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- Sat Aug 13, 2011 3:59 pm
- Forum: Your Fave Artists
- Topic: recommendations to try?
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the best way i could think of to get new music ive never heard before was to go on fleabay. go into records then albums and it will give millions of lps. it also gives categories down the left hand side. i then went into several categories and picked out the first lp that came up at 99p. bid a quid...
- Sat Aug 13, 2011 3:52 pm
- Forum: Solid State
- Topic: Help me decide which ebay dac please?
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- Sat Aug 13, 2011 3:51 pm
- Forum: Solid State
- Topic: Help me decide which ebay dac please?
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- Sat Aug 13, 2011 3:50 pm
- Forum: Solid State
- Topic: Help me decide which ebay dac please?
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Phil, this transformer may work, seller has two. Paul, I could pipe up some more but I'm going to keep this short. Somewhere I have a spare pair of Sowter 8920's. They are a 1:2 input transformer. I'd reverse them and use as a 2:1 step-down. Put a small resistor (maybe 50R-100R) in series with each...
- Sat Aug 13, 2011 2:12 pm
- Forum: Solid State
- Topic: Help me decide which ebay dac please?
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- Sat Aug 13, 2011 2:08 pm
- Forum: Solid State
- Topic: Help me decide which ebay dac please?
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- Sat Aug 13, 2011 2:06 pm
- Forum: Solid State
- Topic: Help me decide which ebay dac please?
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Phil, this transformer may work, seller has two. Personally not convinced a transformer would add value, and certainly would influence like any unnecessary component. If it stepped down it may add benefit of driving the interconnect and we can afford to give up half the voltage, which would net us 4...
- Sat Aug 13, 2011 11:30 am
- Forum: Solid State
- Topic: Help me decide which ebay dac please?
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OK call me impetuous I spent a few seconds googling and ended up ordering this one
shortest route to a change unplug one 8 legged piece of sand and push in an alternative. has to be tried as a baseline.
shortest route to a change unplug one 8 legged piece of sand and push in an alternative. has to be tried as a baseline.
- Sat Aug 13, 2011 11:19 am
- Forum: Solid State
- Topic: Help me decide which ebay dac please?
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- Sat Aug 13, 2011 10:59 am
- Forum: Solid State
- Topic: Help me decide which ebay dac please?
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Yep, as you say Paul you need a good TX in that part. Its not as demanding as in the case of a MC stage as the signal is 2v RMS. If I was going to try that I would suggest something on a Ni core, one of Daves little ones possibly. Ungapped as there is no current in the primary if you take it betwee...
- Sat Aug 13, 2011 10:56 am
- Forum: Solid State
- Topic: Help me decide which ebay dac please?
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- Sat Aug 13, 2011 10:12 am
- Forum: Solid State
- Topic: Help me decide which ebay dac please?
- Replies: 430
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OK the pdf of the DAC is here It states that the minimum AC load is 1k the minimum DC load is 1k5 and the maximum capacitive load is 25pf. with which information we can plan. Now I don't know what the capacitance of your typical interconnect is, but if we put this DAC on our power amp and hotwire it...
- Sat Aug 13, 2011 9:14 am
- Forum: Solid State
- Topic: Help me decide which ebay dac please?
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Oddly I don't recall other people enthusing about Peters phono stage, perhaps one or at most two said something after the event, but as far as I recall I am the only person who has persistently praised it. Forgive me if there is another. This implies I may be wrong. But my memory of the audience's f...
- Sat Aug 13, 2011 8:36 am
- Forum: Solid State
- Topic: Help me decide which ebay dac please?
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Sorry I need to explain myself more fully. Don't forget I have always stayed clear of the low level domain. When I had mc cartridges I found a good transformer to do the lift and went with MM levels thereafter. That worked well for me was simple so I stuck with that. Once at the MM level there were ...
- Sat Aug 13, 2011 8:13 am
- Forum: Solid State
- Topic: Help me decide which ebay dac please?
- Replies: 430
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Thanks for the link Phil. My experience of cheap low level transformers is not worth it. With transformers you can make things worse very easily. How come otl amps sound so good? Not against transformers, just when they are used they must be properly matched, have sufficient primary L (which those d...