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| Thor ta-1000 pre cap replacement -- advice The Vcaps brought a new level of clarity with no apparent trade-off (coloration) - it improved imaging width and depth, "layering" (that tube thing), and generally made live music sound more dynamic and plausible. | |
| Roger Modjeski discussing tubes at Burning Amp 2018 @ clio09 - Thanks for that. We have some equipment in common and I’ve benefited from your and Paul B’s posts in particular over the years. Appreciatively,August West SYSTEM ONEPS Audio PWT Memory Player -> PS Audio DirectStream Jr. -> Merlin... | |
| morrow ma1 interconnect After all this, Noisebilly never even stated what other gear he was using?! And he’s too lazy to look up what Morrow cables cost on their website? And he can’t keep his story straight on how many hours he burned the cables in? And he’s still compl... | |
| Thor ta-1000 pre cap replacement -- advice I had all of my TA-1000 capacitors replaced with Vcaps. Expensive but definitely worth it. Be forewarned that they will require something like 200 hours of use before they sound their best. I can send photos if you can figure out how to get you... | |
| Thor TA-1000 - inerverting or non-inverting absolute phase? Another big Thor TA-1000 fan here. I’ve had mine for about four years now. All of my caps were upgraded to Vcaps and I have the Khozmo shunt attenuator volume control. It’s in a system with Atma-Sphere OTL amp, McCormack UDP Deluxe disc player, an... | |
| PS Audio PWT - cd transport My PWT sounds wonderful with my 32-bit STARS Audio Aero SE tube DAC, which is the Capitole SE without the transport. However the unit I bought brand new freezes up whenever I leave a CD in it, even for under an hour. I sent it to PS Audio for re... | |
| Anyone Else Heard the Merlin Black Magic TSM? Correction: I bought the version with Master RC's; "Master crossovers" is not an advertised upgrade on this product. Sorry for any confusion. | |
| Synergistic Research HFT + FEQ I'm amazed anyone with a good system likes these things. They ruined my system - degraded the imaging and sucked the life right out of the music. Truly the most awful tweak I've ever had the displeasure to endure. | |
| PS Audio PWT software bugs I had a similar problem very recetnly - mine malfunctioned brand new out of the box with all sorts of weird behavior like freezing up so it doesn't respond to the remote or manual input if you leave a CD sitting in it for any significant length of... | |
| PS Audio PWT software bugs WARNING: The PS Audio PWT Memory Player has serious bugs in the logic. Mine malfunctioned brand new out of the box with all sorts of weird behavior like freezing up so it doesn't respond to the remote or manual input if you leave a CD sitting in i... | |
| Synergistic Research HFT + FEQ Same here - I gave the products a fair chance and they did not perform as advertised. The situation would be vastly different if they had been honest, for instance by telling me that the tweak would change the sound of my system and I might or mig... | |
| Any opinions on Emerald Physics Loudspeakers I had the pleasure of dropping in on Walter at RMAF 2013 and hearing both of his Emerald Physics line of speakers, the CS2.3 MkII and the CS 3.2 MkII. Both cosmetics and sound quality are greatly improved from the prototype-looking previous genera... | |
| Merlin TSM-MMM vs Adam Acoustics Compact MK 3 Thanks, Dave. I've owned the Merlin VSM speaker system for 6 years and have upgraded them three times, each time with rather impressive improvements in sound quality. Wandering around RMAF 2013 last weekend, I was hard pressed to find a room that ... | |
| Cary 805s or Atma Sphere M60s? In my case, I prefer the Atma-Sphere's speed and intimacy. I can hardly imagine anything that could touch the M-60's at their price point. I compared the exceptional BEL 1001 MkV's, 220 Watt solid state monoblocks which I would also pick over the ... | |
| Amplifiers:A Keeper for Life. Do you know of one ? Yeah, the Atma-Sphere M-60 is a very special amp. I was not at all impressed with Odyssey, sorry. Couldn't wait to get it out of my rack, ick! Easily found a better sounding solid state amp then, have since moved on to tubes. I was in the Odyssey ... |