dgarretson
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| Uptone Audio EtherREGEN review As stated in the manual, the chassis is its heat sink. I’ve had one for 300+ hours, and agree with you that it is a meaningful improvement. I’m synchronizing it to a 10mhz rubidium clock. | |
| JL Audio Fathom F112 wiring question The wire that traces to the ground plane(by inspection or using an ohmmeter) is negative. Alternatively, just toggle the polarity switch to find the best sound. | |
| What tube pre-amps pair well with Pass amps? You may want a differential balanced preamp to bring out the best in Pass's balanced designs. I use an AtmaSphere MP-1 preamp with XA 160.8 monoblocks and a modified XP-25 phono stage. It sounds very clean and can be contoured to taste with tube... | |
| Audio Research Sold I always appreciated that WZ Johnson-era ARC products included schematics and parts lists in their product manuals. Tube circuits today are not so much more complicated, but are marketed as mystical things and priced accordingly. | |
| BEST HARMLESS/SIGNATURELESS SPEAKERS CAPACITORS. Raul, thanks for the insights. However, be aware that in critical signal coupling positions, Pass Labs uses capacitors from another capacitor vendor that we both know well. | |
| Long XLR cables - help me decide You might ask Chris at Parts Connection if he prefers the Natural over Connex BL-Ag solid silver bulk IC cable. Both are made by DH Labs. In recent years BL-Ag has become my reference. It is further improved with a double run per channel(Schroeder... | |
| New In 2020 @maxnewid Wow, now that's a bananafish! | |
| Esoteric SACD player owners, do you use the built in DAC or an external DAC and why? The K0-1X has an excellent DAC and USB input that I’ve been using with a SOtM EN renderer and USB conditioner. One nice thing is that both SOtM devices and K0-1X can be slaved to an external 10mhz clock. So far I have not been tempted to look else... | |
| What has been your costliest mistake in this hobby? Bought a pair of Wilson WATT3/Puppy2 new in the mid-nineties that I thought was the last word, but eventually took an 80% loss at resale for a better speaker at less than half the price. Ouch! | |
| SOtM player? I'll add to the chorus: SOtM makes top-notch products. That said, I have only used them with Roon, which I consider essential to managing a collection of 12K albums. | |
| SOtM player? It works perfectly as a Roon endpoint. | |
| Speaker shootout update; aggressive treble eliminating some (fairly?) I can’t believe the unending debate on whether equipment breaks in or the ear accustoms itself to equipment. Equipment break-in-- particularly for electro-mechanical devices like speakers-- is for real. I’ll bet that most speakers that are put up ... | |
| Speaker upgrade around 100k retail Maybe, but at this level it’s like arguing that a McLaren is better than a Bugatti. Impulse and pedigree rule. | |
| Speaker upgrade around 100k retail Trolling at the $100K level is discouraging. | |
| Restoring vintage H/K Citation 19 Power Amp Jim Mcshane specializes in this work.http://www.mcshanedesign.net/ |