MY Place sbayneI've been rolling various tubes through the MHDT Orchid DAC. With adapters you can roll the 6922/ECC88/6DJ8 family and the 6SN7/5692 family which are in addition to the "normal" 5670/2C51/396A fami... posted about 2 months ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneI've updated my system pictures. They show I had to take the top cover off the MHDT Orchid DAC to accommodate the Sophia Electric blue 6SN7. I've added a picture of the power supply for the Line M... posted about 2 months ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneBeen spending time with my Line Magnetic LM-845 Premium integrated amp that I recently purchased. It's a 845 tube based, 30 watt Class A high current amp. The 300B and 310A drive tubes have been up... posted about 1 year ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneAnother significant change is my use of Vera-Fi Audio's SnubWay and MainStream. I found I no longer needed my Puritan PSM156 once I started using these products. Highly recommended and an excellent... posted about 1 year ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneMilpai - agreed the Inakustik are excellent. posted about 1 year ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneI haven't posted for over 3 months but I've been busy with my system. The Aria Audio Signature MK2 Class A amp continues to impress me with its pure musicality regardless of what preamp I use with ... posted about 1 year ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneI've added Inakustik Referenz LS-2404 Air interconnects and speaker cables to my system. These are meticulously made open-weave copper cables. Each strand is separated to insure an air insulation b... posted over 1 year ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneI recently saw that Synergistic Research may come out with a Black Box that is intended to sit on top of another Black Box. This makes sense to me because the Black Box is an acoustic resonator. I'... posted over 1 year ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneI've gone all-in on the Swiss Digital Fuse Boxes. I now have one in my amp, streamer and DAC. The sluggos have been driving me a little crazy though. After much listening and break-in time I've con... posted over 1 year ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayne"A Les Paul Gold Top into a Fender Tweed amp. Nice!" Thanks. I bought them locally and got good deals. Just keeping them as investments -- my playing is not nearly good enough for that caliber of c... posted over 1 year ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneI was a little surprised that Bill Dion's (Grannyring) highly modified personal Orchid DAC recently came up for sale. I've worked with Bill in the past on some mods and crossovers so I knew the mod... posted over 1 year ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneI've recently added a Swiss Digital Fuse Box to my power amp. It replaces the fuse in your component with a pure copper "sluggo". The "sluggo"comes in various types depending on what coating, if an... posted over 1 year ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneNo doubt the Allegri is an excellent performer but the Mr. K unit is better overall in its soundstaging and dynamics. I did some serious listening today with an an audiophile friend and he thought... posted over 1 year ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneI continue to be amazed that audiophiles who pay thousands for high-end equipment don't give it adequate time to fully break-in. I recently bought a used passive preamp that has extremely high-qual... posted over 1 year ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneI've recently added a Mr. K autoformer based passive preamp.Its hand built and extremely high quality. Excellent soundstage and dynamics.... posted over 1 year ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneI've added a SR Galileo SX Grounding Block to my system. The system is absolutely quiet at idle and music just seems to pop a little more from the background. Getting good grounding cables for it h... posted almost 2 years ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbaynemilpai - Yep, I had the same problem. If you look closely at the picture I have the power cord in the top outlet into the wall and the 3 prong in the bottom plug so there is no space issues. Howeve... posted about 2 years ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneI've been asked if I still use subs with my Moabs. Previously, I used a distributed sub array with 4 subs. After a lot of listening with my new Aria amp I decided to take the sub array out for a wh... posted about 2 years ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneThe latest change I've made is to incorporate a Tombo Audio resonator into my system. I use LOTS of resonators. Some of them I've made myself and some from Synergistic Research. The Tombo Audio wor... posted about 2 years ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneI'm now using a Border Patrol DAC that is R2R non-oversampling. It has a tube rectified power supply, choke input and Jupiter caps. The sound is very natural and pure with a very large sound sta... posted about 2 years ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneHere is the review I sent to Aria Audio regarding their amazing Signature MK2 amp: "The Aria Signature MK2 power amp is gorgeous! The contrast of the large blue meters with the slight g... posted about 2 years ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneThe Townshend Audio Allegri passive preamp is autoformer based. It gives you vivid transparency but with excellent dynamics and not a hint of harshness. I've used passives in the past but nothing a... posted about 2 years ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneI've got some major changes in my system that I've been working on. Not the least of which is going to a Autoformer based preamp. Wow! posted about 2 years ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneI've been messing with the location of resonators in my system. Ted Denney recently suggested I lower the Vibratron from where I had it higher up on the wall. I finally settled with it on top of my... posted over 2 years ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneAudio reviewer Steven Lefkowicz suggested I use a laser ruler to get my chair placement, speaker distance and toe-in exactly symmetrical. I'm now at 35 degrees toe-in, my listening chair is 10.5 fe... posted over 2 years ago | View comment |