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Our Maggies as well as many others have greatly improved by removing the steel "U" pin and inserting a piece of speaker wire. Helped a great deal taming the ribbons. Any good copper based wire or the same as your speaker cables. Nirvana jumpers worked wonders for us. Our Maggie 3As have 3.6 ribbons installed. Oh my !! Give it a try. Nice to know about the Peactree DAC thanks.charlesSMA
Do all Maggies have this steel "U" pin? It would seem that steel is a strange choice of material for something in the signal path of an audiophile product. Does any know why steel?
Or just eliminate the jumpers altogether along with that nasty fuse. Takes about 3 minutes to pull off the panel and rewire (Okay, the first one is 10 minutes, but the second one is 3 minutes after you know what you're doing). Sounds even better than using a good jumper material.
As far as your DAC is concerned yes the ESS Sabre chip is a great chip and is slowly being adapted in many very high in dacs, its the audio section that you are really hearing. All modern day dac chips are very good now but how the company deals with the power supply for the audio section and the design for the audio section is what really matters. I do not have any experience with Peach Tree stuff. I know it gets good reviews. I built the Twisted Pear Buffalo II dac which uses ESS chips. They presently have two different audio boards and many different PS's for one to build a system that fits the system that is going into. I think it is pretty good stuff, sounds very sweet with signals from either my CD transport or my SB Touch.