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In Reply to: Re: Sshhhh! posted by tcain on February 14, 2005 at 07:43:28:
Yeah but you can't recover from problems that are caused elsewhere in your system with a another piece of equipment, you have to change it, mask it! So do we want the ZH-270 to start masking problems you have elsewhere? That is the question!There is no way for the amp to know what is missing and what to add or take away, where, how much of it, when! So when a amp tries to mask problems, most music come out with the same type of characteristics, losing it's individuality and with other short comings.
You know this is another one of my interest, if one were to look carefully at systems with amps that have certain characteristics, you will see that these people predominantly listen to a certain type of music to match what sounds best on their system, the system seem to influence their taste in music (or at least what they listen to more often), so if you're looking for honey, all you may end up doing is listening to bees :)
The ZH-270 does not do one specific thing perfect but more like everything right, we give you a clean canvas, paint what you will.
So in 20 years digital will catch up, good thing is your ZH will still be working and most likely have the same tubes in it.
As for the design, absolutely will go down in the chronicles of time, especially when those scientist find out what's the true cause of global warming :) LOL
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> > Yeah but you can't recover from problems that are caused elsewhere in your system with a another piece of equipment, you have to change it, mask it!==Every source has problems like ABC.....
All I am saying is there are better volume pots than the one that comes stock in the 270. Way better pots.
I listen to ALL music and not insects, thank you. I care very much about sound and it's reproduction. If I were modding any 270, the very first thing I would do is replace the volume pot with a copper based xfrmr type control. The stock volume pot colors the sound more than one of these types ever would.
At least stick in a stepper attenuator w fixed resistors like a DACT. That wiper pot alone could be the source of the dryness reported occaisionally with 270. With the VRS/Lynx hard disk based system as well as analog the 270 is largely unchallenged. So far the only cost no object system that meets or beats it is a massive 45 mono amp with silver and dual gaseous power supplies. Part of why this meets and beats the 270 is the exquisite parts like the DACT attenuator. No amp is perfect. And the weak link in the 270 is the volume pot. Of course the amp is an object-d-art, and why I don't want mine modded. All I am saying is that there is always room for improvement.
Actually the pot is not dry, it's neutral, causing some digital to sound dry, we have alleviated this problem with changing the DC blocking cap to a very high quality one, which are now standard on all new ZH-270's.Yes, a higher quality attenuator will sound good but so would changing a lot of things in the ZH-270, having over a thousand parts, it could be a never ending goal.
However that said, maybe Dave is working on something that will be priced accordingly with all the necessary audio parts to appease everyone, just maybe ;) Oh, minus any trannies ;(
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