Digital Transformation Complete....for now.
kevhed72
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As some of you know. all my vinyl gear is gone and some of you have PMed on the vinyl itself which I appreciate. Please be patient-I work in an industry which is getting verrrrrry busy this time of the year and after the new CY I will be getting back to you on your inquiries. Back to title of my post. I am loving the convenience and connectivity of the Cambridge CNX v2. I went a step further this week and tubified the rig with a Black Ice Audio Glass FX Tube DAC:
The first owner had installed Hammond 12ax7 tubes which on a very limited trial run sounded way too pronounced in the bass and details in the uppers were lost in the soundstage with music styles from The Orb, Tame Impala, and the uppers were annoying on some assorted ambient music.
It only took about 2 days for the Hammond tubes to come out and enter a pair of 1957 Valvo Long Plates which were bought here and were my favorite tubes when I had my Cary pre in the mix. I only had the Valvos running for about an hour but they are warming up and killing it. There are other assorted tubes which will be auditioned through the holidays. Back to the DAC. Upon opening the double box and removing, this thing is heavy and solid and....looks much better in person. I guess I can stream wifi right to the unit itself which is really a function I may never use, but the price and seller and price was right on this purchase. Here are some assorted pics of the DAC itself:
The first owner had installed Hammond 12ax7 tubes which on a very limited trial run sounded way too pronounced in the bass and details in the uppers were lost in the soundstage with music styles from The Orb, Tame Impala, and the uppers were annoying on some assorted ambient music.
It only took about 2 days for the Hammond tubes to come out and enter a pair of 1957 Valvo Long Plates which were bought here and were my favorite tubes when I had my Cary pre in the mix. I only had the Valvos running for about an hour but they are warming up and killing it. There are other assorted tubes which will be auditioned through the holidays. Back to the DAC. Upon opening the double box and removing, this thing is heavy and solid and....looks much better in person. I guess I can stream wifi right to the unit itself which is really a function I may never use, but the price and seller and price was right on this purchase. Here are some assorted pics of the DAC itself:
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Very interesting. Does the volume control only operate on the headphone jack? - I'm guessing so.
I wonder how 2.3V output would compare to 130mW of my iFi nano idsd.....
Either way, I'm in with 57 🤣George / NJ
Polk 7B main speakers, std. mods+ (1979, orig owner)
Martin Logan Dynamo sub w/6ft 14awg Power Cord
Onkyo A-8017 integrated
Logitech Squeezebox Touch Streamer w/EDO applet
iFi nano iDSD DAC
iPurifier3
iDefender w/ iPower PS
Custom Steve Wilson 1m UPOCC Interconnect
iFi Mercury 0.5m OFHC continuous cast copper USB cable
Custom Ribbon Speaker Cables, 5ft long, 4N Copper, 14awg, ultra low inductance
Custom Vibration Isolation Speaker Stands and Sub Platform -
It works streaming from the Cambridge which I guess is another unnecessary feature but...wait. I do have a pair of Polk headphones I completely forgot about lol.
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Wonder if the Hammonds are Amperex? They look like it to me.
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Is Amperex a newer manufacturer with the old Hammond name?Wonder if the Hammonds are Amperex? They look like it to me.
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No the organ manufacturers bought tubes from the tube makers. Amperex was in Holland and New York and is an old tube maker, made tubes for many. Like Valvo, Siemans, Telefunken and Mullard.
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Congrats!! I am glad the tube dac is working out. Lots of solid reviews on the Black Ice \ Jolida tube dac's.Klipsch The Nines, Audioquest Thunderbird Interconnect, Innuos Zen MK3 W4S recovery, Revolution Audio Labs USB & Ethernet, Border Patrol SE-I, Audioquest Niagara 5000 & Thunder, Cullen Crossover II PC's.
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I'd like to physically convert you into a structure.
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afterburnt wrote: »They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.
Village Idiot of Club Polk -
I'd like to physically convert you into a structure.
I wish I understood?"Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"Anger is just anger. It isn’t good. It isn’t bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters.
You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice. Jim Butcher
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It was spam Harry, they've removed it. So now those two make no sense.
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Thanks Ivan!!"Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"Anger is just anger. It isn’t good. It isn’t bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters.
You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice. Jim Butcher
Harry / Marietta GA
