I like it. It’s tube-like with a sweet midrange, nice air in the highs, and great decay. I particularly like the decay. I’m very glad we bought it, no regrets.
Now that I am over a tooth issue, I need to get our 250 out of the cabinet and cleaned up.
Second system or sale?
These Tone Poets are blowing me away, incredible copies.
Yes, especially for jazz fans, to have the option to play vinyl releases/reissues helps more sound wise than a ton of HW upgrades when playing alternative digital releases.
I think for me this years best audiophile reissue will stay the CRAFT 2x45RPM Bill Evans You must believe in spring. Music and sound 1++.
Sale. Fortunately, I believe I already have a forum member interested.
It’s always a good day here when a box comes from Filson addressed to my wife. That can only mean one thing, an awesome Christmas present for me! 
Forgive me for trying to push for more detail…
When you say tube-like, do you mean really sounds like tubes, as in one could almost be fooled into thinking it’s tubes? Or can you still tell it’s solid state, but just so smooth and satisfying you won’t miss tubes? And how does this compare to the Parasound amps you previously had?
My basis for comparison is the M700, that has a tube-like sound, not to the point of thinking it was full 100% tube, but definitely has some of the midrange smoothness of tubes.
Thanks for the reminder on the Bill Evans, You Must Believe in Spring, I need to remember to bring it back with me from our summer spot.
@iconoclastjeff reclocked my UPOCC gen 2 IC’s with one day turn an they will be arriving Friday. i finally get to compare my MC1.25KW amps to the MC1000 in an apple to apple comparison.
The 1.25 amps sound like they are opening up. Also heard better highs switching off the microprocessor used for monoblock power management. It must add a bit of noise listening in on ICs for automatic shutdown with signal no longer playing.
Even with Mogami Gold ICs Jazz at Pawnshop and Buena Vista Social Club have such live entrancing and intriguing sound. Giving more recording space and soundstage extras! Quietest amps I have ever heard. At 124 SNR.it is not just a spec on paper.
I am curious, what does it mean to reclock a cable?
Second sub arrives tomorrow.
When I wrap the red and yellow wires together, is there a method that works best?
Any thoughts on placement of the second sub, volume, cross over?
My life is about to change
The clocking refers to the dial face of a clock and the relationship between pin 1 socket on the amp and pin 1 of the male pin on the cable.
One can optimize shortest cable length and get better RLC performance if you control orientation clocking at both ends of the cable. It is a way of saving cost on expensive conductors going short while optimizing cable electronic performance.
Me being Audio Mr. Tweak I found I could buy a 4 foot cable with 90 degree XLRs instead of 6 foot straight in XLR connectors and still meet large bend radius of Iconoclast. Plus save 1200 dollars by buying 2 foot shorter ICs. Plus get the best possible lowest loss in electrical performance. Believe me when I tell you I heard differences from 6 foot trial UPOCC ICs and 4 foot ones.
In the aerospace industry they want shortest lightest, highest performance and most cost effective cable possible and no possibility of mixing up cable connections on a black box you must swap in five minutes to fly the next mission. Time on ground means life and death during wartime to both you and your enemy whether doing air patrol or dropping ordinance. Weight means longer range or time in air. So they both clock and specially key all connectors to achieve both goals in military aircraft.
Below are clocking options for Iconoclast and picture of how i needed clocking for new amp to make my cable still fit on left monoblock.
Just twist together for now. More critical to get placement right and break-in the drivers as per REL recommendations. Once that’s done then put some spade connectors on them.
After that buy the Iconoclast REL BAV cables. They are excellent. I tested them against the Audioquest ones.
Oh and photos too! 
My hat is off to you if you can hear a difference in an identical 6 foot cable verses a 4 foot cable. Must be a blessing and a curse.
It is perceptible. Like a nudge of a volume potentiometer downward. I have a set of long 10 foot XLR cables used for DSP microphone. I used them on my DS to preamp before. The long XLR cables needed lots more volume gain for for sure.
The difference on UPPOC IC cables could have been burn in or resistance differences. Shorter ones were louder and more energetic . When comparing cable or tweak changes I always first try comparing same song snippet and not changing preamp volume then sit in same room position. I also look for long term changes.
Perhaps it is a curse. It is not any more outlandish when amp designers changing capacitor values or the type and settle on a different one.
Thanks
I plan to get the Kimber rel cables eventually.
Iconoclast Interconnects are on my wish list, just not in the current budget.
Trying to move up the food chain a modest bit in any event - just ordered these:
These will replace my current BetterCables XLR interconnects, their best-selling Silver Serpent XLRs, between my DS Sr. DAC and preamplifier.
If I note a material improvement, I might buy another pair to run from the preamp to my mono amps.
Should be here in a few days.
Let us know how it turns out. Good cables at real world prices are always good to know about.
I had good luck with these when I had separates.
https://audiosensibility.com/blog/products-2/interconnects/
Thanks Terry.
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