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| KUHL tube treatment - is this black smoke???? Rrog, what source are the complaints from ? I have not heard of such complaints.My opinion is the tubes should be ran through several tests prior to cryogenic treatment. A poorly constructed tube will fail whether it is cryoed or not. A microphoni... | |
| Death of Jim Bongiorno A great person and designer! Even his last improvement on the Ampzilla 2000 amplifier resulted in a score of 10 (highest), when reviewed at 10Audio.com.This review was just last year; 2012. | |
| Fuses that matter. In response to Lacee's question, yes I do think the sonic signature of the fuse should be in synergy with each component. It is unfortunate, but like power cord comparisons a few years ago, people were saying this brand of cord is superior to that... | |
| Amazing "tightening" of bass on cone speakers Be careful with the material of the cabinet and size of screw. In general, oil strengthens wood and paper material, water swells and weakens wood and paper. Use a wood or mineral oil rather than automotive types which have solvents and detergents.... | |
| Fuses that matter. I recently listened to the AMR fuses, The Hi-Fi Tuning Supreme, and the Synergistic fuses.On tube equipment, I like the AMR over the others. They are more tonally correct and counteract the tendency of tube equipment to sound "soft". These differe... | |
| Capacitor question I did some extensive listening tests with about 15 different capacitors in the signal path. One of my main projects was the BAT VK5 SE preamp.First I will say there are lots of good posts on this thread. They are very helpful, and are obviously fr... | |
| Any one compared a Lampizator to Weiss 202 DAC? I would not say shootouts are completely useless, but they are flawed unless the cables and other components are optimized for each DAC (or other components of a shootout).The wrong cables will kill a component's sound. I've done this many times; ... | |
| New Audience Ultra High Resolution Adept Response I own a Synergistic Powercell 10SE, and recently tried a scaled down version of the Bybee conditioner. This one had the Golden Goddess filters inside, with a Slipstream purifier in the noise circuit.The 10SE is much better on source components. In... | |
| Mundorf Silver/Gold in Oil Supreme Caps Any Good? I agree with Audioman on the Mundorf capacitors on signal. The Silver-Gold/oil has the transparency, and excellent harmonic content, while the Silver-oil lacks a little of the latter. The dry Silver-Gold just does not have the body of the other tw... | |
| Best tweak - System Improvement Besides cables, I would mention the Z-Sleeve 4" Ultra for headphone cables, the Audio Magic Pulse Gen-X inside components, and a 1000 kva transformer plugged into the wall, by itself, not powering components. | |
| Review: PS Audio Power Port Premier Tweak The ground pin hole, or port is not made for the common U shaped pin that is found on Hubbell, Marinco, Leviton, etc.What I find helps, is bend the outer end of the U shaped ground pin slightly closed, with a pair of small pliers. You may also hav... | |
| Power Cord for PS Audio Power Plant Premier? I have a PPP on its way here. Should be here within 5 days.On my P-300, I find the Purist Audio Dominus fluid sounds best out of six different cords that I tried. Will see how it works on the PPP soon.Interesting that the Russ Andrews cord worked ... | |
| Nordost Quantum Technology Products Van1,The Quantums in question here are not HF noise filters. They are designed to be used with or without noise filtering PLCs, or any type for that matter.You are right about many high-end components not needing additional filtering.However, ther... | |
| Duelund Capacitors?? Always use a bypass cap in parallel with your other cap. In series, the total capacitance will always be lower than the smallest value cap.For example, if you put a 1uF cap in series with a 100uF cap, the measured value of both of them would be ar... | |
| Power Cords I've had lots of experience with power cords, and will say they are essential to getting the best sound, but are also a gamble.Some don't sound much different than stock cords, some sound worse (usually silver), but the right ones will take your c... |