where do i begin.... i am always amazed at how often men like to say that their... is bigger the others. audio is all about personal prefs.
DC power is important!!!!! you may not like the sound that i am getting from the complete battery front end that i have been working on with the help of RAM. I have very little circuit knowledge but if i am correct all audio circuits optimized to run on DC. Which means that the AC from the wall needs to be converted to DC. No conversion is perfect; there will always be artifacts or approximations in the conversion. So, Logically the way to get pure power is to go DC. Roland has been doing it for years. The folk at Teres, Redpoint and others have found tremendous benefit in using batteries. Batteries are a point in their development that their use in an audio circuit can really be useful. And this is only the beginning. With the development of alternate fuel sources batteries will only be getting smaller and more powerful. It is because of Kyle’s willingness to experiment that we have been able to achieve stunning results.
my goal in audio has been to keep things simple as to increase their accuracy. This has informed my component choices and has led me to RAM. I have had conversations with other modifiers who thought all batteries are created equal. We all know that in audio nothing is created equal. That with all the component possibilities it is a delicate recipe one must put together to improve the sound. It is not just a matter of replacing stock caps with blackgates. EVERYTHING makes a difference. And even though everything makes a difference it does not mean that any system can differentiate that change. What often happens is that there are other things in the audio chain that act as a mask. With Kyle’s willingness to try new things he has advanced what redbook CD is capable of. What I appreciate most is his willingness to call and say that he has found a better way to pull more information from the silver disc. I think that most would be surprised as to how much information is lost by plugging into the mains. The only way to know is directly compare. If you have not had a battery experience I would invite you to my home in Los Angeles for a listen. Most people would have you believe that batteries lack power and dynamic drive. That could not be further from the truth. In years past with old battery technology that would have been true, but the use of the proper batteries will allow you system to do things with easy that it would have to fight to do and do only 50% as well.
a shoot out at RMAF would be great fun. But it really would need to be thought out. I would recommend that at least 3 different systems (one per evening) be tried with a neutral group of judges to evaluate. Again you may not be able to relate to the sound of digital on batteries, as this sound may be unlike any sound that you may be failure with. But it is with open ears that one can advance the black art of audio. Those that move the art forward are willing to risk it all and try ideas that most people think are crazy. Ideas like “all natural materials, cotton over silver, no Teflon, removing plastic from caps, old paper n oil technology” the list could go on. Because this industry can so easily get wrapped up in specs we lose the sound. And the longer that this goes on we forget what REAL sound sounded like. Because of the advances of battery technology and its implementation by RAM I not longer have the need to pursue vinyl. This is coming from a true vinyl lover with 2000 pieces. If thought through logically I would think it hard to deny the POSSIBILITY that battery power can unlock the digital key.
Regarding customers…. One can always find a dissatisfied customer. Any one of the modifiers has had them. But to make that statement as if to say that all of RAM’s customers are dissatisfied would be nothing more then a lie. If this were true RAM would no longer have customers. To site those dissatisfied with their RAM avoids the thousands of satisfied customers who come back. I am one of those who has had Kyle do mods on all of my equipment (list to follow). It takes intellectual honesty to earn my respect. And that rarely comes from those who boast about how far they can piss.
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new” Albert Einstein
xero
Equipment List:
Heavily modified 47 labs Flatfish (Battery plus many other tweaks… ebony top, clock, caps, etc.)
Heavily modified Ack dAck (battery plus…)
Bent audio TVC (not modified yet)
Heavily modified Aleph 3
Cain & Cain single Ben horn (little bit modified more work to come)
pair of baily subs
DC power is important!!!!! you may not like the sound that i am getting from the complete battery front end that i have been working on with the help of RAM. I have very little circuit knowledge but if i am correct all audio circuits optimized to run on DC. Which means that the AC from the wall needs to be converted to DC. No conversion is perfect; there will always be artifacts or approximations in the conversion. So, Logically the way to get pure power is to go DC. Roland has been doing it for years. The folk at Teres, Redpoint and others have found tremendous benefit in using batteries. Batteries are a point in their development that their use in an audio circuit can really be useful. And this is only the beginning. With the development of alternate fuel sources batteries will only be getting smaller and more powerful. It is because of Kyle’s willingness to experiment that we have been able to achieve stunning results.
my goal in audio has been to keep things simple as to increase their accuracy. This has informed my component choices and has led me to RAM. I have had conversations with other modifiers who thought all batteries are created equal. We all know that in audio nothing is created equal. That with all the component possibilities it is a delicate recipe one must put together to improve the sound. It is not just a matter of replacing stock caps with blackgates. EVERYTHING makes a difference. And even though everything makes a difference it does not mean that any system can differentiate that change. What often happens is that there are other things in the audio chain that act as a mask. With Kyle’s willingness to try new things he has advanced what redbook CD is capable of. What I appreciate most is his willingness to call and say that he has found a better way to pull more information from the silver disc. I think that most would be surprised as to how much information is lost by plugging into the mains. The only way to know is directly compare. If you have not had a battery experience I would invite you to my home in Los Angeles for a listen. Most people would have you believe that batteries lack power and dynamic drive. That could not be further from the truth. In years past with old battery technology that would have been true, but the use of the proper batteries will allow you system to do things with easy that it would have to fight to do and do only 50% as well.
a shoot out at RMAF would be great fun. But it really would need to be thought out. I would recommend that at least 3 different systems (one per evening) be tried with a neutral group of judges to evaluate. Again you may not be able to relate to the sound of digital on batteries, as this sound may be unlike any sound that you may be failure with. But it is with open ears that one can advance the black art of audio. Those that move the art forward are willing to risk it all and try ideas that most people think are crazy. Ideas like “all natural materials, cotton over silver, no Teflon, removing plastic from caps, old paper n oil technology” the list could go on. Because this industry can so easily get wrapped up in specs we lose the sound. And the longer that this goes on we forget what REAL sound sounded like. Because of the advances of battery technology and its implementation by RAM I not longer have the need to pursue vinyl. This is coming from a true vinyl lover with 2000 pieces. If thought through logically I would think it hard to deny the POSSIBILITY that battery power can unlock the digital key.
Regarding customers…. One can always find a dissatisfied customer. Any one of the modifiers has had them. But to make that statement as if to say that all of RAM’s customers are dissatisfied would be nothing more then a lie. If this were true RAM would no longer have customers. To site those dissatisfied with their RAM avoids the thousands of satisfied customers who come back. I am one of those who has had Kyle do mods on all of my equipment (list to follow). It takes intellectual honesty to earn my respect. And that rarely comes from those who boast about how far they can piss.
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new” Albert Einstein
xero
Equipment List:
Heavily modified 47 labs Flatfish (Battery plus many other tweaks… ebony top, clock, caps, etc.)
Heavily modified Ack dAck (battery plus…)
Bent audio TVC (not modified yet)
Heavily modified Aleph 3
Cain & Cain single Ben horn (little bit modified more work to come)
pair of baily subs