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| Techinics Sp-10 Mk2a break-in period Dear Peter,I read somewhere that upgrading the stock power cord on the power supply made improvements to the sound. If that is indeed true, swapping out all the 30+ year old caps should also have an effect on the sound. Thus, my reason for the que... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Hi Granny,I replaced all the stock Nichicon 270uf +/- 20% lytic caps in the power supply with ClarityCap TC caps in my mono amps. I increased the capacitance to 330uf giving an approx. +20% increase in capacitance to the original 270uf +/-20% lyti... | |
| Schumann Resonance 'Tweaking the Tweak' I bought all four of mine Schumann Resonator off Ebay. I began tweaking the tweak by adding 50 x 1600uf/16v Rubycon caps to the power supply each SR. This addition was a major upgrade to SQ. I started out using a generic wal-wart 4a-12v linear P... | |
| Help on Optimizing Dedicated PC as Music Server Hi Cerrot,Sorry for the delay response. The Acopian 51212T9 was chosen because of its dual voltages and cost. Here are the specs; output current at 5vdc 6a, and 2 x 12vdc - 1.2a. I'm using the Corsair PS harness to make my connections to the Aco... | |
| Help on Optimizing Dedicated PC as Music Server Hi Tboooe,The addition of the ASUS Xonar STX sound card made a huge upgrade over the MOBO Realtek. Unfortunately, the Xonar doesn't offer a USB output, so a direct comparison is not possible. Im quite happy with what Im hearing with just the PC ... | |
| Lewinskih01... used pc under 500.00... Thanks Hi Tboooe,The Xonar S/pdif output sounded much better than the stand alone MOBO S/pdif. I didnÂt have the KingRex UD384 & PSU, and Unaimous UART USB Y-cable on hand when I got the Xonar working to try out the MOBO USB output. My guess would b... | |
| Help on Optimizing Dedicated PC as Music Server I've had a chance to try some of those great suggestions given above. I like to share my findings. My comments will be based on the highly modified ML No. 37 transport as my point of reference. My ML No. 360 DAC does not accept USB input, thus the... | |
| Help on Optimizing Dedicated PC as Music Server Hi Goulsonc,The Asus Xonar STX card was installed but wasn't able to get it working properly. Will try again later.Hi Loftarasa,Late last night I briefly audition the KingRex UD384 & PSU combo borrowed from a friend. From initial listening, I ... | |
| Help on Optimizing Dedicated PC as Music Server Tboooe,I will give Windows Server + Audiophile optimizer a try at a later time. Like to live with the freshly installed Windows 7 for a while before switching over to make a fair comparison between the two OS. Thank you. Bill K,I've changed the se... | |
| Cost effective Schumann Resonator If you must use a wall wart for power, try to find one that is a linear power supply. | |
| Cost effective Schumann Resonator I am using several Schumann Resonators in my system. The quality of the power supply and dc lead feeding the SR makes an enormous difference to the sound. I have experimented from a $25.00 wall wart linear power supply, to 12v battery powered, to ... | |
| Biamping, yes or no? I agree with both Csontos and Edwyun. Four identical mono amps and an external XO. You will need to know the factory X-over point and slope of the D1s. Using these parameters as a starting point, with the external XO's. The internal passive X-over... | |
| Balanced vs standard power Hi Jim,Currently the xfmr is configured for Balanced powered, -60V/+60V, to reduce unwanted noise by CMR (by 10-12 db?). If I were to, configured the primary for 240V and the secondary 120V out, as you suggested, would I not be using the DU-10 as ... | |
| Balanced vs standard power Hi Al,Thx for your thorough explanation. A 2 x 20 amp breaker tied together a single=phase 120v line is feeding the Primary windings of the xfmr. The Secondary side of xfmr is also connected in series. Thus, -60V/+60V.Would you care to take a gues... | |
| Balanced vs standard power Hi Jim,Are you saying that by adding 220uf to the circuit I have effectively lowered my 10kVA xfmr rating to 5kVA?Best regards,Norm |