SET bliss/Jazz Haven (In my home).Thanks Charles. The two black caps on the board right in front of the RCA's are the ones to look at. They should be your output caps. You would only have two feeding the RCA outputs. Are the RCA ja... posted almost 13 years ago | View comment | |
SET bliss/Jazz Haven (In my home).Yes those black caps (actually black covered caps) are your output caps and are very, very important. The total signal passes through them just before going out the rca's. Change those! They may ha... posted almost 13 years ago | View comment | |
SET bliss/Jazz Haven (In my home).Thanks Charles. The two black caps on the board right in front of the RCA's are the ones to look at. They should be your output caps. You would only have two feeding the RCA outputs. Are the RCA ja... posted almost 13 years ago | View comment | |
SET bliss/Jazz Haven (In my home).Here is another version that looks to be the same really.http://www.tnt-audio.com/sorgenti/yamamoto_yda01_e.htmlAgain, two output caps that are easy to replace and the case has tons... posted almost 13 years ago | View comment | |
SET bliss/Jazz Haven (In my home).Ok Charles I see many internal pics of your DAC. This should be yours, if not please load a link for us too see an actual picture.http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/yamamoto8/dac.html posted almost 13 years ago | View comment | |
SET bliss/Jazz Haven (In my home).fYI, my amp mod is easily reversed should I ever sell. I will try and find internal pics of your dac. I bet it can be done and be a nice step up. posted almost 13 years ago | View comment | |
SET bliss/Jazz Haven (In my home).Six? Perhaps in parallel? Perhaps replace with two larger value CAST? If not, I placed my Duelund cast caps in an outboard box as they would not fit in my amp. A nice rosewood mini box. Easy to do.... posted almost 13 years ago | View comment | |
SET bliss/Jazz Haven (In my home).Charles, just imagine what they would do an a position that impacts the total signal, not just the high frequencies. You can see why my preamp/amp mod was a revelation?!Ok, your DAC uses tw... posted almost 13 years ago | View comment | |
SET bliss/Jazz Haven (In my home).Great designers don't necessarily have the time or passion for boutique parts. Frankly, many don't think they can make that big of a difference. The feeling is we Aphiles are just being our crazy s... posted almost 13 years ago | View comment | |
SET bliss/Jazz Haven (In my home).It looked like the inductors in the speakers were standard solid core copper wire/air core. No reason to only consider Duelund as the Mundorf or even the Goertz copper foil inductors are affordable... posted almost 13 years ago | View comment | |
SET bliss/Jazz Haven (In my home).Well the placement of the cap looks like the work was really pretty easy. Nice job! Enjoy the sound!I don't want to make you think too much, but Duelund also makes great sounding resistors ... posted almost 13 years ago | View comment | |
SET bliss/Jazz Haven (In my home).Look forward to hearing your impressions. Please give it some break in as those are huge caps. They will open up more with time. posted almost 13 years ago | View comment | |
SET bliss/Jazz Haven (In my home).Well, are the CAST caps in your speakers Charles? Looking forward to your comments. posted almost 13 years ago | View comment | |
Upgrading again.FYI, I am running an Aesthetix Atlas hybrid amp on my Nola Ref speakers and the match is killer. Best of tubes and SS all in one refined amp that seems made for the Nola. posted almost 13 years ago | View comment | |
Sounds GoodYes indeed. I have tried going the passive route and while some are very good like the Lightspeed, in the end they left me wanting. I missed the richness and emotion of the music. Let us kn... posted over 13 years ago | View comment | |
Booboo's DenBooboo, I would gladly take those soon to be outclassed 200's off your hands when the 400's come in. Trade for a power cord :-) posted over 13 years ago | View comment | |
Booboo's DenBooboo,I use Paul's solid core copper power cables and they are really a must on his pre and amps. I have also owned his solid core copper ic's and still use his speaker cable. I think the ... posted over 13 years ago | View comment | |
Sounds GoodHi Mitch, I have also owned the Vibe preamp and tried it with the Pulse power supply and standard power supply. This is a great preamp. Very natural sounding and relaxed. The music swells as you tu... posted over 13 years ago | View comment | |
The Three M=Maggie, Mcintosh and MyeVery nice system and I bet the Mac 402 amp is great with these new Maggie speakers. Nice combo indeed! posted about 14 years ago | View comment | |
A Really Fyne Show on the Horizon!I have the Romance I and they are wonderful. Eric is making me some jumpers now for my Soundlab speakers. posted about 14 years ago | View comment | |
A Really Fyne Show on the Horizon!Walter before you commit you must try Eric Love's Romance cables. Based on your system and the sound you like you must call Eric.I tried and owned gold based cables and agree with you.The R... posted about 14 years ago | View comment | |
A Really Fyne Show on the Horizon!I would love to hear your speakers as they are very interesting. I just read all of the reviews and went to the website to read more. Based on my reading I would think a nice tube amp would... posted about 14 years ago | View comment | |
Booboo's DenBooboobear, funny typing in your username. Love your system Boo and lust after your amps! Very nice system indeed. The Dude with those amps and wonderful speakers must make sweet music in your home... posted about 14 years ago | View comment | |
My first real system!!! Opinions???Good choice on the Rogue pre. I would also consider a used Rogue 66. For powercords and IC's I highly reccommend Audio Horizons Transparency. I use this wire throughout my system and it has transfo... posted over 19 years ago | View comment | |
There goes the new carNice job on your posts - great detail. I own the same speaker as you know. Three things come to mind,* Get two packages of Fostex sound reflectors and place 3 in each upper horn and two in ... posted about 20 years ago | View comment |