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| Thiel Owners Your thoughts on 2.4 upgrade vs all-FST might be of interest to the group.I suppose my impressions are scattered across the many pages of this thread, so maybe it is worthwhile to summarize in a single post.I bought my CS2.4SEs in January, 2018. O... | |
| SQ Melco NA-1 v ultraRendu v Roon NUC @keisYes, I had my QB-9 upgraded to DSD version (super happy with that!).I ended up getting an Intel NUC 7i3BNH and installed Roon. Roon is wonderful and I will not be going back. | |
| Ayre cx 8 cd player Attached is the only image I can locate at this time. I found thishttps://www.instagram.com/p/Bocddp7jK46/?utm_source=ig_web_options_share_sheet | |
| Ayre cx 8 cd player Did anyone read the Stereophile review? Do you mean the EX-8 review? I couldn't understand why Atkinson compared it to separates retailing for almost $40K. I mean, who is deciding between such extreme choices? There is close to zero reason for s... | |
| Thiel Owners @tomthielI am surprised by your Lex v FST listening results. And this seems to confound the upgrade path I imagined. On the one hand, FST owners will be relieved that their sound is not necessarily diminished by those parts (good news). But on the... | |
| Bypass capacitor questions I heard nothing deleterious with the bypasses, only positive changes. YMMV. | |
| Has anyone hired cyrix7x86 on Ebay to "upgrade" their crossovers? My other question is if an "upgrade" translates to a noticeable difference in the quality of sound being produced by the speaker. In my case, I experienced a substantial improvement in SQ. Greatly improved resolution and transparency being the m... | |
| Bypass capacitor questions willing to bet $ you will pull it out eventually esp if you listen to classical music Interesting. From my listening notes in mono, a couple of concerto selections were among those where I most greatly preferred the sound of the RTX bypasses (... | |
| Qobuz. bye bye $14-25 high resolution downloads from HDTracks I plan to switch from Tidal to Qobuz soon (I don't understand why anyone prefers MQA over true hi-rez). If I sign up for the top tier Qobuz service, what is the typical price range if I wan... | |
| Thiel cs2.4 upgrade to cs 2.4 se think I have taken the maximum out of the CS2.4 I think I'm there, too. If I had ample money and time, it would be interesting to experiment with ultra caps (Jupiter, Dueland), resistors (Path), and try the wax foil coils. But if I had that much... | |
| Bypass capacitor questions Thanks for the responses everyone. I think I will stand pat for now. I mean, I'm *very* happy with the sound I'm hearing. Easily the best ever in my room. Just with the downside of TMI on poorly recorded music, a problem Michael Fremer and others ... | |
| Bypass capacitor questions Bypassing in crossovers makes the sound phasey and not quite right. That was *not* my experience. I heard sharper transients and a tad more resolution with the RTX.The first change I made was replacing the sandcasts with Mills MRAs. That was a re... | |
| Revel F208 Review by Earl @jafant I agree. Revels are highly regarded but my experience is a big “meh”. Even the Salon 2s were underwhelming. I suppose my expectations were too high after reading the reviews but they just didn’t have “it”. But maybe it was the Levinson ele... | |
| Bypass capacitor questions I would not suggest multiple different types of bypass caps being used at the same time. Interesting. Thanks for the comment. | |
| Bypass capacitor questions Sorry, I'll try again.Nearly all of my caps are Clarity CSAs.This includes two caps directly in the coax feed and one subfeed. These three caps - and no others - include RTX bypass.I compared, in mono, with and without the RTX to discern their imp... |