For those considering a DIY T2 I am selling mine and it appears in the Amplification For Sale Forum. The provenance is built by Kerry (his version 2) and @paradoxper kindly sold it to me in October 2017. It is a reluctant sale occasioned by my vinyl / speaker system improving (passive radiators...

If you look closely at the photos you will see that the turntable's only connection is at the top of each of the 4 outer pillars which are air sprung. An alternative heading could be the Legend Returns. Years ago I had read alluring snippets about the first APOLYT, a rare monster turntable from...

Hi Loose-Leaf, Thank you for the recommendation of Tonian Labs "Drums & Bells" CDR. I have contacted Tony and ordered a copy. I very much look forward to hearing it. And thank you for the reference to AIX Records Mark Waldrep's web site RealHD-Audio.com. Very interesting. It has given me a new...

Thanks Loose-Leaf for your kind words! And Congrats on your Terminator! I posted on the main Terminator thread about why I am using CD playback and not hi-rez and wanted to put it here too. I understand many think that the CD is inferior to the best new digital technologies. 4 years ago I put...

Hi Loose-Leaf, Thank you for your kind words. I very much appreciate your story on your CD experience. Mainaman, I understand many think that the CD is inferior to the best new digital technologies. 4 years ago I put together 2 systems, an analog and the best digital I had heard which was a CD...

https://www.head-fi.org/threads/denafrips-terminator-jay’s-audio-cdt-3-mk2-a-review.879097/#post-14227317 Thanks mainaman for your appreciation of my review: https://www.head-fi.org/threads/denafrips-terminator-jay%E2%80%99s-audio-cdt-3-mk2-a-review.879097/ For the foreseeable future I will...

The Esoteric was the most recent commercial item. The best digital I had heard in my system and elsewhere was a non-commercial NAS CD ripping system with custom USB interface and with every item having its own hand-wound silver wire transformer PS starting with the NOS Macbook. The DAC featured...

Short and sweet, the DENAFRIPS Terminator is a very significant development for me, a game changer. If it is within your budget I highly recommend it for your consideration regardless of the top-end of your budget. Here is where I am coming from. I love music. My passion over a number of...

I am yet to listen to this headphone system, but in my CD speaker system (Jay's Audio CDT3 Transport, Custom 8w single transistor Class A battery powered mono blocks, Rey Audio K-Mons) it is excellent and easily bests my Rey Audio R-DAC in every regard. And the R-DAC is significantly better...

Would someone please please help!? I want to make the internal TVR1, TVR2, TVR3 and TVR4 pot settings adjustments after changing the 4 tubes in my SRM-007tII without blowing anything up. I am not an engineer but I am capable of following step-by-step instructions. I have 1 question. Is KG’s...

Hi Kevin, Sorry for the dumb arse question but I would be most grateful if you could confirm that the procedures you describe in your post above are the total procedures for adjusting a TII after replacing the 4 tubes. Many thanks, Chris

I have just worked all of this out for myself, I think, with the help of JimL11's post and the thread he has referenced. Many thanks Jim. Have you looked at the thread Jim has hyperlinked? Go to page 2 and take a look at ColoradoTom's post #20 in the thread. That plus Jim's post i think...

+1, thanks.

Only the best!

I have the 700 and the 009 and am currently using a modified Stax SRM-007tII with some nice vintage tubes. Fed by an Esoteric K-03X (not cheap and not the best use of funds for a front-end which is soon to be displaced by a Jay's Audio CDT-3 and a Denafrips Terminator), I prefer the 009 in every...

My CD system

@HeadAmp has at least 2.

Background I have spent decades enjoying this hobby and have learnt that everything can make a difference but not necessarily for the better, and that usually you need to pay for sound quality but there are so many overpriced items and a number of very expensive items where the designer does...

is2 RJ45 Terminated Cable Recommendations Torq's thread on life after Yggdrasil and this thread have been very helpful to me in my search for a new DAC. I want to see if these new value-for-money DACs can best my Kinosh ita Rey Audio R-DAC, circa 2009, which still to my ears outperforms the...

Hi, I am looking to connect the is2 digital out of a CD transport to the is2 digital input of a DAC. is2 cables are totally new to me. The connectors on both ends would be RJ45. Cable recommendations would be much appreciated. Thanks!

I will not use USB. I am planning on using the is2 digital out of a CD transport to the is2 digital input of the Terminator

Many thanks. I have just placed an order. is2 cables are new to me. Any suggestions would be most appreciated.

How hot does the Terminator get? Thanks

From my experience I would question whether anything even half-decent would not respond to better amplification.