guidocorona
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| $5000 integrated budget: Please help me choose.... Hi Komaki, it looks like your speakers have a relatively low impedance and are not the most sensitive in te world. They probably benefit from a lot of current and a high damping factor. . . class D amplification often works very well under such ci... | |
| New Rowland Criterion 2-chassis battery pre Cappuccino, it is good to know that complete Valhallas are synergistic on a JRDG-based system. . . Jeff Rowland currently favors Nordost Valhallas. . . I believe he may have them on his entire reference system in Colorado Springs. I have no detail... | |
| New Rowland Criterion 2-chassis battery pre If Jeff were indeed using Nordost wiring, it may not be a marriage made in heaven in an already reverberant/bright environment. Guido | |
| Upgrade bug has hit, interested in Pass Labs Amps Hi Messelt, I am grasping at straws of course, but I suspect that the Oval 2 may be a better choice for the BC amps than the Oval 10. . . I know that Oval 2s are often recommended with other class D amps like the JRDG 201s and 501s. . . I even hea... | |
| New Rowland Criterion 2-chassis battery pre Thank you Clio, please keep us posted. Do you know if the Criterion was running on battery power or AC? If it is, see tomorrow if you can switch it back and forth and report on any perceivable difference. Guido | |
| Upgrade bug has hit, interested in Pass Labs Amps Messelt, I agree that your Kimber USB cable could be part of the issue. . . my experiences with listening Kimber wiring is that they tend to be a bit on the tippy side. Not sure that going to a glass connection would improve things though. . . a g... | |
| Upgrade bug has hit, interested in Pass Labs Amps One more thing to consider is connectivity and PCs. . . What are you using right now? not everything works well with any electronics, and Bel Canto amps are no exception. Guido | |
| Upgrade bug has hit, interested in Pass Labs Amps Hi Tim, how long have you used the BCs? Are you using Bel Canto Ref 1000 Mk.1 or Mk.2 monos? If you own the earlier version, it is my understanding that the very recent Mk.2 version is musically signifacantly enhanced and that the cost of the upgr... | |
| New Rowland Criterion 2-chassis battery pre For those lucky stiffs who are attending THE Show in Vegas from Jan 8th through 11th, Jeff Rowland is featuring the Criterion at the Venitian, 30th floor, room 231. All I know about the rest of the system is that it features the JRDG 312 amp and T... | |
| Jeff Rowland 501s and PC1s Thanks for the update Clavil. Give the PC1s about 2 weeks worth of playing time to stabilize, regardless of prior break in claims. Approx 300 hours should do the trick. Let us all know how the sound evolves. Guido | |
| Rowland Capri vs. BAT 3ixSE Pugstub, the answer is a loud and clear. . . it depends!I have not listened to the BAT 3ixSE, but am somewhat familiar with the BAT VK52SE, which is a marvellous example of linestage of a classic tube philosophy, where captivating sound takes slig... | |
| Warmish SS pre:Rowland Synergy IIi preamp/others? Chiho, Capri is not a digital pre. . . I believe it operates in class A and is based on the TI Burr Brown differentially balanced OPA1632 op-amp. Personally, I prefer it over my own ARC Ref 3 in all parameters, except for staging and imaging, wher... | |
| Warmish SS pre:Rowland Synergy IIi preamp/others? Chiho, have you considered newer pres within the JRDG product line? As I have written abundantly elsewhere, I am incredibly fond of the Rowland Capri. I can't make a personal comparison with the Synergy, as I haven't auditioned Synergy. . . but ac... | |
| Warmish SS pre:Rowland Synergy IIi preamp/others? If I remember correctly, McCormack DNA-125 Rev. Gold may have a relatively low input impedance (perhaps 8K Ohms?). . . if that were so, best match will be with pres with very low output impedance, regardless of tubes or SS. Vintage Rowland devices... | |
| affordable long run IC Icorem, the 201s are likely to yield more desirable results in a fully balanced system. . . just in case you eventually tried out a balanced pre, you can buy XLR ICs and use XLR2RCA converters at the pre side for the time being. |