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Tube balanced preamp for class D amp?
Dear Athmaspere,Your post is duly noted and I did not know this fact. Your products are uniformely prised and I am sure its one of many reasons behind it.My attitude is that fully balanced amplification definitely improves performance but raises p... 
Tube balanced preamp for class D amp?
You should be careful and to find out if your selected preamp has: a) XLR Plugs but single ended inputs/outputsb) XLR Plugs with balanced inputs/outputsc) XLR Plugs with true fully balanced preamplifier Obviously, a) is a faux balanced and c) is t... 
Review: Elrod Power Systems Gold Statement Power Cord Power cord
Hello,I added third Gold Statement PC to drive my preamp. So far I have three Gold PC's one Gold interconnect and one gold speaker cable with gold jumper.Each addition improves sound and disproportionally so. I never ever in my life had so good sy... 
Spectron amplifier - new black faceplate?
Hello,1 - Yes, these are indeed very new devices, available in USA only about two months or less2 - Still, current issue of Stereo Times has review of Russel Lichter of these devices: "Not simply the best imaging and detail I've heard on this syst... 
Elrod Statement Gold PC compared to old Statement
Today, I got my 3d Gold Statement PC and here is my first impressions.Most prominent - TRANPERENCY, TRANCPERENCE, TRANCPERENCY. And not only veil is gone (or became much less annoying) but like someone cleaned dust from the instruments so I can he... 
Bel Canto USB Link 24/96 vs Empirical off ramp 3
Does your MacBook Pro outputs 24/96 data or 16/48. If 16/48 or 16/44.1 then your Bel canto or Ramp will upsamample your signal only. If that is the true then its much better for you to let uour main DAC (here AEC) to do all signal manipulation you... 
Elrod Statement Gold PC compared to old Statement
".. Out-of-the-box, the third Gold made at least as big of an improvement as the first two Golds COMBINED"In a few weeks I also will receive my 3d Gold Statement and I will report here my observation.In general, I agree that the effect of David El... 
Review: qsonix q110 Transport
Hello Marcmen,Thank you for your review. I also started to look into music server/DAC front end. I have a problem - my Ethernet router is in stude, next to computer and audio equipment is in different room. It would be difficult and ugly to snake ... 
QSonix First Experience
Hello Marty,What other music servers you examined (in addition to QSonics and Soolos) and what do you think about these you did not choose. Thank youSimon 
Let's hear about Elrods new Silver or Gold cables
My Gold Statement Interconnect is three weeks old. Everything is opening, bass became tighter and most important, my system sounds now like I have the highest quality vinyl source, and its very new and highly pleasant experience with David Elrod c... 
Review: Elrod Power Systems Gold Statement Power Cord Power cord
Hello, I add one more Gold Statement power cord and recently Gold Statement interconnects. Its about 10 days interconnects are burning in and out and up and down. Everything is opening, bass became tighter and most important, my system sounds now ... 
Elrod Statement Gold PC compared to old Statement
Well, I must join strapper211 and Puremusic in their praises. I have a couple of Gold Statement power cords, a Gold Signature speaker cable and mathing 2' jumpers and since two days ago, Gold Statement Interconnects.In my power cord review (A-goN,... 
Let's hear about Elrods new Silver or Gold cables
Today, I have installed Gold Statement Interconnects (between front end and preamp). First impression: bass may be tighter, highs are "cleaner" - for example, female voices are much more "delicate". Yet, I hear much more details, probably better s... 
Let's hear about Elrods new Silver or Gold cables
"How flexible are David's cables ..."Hello, I wrote review a while ago, and placed a few photos:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/frr.pl?rcabl&1234641733&read&3&4&You can see that each Elrod Power Systems cable ends on both sid... 
Let's hear about Elrods new Silver or Gold cables
"Specifically, though, I was hoping to read specifics about how the Silver and Gold Series compare to the older Elrod Signature Series. Anyone? "Hello Jfz: A few months ago, my system had old (current at that time) Elrod power cords, speaker cable...