After 45 years since starting this venture, off and on designing everything from scratch, the end
appears extremely close.
I have the dac tonally balanced with the last polyprope installed, via teeter/totter with the speaker,
and just ordered the rest of Jenalabs 6N pure all copper wire for the speaker leads. Probably be
necessary to bend the inductor lead to tweak the highs and bend another inductor lead to tweak the
bass.
I have been bypassing the x ohm resistor that balances the woofer to the full range driver (frd) with
various very high ohmage resistors. Will see what value is optimal. Visitors may prefer a different
high value resistor of course.
Cheers
steve
That is exciting to hear, Steve. Nice that you are able to fine tune your system so precisely. I have not used any Jenalads products to date. I do have another Neotech silver/gold IC coming. I do like the sound a bit better than just high purity silver. Also have a Class D amp coming that's similar to my Orchard Starkrimson, but with a different power supply. This is from Spiritual Sound on the east coast and the owner wants me to try his power cord as well. I am happy that I switched dacs to the Holo Cyan2.
As to your dac, I forgot if you stayed with that original Schiit dac or if you got an upgraded version and continued the mods on that one.
Thanks Nick. Going to all polyprope capacitors in the power supplies in the entire system (except HV main amp
supply that is bypassed with polyprope) makes for a real challenge as one can go much deeper into the inner
detail.
Amazing how different materials alter the sonics of a musical signal, but then is real science. Power supplies
affected by power cords, especially in typical amps that have less filtering in the power supply. Sounds like the
same with Class D amps as well. Interesting.
I finally finished the analog power supply capacitors for the Modi 2 with Mundorf EVO in oil types. I suppose
I might get 6" more total width with a Denafrips or Meitner dac, not worried, and even wonder about
distortions created by other dacs analog sections. Afterall, the analog stages in dacs are very cheap versions of preamplifiers, except without the volume controls.
For newbies, this selection might sound weird, but imo really reveals the transparency of Jeannette's voice,
the ambience, and clapping from the audience etc. It is difficult for me to explain, but when the
orchestra starts, the orchestra just seems to get lost in the venues ambience. But in the string "Reference
Top Notch etc", in the "Music Discussion", there are other selections one can also check out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_uo_3armwECheers and will see how it goes when Jenny's wire comes.
steve
ps. I don't wish to sound arrogant, but I am the only one, that I know of, that actually can test if my amplifier alters
the sonics with a stable load, via proprietary, specialized listening tests. I know of no other designer/manufacturer
who has performed such testing. Specs mean virtually nothing concerning sound quality.