Mike
I would really like to know do you run the signal through the Clarity and then to the Duelund? If so I can understand you saying not that much better. I thought Duelund to not be worth the $ until run through a foil and then to the (of course foil) Duelund.
To me and I said to Frederik as good as find his caps I have found Steen's findings to be as important or more so. (really more so) My parts (output transformer) will be here shortly to fix the one really quiet Fisher I have and then I am have the caps done and from what I have found out, plastic the coupling caps will not be. I am likely to order V Cap Teflon's. So this is not just a Duelund thread (sorry Frederik) but a thread on Steen's findings who I think is really on to something. I put in one plastic cap in the circuit and night and day the tone and timbre was not real anymore. For me it is really thrilling to hear "real" sounding instruements.
Frederik alluded to it being the plastic holding a static charge. There is clearly something wrong with all the "improvements" in audio in the last 40 years when Stereophile as much as admitted a 500c was as good as anything made today. This should not be the case after 40 years a 500c should sound like an antique! I for one was embarassed when the antique x101d blew away my 10k pre/amp with all it's modern "improvements". I have to admit it took me a few months of two systems to go what the heck is going on! That is why I read his paper over and over to try and understand what he was thinking. Even Frederik said Steen used vintage (plastic free) foil until he came out with his own.
I would really like to know do you run the signal through the Clarity and then to the Duelund? If so I can understand you saying not that much better. I thought Duelund to not be worth the $ until run through a foil and then to the (of course foil) Duelund.
To me and I said to Frederik as good as find his caps I have found Steen's findings to be as important or more so. (really more so) My parts (output transformer) will be here shortly to fix the one really quiet Fisher I have and then I am have the caps done and from what I have found out, plastic the coupling caps will not be. I am likely to order V Cap Teflon's. So this is not just a Duelund thread (sorry Frederik) but a thread on Steen's findings who I think is really on to something. I put in one plastic cap in the circuit and night and day the tone and timbre was not real anymore. For me it is really thrilling to hear "real" sounding instruements.
Frederik alluded to it being the plastic holding a static charge. There is clearly something wrong with all the "improvements" in audio in the last 40 years when Stereophile as much as admitted a 500c was as good as anything made today. This should not be the case after 40 years a 500c should sound like an antique! I for one was embarassed when the antique x101d blew away my 10k pre/amp with all it's modern "improvements". I have to admit it took me a few months of two systems to go what the heck is going on! That is why I read his paper over and over to try and understand what he was thinking. Even Frederik said Steen used vintage (plastic free) foil until he came out with his own.