Here's a shot of a MK 1 amp and preamp owned by friends Rachel and Neville, in for checkup.
I like to see a decent layer of dust on them. Shows how reliable they be!
Also with American amp which does need re-tranny-ing.
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Here's a shot of a MK 1 amp and preamp owned by friends Rachel and Neville, in for checkup.
I like to see a decent layer of dust on them. Shows how reliable they be!
Also with American amp which does need re-tranny-ing.
Lots of winding happening right now.
On the way to the bus in Karangahape Road, Auckland, NZ, I had a natter to this DJ bloke at the entrance to a club.
Genious to have him out in the entrance, and better air for him too.
He said, no he didn't believe in the digital special "DJ" premixed disks a lot use. He'll mix up his own records thank you very much.Attachment 10806
In the above post I was returning after a terrific afternoon at the annual Diwali Festival Of Light, put on by our local Indian community.
Besides many photos, I did make a few videos with my pocket Canon camera.
The tops could be better, but they tend to dissapate outside.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cwd6Wb69ms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZxmMrIZspM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmUi_9L7a4Y
A great loss to all music lovers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrMLt9bMd_I
hi all,
i'm lucky enough to have been lent an audioquest usb/dac
to try.
gave my dad a run with his $200 earbuds and this
year's imac - his response: "more of this" - indicates increased
top to bottom image scale - "and more of this" - spreads arms
to show increased soundstage horizontally.
he's not enough of a headphone listener to buy one -
but he appreciated the gee-whiz high-tech miniature
nature of the thing.
i haven't had a good play with it yet but it didn't really add
much to sound of my overear sennheiser hd 485's and i don't
think it'll drive my ultrasone hifi-680's... could be the trick
for anyone with high class in-ear phones though,
cheers,
adam
p.s. thanks to marco for letting ecofan keep this thread
gently humming along
hi all,
further experiments with phones and dragonfly:
interesting result:
2011 desktop imac - i wouldn't
enjoy listening to either the native output or the
dragonfly here - (as someone said - my ears are
ruined by triodes...)
2012 macbook pro: much cleaner and more
relaxed with native output than imac - much
more bass extension with dragonfly.
neither machine computer with or without
dragonfly really pleasing though the macbook
has the edge. i wasn't expecting such a large
sonic difference with the dragonfly in the 2
computers.
all sources collapsed into nastiness with any
kind of heavy weight bass or e-guitar production
- might just be my midprice sennheisers but
i have heard rather listenable results with other
sources.
don't think i'd be spending up on the dragonfly,
though don't take my word for it, give one a go,
cheers,
adam
Surprising how good this little speaker sounds.
Captured by me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnwJWOLWBls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cwd6Wb69ms
Attachment 11124This hitherto shockingly wired amp will soon be unrecognisable with new power & output transformers and a completely different circuit.
Only new capacitors and LV rectifier needed.Attachment 11125
That's running a 15" electromag speaker in an open back cabinet.
Pickup inside the speaker enclosure of course.