cbrez
Responses from cbrez
| Stereo Times Review on the SPL s900 amplifier Definitely interested in hearing a real comparison of the Coda and the SPL given the exuberance around both. They seem to both be in a relative price range. Looking forward to more information regarding the two of them. | |
| Recommended tubes for LTA Preamp I replaced the 12AT7s with Telefunken ECC801s. I replaced the 12SN7s with CBS/Hytron VT-231 per a recommendation from Brent Jessee. I definitely recommend reaching out to Brent. He is incredibly knowledgeable and extremely helpful. In my system, ... | |
| UPGRADE PATH FROM CHORD QUTEST DAC I have the Weiss 204 with the ModWright LPs upgrade and thing it sounds excellent. I think it has excellent resolution, wonderful tonality, and is vey open and clean sounding. A few things to note from my experience. First, the ModWright LPS is s... | |
| VU meters added to Cambridge Audio Meters are for aesthetics. I think it is more important to focus on the sound than the light show. They will not inform you of anything important. | |
| Need Opinions for Different Cable Manufacturers/Cable Designs I am also going to mention taking a look at some of the brands that @kennyc mentioned - Iconoclast and Zenwave. I do also use AcousticZen Hologram speaker cables as well and am impressed with their musical and open presentation. While design is c... | |
| High end bookshelf speakers for Small room Another plug for the Dynaudio Heritage Specials. The more improvements I have made in my system, the more and more they truly shine. They are incredibly musical, have very good dynamics, image and soundstage is great, and sound great with a wide v... | |
| Has anyone tried a linear power supply with a Weiss 204 or 205? @norust Of course there are a lot of DACs out there in the $3500 range and some very new ones have been reviewed quite recently (LTA comes to mind in the ballpark). For me, in my system, the Weiss 204 sounds wonderful for the money. It is musical... | |
| Linear Power supply for a Weiss dac 204? Yes, definitely many choices. I decided to be an early purchaser of the ModWright based on their very solid reputation and figuring that if Dan was making this as a purpose built for LPS for the Weiss DAC, it would be worth the cost (and in my cas... | |
| Looking at these specific preamps give me your opinions @gregjacob I replaced the 12AT7s with Telefunken ECC801s. I replaced the 12SN7s with CBS/Hytron VT-231 per a recommendation from Brent Jessee. If you use 6SN7s as a replacement, you just have to slide the internal switch in the pre to 6V. The tube... | |
| Looking at these specific preamps give me your opinions Of the preamps listed, I can comment on the LTA microZOTL, as I have this in my system. I think it is a spectacular preamp. Not warm sounding, but very natural. Excellent dynamics and very open sounding. I run it with a Pass amp and could not be m... | |
| Has a Power Conditioner Improved Your Sound? I have the iFi Power Station (actually I have two) that @lalitk mentioned earlier in the thread. My power amp is still plugged directly into the wall, but everything else runs through these. I have been very impressed. In my home, these obviously ... | |
| Weiss 204 Dac or LTA Audio Aero Dac as an upgrade from Chord Qutest Dac I’ll start off by saying I can’t answer the comparison question, but I do own a Weiss 204. The LTA is very new and I thought the Herb Reichert review in Stereophile was interesting, even with the comparison to a much more expensive unit ultimately... | |
| Bluesound I installed the latest version, 4.4.19, with no issue. It actually fixed an issue I reported to Bluesound after the last upgrade. With Qobuz after the last version, going into genres and looking for music in those genres suddenly did not work. Thi... | |
| Would like to try a tube preamp after years of solid state and hybrid My two cents for what they are worth. I sold Counterpoint way back and the thousand series preamps were good for the money, but got much better as you climbed the chain. The 1000 was decent and did sound good for the money, but the 2000/3000 was a... | |
| Least expensive plug-in power conditioner that works While I think a lot of these AC issues have local environmental elements that may determine effectiveness and the right components to help, I do own several iFi AC purifiers, including those that came with the iFi Powerstation, and they made a rea... |