What's the "79.0"? Is that what it cost!Originally Posted by jandl100
A Bel Canto Pre3 has joined the parade.
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What's the "79.0"? Is that what it cost!
A Bel Canto Pre3 has joined the parade.
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Hi Jerry ... just been browsing through this thread, reminding myself of some of the interesting gear you've tried over the years, and was wondering if you bothered keeping a list (database, even!) of it all? Bet it must be several hundreds of items by now.
Any verdict on Jezz's buffer yet?
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Firstly, Jez's buffer. I feel guilty about that! Unfortunately its arrival coincided with that of the new amps, so it has taken a back seat for now.
Kit history list.
Well, I'm not usually a well organised person and generally potter through life in a haphazard fashion.
But the hifi buying thing is different, and in the interests of keeping finances under reasonable constraint and control I do indeed keep careful records of items bought and sold.
I have annual spreadsheets going back 8 or 9 years or so I think.
So yes, I could list every significant item I have bought or sold and what the value was for that far back.
Hundreds of items.
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Buffer installed. Finally.
Tried it first between my Bel Canto active pre-amp and Pass power amp.
Mmm. Nope. Not beneficial.
Tried it next between my battery powered DAC and the Bel Canto pre.
Nice! - the buffer stays.
Definitely more subtle inflection on dynamics, more 'twang' to plucked instruments. Better delineation of space. More vibrancy, more 'there' there. Better in the room presence. Images are more focused.
Super.
Thanks Jez.
It would be interesting to try it with a passive pre, but I don't have one atm, unfortunately.
It's tidily implemented in the promised cheap plastic enclosure, but will probably be tucked away as it doesn't really match the surrounding bling-boxes.
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I had mine between cd and amp so similar. Is the Napoleon back on top of the Chairman Mao?
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work.... ..... ...... ...... ................... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
FIIO K7 BT, M11 PLUS, BTR7, KA5 - OPPO BDP-103D - PANASONIC UB450 - PANASONIC 4K ULTRA HD TV - PIXEL 6 - AVANTREE LR BLUETOOTH - 2* X600 SOUNDCORE - HEADPHONES INCLUDE, FIIO, NURAPHONES', FOCAL, OPPO, BOSE, CAMBRIDGE, BOWER & WILKINS, DEVIALET, MARSHALL, SONY, MITCHELL & JOHNSTON - 2*ZBOOK'S- MERCURY BD ROM, ROON, QOBUZ, TIDAL, PLEX, CYBERLINK, JRIVER - MULTI HDD'S -
Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?
“Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".
“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”
"You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”
“There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”
***SMILE, BE HAPPY***
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Buffer installed. Finally.
Tried it first between my Bel Canto active pre-amp and Pass power amp.
Mmm. Nope. Not beneficial.
Tried it next between my battery powered DAC and the Bel Canto pre.
Nice! - the buffer stays.
Definitely more subtle inflection on dynamics, more 'twang' to plucked instruments. Better delineation of space. More vibrancy, more 'there' there. Better in the room presence. Images are more focused.
Super.
Thanks Jez.
It would be interesting to try it with a passive pre, but I don't have one atm, unfortunately.
It's tidily implemented in the promised cheap plastic enclosure, but will probably be tucked away as it doesn't really match the surrounding bling-boxes.
Arkless Electronics-Engineered to be better. Tel. 01670 530674 (after 1pm)
Modded Thorens TD150, Audio Technica AT-1005 MkII, Technics EPC-300MC, Arkless Hybrid MC phono stage, Arkless passive pre, Arkless 50WPC Class A SS power amp, (or) Arkless modded Leak Stereo 20, Modded Kef Reference 105/3's
ReVox PR99, Studer B62, Ferrograph Series 7, Tandberg TCD440, Hitachi FT-5500MkI, also FT-5500MkII
Digital: Yamaha CDR-HD1500 (Digital Swiss army knife-CD recorder, player, hard drive, DAC and ADC in one), PC files via 24/96 sound card and SPDIF, modded Philips CD850, modded Philips CD104, modded DPA Little Bit DAC. Sennheiser HD580 cans with Arkless Headphone amp.
Cables- free interconnects that come with CD players, mains leads from B&Q, dead kettles etc, extension leads from Tesco
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A bit baffled by this.
Listened a lot more now to the system with the Jez Buffer installed.
It's a bit subtle at first, but after a while the realisation dawns that it has taken the presentation to a whole new level of naturalness. I really enjoyed my system before, but looking back now, in comparison it was kind of electronic and artificial and flat sounding.
Tonality is richer, lusher more natural - my solid state amps are sounding more like a really good valve amp in that regard. Bass goes deeper and tauter. Images are more 3D and naturally present. Transients are faster but without the added edge that can sometimes fool you. The whole thing is more transparent with better separation of instruments from the ambient background.
Jez used the word organic to describe what he was hearing in his system coupled with a passive pre, and that is exactly the word that comes to me now.
This is easily equivalent to a major component upgrade.
I suppose this sort of component is going to be even more system dependent than others (?) but this little gadget is well worth a try, imho.
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