Yeah and thanks for sending that one to me Rick, that is all it took to convince me to go for Path Audio resistors. All the glowing accolades in that review, are what I am hearing now. Truly exceptional performance. Of course I did them all at once, even the shunt resistors are all Path Audio. And of course I did the Duelund JDM Silver bypass caps too. Doing everything all at once means no way to separate out what the resistors are doing from the caps and inductors- and BDR, and Pods! A lot of these contribute to the exceptionally low noise floor, incredible dynamics, and fantastic subtle detail I am hearing now.
A local audio bud Steve was over recently and at one point said incredulously, "How much more detail can you get??!" That was before! What it sounds like now with this crossover upgrade, the old sound was thick, muddled, blurred, damped, grainy. The comment in the resistor shootout about hearing really low level detail, totally true. There's stuff now so obvious it is like where was that before?!?!
What was that I was playing last night, really wish, oh yeah Steely Dan Aja! Forget which song it was, but there's what I thought was a xylophone or something, only it had a richer texture to it. That was before. Last night it was startling to hear it is not one but TWO very different instruments, one of which has a really distinct sharp attack almost like little pieces of wind chimes tinkling. Thought I knew what was on there. Not even. Freaking blew me away!
If it was me willgolf, I would see if he is willing to add Duelund JDM Silver bypass caps to whatever he does (they are only .01uF and so can be added to any cap no problem) and see if he will swap out whatever resistors are in there now for Path Audio.
I would hope that speakers at that level would be using parts at this level. But hope, I said. Not expect. Would be interesting to know what is in there.
A local audio bud Steve was over recently and at one point said incredulously, "How much more detail can you get??!" That was before! What it sounds like now with this crossover upgrade, the old sound was thick, muddled, blurred, damped, grainy. The comment in the resistor shootout about hearing really low level detail, totally true. There's stuff now so obvious it is like where was that before?!?!
What was that I was playing last night, really wish, oh yeah Steely Dan Aja! Forget which song it was, but there's what I thought was a xylophone or something, only it had a richer texture to it. That was before. Last night it was startling to hear it is not one but TWO very different instruments, one of which has a really distinct sharp attack almost like little pieces of wind chimes tinkling. Thought I knew what was on there. Not even. Freaking blew me away!
If it was me willgolf, I would see if he is willing to add Duelund JDM Silver bypass caps to whatever he does (they are only .01uF and so can be added to any cap no problem) and see if he will swap out whatever resistors are in there now for Path Audio.
I would hope that speakers at that level would be using parts at this level. But hope, I said. Not expect. Would be interesting to know what is in there.