Put it this way. I was just about done researching and ready to buy Ulf when I called teajay, because he bought Ulf and had heard Moab in his system for comparison. He immediately said don’t, get Moab, because Ulf cost twice as much and you will never hear the difference.
Okay. So now you can say teajay doesn’t know what he’s talking about I guess. Or you can say of course there’e a difference and he can hear it but doesn’t think many others will. Or you can say there’s a difference but only one big enough to hear if side by side, you would never know otherwise and you will never do that so save your money.
You can say any or all of that and have a pretty good point.
What you cannot do is say that about the difference between stock Moabs and mine. No way. Unless I am very much mistaken and Eric has taken to using Duelund bypass caps, ribbon inductors and Path Audio resistors, there is no way. Mine will walk all over anything I could buy for the money, Tekton or otherwise.
It is just not even close.
Now the thing of it is, this should not come as a surprise to anyone who knows anything about manufacturing and/or modding. I’ve been doing stuff like this since the 1990’s. Swapped out cheap parts for expensive high quality parts in amps, speakers, and CD players many times. Each and every time with so much improvement it was like a whole new component. Always wound up with far better performance than if I had sold what I had and bought better.
That is why I go to all the time and trouble. Even if I add in my x-ray tech rate of pay for the time it took me to put this thing together, and value my labor at that, it is still killer value.
Which is illogical BS, by the way, and flips reality on its head. Reality is the reason we as modders are able to have such fantastic shoot above their weight systems is we don’t have to turn a profit. We just have to make something sound better than we know we could buy for the same money. This we find to be so stinking easy you would not believe.
That is why I do it. Come and listen. You will see.
Okay. So now you can say teajay doesn’t know what he’s talking about I guess. Or you can say of course there’e a difference and he can hear it but doesn’t think many others will. Or you can say there’s a difference but only one big enough to hear if side by side, you would never know otherwise and you will never do that so save your money.
You can say any or all of that and have a pretty good point.
What you cannot do is say that about the difference between stock Moabs and mine. No way. Unless I am very much mistaken and Eric has taken to using Duelund bypass caps, ribbon inductors and Path Audio resistors, there is no way. Mine will walk all over anything I could buy for the money, Tekton or otherwise.
It is just not even close.
Now the thing of it is, this should not come as a surprise to anyone who knows anything about manufacturing and/or modding. I’ve been doing stuff like this since the 1990’s. Swapped out cheap parts for expensive high quality parts in amps, speakers, and CD players many times. Each and every time with so much improvement it was like a whole new component. Always wound up with far better performance than if I had sold what I had and bought better.
That is why I go to all the time and trouble. Even if I add in my x-ray tech rate of pay for the time it took me to put this thing together, and value my labor at that, it is still killer value.
Which is illogical BS, by the way, and flips reality on its head. Reality is the reason we as modders are able to have such fantastic shoot above their weight systems is we don’t have to turn a profit. We just have to make something sound better than we know we could buy for the same money. This we find to be so stinking easy you would not believe.
That is why I do it. Come and listen. You will see.