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Looking for a pre-amp (Pass, ARC, BAT, Sim, PS Audio)
Hi  jmarshak,I just stumbled upon this post as I am looking for a pre-amp and was trying to find comparisons between the BHK and Pass. Funny enough, I also have the Focal Diva Utopia and just this past week got a Pass Labs X250.8 so I couldn't as... 
Review: JM Labs Diva Utopia Be Speaker
Sorry for not posting in a while. I want to give a quick update. It turns out I was getting sick right as I did the upgrade which ended up causing an odd hearing sensitivity that I experienced only once before a few years ago when I got Bells Pals... 
Review: JM Labs Diva Utopia Be Speaker
Hi Johnson - no wiring problem with the resistor. I did not pay attention to the direction of the v-cap - being an AC signal I did not think it would matter. After about 200 hours the harshness/brightness has subsided quite a bit but I feel it is ... 
Review: JM Labs Diva Utopia Be Speaker
Hi all – so a little over a year later and I finally got around to doing the upgrade. After some emails with Johnson (Thank you!)  I decided to do the following changes all at once: The V-Cap OIMP 3.3uf for the tweeters along with Mills 5.1 ohm re... 
Review: JM Labs Diva Utopia Be Speaker
Hi - Thanks all for the information! I recently purchased a used pair and am interested in doing the mods as well. I know this thread is quite old but was there ever an answer to this last question regarding the mid mods? Should I use the 220 or 1... 
DAC question
I am a week in on my Yggy warm up and am impressed but have not heard other high end dacs in my system - just in other systems so hard to compare. Out of curiosity, what other dacs did it best?Thx! 
Help me buy my next DAC
Hi,I am also searching for a new DAC and have done some recent auditions which may hopefully help. On my home system I previously owned a VDAC2 which sounded okay but I never emotionally connected to it - never gave me goose bumps. I sold it and j... 
Streamer and DAC question
Hi All - my intent is not to hijack John's post so apologies if it sounds that way - but regarding the part of his post to update the DAC - we seem to be looking in the same budget so hopefully my following questions will help both of us. First - ... 
Streamer and DAC question
Hi John,I too am looking for a new DAC and have not auditioned too many yet. I did do a direct compare of the Moon 100D and the Parasound Zdac and found the Zdac to be much better than the Moon 100D. I had both for about a month and at first was h...