mulveling
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| Deoxit Gold...Not Just For Tubes? but to tell the truth, I really dislike the sound of the system right after I use it. I just do it for maintenance purposes. That's why I mentioned the old tubes with steel pins cleaned to "gleaming". A couple of the tubes I've gotten like tha... | |
| Deoxit Gold...Not Just For Tubes? My old dealer (who I miss dearly), back when I was new to this hobby, recommended a once or twice a year chore of going through all a system’s contacts (RCA, XLR, spades, bananas) with deoxit. I don’t believe he used Caig’s (it was a cheaper brand... | |
| DAC's from the past, are any of them really worth much today? The Audiophilleo USB-to-SPDIF converter was popular ~ 10 years ago, and it sounded better (sometimes much better) than direct USB inputs of DACs at that time. It can also be used to support USB for older DACs - just stick it into the coax input of... | |
| Anxiety help needed. New instal of Hana ML Looks about perfect to me. Use your ears as your guide, at this point. The flat crimped part on these aluminum cantilevers may sometimes be a bit contorted, and might make things look a bit off kilter, even if the stylus is pretty well aligned. Yo... | |
| Anxiety help needed. New instal of Hana ML I have an Ortofon Cadenza Bronze that’s visibly skewed, certainly by more than a couple hairs. Align for the cantilever, and it sounds great. I know because I had another one with perfectly straight cantilever. If it starts drifting a lot then you... | |
| rocket 88 @guitarlenn55 I’ve bi-wired with Audioquest in a number of ways. Of course, they will tell you to bi--wire as symmetrically as possible. However, I’ve had good success with breaking the rules, somewhat. I use a combination of 6ft Mont Blanc (12 ... | |
| Step Up transformer Of morbid curiosity, a step down transformer will work and in theory give you more output when feeding transimpedance stages. Want to try a 40Ω denon 103 with your current stage? Run it into a 4:1 step down transformer and you net 4X the curren... | |
| HAVE YOU ARRIVED AT YOUR FINAL SYSTEM AND WHAT’S IN IT? WHAT ARTIST IS YOUR GO TO? Sometimes it feels like half the people in this hobby are also involved in the industry, in some capacity. Anyways, I don't see a problem if he's a dealer for his cables. That was not the focus of this thread. | |
| HAVE YOU ARRIVED AT YOUR FINAL SYSTEM AND WHAT’S IN IT? WHAT ARTIST IS YOUR GO TO? Yes. Tannoy Canterbury GR with VAC Master 300iQ monos and matching Master preamp. The Master amps effected a vast performance increase over other amps. Nothing I’ve ever heard has made so much difference as those amps. The system now matches or ex... | |
| MoFi lawsuit Were any of you unhappy with the sound of your MoFi product before you learned "the truth". I wasn’t impressed with my Bob Dylan One Step - made it through half a side and put it away; never have listened again. Given the hype I was expecting t... | |
| Step Up transformer This is just my personal preference, but if I find that the sound from a good LOMC is too rich or too lean or whatever, to the point that I can’t tolerate it, my course of action would be to change either the cartridge or the phono, rather then t... | |
| Step Up transformer Your Cadenza Bronze is one of those cartridges which works extremely well with either an active MC gain stage or a SUT (I’ve tried both with this cart). You can really go either way depending on preference. If you’re looking for a huge change or i... | |
| REF5SE tubes Does Brent Jesse even sell any 6H30 tubes? They’re not listed anywhere on his site, even the "complete stock list". I would never have picked him as a source for these tubes. He’s good for a NOS GE 6550 on the power regulator, though. Viva Tubes ... | |
| Einstein The Perfect Match phono pre and My Sonic Labs cartridge +1 thanks @lewm very interesting! | |
| Einstein The Perfect Match phono pre and My Sonic Labs cartridge @lewm I’m just curious how that works - doesn’t a "transimpedance" stage’s effective gain rise as the source’s (cartridge coils) DC resistance lowers? So for an MSL with super low < 1 ohm coils and high 0.3 - 0.5mV output (usually typical of 5 ... |