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| You Cant Buy It but you Can Build It Noise you can hear is not the problem, its internally generated noise raising noise floor, supressing signal/info/resolving power. Noise floors that aren't heard at idle do exist, you'll never understand until you experience. Surprised a diy d... | |
| Review: Holo May (L2) DAC and the Musetec Audio (LKS Audio) MH-DA005 DAC Compaired I'd like to see 005 reviewed on ASR, suspect it will be top notch if not best ever tested. I owned Okto Dac8 stereo concurrently with 005 At the time I owned Okto, it topped measurement hierarchy at ASR, so quite confident 005 would measure at le... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC Since getting 005 just over a year ago, I've made number of changes in system, not because 005 injection of some unwanted coloration, rather solely increasing resolving capabilities of entire system. And this to system that's long been pretty damn... | |
| You Cant Buy It but you Can Build It I'm using highly modded Macmini. Uptone MMK dc internal power supply, Uptone JS 2 lps, Stripped of virtually every service, including those only accessed via DOS command. No wifi, wifi antenna removed, upgraded RAM and SSD, shielding for RFI. ... | |
| Shipping Floor Standing Speakers to the US from Canada They're acting as broker, reason for fees. I've both shipped and received from Canada with no problems. I've always done all the paper documents, Fedex, UPS, DHL all have very specific directions and supply all document forms for diy shipping. All... | |
| You Cant Buy It but you Can Build It @mahlman Lots of good effort there, but I don't understand the off the shelf computer. General service computer not quality server. If truly diy, why don't you build diy server, sure you could do much better than present. Really need lps with any ... | |
| When choosing new Speakers, what matters most to you? How amenable to modification. Its a mystery to me how few speakers optimized by factory. Simple for me, I want real live, flesh and blood performers in my room. | |
| 750$ Intel NUC vs $6000 Aurender N200: I don't hear the difference OP could be experiencing sin of omission deal, nuc vs. sin of commission, Aurender. Now is that sin of commission due to Aurrender or some other part of system? One often doesn't perceive omission as a sin, and it may be preferable in some cas... | |
| Weakest digital link: DAC - Streamer - Server? You missed one extremely important variable, the entire network. | |
| So where do you fall in the spectrum.? Gear or Music? @hilde45 Thanks for bringing that book to mind. Too many perceive quality only as judgment on linear scale. However, replace the word quality with qualities, this then allows one to learn to be mindful of all the parts of the whole, this is actua... | |
| SET the best? 845 not for you, heat, weight, and reliability factors in as well. Heat is enemy of reliability, these things run hot, hot, hot, they have no soft start circuit so wear out tubes more quickly. I wouldn't trust just anyone with nearly 1000v running... | |
| What are your favorite recordings that sound best to you? Lots of good recordings from all eras. In general, I really like material from 1950's into early 60's, still using tube equipment in recording studios. The way some of these recordings sound so real, palpable, with ease, sense of relaxation. The m... | |
| SET the best? To say 845 sounds similar to 300b or any other SET is nonsense. 845 plate voltage nearly 1000V vs 350v with 300B means everything. Power supply 845 massive, 300b baby in comparison. Certainly, transformers extremely important, but these two tubes ... | |
| Apologies to TMR Audio Twice I've seen posters assign blame to TMR, ironically, serving TMR well with so many coming to defense. I'd have much confidence dealing with them. Good to see public apology. | |
| Crossover help? Did you read that thread I mentioned, I find it hard to believe your tweeter not fried or board damaged. You have to make sure you haven't damaged voice coils, pretty fragile. Multimeter readings often of no use when everything in circuit. You hav... |