johnsonwu
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| Music I would succumb to under torture Look up a singer by the name of Teresa Teng. Hailed in Asia as the all-time queen of "contemporary" vocals. High-end audio snobs would spend big dollars on vintage Western Electric, Tannoy, and JBL gear to play her poorly recorded cacaphony. Cheap... | |
| Is vintage audio better? I'm starting to look at current (modern) and non-US audio. You can easily recreate the sound of vintage medium-sized domestic gear (note: NOT Vintage Western Electric/Altec/JBL from theater plunder) sound by using vintage tube circuits, tube rectification, oil capacitors, carbon composite resistors, selec... | |
| The Best City to audition High end and Vintage Audio Good to know you know the Silbatone team. I have their 9018 DAC that is unexpectly poor performing in terms of tone and noise compared to 1794 DACs and 9038Pros. Maybe I can find answers through you. | |
| Bypass capacitor questions If it’s a mid-range coupler and you are bypassing say 47uF with a 0.47 to 1uF it makes sense. Further bypassing with 0.01 ventures into the realm of astrological psychics (not astrophysics). Bear in mind there is something called a RC time constan... | |
| Spam Prevention I actually found the counterfeit bills spam rather amusing. | |
| Bypass capacitor questions Sharper transients is your phasiness rightbthere. I think several of us are willing to bet $ you will pull it out eventually esp if you listen to classical music. | |
| Bypass capacitor questions " increase in smear for the impression of greater clarity "teo_audio is a wise sage. | |
| Bypass capacitor questions Btw I wonder how your Thiels have a “coax “board. Are you referring to the PCB that houses the crossover for the mid highs vs the woofer? I have repaired botched crossover jobs by people who just swapped in boutique caps into crossovers and blind... | |
| Bypass capacitor questions Without knowing the crossover topology it’s very hard to give you advice. In general bypassing a dull cap adds sparkle at the expense of phase issues (sibilant sounds move forward) and squeakiness (if bypass caps are too high a value). Your pos... | |
| ARC Ref 75 SE issues? That was about a year ago indeed. We all miss Leonard and Kalvin. | |
| Quad ESL service, Electrostatic Solutions or Quads Unlimited ? Look up Patrick Leung in the Sacramento area in Norcal. He has a huge Chinese Quad 57 and 63 fan base especially among the audio community (here and back in Hong Kong) You can see a few of his Youtube videos showing his workshop. I have seen and h... | |
| ARC Ref 75 SE issues? "did" | |
| ARC Ref 75 SE issues? " If the amp is not under warranty and blows a resister, you can call ARC customer service." Try doing it now... | |
| A DAC that can make digital sound analog? Get some 96k/192k FLAC rips of vinyl records and see if you get your DAC setup to play analog sound. I did that and am very convinced that it's the surface noise and dynamic headroom limitation that gives me all the perceived warmth and depth of ... | |
| ARC Ref 75 SE issues? WIth Audio Research it's almost always just a resistor and a new tube. |