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| Cable recommandations Hi @hausera Don Sachs was using a Dueland Western Electric alike cable in his gear, but has switched over to Ice Age Audio's IC cable. You can use 12 or 16 gage Dueland tin clad copper for speaker cables. I have just ordered Crhis VenHaus' IC, a... | |
| Is an isolation transformer better than a power conditioner? You may no need either. You equipments power supply can generally clean up AC, so if you have no line noise that is often in frequency ranges power supplies are not designed to filter, special power conditioning and cables may not do much for you.... | |
| Why are people paying these stupid tube prices? Wow, I own a DS2 preamp, a Levinson 27.5 amp, and I own Schiit headphone amps, one has Siemens tubes, the other a E-6SN7, with good Focal headphones these cheap Schiit amps are pretty formidable in sound quality. The E-6SN7 tubed amp is the best, ... | |
| Don Sachs Owners Thread @aldnorab I really have forgotten my formulas, but no, Don installed .47uf caps for a 50ohm load, and 1uf for a 100k ohm input amp. Then there's this; https://hyperelectronic.net/wiki/capacitor/capacitor-impedance/ The chart they show... | |
| Don Sachs DS2 Preamp - too good to be true? @armstrod If your DS-2 hasn’t had the latest mods, I have forgotten, and isn’t impedance matched to your amp, and are not using Linlai E-6SN7 tubes to drive your amp then you don’t really know which is better for your predilections. Not that ... | |
| Don Sachs Owners Thread @aldnorab Yes, if you have 2 outputs, you should probably put .5uf on one output for the 47K amp, and 1.33uf for the 130K amp, and mark them. You may wantto check with Don, but I believe that those values will give you better impedance matching,... | |
| Don Sachs Owners Thread "I just out in some 'treasures' tubes and they are nice versus the Shunguang I had in there." It depends upon which Shunguan tubes. They apparently no longer make the tubes Don was shipping with his preamps, but they smoked everything Chinese or N... | |
| Don Sachs DS2 Preamp - too good to be true? Don is amazing. The DS2 is the culmination of his on the job learning. He didn’t exactly design it, though he certainly has the ability to design. What else he knows is circuit perfection. After decades of working on Citation and Macintosh modific... | |
| recommended speaker cables and interconnects Honestly, Chris at VH Audio has amazed me with his capacitors. He also sells cables, and his prices are good. I am basing my recommendation based upon his capacitors. Sounds wrong, but follow my logic. He has single handedly moved the needle with ... | |
| 5AR4 rectifier tube question New Sensor bought the Soviet Block plants, they are not "all the same" as one person mentioned. I have 3 different branded KT88 tubes by their various factories, and they are all quite different. Their flagship brand is based upon Genelex Gold Loi... | |
| Turn off or leave on? NEVER leave tube equipment on unattended. I leave my fussy Yggdrasil DAC on 24 x 7, but expect to be replacing it with a Lampizator after 6 years of faithful service. I don't leave my Levinson amp on though due to power consumption. All electronic... | |
| Vandersteen Speakers.. Are All Other Speaker Makers Doing It Wrong ? One more thing, they are only perfectly time aligned at a particular distance. Greater or lesser distances distort that, and they should be such at a frequency in the midrange of each driver. IOW, the highest and lowest frequencies of a particular... | |
| Vandersteen Speakers.. Are All Other Speaker Makers Doing It Wrong ? Look, I am not up to speed on Vandersteen speakers, but I owned them. Generally speaking there are 2 primary camps which further divide from their primary camps into vast nbers of camps. You have I want pleasing types, who no matter how poorly som... | |
| Audiophile Fuses: Helpful or "Snake Oil"? I have been forced to change my mind on so many things that I won't call much of anything snake oil unless I try it myself, but so far, for me, the money they want for fuses is excessive. As for the cables don't matter crowd, why then did Tektron... | |
| Least Expensive Power Conditioner/Surge Protector That Won't Worsen Sound I haven't used audiophile conditioners. You can get medical grade used isolation transformers from ebay, or you can find a ups that takes in AC, converts it to DC, then inverts it back to AC. I think that this is increasingly common. They used to ... |