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| six year old 6sn7's, pushing my luck? Rodman - have you tried Black Treasures? They are new but were meant to sound like NOS tubes. The new Psvane may not be as "NOS"y but they are meant to be a major step above EH and other commodity tubes.I really hope that some new quality tubes (e... | |
| Hissing sound coming from tweeters Any update from your dealer visit? | |
| six year old 6sn7's, pushing my luck? If you are using single ended inputs, you only need to change the 4 tubes on the left. The 2 on the right of the main group (not the headphone ones) are used as buffers for the balanced inputs. In a recent newsletter, Cary had a picture of a modif... | |
| What is the best DAC under $500? Seekburk - I use an older MF A3-24 DAC, using a HiFace converter. That replaced my Classe CDP-10 CD player and gave better results. I tried a HRT Streamer II (not the plus) and although I could hear the difference, I though the HRT was pretty clos... | |
| Classe move to China Back to Classe and audio for a while...As I understand it, Classe will be built in the same factory that B&W has been built in for many years. B&W controls the production and the quality. Classe will do the same. They are not simply throwi... | |
| J river Media Center 16 settings.....HELP Sandstone - I believe Wasabi Event Style in J River is passed on the same code as the Ayre drivers, namely the Wavelength code. Clearly, if you are using an Ayre or Wavelength device the code they provide is probably the best. For other devices, W... | |
| Hissing sound coming from tweeters Did you try the cheater plugs? It is a common solution to hiss/hum problems? May not be elegant, but it does work in lots of cases. If it has no effect, you are out $10 at most. You probably need different amps, but the cheater plugs may buy you s... | |
| Hissing sound coming from tweeters Sounds like it could be a ground loop issue. You should try cheater plugs on the power cables. These are the 3 prong to 2 prong adapters found at hardware stores. Cheap and easy to try.I keep a CleanBox II around to try to detect ground loops. It ... | |
| Hissing sound coming from tweeters The amps have a 5 year transferable warranty. Maybe you can contact Emotiva and see if they will ship you another one to try - just in case it is something wrong with your amps. Or they may have suggestions to try. I have been reading the Emotiva ... | |
| Hissing sound coming from tweeters Have you tried cheater plugs on the amps? Works sometimes. | |
| Hissing sound coming from tweeters I would say you are one lucky 25 year old. The Ayre is a great piece to build the system around. I would move slowly. Start by trying to find what other RF7II users are using. There are lots of good, used amps out there from people like Ayre, Brys... | |
| Hissing sound coming from tweeters The speaker sensitivity is 101dB so you are going to need an amp with a very low noise floor to not get some hiss. As Joselm said, disconnect everything to determine if it is the amp noise floor or not. The amp certainly looks like it could be the... | |
| Cary XCiter DAC vs Rega DAC Have not heard either. But if you are interested in PC audio, note that both of these only accept signals up to 48KHz over the usb connection. If you want to do high res audio, you will need a separate usb to s/pdif converter. | |
| HDCD FLAC FOOBAR SPDIF Cary 303/200 HDCD David256 - read my comments above. dBpoweramp uses the same code as foobar. It does part of the job of the old Pacific Microsonics chip, but not all of it. A DAC with the old chip will do a better job of reproducing the original HCDC sound than th... | |
| HDCD FLAC FOOBAR SPDIF Cary 303/200 HDCD Here is some more explanation of the HDCD encoders in foobar (and other software implementatons) and why it is not as good as the original hardware implementation. The 16 to 20 bit extensions are done, but the digital filters are not implemented i... |