williewonka

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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... 
Cable Cooking/Burnin
Here's a purpose built DIY unit...http://desirableaudio.blogspot.ca/2009/01/diy-kable-kooker.htmlRegards... 
Cable Cooking/Burnin
Yping, in the last couple of years I have tried "cooked" and "uncooked" cables.I've found that Cooking gets you to "end-state" much quicker, but actual usage still refines the SQ of cooked cables even further.- E.g. even a well cooked cable sounde... 
REVIEW: Schiit Bifrost DAC
UPDATE:The 4490 board arrived this morning and has been up and running for around 2 hours.My old Bifrost environment was- Uber Analogue Upgrade option- V-Link192 in place of the Schiit USB port- excellent power cables, USB, IC's and SPDIF cablesI ... 
Schiit Bifrost Multibit option
The 4490 board arrived this morning and has been up and running for around 2 hours.My old Bifrost environment was- Uber Analogue Upgrade option- V-Link192 in place of the Schiit USB port- excellent power cables, USB, IC's and SPDIF cablesI have al... 
Dispersion panels question
Thanks guys - I'll look into the links posted above.Lustformusic: 9ft - WOW! The "more space" behind will have to wait until I move in a couple of years, but I was glad to hear the dispersion panels contributed to the image quality.ZD542: I decide... 
Dispersion panels question
Lustformusic - I did have a image width issue which I fixed with a couple of screens in the corners of the room. the image now exceed the width of the room on well recorded tracksUnfortunately the front-to-back image seems a little compressed, in ...