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RE: DAC 2.1 Level C with C-core output transformers

Posted by xaudiomanx on March 5, 2009 at 11:48:41:
Just because they wrote it's gospel. I guess I'll have to go with as well. I as well, deal with what I think to be top of the liners but at the end of the day I make my evaluations with my ears. I was at one time a cool aid drinker myself but since I found out how bad cool aid was for your health I started drinking water. Yup! Just plain water. It works for me.

Give me a break with these audio rooms. Been there, done that! They put the best of the best they have to offer and then add on to that as well. I know! Turn down the lights as well! Been there, done that also! Hey! We're listening to a movie without the video. That is not the norm. If it all works together take out one component and substitute for say something of another brand. That is the norm more than not. But I think we are getting off the track here.

Bye the way, those test results is not under actual operating conditions. It's like a 2 cylinder car that hit 150 MPH for a split second downhill. Now they can claim it hits 150MPH. You drive cars(I assume). Did you really ever get the mileage on the window sticker as offered by the car company?

I know I can't hear in the range of its limitations but going full out gives the prior frequencies the ability be heard better.

Maybe the DAC was a 4.1. I can't remember at this time. It was their latest and greatest of that time(it was so long ago). It was about $30K or the thereabouts. I don't get into astronomical numbers. I do know after I bypassed the output section and put in my own 26 tube output section the DAC did much better. I think they were 6922 tubes at the time and they aren't the best choice to my ears anyway. If I am going triode, DHT's are the best to me.

As for power supplies I do know the AN circuits quite well. Nothing that hasn't been done before a million times over. The designer just makes it prettier than others.

I A-Bed a modified( I made a much larger power supply) Bottlehead 300B against the AN 300B SET amp. I think it was the Conquest or Conquerer(something like that). It used one 300B tube. Again, it was a long time ago. They were both right there and when you take the cost factor even modified the Bottlehead was the better amp. If the AN was better, it was better looking! Oh I forgot to say I used a Magnequest output tranny. That was one of the Bottlehead upgrades.

Well, maybe I'll see you at that show! Keep in touch with that. I usually don't go to them because of the same rhetoric.

If you want the real deal go the the Serious Audio website. Dennis Fraker builds some mean stuff. Very expensive and for the life of me I have no idea why but it sure does sound good.

Still! $5000 for transformers? Tell me there's no profit there! That's plain nuts! I would like an actual list of all the amps he sold with those or just the trannies. Nothing, and I do mean nothing, warrants that number. Even if he took a month to make just that pair only, it wouldn't warrant that number.