What DAC do you use Choirboy?
What DAC do you use Choirboy?
Mana Acoustics Racks / Bright Star IsoNodes Decoupling >> Allo DigiOne Player >> Pedja Rogic's Audial Model S DAC + Pioneer PL-71 turntable / Vista Audio phono-1 mk II / Denon PCL-5 headshell / Reson Reca >> LFD DLS >> LFD PA2M (SE) >> Royd RR3s.
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I'm Nat-andthat'swhyIdrink.
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I'm Nat-andthat'swhyIdrink.
P.S. Are the cables shielded at all or just the two concentricly, counter-spiraled conductor paths?
Vinyl: Pro-Ject Xpression MkII + Speedbox MKII + Goldring 1042MM
CD: Cambridge Audio 851C
Network: Bluesound Node 2
Amps: Musical Fidelity A5CR Pre / Power (JS Audio full upgrade)
Speakers: Harbeth Monitor 30.1
Cabling: Tellurium Q Black Diamond / Studio Connections Black Star / Graditech Kide Digital
Mains: James Audio MK7 Power Conditioner, Studio Connections Black Star, Synergistic Research Orange fuses
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Vinyl: Pro-Ject Xpression MkII + Speedbox MKII + Goldring 1042MM
CD: Cambridge Audio 851C
Network: Bluesound Node 2
Amps: Musical Fidelity A5CR Pre / Power (JS Audio full upgrade)
Speakers: Harbeth Monitor 30.1
Cabling: Tellurium Q Black Diamond / Studio Connections Black Star / Graditech Kide Digital
Mains: James Audio MK7 Power Conditioner, Studio Connections Black Star, Synergistic Research Orange fuses
Support: Creaktiv Rack, Hi-Fi Racks 30.1, Black Ravioli
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I'm David.
Only if it's a full-blown review, otherwise all cable discussion should go into The Artist's Palette.
However, that said, there's nothing wrong with Michael adding a few thoughts about the Slics on his Gallery thread.
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Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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I'm David.
Location: London
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I'm Nat-andthat'swhyIdrink.
I appreciate the young man bit! Thanks. I guess you if you know.. do you know?
I'm not sure if shielding is always a benefit or not but has been on my mind recently regarding Oyaide cables etc .. just got some old Deltec Black Slink ICs with the shield as a seperate earth, wasn't sure if I heard a bit more of a freshness to the sound or if it was a one-way observation via auditory memory from the night before, will have to try again.
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I'm David.
The SLIC is shielded, personally I have done listening tests with and without and a couple of my testers have and it works, well the type of shielding I use does.
I also sent out 2 identical cables with oyaide 510 cable both had the same plugs on, one was with shielding one without
The shielded one sounded marginally better.