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| Don Sachs Owners Thread rbautista, I believe that those are 1965 or newer, I have some but haven't listened to them. I believe that all of the ones I bought came from Europe, mostly from the Ukraine. I bought a lot of them in December I believe that they all arrived safe... | |
| Don Sachs Owners Thread Hi rbautista, I need to revisit the Ken Rads to be sure. They were necessary in the first version of the Schiit Freya in order to have a sound stage, and the oldest Raytheons were needed for tonality i... | |
| Don Sachs Owners Thread invalid and @jackd, IME your system is no stronger than the weakest link. OTOH, music is very personal, so weakest link is subjective. So, reviews of tubes are going to vary based upon the neutrality of the system, and the predilections of the use... | |
| Don Sachs Owners Thread Tubes go bad, Brent Jesse does through testing, as do Kevin Deals' people. I haven't heard of a DS2 going up in flames, but anyone who deals with tubes should tell you in no uncertain terms that they can, and not to leave them on and unattended. T... | |
| Don Sachs Owners Thread The only true upgrade, other than a modification allowing the use of a 6BY5 would be the Bendex 6X5 compatible rectifier. I believe that they run about 100 or 200 dollars. Lou | |
| I have found out why new cables and tweaks actually work! With regards to tubes, warm with out a definition is meaningless. By warm, many mean dark, akin to a lot of Burr Brown opams from a decade ago. I haven't kept up, if they still label any Burr Brown I don't know what they sound like these days. Tha... | |
| Don Sachs Owners Thread Well, unless we’re talking Nelson Pass, most circuits are based upon other designs. Cascade amplification, according to Stan Warren, was designed by Nelson who never patented it, and the vast majority of solid state amplifiers reportedly use it. I... | |
| Don Sachs Owners Thread Now that I think about it, I haven't contacted Roy in years, his outlook may have changed. I may be talking about a Roy from a different era. | |
| Don Sachs Owners Thread I shouldn't have left it there. Roy designed Don's preamp, but he was content with it. He's a genius to be sure, and certainly quite knowledgeable. Don is as well, but his genius is perfecting things, and you have to be unbelievable knowledgeable ... | |
| Don Sachs Owners Thread I hope that you are able to get it working. One other thing to try would be contact cleaner. | |
| V-Cap ODAM: What the Future Sounds Like Theory says that Teflon dialectics are the best there is. I don't know how, but Chris seems to have defied physics with these capacitors. They are easily the best sounding capacitors I have heard, and I have heard many of the best of the best. If ... | |
| Don Sachs Owners Thread You'll be amazed if you're DS2 doesn't have the ODAM caps already. That's where I am now. It's so good that improvements surprise me, it escapes reason because it sounds so close to live as it is! Don is using Spatial Audio now, so I suppose that ... | |
| Don Sachs Owners Thread That's interesting, has it been broken in? Since you recently re-tubed your DAC, it may be its tubes improving. The DS2 shouldn't be shifting sound in my experience unless something has been changed. | |
| Don Sachs Owners Thread I may have some set screws if he's on vacation, but finding them may take a miracle. My work area is a disaster area. | |
| Don Sachs Owners Thread You should ask Don if your preamp has ODAM capacitors. If not you haven't heard anything yet. |