Don Sachs Owners Thread

I’m unsure how many hours the DS has.  The prev owner didn’t provide much info on the questions I was asking. Just that there weren’t any issues.  For the price, I got it, I was taking a bit of gamble.  Especially since he wanted to do COD which I didn’t know still existed.  
 

good point about the  dac tubes breaking in too.  I’m using Sylvania 6201 gold pins

I’ve been listening for a couple of hours today and am really enjoying the transparency.  Big, wide, deep soundstage.  The accuracy of how instruments sound.  I can hear differences in piano tonality.   Prior, a piano sounded like a piano   Now a piano sounds like a Steinway, Yamaha, etc. The bass digs.   Looking forward to the suggested updates to the DS to be done.  
 

Sometime tonight, I need to take a break so I post an ad for my Placette passive and to do some house chores 

You'll be amazed if you're DS2 doesn't have the ODAM caps already. That's where I am now. It's so good that improvements surprise me, it escapes reason because it sounds so close to live as it is! Don is using Spatial Audio now, so I suppose that I could find an improvement there, but that's more than I am willing to pay, and they don't appear to be making them, or anything as Clayton is apparently in the hospital. The tubes I told you about will give fuller sound without sacrificing detail. It's as if the tubes you have run out of steam before the instruments should, but until you hear them, you won't believe it because the Chinese tubes are very good. If I had not heard the other tubed I would have been quite content with them.

I sent an email to Don asking about upgrades and my remote. My remote stopped working and thought it was dead batteries. Replaced them and still don’t work. In my music listening excitement, I got startled how good the vocals and emotions that was coming through from Josh Groban’ Noel album that my remote feel between the cusions. When I took it out, that’s when it stopped working.

is there a button sequence to pair the remote or is my remote just busted?

@rbautista congratulations on the DS preamp. It is quite an ear opener. I think the remote is set to the preamp and doesn't have to be "paired" . Don't believe there is any way to change this. Bummer. Since you changed the batteries, the only other thing I can think of is try cleaning the remote's IR window. A long shot, but easy to do. 

Good luck,

aldnorab

Someone suggested unplugging, wait a few minutes and plug back in. Hoping that resets the Khozmo so the remote starts working again