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Ham Sandwich replied to the thread Monoprice Monolith Liquid Platinum - By Alex Cavalli.How are you measuring the temperature? The amp does get warm. But its passive cooling does very well. I don't have an infrared or FLIR...
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Ham Sandwich reacted to CopperFox's post in the thread Monoprice Monolith Liquid Gold (X) with Like.Since there weren't any photos of the amp's internals anywhere, I took some: Top side of the amplifier circuit Bottom side of...
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Ham Sandwich replied to the thread Monoprice Monolith Liquid Gold (X).The built-in DAC performs like and sounds like a basic mid-level AKM based DAC. No better, no worse than what you would expect from a...
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Ham Sandwich replied to the thread Monoprice Monolith Liquid Platinum - By Alex Cavalli.The power supply did change. The first LP I got when it was first released in 2018 used a physically smaller power brick with a two...
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Ham Sandwich reacted to JStro23's post in the thread Monoprice Monolith Liquid Platinum - By Alex Cavalli with Like.Excellent. Well with the first one on it's return path, and the lost one pending cancellation, went ahead and grabbed 2 open box off the...
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Ham Sandwich replied to the thread Monoprice Monolith Liquid Platinum - By Alex Cavalli.Fortunately Amazon will absolutely refund you. It just means that your $400-something is tied up for a week or two (or three if you want...
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Ham Sandwich replied to the thread Monoprice Monolith Liquid Platinum - By Alex Cavalli.That's not good. Is it lost in shipping? Monoprice does have an open box LP for $419. https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=36735 Open...
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Ham Sandwich replied to the thread Monoprice Monolith Liquid Platinum - By Alex Cavalli.The Cyberpower PFC UPS is a good enough sine wave for audio gear. What won't work are UPSs that do stepped waves or square waves as a...
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Ham Sandwich replied to the thread Monoprice Monolith Liquid Platinum - By Alex Cavalli.Just because a tube glows doesn't mean it is good or hasn't failed so bad it would kill the amp. The only way to know if the tubes are...
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Ham Sandwich replied to the thread Monoprice Monolith Liquid Platinum - By Alex Cavalli.Likely a fluke. There have been a few people mentioning early failures of the amp. But not regular thing and would seem to be very rare...
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Ham Sandwich reacted to Rattle's post in the thread Monoprice Monolith Liquid Platinum - By Alex Cavalli with Like.It's not an issue I've had 2 of these amps. I ran one for 3 years and puts over 1000 on it. Used it with an SE only DAC for hundreds of...
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Ham Sandwich reacted to Rattle's post in the thread Monoprice Monolith Liquid Platinum - By Alex Cavalli with Like.There is no difference in "power" using SE in on the LP. Again it was designed using a phase splitter so it's see no difference in...
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Ham Sandwich reacted to Rattle's post in the thread Monoprice Monolith Liquid Platinum - By Alex Cavalli with Like.It doesn't matter if you use SE or XLR in, the amp uses a phase splitter and it "sees" 4v no matter what. The amp is designed to be used...
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Ham Sandwich replied to the thread Monoprice Monolith Liquid Platinum - By Alex Cavalli.I'm using the PulseTubeStore socket savers that I ordered from India and also added a pair of tubes to that order that PulseTubeStore...