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At the risk of shooting myself in the foot and being trampled in the stampede, if you hadn't noticed already the ultimate full monty TC-7520 mods have gone live at Tirna Electronics. :)
So for the electronically challenged like me there's no excuse, apart from the little matter of having the necessary cash.:(
He he mine is already at Tirna's :eyebrows:
Been there....done that.... :ner:
Ah.... but I am getting some extra's and so is Dave :eyebrows::eyebrows::eyebrows:
That me being left out the loop again Jerry? ;)
G'wan, spill the beans..its a nice drive from Motherwell to West Linton, and it'd be a shame to let this good weather go to waste? :)
What do you mean again?
All we got done extra was the 12K resistor and the shortcut mod. Jimmy offered so we couldn't refuse......:eek:
Is you e-mail ok? I sent you a message yesterday asking about how the Beresford was sounding afeter a few days use and Dave has been trying to contact you as well.:scratch:
Uhm..should be Jerry?
I'm back to using MS Outlook for my mail after a reinstall, so possible theres a filter somewhere thats causing a problem, dunno.
Will check.
About the upgrades...
I noticed even as recent as last week the Dac was sounding better than before..
actually, I noticed it more when I took the Lightspeed out of the system to pack it up and sort it for return it to Dave..very happy with how its sounding! :eek:
I suspect its the Elnas finally coming on song rather than the Lightspeed "strangling" the improvements...
Hows yours with the wire and resistor mod?
I've read the resistor mod can make the bass a bit TOO much?
How did you find it Jerry?
(and Dave too, if your out there!!) :)
Not got mine back from Tirna yet Gaz but I am worried about the resistor mod as I can very easily get bass boom in my little music room. Still shouldn't be tooooo difficult to change back:donk:
Looking fwd to hearing what you think of it Jerry....this and the Elna caps should be quite a jump all at once.
The Elna's really do open the sound right up..just give them time to settle.
I was saying to Dave to give the new caps some time to settle in, after a couple of weeks I thought the sound had settled.
4/5 weeks after installation is about the time to allow in my experience.
It the 12k resistor/wire mod doesnt get in the way of that I can see myself going for it.
An extra bit of heft in the bass (as long as its still tight and doesnt boom) would not be a bad thing in my system, so maybe this latest mod which gives more bass and greater dynamic range might be just what I'm after...?
I have my Amp on "Direct" and have the tone controls switched out of circuit in my amp, but I tried them with just a touch extra bass and the sound benefited from it.
Treble was all over the place though...tone controls switched off pretty sharpish!
After stumbling onto this site and seeing what you could with this DAC, I just had t order one.
Just got mine yesterday, played some FLAC files through it via USB and then from my Sonos (both sounded the same). What I really liked about the USB setup was the ability to tweak the sound a bit using Media Monkey's EQ. The heaphones sounded great, my 703's are begging to be revealed further :)
As I work for a company that assemblies printed circuit boards, I already have the Wolfson DAC, Elna Caps, and about 6 different Op amps en-route! I am really looking to see how good this unit can sound. My last endeavor was modding an Auzentech X Meridian sound card with some LM 4562's and replacing some caps. The sound was pretty awesome.
I have a feeling this DAC is going to be something else. Thanks for all the contributions from all the members on AoS.......