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| Opinions on capacitor upgrade For the tweeter, the vcap tftf would likely sound exceptional, very open and lots of depth the jupiter cannot muster, but very nice smooth and detailed cap.You might be surprised if a 0.01uf tftf could open up the sound without having to change th... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil They do clean up the hash. But every brand, nada nada has different sonic traits.I did have bridge doide on a header in a cdp years back and a brief comparision clearly shows a difference.Each spec of the different low noise diodes/ bridge will be... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Yes, it is very easy to get the bypass wrong and thou it made a difference and improvement, usually there are shortfalls.Knowing what top capacitors sound, combining them to excellence is an art in itself and can be very rewarding.My interest was ... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil we Diy'ers always want to believe a highly rated "audiophile" ,"boutique" component is the way to sonic bliss and outperforms everything or everyone's else equipment. That is all a fallacy!Yes better parts always have sonic gains, but may or will ... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Sorry, i meant "not tipped up in the upper midrange" | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Grannyring, the midrange texture and presence is undisputedly"The Best". Strange that you found it tipped up, as i clearly confirmed testing in separate setups, it is midrange centric and tipped up in the upper mids. I found the cast resistors cau... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Volleyguy,I had my share of oily leaking caps and broken connection with the cast. It's alot of money. You know the casts probably better.They do some magic in the midrange that the close competitors cannot do. Naturalness to the sound starting fr... | |
| Esoteric X-01 versus Oppo 105 Darbee for CD audio? There are distinctly superior playback with the Esoteric, in a well setup system. The hairs on my dog ears stood up when lazing on my lap, he would not lie and sleep! This is not a pun intended and happened only minutes ago before i stumbled on th... | |
| Tidal vs. Spotify I do like tidal even at standard version ($9.95/mth) but on trial now and given a choice probably keep it.The selection of newer releases is rather alright compared to the older selections, so this may still work partially for me. I feel besides r... | |
| Tidal vs. Spotify I did a tidal trial, its, well think a little better than deezer and spotify but think the trial is only normal quality low rez and not high rez. | |
| Power Cord Advice The Esoterics use Mitsubishi wiring which is what Acrolink cable are, but wiring in the esoterics looks very normal and nothing like the construction of the Acrolink Mexcel's.I am intrigued what kind of synergy Acrolink and Esoteric gear have whic... | |
| Top resistors Dgarretson, yes the Duelund would likely be a very good match for the esotar. With a metal dome it can be a little distracting, very defined detailed. The other resistors are very detailed and do not obscure detail, similar to when you use silver ... | |
| Top resistors Some developments, now came the mundorf m-resist resitor as a temporary fix till my 1 pathaudio replacement. I dont know what happened to the my pathaudio resistor which value went from 6.8ohm to 47k. It did not break but value went up so high i t... | |
| Is my preamp useless? so How and Why would a active premamp, tube or solid state sound better than a more direct connection.Would capacitors, opamps in the signal stage of an active be better than a single resistor, or similar ldr, autoformers?Every opamp, resitors, ca... | |
| Is my preamp useless? You are right that the main function of a preamp nowadays is to attenuate the volume. It also provides better impedence matching for a wider range of equipment.If you have powerful amps it will be a safer possibly avoiding the thin and weak sound.... |