williewonka
Responses from williewonka
| A month of tweaks Electroslacker, here's a link to the construction details of the DIY Mark V's."The Mark V" DIY Interconnect.Give them a try and let me know what you think.Regards | |
| Upgrading - what amp to choose Ghosthouse - I've just completed my final incarnation of my DIY cables... "The Mark V" DIY InterconnectIt turned out to be something really quite special and using it as a SPDIF from the V-link to the DAC resulted in the best SQ I've ever achieved... | |
| REVIEW: Schiit Bifrost DAC B_limo - I'm in Canada and subject to conversion rate and maybe even duty.I priced the multibit and took into account the time taken the ship the unit there and back, plus the price of the upgrade and shipping cost to and fro and possibly duty. It... | |
| A month of tweaks Electroslacker - You are on a slippery slope :-)I started with the Stagers, but I thought they could be better.- I upgraded the RCA's to Eichmann Silver Bullets - more details and better bass control- I then upgraded the Silver Bullets to KLE Inno... | |
| Cable Cooking/Burnin Geoffkait - it was during a burn-in I noticed this effect and I had music playing through the cables, but the amp was turns down.Yping - I too heard of the saturation issue, but wondered if "overcooking" was the real issue - perhaps notDefinaitely... | |
| Cable Cooking/Burnin Lak - an observation derived from the link you provided...Over-Cooking can reduce the performance, at least temporarily. The characteristics of this are a reduced or diminished soundstage and a dull, lifeless quality to the music. If this situatio... | |
| Cable Cooking/Burnin Lak - a couple of questions on your post...What happens if you "overdue" the time of the cooking?Is the reversal of the overcook possible and what do you have to do?Many Thanks | |
| REVIEW: Schiit Bifrost DAC Well, after 11 days continuous burn-in the 4490 has provided an exceptional improvement in SQ and is providing the most cohesive reproduction I've ever experienced on my system.All aspects of fidelity, i.e. timing, image, spatial accuracy, dynamic... | |
| Schiit Bifrost Multibit option Well, after 11 days continuous burn-in the 4490 has provided an exceptional improvement in SQ and is providing the most cohesive reproduction I've ever experienced on my system.All aspects of fidelity, i.e. timing, image, spatial accuracy, dynamic... | |
| Cable Cooking/Burnin Geofkait - does that apply to ALL cables or just IC's ? - since speaker cables are subject to much higher voltagesMy personal approach, i.e. based on testing many cables of varying performance levels... - cooking is a much faster route to attain "... | |
| Upgrading - what amp to choose GH - honestly, I didn't take your comments as being sarcastic - anyone reading any of my posts would probably realize I'm into KLEI products.It was quite a natural conclusion :-)The only other KLEI guy on these forums is Yping :-)But I think our "... | |
| Upgrading - what amp to choose Ghosthouse - you, and a few others, may just find what I am about to write a little hard to swallow. I probably would had I not tried it :-)Yes - I am a bit hawkish on KLE Innovations products. However, I have also been "evolving" my own design of... | |
| Upgrading - what amp to choose Well, after a couple of weeks of auditions I've decided that the amp is not the problem.I have also just installed the Schiit Bifrost DAC 4490 upgrade and upgraded the SPDIF cable from my V-Link to my Bifrost and the IC's from the DAC to the amp.T... | |
| Disappointing audition after great review Zavato - Did the audio store have the amp paired with suitable components/speaker/leads?I was auditioning an amp/DAC combo, and after hearing a pretty run of the mill reproduction of my audition tracks, I asked they use their very best cables and ... | |
| Cable Cooking/Burnin No - just a DIY cooker I found on the webWhen I said..."I've found that Cooking gets you to end-state" much quicker" That was simply comparing the time it took the cooked gZero cables I've tried to reach end-state vs. the uncooked gZero cables.I d... |