LCMusicLover
Headphoneus Supremus
I listened for a few hours last night -- about 50 hours of burn-in on the caps.
The word which bubbles to the top is 'incisive'.
I primarily listened to Auteur, Ether 2 and HEKse. For comparison I listened to the same chain (NUC PC ==> SU-1 ==> A2 Gumby ==> Hattor mini passive pre ==> amps ==> cans) feeding the LP and my DSHA 3F. All analog connections are balanced and the Singxer feeds the Gumby via SP/DIF coax. 3F currently has Amorphous core transformers and I rolled some NOS Siemens E188CCs into the LP.
Amazingly, with the caps mod my LP and 3F are very close. So much that I believe the differences produced by transformer and tube swaps over-shadow the differences between the amps. Prior to the caps mod the 3F stood above the LP primarily because of greater energy/liveliness. That difference is literally gone. Personally, I never heard the distortion others have written about, or maybe my brain just called it 'tubiness'. I suppose the LP is marginally 'less tuby' now, although I never thought it was very tuby to begin with. I'll roll my Bugle Boys in tonight and listen again -- LP sounded the tubiest with them of all the tubes I have.
So what most of you will want to know is:
'Just how much of an improvement does the mod make?' and 'Is it worth the money and invalidating your warranty?'
Sorry, can't definitively answer either question. I will say that I'm glad I did it, but I really liked my LP before the mod, so ...
I guess it could all be 'placebo effect'. Without having modded and un-modded side-by-side all I can do is compare my memory to the current reality, and we all know how unreliable auditory memory can be.
I'll see if there's more to say at the weekend, by which point I'll have 100 hours of burn-in on the caps.
The word which bubbles to the top is 'incisive'.
I primarily listened to Auteur, Ether 2 and HEKse. For comparison I listened to the same chain (NUC PC ==> SU-1 ==> A2 Gumby ==> Hattor mini passive pre ==> amps ==> cans) feeding the LP and my DSHA 3F. All analog connections are balanced and the Singxer feeds the Gumby via SP/DIF coax. 3F currently has Amorphous core transformers and I rolled some NOS Siemens E188CCs into the LP.
Amazingly, with the caps mod my LP and 3F are very close. So much that I believe the differences produced by transformer and tube swaps over-shadow the differences between the amps. Prior to the caps mod the 3F stood above the LP primarily because of greater energy/liveliness. That difference is literally gone. Personally, I never heard the distortion others have written about, or maybe my brain just called it 'tubiness'. I suppose the LP is marginally 'less tuby' now, although I never thought it was very tuby to begin with. I'll roll my Bugle Boys in tonight and listen again -- LP sounded the tubiest with them of all the tubes I have.
So what most of you will want to know is:
'Just how much of an improvement does the mod make?' and 'Is it worth the money and invalidating your warranty?'
Sorry, can't definitively answer either question. I will say that I'm glad I did it, but I really liked my LP before the mod, so ...
I guess it could all be 'placebo effect'. Without having modded and un-modded side-by-side all I can do is compare my memory to the current reality, and we all know how unreliable auditory memory can be.
I'll see if there's more to say at the weekend, by which point I'll have 100 hours of burn-in on the caps.
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