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If you can, hold on to the PS Audio DL III for another 30 days so we can hear about your perceptions after that period of time. Steve
Terry, While it is true that each person may hear frequencies and tones differently, the characteristics of music playback that you are looking for seems to be a description of what we all are looking for. Tube rolling may be less of which brand and model of tubes in general sound good to our ears, but more of which tube has near perfect synergy to the circuitry of a particular model component. If you can, hold on to the PS Audio DL III for another 30 days so we can hear about your perceptions after that period of time. Steve
Sounds like it has been a long but fun journey to find the right sound.Your statement about knowing what your tastes are and then being able to articulate that to a knowledgeable Vendor is spot on.I can also attest that you have it exactly what describes the Mazda sound, although some vintages are better than others. It also sounds like you would like some of the more expensive Telefunkens.Nice post.
Too late! It's been in my system for about a week now, and he isn't getting it back. HAHA!
That's an interesting idea, something that TJHUB has experimented with, but using different speaker cables instead of tubes and SS gear. I'll let him explain better.Welcome to the forums, Houston1!
Quote from: Nuance on 9 Oct 2009, 02:35 amThat's an interesting idea, something that TJHUB has experimented with, but using different speaker cables instead of tubes and SS gear. I'll let him explain better.Welcome to the forums, Houston1!My success with a "hybrid" speaker cable is my own private business Nuance. As a non-believer in cables sounding different, I'd expect you to not throw this information around willy-nilly.
Quote from: TJHUB on 9 Oct 2009, 03:23 amQuote from: Nuance on 9 Oct 2009, 02:35 amThat's an interesting idea, something that TJHUB has experimented with, but using different speaker cables instead of tubes and SS gear. I'll let him explain better.Welcome to the forums, Houston1!My success with a "hybrid" speaker cable is my own private business Nuance. As a non-believer in cables sounding different, I'd expect you to not throw this information around willy-nilly. Its so hard to tell when you're joking or serious on a forum. Come on - the man wants to get a feel for how things will work out. Help a brother out.
Hi,I haven't read your whole thread but I'm wondering what level of quality parasound preamps and amplifiers are in your system?I have a pair of ht2's (non tl) and they are a very good speaker. I find that every time I either purchase a really good cd or perhaps a component change they really rise to the occasion. Its pretty easy to hear any differences.I currently have 2 dacs i.e. bel canto dac 2 and perpetual technologies p3a (modwright level 2) and to be honest the differences are fairly minor. My advice would be to listen to a number of different components in your system to ascertain which component will give you they best bang for buck.Btw I think that the salk speakers are that good I've spent about $5500US on a new amplifier that I'm importing to Australia.I hope you go well with your search and take my comments for what they are intended as friendly advice .RegardsRod
Hi,Glad to hear that you have find a replacement that you like. Jim's speakers certainly do reveal any issues further up the chain and poor quality recordings don't sound that good on these speakers but every now and again I come across a gem of a recording and it sounds great on my system.Interestingly enough I've just removed my tube preamp from my system and I'm currently using a bel canto pre1 that I really like at the moment.Best wishesRod
: Nice to meet you again TJHUB. I replied to your query on another blog asking if there were any more users of MH DAC 25.2 out there. Then the thread was sabotaged.Just an update: I have been using a NOS Siemens Cca tube in place of the Mullard in my MH DAC and it does souind terrific. Even some CDs that I had given up as a lost cause now sound quite acceptable. My 'litmus test' for a DAC (or a CD player) is to listen to chamber music through it. I have CDs and SACDs of quite a few of the standard works and have been ignoring them for years because I couldn't bear the shrill ness and edginess of the sound. I wasn't sure what the culprit was, but now I'm pretty sure that it was mainly the old DAC that I was using before getting the MH. Mind you ! thatb DAC was consderably betterthan just using the DAC in my SONY XA777 or whatever. As I said inthe now dead thread, I am now looking suspiciously at my Polk LSi 15 speakers. I also hear that there will soon be an upgrade for my Nuforce Amps to V3. They are currently V1 so I hope that I can leapfrog over V2.I'm also tempted by a new 6922 tube, but I'll let someone else try it out first because it's expensive. Any one curious about this tube can find details at: http://www.kosmic.us/crl-gold-interconnect.html Cavafy
Well, I'm glad that I strayed onto this thread because I now know what my next speakers are going to be, even if I have to wait 3 months for Jim Salk to build them. I have been wanting to move up from my Polks for some time now but I was finding it very difficult to decide between several (too) expensive options. It seems to me that, once you have a chain of fairly decent equipment - not big-bucks but well above Circuit City - then the next upgrade should be to very good speakers otherwise you won't really be able to hear the difference that upgrading some other component really makes. Reading this forum it seems that the Salks really are something special; I reckon that 3 months is about the time I need to save for the HT3s anyway.
