cbrez
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| 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... | |
| Power Regenerator or Conditioner for Digital Sources That’s a great place to be! Enjoy. | |
| Power Regenerator or Conditioner for Digital Sources My power situation is - messy. I’ve been working over the last six months to organize and also to clean up noise. I purchased an iFi Powerstation (actually 2) and have been very impressed. Much greater front to back soundstage, more air around ins... | |
| Warm, yet detailed tube preamp Yes, +1 on the LTA preamp. It is not warm like an old school CJ preamp (I owned a few), but is natural sounding, dynamic, and detailed, it is open and airy with breadth and depth with the right source components, Tube life is excellent. It takes a... | |
| Best Preamp with Tape In and Tape Out Monitoring Capability While I don’t make use of it, my Linear Tube Audio microZOTL 2 preamp has a tape monitor. I also use it with a Pass XA25 power amp. | |
| All Hail the meek --yet mighty – NODE 2i I have an N130 as well that I use as a streamer into my DAC. I would really like to try out a higher end streamer, but the selection of streaming services integrated with BluOS is unmatched as far as I can tell. For instance, in addition to Qobuz,... | |
| Need recommendations on 15ft speaker cables I also need a long cable run, around 17ft. I had Blue Jeans Canare 4S11 for a while and I thought it was a great cable for the money once it breaks in. I decided to upgrade and went with Acoustic Zen Hologram cables. The cables have excellent tona... |