My next upgrade is a 12 Step Program to try to control the urge to tweak. I am so over it.
Save me a seat.
We would just sit next to each other sobbing and hugging.
Hello… hello…my name is Ron. I’ll try to speak clearly through my blubbering.
I remove my dust cover from my turntable when I play records.
I think it sounds better that way. There…I’ve said it.
I’m a tweaker. I’ve tried to stop but I can’t.
Won’t you please help?
Send money to: Stop Ron Tweaking@ Paypal.Dot
With your help, just some Townsend Seismic Platforms for my speakers and then–with your help–I’ll be done—really.
I have just one more preamp and a streamer to buy.
Then some cool interconnect cables for everything.
Oh and I need a few power cables.
Maybe a fancy network switch.
Oh and a couple of LPS for the various components as I am sure the manufacturers dont know anything about clean power.
Oh and some feet for the speakers.
And some feet for the components.
But I have to build a billet aluminum rack first to hold the components in a vibration free environment.
Then once I get the Super Duper Fuse bug squashed I will be done.
No really done.
I think.
Maybe.
Where was that Audiophile Anonymous meeting at again?
I have a pair of Townsend Platforms. They live in the garage. I have never tried them. I buy tweaks and never use them. The first sign of advanced tweakgoofyguy.
Acknowledge the tweaks that are in your home Is the first step to recovery for you.
Yesterday I found a pair of Siemens CCA 6DJ8/6922 that I forgot about. I broke out in a clammy sweat until I installed them in our Pre.
Must. Resist. Becoming. A. Tweaker.
It’s too late for me. Though I do tweak to a certain plateau and then get lost in the music for quite some time. . . before the jonesing for a new tweak begins again.
That’s the crux of the issue. For some that period is 24 hours… or less.
Yeah but have you changed out your PC/streamer’s internal wiring to Neotech OCC with gold plated molex pins yet? Add it to the list!
Speaking of tweeks. Coming soon:
Wow 3k for a power supply is a lot.
But after my recent experience comparing two psu‘s against each other, just feeding an external hard disk connected to a streamer, I meanwhile have a guess of a PSU”s nfluence. Although the two were of no different class, differences were very obvious just at the hard disk.
It’s another inexplicable tweak. If I look at the output of a $100 12VDC LPS on a scope, it looks the same as a $650 LPS. But, the $650 LPS somehow sounds better.
Well if you need someone to take those platforms off your hands, @aangen…
You know those podiums are for big speakers like his Vivid’s. If memory serves they are close to 150lbs.
This one is recommended by Euphony Audio to pair with their Summus 2 server. I asked them to recommend an LPS, but they told me they liked the sound from the IFI Elite best. It was one-third the cost of the one I considered before.
Let me know what you think because I have not tried other power supplies with the server.
(edit: I did replace the stocked power cord with a one cost more than the PS itself, and it brought the performance to the next level).
Oh well, always worth asking.