shawbros3
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| NEW Cerious Technologies Upgrade - Graphene Matrix Cables Congrats Ozzy and Lancelock, it's very difficult to get off the merry-go-round of cables!I'm enjoying my Matrix PC's as well, they really offer superb performance for the price. Bob really outdid himself with his latest concoction.@bugredmachine,... | |
| Oyaide Cables I purchased a Black Mamba after pinging Lak for recommendations on affordable cables. I cooked them for about 4 days, plugged them into my Lumin A1 which feeds my Avantgarde Zero 1 horns and then took a listen. They sounded fine at medium levels, ... | |
| Cerious Technologies NEW Graphene Cables I was an early adopter of Bob's cables and always thought he offered affordable cables with solid performance. I recently decided to start building a secondary tube system and decided to go back to Cerious and try out his Graphene Extreme power c... | |
| Taking the Lampizator Big 6 to the Next Level Hi Charles,That's so odd and quite surprising. I had no idea Israel changed his position on tube rolling. But that's great news for owners of his Frankensteins.In your system, I think the fat bottle will easily best the skinny one. I'm going to tr... | |
| Taking the Lampizator Big 6 to the Next Level Hey Charles,I think they share some of the same qualities: full bass, body, good staging, imaging, and transparency. But the fat bottle just sounds faster with better resolving power and very dynamics. Don't get me wrong, I think the skinny one is... | |
| Taking the Lampizator Big 6 to the Next Level Wisnon,I got confused with the earlier posts about the CV378. That tube looks very similar to my GEC 52 tube. I've seen this tube labeled as Mullard and Brimar. It's sounds a lot more neutral than the fat CV378, more in line with the 422a from Wes... | |
| Taking the Lampizator Big 6 to the Next Level Wisnon,I'm pretty sure the tube Sksos1 is talking about is the same one that I have in my preamp. It's a Mullard CV378, the fat one not the skinny one. It does look very similar to the GEC U52. I agree this CV378 tube is special, but so is the GEC... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Matt,What you really needed to do was change out the rectifier. This will relax the sound and get rid of the artificiality you are hearing with the NU VT-99's, put in those Tung-Sols. 40% improvement by just swapping out the tubes? In my book that... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Agear,Having never owned any Rowland gear due to their expensive price tag, I have heard them powering many different speakers and will say that they make the only class D amps that don't sound like that classic "class" D sound. I've always enjoye... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD I got your drift Jafox. Congrats on finding the tube that brings the best out of the Big Six in your system! If the National Unions can improve Matt's system like it did yours, then those other DACs have an uphill battle ahead of them.Matt - if on... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Jafox,Calling the Sylvania VT-99 trash is really crazy, unless your system has to have one particular tube to shine. I settled on the National Union VT-99 in combination with the staggered Tung-Sol rectifier because the overall sound had better ex... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Matt,Sounds like the Big Six sounds more effortless at this point than the Aeris. Though constriction is often times cured with further break-in. The Big Six needed lots of time to open up, at least in my system. But it sounded "natural" right off... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Hey Charles,I think you hit the mark here, we all like different things about musical reproduction. I let a good friend of mine borrow my Lamp L4/G4 and he preferred his Metrum Octave in his system. I was surprised, but can understand why, because... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Steve,Congratulations, you have designed a top-notch DAC. When I get the chance I will have to try it out in my own system. Comparing DACs in different systems introduces too many variables. If you have a chance you should hear the Lamp for yourse... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Grannyring,I sold my L4/G4 to my friend and he ended up selling the OffRamp 4, said he preferred going straight through the USB. He uses a modded Mac Mini and Mojo power supply.I will let him know of your findings with the Offramp 5/Dynamo, which ... |