja, I just don't want the softening effect of gold plating on my power pcs. I like it for my dac. Good point about the Ohno IEC. I'll look into it. BTW, I just posted a thread on the advisability of mixing metals on pc terminations, ie. gold on o... | |
| Quietest BUDGET high-current power cord? Tvad, My whole system is fed through a PS Audio Quintet, a component I much admire. The improvement it has made is profoundly audible. | |
| Quietest BUDGET high-current power cord? Tvad, Absolute silence... in an ideal world, that is. "Black" is an adjective often used to describe the space from which sound emanates. I've heard the difference in the various pcs I've tried on my front end. I expect the same will apply to the ... |