I will get a time this summer that's good for the both of us. I like the fact that you have built your system differently than most and that you use the high fidelity stuff which is also different from other things. Looking forward to the experience. I'm using a kr audio va900 along with my gato fm6. High fidelity ultimate stuff as well. Different combination. I also use the resonessence invicta dac. |
Calvinj, In late June, we will be going to New Mexico where we might stay through September. This is to escape Texas heat. We are selling our little home there. If it were sold early this summer, we would, of course, not be going. |
Calvinj, I will let you know about the next Norm trip I take. Always some new toys coming that we will HAVE to try!!! Some with Magnets. I'm jumping back on the HFC train for more magnetic magic!!!
When is summer for you? Sounds like a mythical future where things will get easier next month. ;-)
Glad your enjoying the music!!
D |
@tbg@ddraudt. I will try to make it happen before norms pilgrimage to New Mexico. Lol. |
Hi guys,
Is anyone aware that audio has lost a great one - Simon Thatcher of Spectron and numerous others. I loved reading everything he wrote on Audiogon and spoke to him many times for assistance. A brilliant man and admirer of Sviatislov Richter, Simon was also a great pianist and engineer. He died last month, apparently of colon cancer. God bless! |
Didn't know him. But God Bless his soul. Audio Brother has signed out. |
@meadowlark did you ever own the Marantz Sa 7s1. If you did what were your thoughts. @everyone. Enjoy your music while you are here. Don't forget that we are all blessed to be in this hobby. |
@tbg@ddraudt@lak@jazzonthehudson. I just got a demo of the NEW high fidelity ultimate reference rhodium helix design power cord. It made me go WOWWW!!! It has a top end with sweet decays. It's midrange is open, full, textured. Both the lower midrange and the upper midrange. It's bass is deep and tight. It also give the music plenty of drive and throws a wide deep soundstage. I used it on my resonessence mirus dac and it was like giving that dac steroids. I've never heard a power cable that gave a component a big spacious sound like that. It's improved over the other high fidelity cables because it gives you even more of the music. It lets you hear deep into the performance like I have never have before. This is a winner. Best power cable I've heard so far period ever!!! |
Wow! I had no idea HFC came out with a new power cord, I should have guessed that. I'm glad to hear it's working well in your system. What do these bad boys go for? I don't see them on the HFC website. |
Calvinj, what power cord did you replace the URR for? did you have Ultimate or UR? The URR's Double helix magnet design is what makes it superior.
Enjoy D |
I went from an ultimate to compare it to this new one. It's really amazing what it did with my dac. Really blew up my soundstage in my room. My listen room is a really odd shape and it just filled the room. Still has that musical precision. I don't know the price yet. I really like the fact that gets a more of things like the piano. It goes deeper. You hear inside the piano deeper. Background is completely black. Love the music. The horns open up and you can hear a little bit of the spit coming through the instrument. Just live and yet pleasing. |
Calvinj,
Is the power cord you are speaking of on your dac something new,
or is it the CT-1URR?
Sorry but I'm confused. |
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Calvinj, Although the URR is new to you, It is not new.
According to Rick, You have the same cords that I have.
That being said... the URR is amazingly superior to the other power cords
in the line because of it's double helix magnet design..
More magnets = more fun!! |
@ddraudt. @lak @tbg and anyone else. My apologies. The power cord I have is the ultimate reference rhodium. It incorporates the helix design. It's the one high fidelity line that I never had in my system before. I don't want to mislead anyone. This cord is already out and it was the only one that I never had in my system. Once again it came in and just made everything sound better. Sorry for any misunderstandings. Of course I get excited when my system sounds better than it did before. Everyone enjoy your Saturday listening sessions. |
I have had a pair of CT-1 interconnects on both my CD player and phono pre and, apart from the fact that they are definitely transparent and dynamic, I find them 'unmusical'. They make the music less involving emotionally. Of course, as many here attest, YMMV. |
@ddraudt. The ultimate reference rhodium is the one thing the I never owned or had an extended demo of. It really gets better as you go up the line. I'm really enjoying this. I guess that's why I got so excited. It just got better than what I ever heard before. I have a really good setup with my resonessence dac. My gato fm6 speakers and my kr audio va 900. I actually tailor my system to have the high fidelity stuff in it because it gets so many of the things sound wise so right and better than I had heard. Anyway we all have to go on our musical journeys. The one thing that I find is that you can't let other people tell you what is right or what you like. Listen and enjoy for your own system. |
Calvinj, The URR is a masterpiece and beyond, way beyond what anyone might imagine. No surprise to me that you were Blown Away. The good and bad news is that it gets that much better with each URR one adds. Norm had 6 and a WGPC at last count.
ENJOY!!! |
I know I put this thing on my dac and the dac and it completely opened it up. It let the music really come through. Really put the musicians in the room with me. If it doesn't work for somebody else that's whatever. It does do it for my ears. |
I agree that the URR power cord really does add to and allows the music to shine regardless what component you put it on. It seems to produce a better sound stage, more dynamics and a greater sense of naturalness.
As many have stated in this forum for each level of HFC you step up to the quality of music improves. Self-control is really an important factor here ;-)! |
@lak that self control is true. Once you hear it you don't want to go backwards. Lol |
Calvinj, I agree with Rick that more magnets are always better than fewer. The only real limit is how much you might pay as they are costly to assemble and to buy the rare earth magnets. Obviously, a meter long set of wave guides with plugs at the end would be the limit. |
I agree with Calvin and Lak, the urr power cord is amazing. I bought one for my DAC a few months ago. I couldn't believe the difference it made. It was huge. The soundstage opened up and the tonal quality was much more natural not to mention the improvement in dynamics and background silence I got with the change. Rick is the master of magnetics!
John |
Self control < audio addiction
HFC > audio addiction
Therefore
HFC >> audio addiction.
Be forewarned
If your like me....and you hear the top tier....You will desire them
Very dearly
Very |
My 3 new CT-1 pcs have been in about 4 days and are going through their maturing process..Every day they sound better.They are just what i needed to take my system to the level i have always wanted it to be..Except for new 300b tubes next week i will be finished with the upgrade bug for a long time.. |
@Callaway, congratulations, that's great news.
Which 300b tubes are you expecting (just wondering)? |
Psvane WEs...I have their WE 845s too.2 matched pairs of the 845s.They are great.. |
Calloway, Great News!!, I'm happy for you.
ENJOY!! |
Calloway, I too have spent a lot of late and dearly wish I was done, but Rick keeps pushing the boundaries as do the people at Star Sound, and now I have H-Cat back in the picture. |
Norm...I understand the "pursuit of perfection "concept but at some point in the quest,you, hopefully, reach that moment when,while analyzing your system's sound, that you say to yourself, ' i've arrived'. Then you can just turn the system on each night and not have to think anymore and just immerse yourself in the music...that is where I am..finally..no more major changes.. |
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Geoffkait....in the past you would be correct but after > 25 yrs I truely am happy with what I have put together... |
Calloway. Enjoy it. It's special. Glad to know we have happy ears around here. Lol |
Well I listened today for an hour tonight. Once again just took ultimate reference rhodium took it to another level of music and clarity. Goes deep inside the instruments and the nuances they have. Open without being bright or offensive. Great initial impact with body and just the right amount of weight. Great sounds. |
Hello all, I've been having great fun with HFC power cords lately and my tweaking of waveguides. We have been enjoying another astonishing level of
being "inside the music venue" realism. I'm blown away by being engulfed in the soundstage today, and every time I sit down to listen. Never heard anything like it.
More HFC Magnets- I ordered a double DSD system yesterday and like any components I buy, I must figure out how many more HFC products I MUST
get to complete the magic. looks like I need a HFC UR IC, 2 Ct1 pc's and another bigger HF power cord. Anyone want to buy a used kidney? ;-) D |
@ddraudt URR power cord is sounding really good. |
I too just bought a URR power cord to place between my HFC power conditioner and my Manley Steelhead phono stage. After only a few hours' use I can hear the usual quantum leap in what HFC does so well at: immediacy, tactility, presence, quickness, dimensionality, detail but not edginess. What is so great is that even crappy recordings are now listenable, not just the usual audiophile-grade recordings. HFC seems to transport the musicians into my listening room. |
@rlawry. That URR power cord really takes things to another level. It just pulls all the instruments out the speaker into the room. Enjoy. |
50 page blog, although not a record, is very impressive! I surmise the products must be quite special to warrant all of this.
Thanks Rlawry, Calvinj for your descriptions of the improvement with the URR. I agree wholeheartedly and look forward to the next High Fidelity
Cable I buy, and the next.
Right now, I can think of 4 more HF cables I hope to buy.
The sound here is alluding and uncanny, so real it's crazy.
Cheers D |
I agree the URR power cord takes the component to the next level!
Enjoy... |
My 3 new CT-1 pcs have about 100 hrs on them now and are just superb.they were/are all that i needed to get my system to the final sound i wanted.i lost about 2 weeks after getting them after lightening took out my IMac.the sound now is just amazing... |
@calloway. Enjoy them. When you match it all up it gives a good sense of realism especially when you let them settle in real good |
Calloway, did anything else in your home get damaged from the lightning strike? |
Lak...yes..it took out my front yard sprinkler system controller that is in my garage...loudest noise i have ever heard.Fortunately it did not get my system.i have double house surge protection and protection on all my wires going into my IMac...It made no difference. |
Collaway, I'm glad you did not have any other damage. |
@calloway. As long as it didn't mess your system that is the important part. As an audiophile. Lol |
Thanks guys..i was very lucky...i had lightening destroy the lt channel on a pair of Piega C-40s in the past..I have about 100 very large hardwood trees in my yard..you would think they would draw the hit first...We have another large storm approaching tonight in about 2 hrs...i do try to unplug everything before the storms get here.. |
Calloway, lightening is a very perverse force. I had it hit one of my water heaters just above where I was about to step from my car. I was only about fifteen feet from where we had a very large water oak. It started a small flame on the gas pipe to the water heater which fortunately faced away from any wood or boxes.
My system was on at the time and only about six feet away on the other side of the wall. It was totally unaffected which I think was the result of the Audio Standard ac filter I was using at the time. I now worry about the Tripoint grounding unit as well as other components and remove both when storms are around.
Most of the large trees in my yard are now gone after the draught of 2011, so we are now sitting ducks. |
Norm i agree. i was surprised that i got hit as i have >50 hardwood, fully mature trees in my yard that extend well above my roof line.. |
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