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Ditto on the great job, DaMnEd! Interestingly, my OPA Earth in Frankie does NOT have the earth wire connected, because I have the 1uF PIO BA mod on mine and it's not needed. Like PP, I have stunning stereo separation and big soundstage. Yet, on my KHA amps, I have the later generation OPA Moon HDAMs with the 1uF box caps and I HAVE connected the ground wires on them (as we're supposed to with the box cap modules) and have that same stunning separation. Kingwa does say that technically the modules are better with the ground connected, if not sonically.
My ears and heart tell me that the communication skills of these marvelous HDAMs used in conjunction with the Frankie mods are taking me/us beyond a level of what can be measured. What's interesting is that the distortion specs are not that great, yet what's coming out of the RCA jacks is far less distorted in a musical communication sense than any op-amp ever did, in virtually every way that musically matters.
Also, you're on the money with HomeGrown Audio, they have the gorgeous silver plated LOK RCA connectors too. My White Zombie La Cacanya silver cables came with them on and I was so impressed that I found out where WZ got them from and ordered a set!
S-Man
Originally Posted by DaMnEd /img/forum/go_quote.gif Thanks Peete! RMAA's for the Earth module w/Ground: OPA-EARTH - 16-bit 44 kHz w/Ground OPA-EARTH - 24-bit 96 kHz w/Ground So, as expected, connecting the ground also clears the Crosstalk on the Earth module, Excellent results! The ZERO with the OPA-Earth w/ground pretty much give the best RMAA's of all tested combos! So the tests pretty much matches the opinion most of us had, the Earth is the best sounding option for the ZERO DAC! |
Ditto on the great job, DaMnEd! Interestingly, my OPA Earth in Frankie does NOT have the earth wire connected, because I have the 1uF PIO BA mod on mine and it's not needed. Like PP, I have stunning stereo separation and big soundstage. Yet, on my KHA amps, I have the later generation OPA Moon HDAMs with the 1uF box caps and I HAVE connected the ground wires on them (as we're supposed to with the box cap modules) and have that same stunning separation. Kingwa does say that technically the modules are better with the ground connected, if not sonically.
My ears and heart tell me that the communication skills of these marvelous HDAMs used in conjunction with the Frankie mods are taking me/us beyond a level of what can be measured. What's interesting is that the distortion specs are not that great, yet what's coming out of the RCA jacks is far less distorted in a musical communication sense than any op-amp ever did, in virtually every way that musically matters.
Also, you're on the money with HomeGrown Audio, they have the gorgeous silver plated LOK RCA connectors too. My White Zombie La Cacanya silver cables came with them on and I was so impressed that I found out where WZ got them from and ordered a set!
S-Man