salectric
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| Dueland CAST PIO A single Duelund CAST cap (no bypass) will sound significantly better than an OIMP with or without a V-Cap bypass. I am not a fan of numerical descriptions of sonic differences---What does it mean to say something is 10% better? But the benefits o... | |
| Dueland CAST PIO On my 2-way vintage speakers, the Duelund CAST cap made a much bigger difference when used on the high-pass (tweeter) than on the low-pass (woofer). In each case, the Duelund was replacing a Mundorf Supreme (regular version) so this was a fair eva... | |
| Dueland CAST PIO What types of capacitors are in the speaker now? | |
| Dueland CAST PIO In my vintage speakers, the Duelund CAST was the best sounding of many, many caps I tried in the tweeter high-pass crossover. It had the best inner detail and overall coherency. As far as I am concerned, there were no negative qualities in its sou... | |
| emotive mono blocks and b&w matrix 801s a good mat Do you mean Emotive or Emotiva? Big difference. | |
| If you had a Benz cartridge would you let someone As I said earlier, my Benz received a "real" retipping from SS meaning they removed the original tip from the cantilever and attached a new one. This costs more than getting a replacement cantilever and tip since there is more work required. As to... | |
| If you had a Benz cartridge would you let someone Tony, I am not sure I understand your question. My Benz received a new tip at Soundsmith. The tip was supposed to be as close as possible to the one it came with. Since I had used the cartridge for 3 years prior to the retipping, I can't be totall... | |
| If you had a Benz cartridge would you let someone I sent my Benz LP to Soundsmith for a retip only, i.e. on the existing cantilever. SS did N excellent job and the Benz sounds like new again. I plan on sending back for another retip when the time comes.It really is unfortunate that Benz has just ... | |
| Do we still need 6550 or KT88 tubes? The KT-120 is my second favorite tube in my Emotive Vita amps. My very favorite is the Genalex KT-77. No reliability problems with either type. I think Atmasphere was more than a little unfair in repeating gossip about the KT-120 having reliabilit... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil That's great news Ricevs! I will keep an eye out for the new Jupiters. In the meantime, I am trying some JB JFX Premiums that were recommended earlier in this thread. They are quite good sounding by any standard, and when you factor in the price (... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Micheal, can you give us any more details on the direct coupled 2A3 amp? | |
| Remember the year and first vynil you ever bought? Beatles "Day Tripper" and the Stones "Paint It Black." Both were 45's and bought in 1966 or 67. | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Charles, what value cap did you use on your DAC output? Does it have copper braid leads or solid wire? | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Charles1dad, I agree with you 100%. More natural sound and less "hifi" hype is what we want. So far I would put the Duelund CAST caps in that category. The speaker crossover caps definitely. My only concern at this point concerns the .47uf CAST ca... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil I read the 10Audio review of Sonicap Gen 1 vs. Mundorf S/O vs. V-Cap OIMP caps. I certainly agree with his conclusion about the problems with bypass caps. I don't agree about Silver/oil sounding like Sonicap Gen 1, however. I have used Gen 1 caps ... |