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| PSVANE Discussion & Impressions Thread Better do your due diligence when it comes to tube purchases. A wide variety brands, hierarchy within brands, NOS vs. new, distributors, shippers. And then the vagaries of circuit design within the tube equipment. Blame for failures often confuse... | |
| Modifying a Coincident Dynamo Mk1 I've done parts substitution on equipment for a long time, generally don't mess with values, these values designed to meet circuit criteria. I generally stick to changing out with higher quality, closer tolerance, same value caps, resistors the sa... | |
| If A.I. took the place of musicians, would you listen to it? Without prior knowledge we're all susceptable to the enjoyment and benefits of AI. Minus the knowledge, certain qualitative judgements won't enter the equation, we may be enjoying and promoting AI through sheer ignorance. .Many makers will enj... | |
| Thumper’s Mother Social interaction necessarily involves human needs. This being an audio forum, being informative or seeking information in regard to things audio serves utilitarian needs. And then we have the psycho/social needs, and who know what needs ... | |
| Does it have to sound good for you to like it? I've learned to listen within a multi perspective context. Poorer recordings acceptable, even involving if I perceive the recording as historical and/or unique. This acceptance may wear off after hearing said recording many times, at this point I ... | |
| Am I right for this forum? Whether one is an audiophile or belongs here should be self determined. At present I'm vacillating on whether I consider myself an audiophile anymore. My system is truly finished and I'm not deluding myself on this. I've been through many systems ... | |
| V-Cap ODAM Capacitor Upgrade in VTL 2.5i Pre? Can't offer anything on specific question, but I've been modifying my own equipment for decades, never had a problem selling at market rates or above. I assume some perceive mods as detrimental to sound quality and/or value, others just the opposi... | |
| Volti does it again! Volti certainly has similarities to Klipsch Heritage, previously offered upgrades for Klipschorns. I use his tractrix horns on my Klipschorns, allied with custom build crossovers and aftermarket drivers not much in common with any stock Klipschorn... | |
| Smaller plug-in AC Purifiers -- Shunyata, iFi, Puron...something else? What do you like? Some years ago went through many large and small AC conditioners through Cable Company lending library. The best, and not by a small margin, for the smaller or single component conditioners was the Audience Adept 1 or 2. | |
| What qualities stand out in really good solid state preamps? @bigkidz Changed out generic Chinese rotary selectors (tvc) for Amtrans, changed out generic metal film bias resistors for Takman carbon film, Nichicon FG bias caps for Audio Note Seiryu, Kaisei out of stock, probably would have used them if... | |
| What qualities stand out in really good solid state preamps? @hilde45 Having long wanting to do comparison of top notch solid state pre to my Coincident Statement (MkII upgrade, along with some of my own mods) I recently purchased Pass XP22. I had a chance to extensively compare the two, and experimented ... | |
| Aurender Music Server and CD Transport comparison Both Jays and Pro-ject are commonly cited as top echelon transports. Having said that one of my earlier, less resolving streaming setups beat the Mark Levinson No. 37 cd transport I was using at the time. ML used Phillips Pro laser/transport m... | |
| What makes One Music Server Sound Better than Another? Research the Taiko Extreme and diy clones for technical explanations of factors impacting SQ in servers. I have diy server built with enterprise level components using JCAT Optimo S ATX power supply. Combine lowest noise, latency, accurate timi... | |
| RIP Melanie Safka Serendipity, hadn't thought of her in years, in perusing youtube few weeks ago came across some live videos, brought back good memories! All these artists of my youth passing, always stay forever young in my memory. | |
| Ken Fritz article I suspect only an audiophile could attribute a word like success to what seems like a very sad story of failure in my estimation. Certainly, an audio system can deliver transitory pleasure, but to consider it a great life accomplishment seems biza... |