stuartk
Responses from stuartk
| DACs and bass response? Final post: My desire for better bass has been more than amply satisfied.The Aqua La Voce, it turns out, has a prodigious bass capacity! In fact, I’m frequently astonished by the bass my monitors are delivering, now. In my system, there were two f... | |
| Best affordable digital coax cable for connecting transport to re-clocker? OK. Message received loud and clear! Thanks. | |
| DACs and bass response? @goofyfoot: I think we can all agree that what's important is that each listener discover what approach is most rewarding for him/her. @gdhal: Thanks for the Joni link. I only got to see her once, in Santa Barbara. That show, with Jaco, Michael Br... | |
| DACs and bass response? @gdhl: With all due respect, the difference I heard in the bass presentation as a result of changing digital cables was not "infinitesimal". I was about to give up on La Voce and continue my search. Swapping out the cable changed my mind. I bought... | |
| DACs and bass response? @charles1dad: I tried swapping out the digital cable, then the power cable. At first, I thought they were both contributing to the improved bass. After posting the above message, I listened further and and determined that the replacement power cor... | |
| Still looking for a DAC I can demo at home. . . @soix: Hex is apparently no longer being made, so it would be useful to check to see to what extent it shares architecture with Adagio. Message me and I'll give you the e-mail for Metrum sales manager Anjo DeHeus-- he should know. | |
| Still looking for a DAC I can demo at home. . . @soix: Metrum dealer Mike Powell at Verastarr (great guy) suggested jitter from my transport ( modded Jolida JD100 cdp) might be to blamebut if that's so, why does the La Voce sound so great paired with the Jolida? I should point out that my resp... | |
| DACs and bass response? @georgehifi: And with the right cables, I discovered it had been there, all along! | |
| DACs and bass response? I ordered La Voce yesterday. This is my first DAC, so I’m no doubt a good deal less sophisticated than many who’ve posted on this thread in my capacity to assess this type of component, but it seems to do a good job occupying a middle ground. It’s... | |
| DACs and bass response? @kalai: Point taken! | |
| DACs and bass response? @georgehifi : yeah; I am not at all mechanically minded, so what you you offer is, indeed, "sound advice"! Thanks for the pic. | |
| DACs and bass response? @georgehifi: forgive my ignorance, but would installing such a cap likely void warrantee? Also, is this something I could purchase from say, parts conneXion? Briefly, what is involved in installation? Thanks. BTW, I swapped out power cord and coa... | |
| DACs and bass response? @shadorne: Well, my cdp has a tubed output and I was concerned that using a separate dac and bypassing the tubes might be a problem, but so far, with the 3 dacs I've tried, it hasn't been an issue. The SS Majestic integrated provides plenty of "t... | |
| DACs and bass response? @lalitk : My source is probably the weakest link in the chain: an aging Jolida JD100 tubed cdp. To be honest, I've been very confused by the claims and counter-claims in these forums re: the degree to which any transport feeding a dac affects the... | |
| Still looking for a DAC I can demo at home. . . @soix : I'm currently trying out a Metrum Adagio but disappointingly, there seem to be some synergy issues that are inhibiting its performance. |