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Digital love
I have moved to a fully computer based set up as a source. No transport and none of those shiny disks any more.

The system has an open, huge soundstage, with very clean, tight bass that dives deep into two figure Hz.

The sound is very powerful and dynamic. Extremely detailed, but still warm, musical and believable and easy to listen to. With the right recording a reach out and touch holographic image and soundstage is possible.

I have been through quite a lot of equipment. I am and was a huge Audio Research fan for years, and I used their tube monos/preamps with great happiness.

I have pretty much always had planar speakers until recently. So I needed powerful amps to drive Magnepan2.6R/3.6R and Apogee Diva/Duetta sig etc.

I have moved to high sensitivity speakers in the form of the Avantgarde Trios now. This has enabled a move to very low powered SET amplifiers which has been great fun.

I have been searching for equipment that keeps the music free of colour and true to the recording. I believe you choose your source for its sound. The rest of the equipment should let the source do its magic as much as possible and get out of the way of the music.

Happy listening
Chadeffect  (System | Threads | Answers | This Thread)

01-09-08
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02-13-10   I had a spare mains filter gathering dust (audio magic) so i ...   Chadeffect

03-11-10   Has anyone been using the the "memory player" func ...   Chadeffect

03-11-10   Chadeffect, can you be more specific about the platform you ...   Gallant_diva

03-12-10   Gallant diva, no problem. it isnt so much that i need he ...   Chadeffect

03-12-10   Chadeffect: see my pm.   Gallant_diva

03-13-10   Gallant diva, thanks. straight back at you!   Chadeffect

03-29-10   The halcro dm38 is plugged in.   Chadeffect

03-30-10   It has taken an amp of halcros quality to show exactly what ...   Chadeffect

03-30-10: Muralman1
Hi Chad,

I was excited to hear your comments on the Halcro. I immediately went to search out Halcro. The first thing I came up with was a review by Stereophile. What to my utter surprise did I find? The amp reviewed was the much, much less expensive Halcro 20, a class D amp.

I read it anyway. A negative comment the reviewer made about the depth rang true to lots of reviews about class D. They say the soundstage is shallow and doesn't separate a singer from his/her accompanying choir in the background.

My sound was that way too, until I fit my home made ribbon speaker cables to the task. Out popped the foreground from the background. All other aspects of the sound improved as well.

Anyway, I am very happy you love the sound of your Halcro. Obviously Bruce Candy knows his stuff.

Vince


Muralman1  (System | Threads | Answers | This Thread)


03-30-10   Hi muralman, halcro also make their own version of class d ...   Chadeffect

04-06-10   Chad, are you using dcs upsampler in your setup? i'm experim ...   Murataltuev

04-06-10   I like the halcro design from what i have read. it seems to ...   Mapman

04-06-10   Hi muarataltuev, i am not using the clock anymore. i use t ...   Chadeffect

04-06-10   Hi mapman, yes attention to detail. obviously it is barely ...   Chadeffect

04-25-10   300b tubes and the trio? i have been getting down and dirty ...   Chadeffect

04-25-10   Chad, it doesn't surprise me that watts, current and dampin ...   Mapman

04-25-10   Hi mapman, i am glad they worked out for you. the bcs are ...   Chadeffect

04-25-10   Chad, i've come more and more to realize that there is no & ...   Mapman

04-26-10   Haha mapman, you are completely right of course. although ...   Chadeffect

04-27-10   These kr audio amps are really something. the most dynamic ...   Chadeffect

05-07-10   Yamamoto a08s with 45 tubes coming soon... anyone have an o ...   Chadeffect

05-07-10   "yamamoto a08s with 45 tubes coming soon..." ...   Gallant_diva

05-08-10   Gallant diva, ha ha i know. call a doctor quick! well i d ...   Chadeffect

05-13-10   A quick departure from the 300b and 300bxls and into the wor ...   Chadeffect

05-13-10   Chad, i would suspect that highly efficient speakers like y ...   Mapman

05-13-10   Mapman, as usual you are completely right. a magnifying gla ...   Chadeffect

05-29-10   The yamamoto a08s. it is as lovely as people say. quiet, ...   Chadeffect

05-29-10   Hi chad i have tried many valve amplifiers on the avantgarde ...   Jasonparmenter

05-30-10   Hi jason, thanks for your post. i have found the 45 tube w ...   Chadeffect

05-30-10   Hello chad the emission labs 45 is excellent, we are using t ...   Jasonparmenter

05-30-10   Hi jason, a good friend of mine has just bought that amp fo ...   Chadeffect

06-02-10   Hi chad i have the wavac ec 300 b amplifier here for my demo ...   Jasonparmenter

06-08-10   Hey, chad, you must really know how to make horns sound so g ...   Muralman1

06-10-10   Hi muralman1, i saw that discussion on horns. but "ho ...   Chadeffect

06-15-10   The eml 45 mesh plate. i plugged in the new mesh plated eml ...   Chadeffect

06-15-10   Chad, ralph karsten (atmasphere) pointed out on the big hor ...   Mapman

06-16-10   Hi mapman, i saw ralphs comments. i tried to find one of hi ...   Chadeffect

06-16-10   Hmm, i think what he was indicating is that the trios are no ...   Mapman

06-17-10   Hi mapman, there is something going on with some of the tub ...   Chadeffect

06-22-10   System edited: the yamamoto a08s pictured with the emission ...   Chadeffect

06-25-10   Hi chad, are you using subs, or are you talking about the bi ...   Muralman1

06-26-10   Hi mapman i tried the atma-sphere 30 watt otl on the avantga ...   Jasonparmenter

06-26-10   Hi jason, i am using the avantgarde active subs. not the ba ...   Chadeffect

06-26-10   Just my 2 cents. i've been using atma m60s on duos since 200 ...   Acresverde

06-26-10   Hi acresverde yes i agree with you about having to audition ...   Jasonparmenter

06-27-10   Hi acresverde and jason, with regard to the trio and impeda ...   Chadeffect

07-01-10   Hi chad, i once had a neighbor who was cycling through quite ...   Muralman1

07-01-10   Ok, having told you what difference the diode makes in nos d ...   Muralman1

07-02-10   Hi vince, thanks for the info. a few people (who have no ...   Chadeffect

07-02-10   I suspect the upsampling done in the dcs with its ring dac a ...   Mapman


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