waymanchen11: “I believe it was Ray Kimber of Kimber Kable who discover counter rotating weaving a cable can have a dramatic effect on the sound…”
YUP! I remember those cables and had a pair of Kimber cables in the 80’s with a top end Yamaha receiver. Wooho!
Recently found these cables in a box in the garage. I hooked them up for fun and giggles. HOLLY Crap the glare nearly wiped me off the couch.
It wasn’t the pure silver KCAG’s are they? I remember they were excruciating bright and can drive you out of the room. But their 4TC speaker cables are outstanding performance. Those were the first I heard of the Kimber cables and I was very impressed.
The revised white/clear TC was an outstanding improvement over the older ones. I lived through all the iterations on VS and TC. The white/clears are a very nice budget cable, with less of the “Kimber sound” than the earlier versions, but not all gone.
It was hearing the 4TCs at my audiophile friends house with the Thiel 2.2 speakers many many years ago that started me on this audiophile journey. Unforgettable soundstaging. Unbelievable sound!! He now still uses the Kimber KS 1036 IC’s with his turntable and claims it is better than any other cables he’s tried.
Does anyone know the width and length (up to the card edge connector) of the Bridge II card? I’m designing a plug in circuit for a external power supply card that fits in this slot that would divert power from a external 12V power supply to the Analog board only if the power supply is plugged in and turned on. If no external power supply is used the DSD will use the internal 12V power supply. (like a regular DSD) If the external power supply is plugged in and turned on it will pass the 12V to the analog board only when the DSD is power up so there will be no issues with powering up the external power supply before the DSD. This board would have the connector for the power supply as well as all circuits and plugs. One only has to plug in the card and plug in two (2) connectors, One to the analog board and one to the original power connector. Clean and reversible external power supply solution.
Sbooster makes a 12v connection for the Lumin streamers. One similar for the DSD analog board would be very cool!
Most of the modifications (external PSU, replacing Bridge with a separate streamer etc.) concern an outsourcing of noise/radiation provoking circuits. Does it really make sense to put another circuit into the unit? Some even put the complete replaced PSU into the unit…strange. I’d personally care to place everything outside.
And John Curl was making the amps back then.
Edit: Sorry - thought Vmax’s comment was in reference to Bootzilla’s thread about Watkins Glen. I have got to get rid of this iPad keyboard with trackpad. I keep tapping off to places unkown with my thumbs.
The used the McIntosh MC2300 at Watkins Glen. I have a couple of MC2500s. Those amps are rated to 1/2 ohm impedance load on the top cover. Used to also be used for sub sonar and shipboard intercoms as well as industrial vibration tables. Such a sweet tube sound. Jerry loved the MC2300 though
Auction for Amps and Budman Jerry’s MC2300. amp.
My bad - he worked on designing the WoS, not building the amps.
Noise is not an issue in my circuit as there will be nothing in the circuit to create noise. The board will only be populated with 2 low voltage shielded relays and a comparator circuit with the mounting board containing the external power supply jack and two captive power cables. One for the analog board and one for the original power supply. This setup makes it a easy solution for adding an external power supply. I guess I will open up my unit again to measure the slot where the Bridge II card goes as I don’t own a Bridge II card.
I’m getting no love from Audio Horizons email address. Where are these found?
I PM you Joseph‘s email. He’s usually very responsive and cares.
I have tried everything except desoldering the new transformers and switching sides. I am having trouble removing them from the board.
This is where you have to be most careful according to my modd‘er. It’s where most problems occur (having to apply force). I’m always sorry to hear about such problems.
@ Ted
It may have been asked before, but what does the DS do when you flip the switch on the back?
No SD inserted.
It seems that software is loading what takes a long time.
I’m asking because I turn off the entire system after listening.
Does it harm longevity?
I know from the past that the number of writes to cpld or fpga was limited.
There is no reload without a SD being inserted which contains the software.
Apologizes if I miss understood you.
No, no issues. FPGA’s are dynamic memory (like your PC or MAC’s dynamic memory), not flash memory. They forget everything if they loose power and then need to be loaded before they can do anything when power comes back. There’s nothing to wear out in dynamic memory (like that used in an FPGA or PC…) The speed of loading the FPGA is purely the amount of time it takes the control processor to use the default Microchip software libraries to read the FPGA code. It could be a lot faster with some custom coding. In the DS Mk II it takes about 4 seconds for a much larger FPGA if I use the slow path and probably less with the direct boot from flash option (which I don’t use when I’m debugging.)
Thanks Ted for the very detailed answer.