Hi rez achieved while maintaining decor...Hey Dave, when's your Playback Designs coming? G. posted almost 18 years ago | View comment | |
Ear Candy & Occasional Eye Candy TooHi Kirk, no unfortunately my spreadsheet cannot speedup breakin process, it can only make predictions on probable completion date. . . quite neat, and a real bear to debug, but very short of magica... posted about 18 years ago | View comment | |
Ear Candy & Occasional Eye Candy TooHmm, Kirk, I should send you a copy of my super duper Excell worksheet for tracking equipment break-in progress. G. posted about 18 years ago | View comment | |
Doctor's Rx-Wilson X-2, Lamm, PDS MPS5Doc, I have just replaced the 6550C in the power supply of my Ref 3 with a new production Tungsol 6550. Also replaced the 6H30 in the same power supply with an Electro Harmonics 6H30PI "Gold". I do... posted over 18 years ago | View comment | |
From 'Stats to Horns.... a journeyHey Chris, how about September? Any changes upcoming to your system? posted almost 19 years ago | View comment | |
From 'Stats to Horns.... a journeyLove that soft glow from your night light Chris! posted almost 19 years ago | View comment | |
Doctor's Rx-Wilson X-2, Lamm, PDS MPS5Dear Doc, 'tis the 14th! I may be the first Agoner to congradulate you on your retirement day. . . yet I know I will be far from being the last!No bare stage for you Doc. You are just stepp... posted over 19 years ago | View comment | |
Beta TestingCongrats Mitch. Could you comment on the sonic differences you have experienced between the X.02 and the Ref 3 preamps? Thanks a bunch, Guido posted over 19 years ago | View comment | |
Ear Candy & Occasional Eye Candy TooKirk, sounds like your mind is festering again with full blown Audiophilia Nervosa. . . I's proud o' ya! You may want to try isolating some of the variables you played with, so to disco... posted almost 20 years ago | View comment | |
Ear Candy & Occasional Eye Candy TooKirk, please do not keep us hanging any longer. . . with 1200 hrs your X-01 Limited is now as broken in as it will ever be. What is your final virdict? How does it compare in your view to the other... posted almost 20 years ago | View comment | |
Beta TestingMitch4t, are you still planning to get a Ref 3? 'Tis a very scrumptious sounding device! posted almost 20 years ago | View comment | |
Ear Candy & Occasional Eye Candy TooGrant, if I understand Kirk correctly, he is bypassing the entire fluid/ferrox issue and has ordered a purist Anniversary chord, which contains the newest Lombago. . . oops I meant Contigo isolatio... posted almost 20 years ago | View comment | |
Ear Candy & Occasional Eye Candy TooCongrats Kirk! Are you still using the Epiphany X on X-01? posted almost 20 years ago | View comment | |
Doctor's Rx-Wilson X-2, Lamm, PDS MPS5VMK, yes the electroluminescent display on Ref 3 is quite noisy. If you press the dimmer button on the remote control of the Ref 3 6 times you will turn off the display, eliminating any noise. Any ... posted about 20 years ago | View comment | |
Doctor's Rx-Wilson X-2, Lamm, PDS MPS5Once again thank you Doc! do I assume you leave the Ref 3 completely on during break in, rather than on mute? And at what level do you leave the volume control during the 'silent' break-in process? posted over 20 years ago | View comment | |
Doctor's Rx-Wilson X-2, Lamm, PDS MPS5Thank you OneObgin, I'm fully braced for a long break-in with Ref 3. It has been the same thing with X-01, and before that with ARC LS2B, EAD T100 and DSP-7000 Mk. 3, not to forget my beloved Maggi... posted over 20 years ago | View comment | |
Doctor's Rx-Wilson X-2, Lamm, PDS MPS5Doc, problem is that you are a lover of music, sound and beauty rather than a classic obsessive-compulsive audiophile. My hat's off to you! I am still in the obsessive phase. . . but my Ref 3 will ... posted over 20 years ago | View comment | |
Doctor's Rx-Wilson X-2, Lamm, PDS MPS5Believe you me Makshack. Probably the same effect that music had in distant 1986 on my 3 months old little girl. It was at that time my venrable McIntosh MCD7000 CD player feeding directly an Arago... posted over 20 years ago | View comment | |
Doctor's Rx-Wilson X-2, Lamm, PDS MPS5Has the price of the APL NWO-1 risen to $22K? It was just shy of the $20K boundary during CES. posted over 20 years ago | View comment | |
Doctor's Rx-Wilson X-2, Lamm, PDS MPS5Makshack, don't worry, I won't tell the white-coats, but things are not that obscure. Music does affect our production and consumption of neurotransmitters. . . hence the way you may feel with diff... posted over 20 years ago | View comment | |
Doctor's Rx-Wilson X-2, Lamm, PDS MPS5Doc, wise words. . . another way I sometimes put it is. . . was the experience a truly exciting 'one night stand', or am I ready to take 'her' home to mom? posted over 20 years ago | View comment | |
Doctor's Rx-Wilson X-2, Lamm, PDS MPS5Thanks Oneobgin, I suspect the new 6550C may end pushing the Ref 3 over the hump for me. I still need to A/B it against the VAC Ren II, which hopefully will happen in the next several weeks. As men... posted almost 21 years ago | View comment | |
Doctor's Rx-Wilson X-2, Lamm, PDS MPS5Thank you Oneobgin. If I purchased a Ref 3 without the update I think I will let ARC do the work. Terminal Retinis Pigmentosa and nimbleness with soldering guns tend to be mutually exclusive (chuck... posted almost 21 years ago | View comment | |
Doctor's Rx-Wilson X-2, Lamm, PDS MPS5Very interesting Oneobgin, because perhaps the only remote flaw I could still find in the Ref 3 with 6H30 tubes was. . . a very slight looseness in the bass. Looks like ARC engineers and I hear mus... posted almost 21 years ago | View comment | |
Doctor's Rx-Wilson X-2, Lamm, PDS MPS5OneObGin, could you post a couple of paragraphs on the sonic differences of the Ref 3 before and after the 'treatment'? Regardless, I do confess I find it a little difficult to contain my enthu... posted almost 21 years ago | View comment |