MY Place sbayneI did a massive overall to my system. I've added pictures. Details to come. posted 13 days ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneI finally got the power cords figured out for the Modwright Signature Truth SCD XA5400ES. The power supply needs a solid core cable and the player itself sounds best with multi-strand. I'm using a ... posted 5 months ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneThe Modwright Signature Truth SCD XA5400ES cd player is driving me crazy. I think I finally have it broken-in but it uses a power cord for the external power supply and a power cord for the player ... posted 5 months ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneI have a large CD collection and when I saw a Modwright Signature Truth SCD XA5400ES for sale at a very reasonable price I went ahead and got it. I added blue Sophia Electric 6SN7 tubes to the outp... posted 6 months ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneI've come full circle regarding a tube system. About 10 years ago, my system was all Shindo and I worked with the late Art Dudley to build a pair of field coil Altec Valencia horn speakers. Tens of... posted 6 months ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneI've updated my system pictures. They show I had to take the top cover off the MHDT Orchid DAC to accommodate the Sophia Electric blue 6SN7. I've added a picture of the power supply for the Line M... posted 7 months ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneI've been rolling various tubes through the MHDT Orchid DAC. With adapters you can roll the 6922/ECC88/6DJ8 family and the 6SN7/5692 family which are in addition to the "normal" 5670/2C51/396A fami... posted 7 months ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneBeen spending time with my Line Magnetic LM-845 Premium integrated amp that I recently purchased. It's a 845 tube based, 30 watt Class A high current amp. The 300B and 310A drive tubes have been up... posted 8 months ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneAnother significant change is my use of Vera-Fi Audio's SnubWay and MainStream. I found I no longer needed my Puritan PSM156 once I started using these products. Highly recommended and an excellent... posted 8 months ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneMilpai - agreed the Inakustik are excellent. posted 8 months ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneI haven't posted for over 3 months but I've been busy with my system. The Aria Audio Signature MK2 Class A amp continues to impress me with its pure musicality regardless of what preamp I use with ... posted 8 months ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneI've added Inakustik Referenz LS-2404 Air interconnects and speaker cables to my system. These are meticulously made open-weave copper cables. Each strand is separated to insure an air insulation b... posted about 1 year ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneI recently saw that Synergistic Research may come out with a Black Box that is intended to sit on top of another Black Box. This makes sense to me because the Black Box is an acoustic resonator. I'... posted about 1 year ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneI've gone all-in on the Swiss Digital Fuse Boxes. I now have one in my amp, streamer and DAC. The sluggos have been driving me a little crazy though. After much listening and break-in time I've con... posted about 1 year ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayne"A Les Paul Gold Top into a Fender Tweed amp. Nice!" Thanks. I bought them locally and got good deals. Just keeping them as investments -- my playing is not nearly good enough for that caliber of c... posted about 1 year ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneI was a little surprised that Bill Dion's (Grannyring) highly modified personal Orchid DAC recently came up for sale. I've worked with Bill in the past on some mods and crossovers so I knew the mod... posted about 1 year ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneI've recently added a Swiss Digital Fuse Box to my power amp. It replaces the fuse in your component with a pure copper "sluggo". The "sluggo"comes in various types depending on what coating, if an... posted about 1 year ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneNo doubt the Allegri is an excellent performer but the Mr. K unit is better overall in its soundstaging and dynamics. I did some serious listening today with an an audiophile friend and he thought... posted about 1 year ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneI continue to be amazed that audiophiles who pay thousands for high-end equipment don't give it adequate time to fully break-in. I recently bought a used passive preamp that has extremely high-qual... posted about 1 year ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneI've recently added a Mr. K autoformer based passive preamp.Its hand built and extremely high quality. Excellent soundstage and dynamics.... posted about 1 year ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneI've added a SR Galileo SX Grounding Block to my system. The system is absolutely quiet at idle and music just seems to pop a little more from the background. Getting good grounding cables for it h... posted over 1 year ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbaynemilpai - Yep, I had the same problem. If you look closely at the picture I have the power cord in the top outlet into the wall and the 3 prong in the bottom plug so there is no space issues. Howeve... posted over 1 year ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneI've been asked if I still use subs with my Moabs. Previously, I used a distributed sub array with 4 subs. After a lot of listening with my new Aria amp I decided to take the sub array out for a wh... posted over 1 year ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneThe latest change I've made is to incorporate a Tombo Audio resonator into my system. I use LOTS of resonators. Some of them I've made myself and some from Synergistic Research. The Tombo Audio wor... posted over 1 year ago | View comment | |
MY Place sbayneI'm now using a Border Patrol DAC that is R2R non-oversampling. It has a tube rectified power supply, choke input and Jupiter caps. The sound is very natural and pure with a very large sound sta... posted over 1 year ago | View comment |