The Audio Lounge

[Mr Trev]

WOW

 

[OldDude04]

Oh man, great choice, that song contains all of the feels, lol. The album came out a year or two before I graduated, hearing it always takes me right back to that era.

 

[g4ndr1k]

 

[jerick70]

Oh man, great choice, that song contains all of the feels, lol. The album came out a year or two before I graduated, hearing it always takes me right back to that era.

Brings back the feels for me too bro. Sure do miss those days.

 

[g4ndr1k]

 

[jerick70]

@g4ndr1k I found an interesting upgrade for the Eversolo DMP-A6. It's a direct replacement linear power supply. I run an LPS on some of my other gear and I think it makes a difference.

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256807598082648.html

I ended up buying this upgrade. It brings the DMP-A6 ME to another level. Highly recommended for DMP-A6 owners.

 

[groucho69]

 

[jerick70]

 

[g4ndr1k]

 

[frkasper]

More WOW

Lionel Richie & Diana Ross - Endless Love (Live 1982)

 

[jerick70]

Musical Fidelity released this tube stage recently (I stand corrected, in 1995). Looks interesting. There's a diy following that recaps and replaces compents. Supposedly you can use this with any source.

This is an upgraded board.

 

[Mr Trev]

Musical Fidelity released this tube stage recently. Looks interesting. There's a diy following that recaps and replaces compents. Supposedly you can use this with any source.





This is an upgraded board.

At least it's the proper shape to do some serious tube rolling

 

[LostHisMarbles]

@jerick70 everytime i do this, i end up regretting it, but.. when i see seemingly nice people (you may be horrible! Who knows! [i doubt it]) go this route.. i understand money/budget, i undestand being in the middle of the road as it were and hoping for magical inexpensive improvements. But often enough, this results to nothing but wasted money. So, with the best of intentions?

i) This was out in 1995. Not exactly new. And in the buffering domain? We've done leaps since

ii) If you were someone i'm comfortable with, in my store asking me about this?
I'd have told you that should this prove to be an improvement for you, you'd know beyond doubt your DAC needs to go out the window. ASAP.
It has some serious negative feedback (on purpose), it's strained/starved (on purpose), it's by now almost archaic in its approach; and with a cheap implementation to boot. What it then does after all that, again on purpose, is to add gain, sufficiently for even the uninitiated to notice, in the hopes of their conflating it with perceived an increase in "energy", dynamics, intensity, person depending. This is snake oil hardware alchemy at its finest, one of many examples where someone knowingly, consciously, went about selling the 'magic patch' to anyone willing to pay for it.

This was.. designed(?) to be an improvement for that first wave (mid '80s- early '90s) of cheap, horrible DACs that flooded the market.
Even at that time, medium to good DAC owners back then had nothing to gain by adding this to their chain. Even back then, so you can imagine today.
The money it'll cost you to buy it, mod it and add a proper power supply to it? You add the money from selling your current DAC too? You'll buy a hell of a lot better.

My 2 BAs, 1 MA, 1 PhD, 40+ years of professional experience personal 2 cents. Discard freely

* apologies for 104756 edits, oldfartitis!
** i just PMed you as well, double apologies if this isn't theoretical, but is instead a purchase; didn't even consider it while typing. Sincerely sorry if so. Would have framed it more diplomatically!

 

[g4ndr1k]

 

[Passenger11]

WOW ..,