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| Upgrading specific components in a tube amplifier Should have statedTakman and Texas Components are resistors. Tubes can make a large difference as well, especially power tubes. | |
| Upgrading specific components in a tube amplifier You're looking at adding quite a bit of silver with the Audio Note components you specified in your post. I'd expect this may thin out mids, bass, less warm presentation. I have no issues with silver, just needs to be balanced with copper. On the ... | |
| where did all the ceramic cones go to? I have a wide variety of isolation devices, still have BDR cones, pretty much obsolete for me. Assume others have also found better solutions. | |
| Analogue front end. You want more weight, scale and dynamics.Where do you start upgrading? Direct drive versus previous belt drive tt's did it for me. | |
| At what level of Streamer and Dac does a DDC add no sonic benefit? Results variable depending on quality of interface/connection in streamer, dac and DDC. I too have found I2S superior to usb input on Laiv Harmony and Musetec 006, this with Denafrips Gaia DDC. Gaia has very nice OXCO clock with quality power sup... | |
| Duelund cap break in time Give it some time. You made a number of changes at one time so there are many variables here. I generally try to make one change at a time. I've never heard this exact issue you speak of with the Cast caps, don't recall tonal balance being an issue. | |
| Does ROON sound different? Perhaps Roon has some 'house sound', but who knows what exactly that is. Sound quality of Roon dependent on your entire streaming and audio system. SQ of Roon has never been an issue for me, this compared to playing or ripped cd's and my proprieta... | |
| David Johansen has passed away One of the DJ"s at WCBN (student run station at Univ. Michigan) played a set of New York Dolls yesterday, may have missed an announcement of his death or perhaps he assumed we all knew. Anyway, nice to hear them at work. Artists I so enjoyed in my... | |
| Is there any such thing as a bad sounding DAC these days? Don't forget about how improvements in ADC;s have contributed to this. | |
| Has it all been worth it? Having been an audiophile for many decades there's been many ups and downs. Failures certainly frustrating but I never recall longer term regret, perhaps short term, eventually I'd come back to the realization building audio systems is as much abo... | |
| Fine tuning the system. Where do you start and how do you proceed ? Tuning by source material is problematic IMO. I have never used a small number of reference recordings to tune my system since this not how I listen. I play all manner or recordings, all genres, all qualities over the long term. If there are short... | |
| I’m considering upgrading my speakers internal wiring Manufacturer voicing is simply another take on sonic presentation, it may or may not correlate with your own preferences. This where you need to ask yourself what is missing or wrong with speakers in stock configuration. If you can't define what i... | |
| I’m considering upgrading my speakers internal wiring Go for it, I've been modifying crossovers and internal wiring for many years. One speaker manufacturer incorporated my mods in future production runs. Changing out internal wire, caps, resistors, inductors in crossovers usually results in easily h... | |
| Fine tuning the system. Where do you start and how do you proceed ? Fine tuning for me is not necessarily linear path, always about determining the weakest link. Not being afraid to experiment and fail is required, weakest links may not always be obvious. In the end everything matters, sometimes the smallest chang... | |
| WHICH POWER CONDITIONER IS BETTER PASSIVE OR ACTIVE WITH ISOLATION TRANSFORMERS I demoed and/or purchased a number of conditioners, regenerators over the years, Shunyata, Audience, PS Audio, Audioquest, I could see all being effective for some, so many variables to consider. For me BPT 3.5 Signature with custom Plitron transf... |