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| Anybody familiar with Mundorf silver&oil caps I replaced the output coupling caps in my Altmann DAC twice..and now have the .82uf Mundorf silver and oils in place. Rolls off the low end into the 50kohm input of my preamp at 3.9 hz. Everything in everyway became more musical and more detailed.... | |
| Anybody familiar with Mundorf silver&oil caps Pauly I think your right. Bypass caps in the signal path are a bad thing not a good thing. Material differences and multiple paths seem to result in more noise, often mistaken as more detail. Tom | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Tbg would there be much alteration of an experienced tube designers original implementation and resulting power response curves if the end user were to swap tubes? Could these tube swaps result in whimsical colorations to fill some void of either ... | |
| The Room Rives. And the elimination of 90 degree angles is the first place to expend funds. Tom | |
| Placement of Paradigm SA-35 inwall speakers I am a Paradigm dealer. Yes I would turn them tweeter side down. If you have tall crown molding in the room ..which 6 inch trim molding would give you an offset angle of about 28 degrees and you are sitting back about 12 feet the bass should be fi... | |
| Sistrum under VonSchweikert VR-4JR No Larry is not a dealer. He does however have much experience with those speakers...lead shot and other fill...and the benefits of no fill and proper grounding. Tom | |
| Sistrum under VonSchweikert VR-4JR You may try to email Larry Staples {Lrsky] about the removal of lead shot from speakers and the use of Audiopoints and Sistrum Platforms. Tom | |
| Best Isolation Platform with Audio Aero Prestige Remember there is no state of isolation. Something is always in motion even down to the atomic level. Isolate something from the influences of its own self generation, and your trying? You have wasted both time and energy! Tom | |
| Best spikes for speakers Irish65 I have applied direct coupling techniques to acoustic instruments resulting in an increase in output of 1.5db or 50%..The Point works in all things acoustic whether it be from the original source or the reproductive device. Power to the Po... | |
| Today's Transport War: Significant Differences? Is playing off the memory chip considered a transport? Ask Mark Porzelli formerly of Melos and Pipe Dreams for a demo at next week's CES show. You will be there won't you?. Tom | |
| Review: Dunlavy Audio Labs Dunlavy IVa crossover modification Owen not everyone who responded to this Dunlavy thread or other posts about these same speakers changed out any of the five drivers. Most all posters including myself made changes in crossover quality, wire and cabinet coupling only. Much of this ... | |
| Today's Transport War: Significant Differences? Js I agree that the transport sound can be even more important than the Dac...well maybe until this Altmann piece. I need to try some other drives to know for sure. I'm always in search of something better but right now this dac with a JVC dvd pla... | |
| Today's Transport War: Significant Differences? Grant a friend of mine whose products were on display at RMAF was brought down the Nova Memory Player you mentioned above. He heard this player on his system setup at the show after hours. The Nova player was compared heads up to the 10k player th... | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective Busy listening to my new addition received this past Saturday.Initial reaction.. where there was noise in space before now that same space is filled with music.The complex is simply sighted, all in proper phase alignment. Altmann Attraction DAC. Tom | |
| Review: Dunlavy Audio Labs Dunlavy IVa crossover modification JD well written and composed. Here are some of the additional mods I performed on my Dunlavys several years ago. All brass non ferrous hardware used thru out not steel of any sort. Paint internal surface with V=Bloc from Cascade Audio . V-Bloc is ... |