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In Reply to: RE: yes, I did. posted by bouncy ball on February 24, 2015 at 06:23:48
Funny you should mention that......
several years ago I thought about making modular components for amp building; psu, opts, drivers, etc. I was thinking of the ease of trying different amps.
I never did get around to trying it, but your post has me fired up again for several reasons.
As you say, it wouldn't be portable, but it might be worth it for the results. Nice work on your diy components, they look great.
I appreciate the info on your experience. It appears I am going to have to dig deeper to find out why I am not hearing a large difference as several people are now saying they did under similar conditions as mine. I would suspect my hearing except for the fact that my wife could not hear much difference between them either and she is younger than me. Could have something to do with my listening environment as it is in a large room with concrete floor and block walls. Will have to check into that too i guess.
BTW, what are those great looking speakers you have there?
Edits: 02/24/15Follow Ups:
Vinnie,
What is night and day to someone might not be to you. In all my years in audio and I listened to a great deal of things over the years in every aspect of the hobby. I have heard differences where others have said it was night and day and to me it was there but not night and day. I can't say what they hear but I can say what I hear and I think I am pretty good at listening critically and casually.
My friend came over and rearranged my room to fit his taste. I thought it sucked but he liked it better than what I had. I put everything back the way I had it and it was back to my taste. Same stuff, different placement(mainly speakers and wires) and it all changed for him, the better, and for me the worse.
So for someone to say that because you don't hear something, to me is not a correct statement. You hear or don't hear what someone else hears or doesn't hear. You say tomato(long "a"), I say tomato(short "a"). Who's right? You decide. Not someone else.
I do believe that is the situation I am dealing with in my case. I think I am going to stop worrying about it and build the best psu I can and then use it to decide what tubes sound the best to me.
Plain and simple! The "best" power supply is one that works and is reliable. Nothing more! Nothing less!
After you get it to work then play with parts and things that might affect the sound(caps, resistors). But just get it to work first. You might just find that the plain and simple is what you were looking for.
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