I guess you are hard pressed to find a better player in this price range. The cd player feels a bit weak and is light, due to the Marantz CD4000 chassis it's built around. I shortly compared it to my Philips 963SA which also has upsampling, and the Tjoeb is more detailed and musical. But the...

I own a Super Tjoeb 4000 with 192 kHz/24 bits upsampling. I use it in a headphone setup with a Meier Audio Corda Prehead headphone amplifier. If you intend on buying a Njoe Tjoeb with upsampling card, be prepared for a long "burn-in" of the player. My player still sounds a bit aggressive and...

Unfortunately I don't think Sennheiser HD 570 sounds that good with a Musical Fidelity X-can V2. The reason for that is that HD 570 has very limited bass response, and X-can is a bit lean/bright/thin sounding as well. Of course you can tweak the X-can sound by replacing the tubes, but the basic...

I have an opportunity to buy a used Earmax headphone amplifier. Does anyone know if the standard version of Earmax, i.e. non-pro version, has enough power to drive Sennheiser HD 600 headphones? I read on their website that Earmax Pro has larger power supply and can drive low-impedance...

Robert Simpson's 9th symphony (Hyperion, Vernon Handley, Bournemouth Orchestra) is a modern composition that is creepy, moody and dark.

I would suggest listening to for example: Bruckner's 7th, 8th and 9th symphony (incredibly powerful) Shostakovich's 4th, 5th, 8th and 10th symphony (horror of world war 2 and Stalin dictatorship) Mahler's 5th and 9th symphony (very mellow at times, e.g. Adagietto in 5th symphony)

My 963SA also clicks every 1½ seconds, and it might be a problem if you listen to classical music which contains passages with really low volume level (huge dynamics). When I listened to it in my loudspeaker setup I could hear clicks from about 10 feet away when the volume level was really low...

You might also consider the Tara Labs RSC Air 1. It is "da*n expensive" new, but if you get your hand on a used pair it will be within your budget. I haven't compared Air 1 to Cardas best IC's, but I guess they are more forgiving to source weaknesses than Cardas. Air 1 uses rectangular copper...

If you want a cheap reference cable I guess a great alternative would be Eichmann Tech. Express 6 with Silver Bullet Plugs... From what I've heard so far they beat Tara Labs Air 1. They run at about 350 US dollars.

I mailed you a question about X-feed pinkie, but didn't get an answer.. Where do you connect your X-feed.. between cd-player and X-can? In that case I guess you would need two analog signal cables as well. I would preferably connect X-feed using only a single signal cable, is that possible? I...

I forgot two things. 1) This natural X-feed you have started to build pinkie, would it be possible to buy one from you later if it works well? If you have a bank account I could transfer money to your account and you send it via mail to me. I would appreciate it very much! I don't have the...

I have now replaced the tubes in my X-can V2 with a pair of NOS Mullard E88CC (made in Great Britain with gold pins). I bought them from Edgar Audio (www.edgaraudio.se) here in Sweden. Unfortunately the front and rear tubes aren't perfectly matched pairwise. However, the triodes (halves)...

Are all Alps pots this huge :-) Does anyone know what type of volume pot is included on the X-can V2?

Sorry for that uninformative post.. Seems like the pot on X-can V2 is imbalanced at zero to low listening levels, at least mine is. The balance is left of the center at low volumes. But this also holds for my Marantz Pm-17 amplifier at low volumes to some extent. Changing to an Alps pot may...

Of course the music comes first... doesn't hurt though when you feel the ambience/sense of occasion of a concert hall/recording studio as you do with great sounding equipment. The new Camel album "A Nod And A Wink" contains lot of subtle details and some great music as well. And if you...

I bought a DIY external power supply to x-can v2 from a friend some months ago. He then replaced the PSU upper board in X-can with some kind of adaption card that adapts the external power supply to the mother (lower) board of x-can. The power supply is in a separate box with detachable power...

Anyone thought about changing the volume pot to some Alps pot. In that case which Alps model should fit the bill, i.e. has the right voltage rating, pin configuration and size?

I might replace all caps with Panasonic FC in my X-Can V2, since they are easiest/cheapest to get. Are the cap on this link the cap type you have used in your X-Can V2 pinkie? http://international1.farnell.com/Se...archform.jhtml

Since I have a heavily upgraded Marantz cd-player, newest version of X-can V2 with external power supply and Sennheiser HD600 just like your rig this capacitor upgrade seems tempting to say the least.. I have looked everywhere on Internet and ELNA Cerafine seems almost impossible to get at...

Hi, this is Peter from Stockholm,Sweden entering this thread. I use x-can V2 with a special made external power supply (with toroidal transformer, regulation circuits, electrolyte capacitors etc.). Other equipment: Sennheiser HD600 headphones + Marantz Cd6000 ose le modified with new...