My cables is a larger size of the Summit from what I gathered from recipes and technical aspects of Powercord cables. I made it for 3 leads, and even though the Ta only uses 2 leads, it worked flawlessly. There is an immediate improvements from listening between Power cables, and the main improvements that is noticeable right away was the Bass dynamic and power delivery
Does your power socket have 2 or three pins? Usually they should have 3 pins, but all pictures show the socket with 2 pins. Maybe it's just an Asian thing?
All aftermarket cable support 3 pins. Can't wait to get my ZH1ES. D
Does your power socket have 2 or three pins? Usually they should have 3 pins, but all pictures show the socket with 2 pins. Maybe it's just an Asian thing?
All aftermarket cable support 3 pins. Can't wait to get my ZH1ES. D
No need for ground. It is most often connected to the chassis from the inside anyways. It can get better if you upgrade the inner wires that lead from the female socket into the board pins . This was advertised from EBay and china forum people. This is only example picture, and you can see the 3rd wires go into the chassis. TA does not use it, so we only has 2 main leads.
No need for ground. It is most often connected to the chassis from the inside anyways. It can get better if you upgrade the inner wires that lead from the female socket into the board pins
. This was advertised from EBay and china forum people. This is only example picture, and you can see the 3rd wires go into the chassis. TA does not use it, so we only has 2 main leads.
Lol, could be seen that way, but it made a lot of senses. These wires are typically multi stranded tinned copper, and it is no where as good as Ultra pure OCC....let alone pure silver or even silver gold . If Powercord shows that much improvements, then the last bottle neck would be this inner IC
The one I have is DIY, and as I linked, VHaudio do sell pre assembled Powercord. You can get it here. For how well mine is worth, yeah I do recommend it
The one I have is DIY, and as I linked, VHaudio do sell pre assembled Powercord. You can get it here. For how well mine is worth, yeah I do recommend it
So curious about this amp/DAC! Not looking for any detailed A-B, but wonder if anyone has impressions of Z1HES vs. Grace m902, which seems at a comparable price point. Or even Simaudio Moon Neo 430HA...
So curious about this amp/DAC! Not looking for any detailed A-B, but wonder if anyone has impressions of Z1HES vs. Grace m902, which seems at a comparable price point. Or even Simaudio Moon Neo 430HA...
I don't have the Grace M902 but I can tell you that the Z1HES falls just short of a dedicated top of the line balanced amp such as the GS-X MKII and such but totally best the Oppo HA-1. It even best the Sennheiser HDVD-800 at driving the Senn HD800. I am superbly impressed by the Z1HES. Honest, I don't really think the Grace will stand any chance againt the ZH1ES. Sony is truly back in the game. Not only that it sounds great but the build quality is also the best in the business...and that's including Headamp GS-X MKII.
I don't have the Grace M902 but I can tell you that the Z1HES falls just short of a dedicated top of the line balanced amp such as the GS-X MKII and such but totally best the Oppo HA-1. It even best the Sennheiser HDVD-800 at driving the Senn HD800. I am superbly impressed by the Z1HES. Honest, I don't really think the Grace will stand any chance againt the ZH1ES. Sony is truly back in the game. Not only that it sounds great but the build quality is also the best in the business...and that's including Headamp GS-X MKII.
Thanks for your input, Purk! You sold me. Perhaps Sony can return to their past form when they used to be the cutting edge, e.g., their VFET amps of yesteryear? If so, sign me up.
Yes, I agree with Purk. The TA is an immediate and day/night away from the Ha-1. It is very obvious that TA is just ways better than Ha-1. I don't have other desktop system to compare, but I can tell you that I know what good sounds should be like, and the TA is one of the very few that can express it. Especially the soundstage rendering , separations, the vividity of each layer, and that inner circle of the soundstage rendering is to die for. I have heard all kind, and to have the inner circle and the outer stage rendering to be this Spherical, wide, deep with vivid layering ? It is excellent
The TA in my opinion is worth every penny. The ability to follow an instrument from the beginning of a chord to the end of it, into the vibrator, then reverb....echo effects so vividly and so clear .
I don't have the Grace M902 but I can tell you that the Z1HES falls just short of a dedicated top of the line balanced amp such as the GS-X MKII and such but totally best the Oppo HA-1. It even best the Sennheiser HDVD-800 at driving the Senn HD800. I am superbly impressed by the Z1HES. Honest, I don't really think the Grace will stand any chance againt the ZH1ES. Sony is truly back in the game. Not only that it sounds great but the build quality is also the best in the business...and that's including Headamp GS-X MKII.
By all accounts it's a very nice DAC. One limitation of the design however is that since the DAC and amp are integrated with each other the analog input is converted to digital then back to analog again. Users have stated that the sound quality suffers if you use an external DAC, so there's no real upgrade path with this amp.
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. This was advertised from EBay and china forum people. This is only example picture, and you can see the 3rd wires go into the chassis. TA does not use it, so we only has 2 main leads.
