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[egellings]

I've said it before. For a long time Duelund was responsible for keeping my national pride at bay, but then I discovered Ansuz. A whole new level of embarrassment

I like the stitching around the logo. It's like that found on the steering wheel covers on expensive sports cars.

 

[jkasch]

the Series 2 SPTPC cables allowed me to hear very soft noises, the noises associated with Golub moving his hands across the frets and strings of the guitar. I could visualize him patiently letting each note develop.

Iconoclast by Belden Series 2 speaker cables Review

Iconoclast Cables already proved they have a serious design worthy of the finest systems, but Iconoclast’s designer, retired Belden Cable engineer Galen Gareis, has taken his initial work further with the development of the Series 2 SPTPC speaker cables. Most of the design parameters for Series...

www.dagogo.com

 

[bkatbamna]

I wonder how many of those cables have been sold so far.

They don't really need to sell that many. The way that they profit from them is that they declare:
"These cables have 90% of the performance of our top of the line but for less than half the price." Then the company sells 20 or 30 pairs for $10,000 to gullible audiophooles.

 

[sadoMasupilami]

chatGPT has an opinion as well

 

[Phoney]

chatGPT has an opinion as well

I asked about the same once, only that i wrote "does cables impact the sound in an audio system?". Back then it replied that it does, but when I asked if people could differentiate between cables in blind testing, it said that they could not. A bit contradictory. Maybe it has changed its reply on the subject since then.

 

[mhardy6647]

OK.
I am sorely tempted to start a thread ab initio on this important new audiophile product, but I fear that there's no title I could put on it sexy enough to insure that anyone'd look at it... so I am going to just drop this here.

We're all used to the 39 dollar distortion boxes that use abstruse Chinese or Russian pentodes to... umm... do something to the signal that is subjected to them. What we haven't seen is many serious audiophile products that -- in all likelihood -- do the same thing, albeit with more audiophile-approved active components (ahem, tubes -- triodes, of course), and with audiophile-approved price tags.

Until now.

This gap in the audiophile product space has been... heh-heh-heh... rectified.

https://www.modwright.com/products/analog-bridge.php

So this appears to be a buffer, but one that gives you the choice of two different flavors of twin triode (6922 or 6SN7) to... do whatever it is that they do to your otherwise fairly pristine signal. If they were proper (i.e., properly designed and built) buffers, of course, the choice of triode should make very little if any audible difference... but this is an audiophile product.

Plus (!) it has vacuum tube rectification and solid state regulation. Crikey!

Finally, it's future-proof! I am diggin' this new audiophile marketing gimmick!

The Analog Bridge was designed to fill a niche left by our custom tube modifications for digital source equipment. Due to the rapidly changing world of modern digital, we wanted a product that could be used with a variety of digital and analog SS sources. The Analog Bridge will not be replaced as digital technology progresses and system components change. It is an accessory that will be a constant and improvement in your system.
The purpose of the Analog Bridge, is to add the strengths and positive attributes of tubes to any system, without the bandwidth limitation, noise and added distortion that many associated with tube electronics.

Take my money!

 

[fpitas]

OK.
I am sorely tempted to start a thread ab initio on this important new audiophile product, but I fear that there's no title I could put on it sexy enough to insure that anyone'd look at it... so I am going to just drop this here.

We're all used to the 39 dollar distortion boxes that use abstruse Chinese or Russian pentodes to... umm... do something to the signal that is subjected to them. What we haven't seen is many serious audiophile products that -- in all likelihood -- do the same thing, albeit with more audiophile-approved active components (ahem, tubes -- triodes, of course), and with audiophile-approved price tags.

Until now.

This gap in the audiophile product space has been... heh-heh-heh... rectified.

https://www.modwright.com/products/analog-bridge.php

So this appears to be a buffer, but one that gives you the choice of two different flavors of twin triode (6922 or 6SN7) to... do whatever it is that they do to your otherwise fairly pristine signal. If they were proper (i.e., properly designed and built) buffers, of course, the choice of triode should make very little if any audible difference... but this is an audiophile product.

Plus (!) it has vacuum tube rectification and solid state regulation. Crikey!

Finally, it's future-proof! I am diggin' this new audiophile marketing gimmick!



Take my money!

I'll confess, it still looks like the cheapy Chinese amps on eBay. Hopefully not as dangerous as some.

 

[mhardy6647]

I'll confess, it still looks like the cheapy Chinese amps on eBay. Hopefully not as dangerous as some.

I mean... it's bigger.

Speaking of the cheap Asian effects boxes: The one with the direct-heated Loktal tubes is the one that really flummoxed me, FWIW.
Gotta be magic, with direct-heated cathode/filaments!

What do you guys think of the newly released Nobsound E6?

Its a super small directly heated 2J27S tube preamp. It uses a 5v dc plug but according to nobsound the anode voltage is stepped up to 105V. If its true then this thing could be an actual tube pre.

www.audiosciencereview.com

The tube rollers have to cut the envelopes off the nearest Russian 'equivalent' tubes...

Nobsound E6 Preamp Uses Directly Heated Tubes

I recently noticed this new preamp that uses directly heated tubes. Many people prefer the sound of directly heated triode tubes, though they are typically used as output tubes in SE (single ended) amplifiers. The most commonly used DHT output tubes are the 2A3 and the 300B, both of which...

audiokarma.org

In seriousness, though -- I wonder if the ModWright thing actually uses high voltage (you know, appropriate voltage) for the plates.
I suspect (?!?) it might.

 

[fpitas]

I mean... it's bigger.

Speaking of the cheap Asian effects boxes: The one with the direct-heated Loktal tubes is the one that really flummoxed me, FWIW.
Gotta be magic, with direct-heated cathode/filaments!

What do you guys think of the newly released Nobsound E6?

Its a super small directly heated 2J27S tube preamp. It uses a 5v dc plug but according to nobsound the anode voltage is stepped up to 105V. If its true then this thing could be an actual tube pre.

www.audiosciencereview.com

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The tube rollers have to cut the envelopes off the nearest Russian 'equivalent' tubes...

Nobsound E6 Preamp Uses Directly Heated Tubes

I recently noticed this new preamp that uses directly heated tubes. Many people prefer the sound of directly heated triode tubes, though they are typically used as output tubes in SE (single ended) amplifiers. The most commonly used DHT output tubes are the 2A3 and the 300B, both of which...

audiokarma.org

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In seriousness, though -- I wonder if the ModWright thing actually uses high voltage (you know, appropriate voltage) for the plates.
I suspect (?!?) it might.

Making a reasonable anode voltage and current costs money. I'd be shocked (so to speak).

 

[mhardy6647]

Making a reasonable anode voltage and current costs money. I'd be shocked (so to speak).

This is an audiophile product we're talkin' about (JJ tubes notwithstanding)!
I actually kind of hate to think what these cost...
Not $39.95 on that rainforest-themed company's site, I reckon.

PS bonus points for the play on words. I was quite jolted by that.

 

[MattHooper]

Oh man...from today's Stereophile Florida Audio Expo show report:

Von Schweikert Audio, VAC, Synergistic Research, and Scott Walker Audio

On the third and last day of the Florida Audio Expo, I realized I hadn't listened to Von Schweikert speakers in donkey's years. With only 35 minutes to spare till closing time, I made my way to the third-floor room where, according to the show literature, I should hear a pair of Von Schweikert...

www.stereophile.com

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"Synergistic Research, a company owned and run by inveterate inventor and mega-tweaker Ted Denney. Synergistic is primarily known for high-end cables that sell for a small fortune (for instance, its new SRX Slimline speaker wires start at $17,500), but that's not where Denney's quest for audio improvements stops; it's where it begins.

I'd hardly settled into my chair when he demonstrated the effect of his $1500 "Vibratron," a roughly six-feet-tall metal rod with two baseball-sized spheres, one gold-plated (for warmer sound), one silver (for brighter sound; mix and match to taste). They're resonators that Denney modeled after "forgotten Greek and Roman technology." To hear him tell it, the ancients knew how to use rounded vessels to improve room acoustics and intelligibility.

Next, we were on to the benefits of his MiG SX bidirectional equipment footers, $995 for a set of three, which you can install pointing up or down according to the sound signature you prefer. The MiGs are claimed to "improve nearly every aspect of system performance," starting with a "denser soundfield." I could hear the difference, couldn't I?"

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It's like a pure gullibility test. If that doesn't peg your B.S. meter to "11," your B.S. meter is simply broken. And you are just the type of consumer these folks need.

 

[fpitas]

Oh man...from today's Stereophile Florida Audio Expo show report:

Von Schweikert Audio, VAC, Synergistic Research, and Scott Walker Audio

On the third and last day of the Florida Audio Expo, I realized I hadn't listened to Von Schweikert speakers in donkey's years. With only 35 minutes to spare till closing time, I made my way to the third-floor room where, according to the show literature, I should hear a pair of Von Schweikert...

www.stereophile.com

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"Synergistic Research, a company owned and run by inveterate inventor and mega-tweaker Ted Denney. Synergistic is primarily known for high-end cables that sell for a small fortune (for instance, its new SRX Slimline speaker wires start at $17,500), but that's not where Denney's quest for audio improvements stops; it's where it begins.

I'd hardly settled into my chair when he demonstrated the effect of his $1500 "Vibratron," a roughly six-feet-tall metal rod with two baseball-sized spheres, one gold-plated (for warmer sound), one silver (for brighter sound; mix and match to taste). They're resonators that Denney modeled after "forgotten Greek and Roman technology." To hear him tell it, the ancients knew how to use rounded vessels to improve room acoustics and intelligibility.

Next, we were on to the benefits of his MiG SX bidirectional equipment footers, $995 for a set of three, which you can install pointing up or down according to the sound signature you prefer. The MiGs are claimed to "improve nearly every aspect of system performance," starting with a "denser soundfield." I could hear the difference, couldn't I?"

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It's like a pure gullibility test. If that doesn't peg your B.S. meter to "11," your B.S. meter is simply broken. And you are just the type of consumer these folks need.

It really has reached the point of Poe's Law, where you can't effectively mock it.

 

[Ornette]

The aforementioned "mega-tweaker" Ted Denney of Synergistic Research

Nothing says "legitimate" like drinking a brewski during a product presentation...

 

[FlyingFreak]

Dude is selling an active tranquility rack.

I am rotfl

I want a rack that activates anytime it doesn’t feel tranquille too! I would love for my electronics to know they are sitting on a rack that pays attention to the mood. And the mood it goes for is tranquille.

Now that my electronics is sitting on my brand new active tranquility rack, they aren’t shy to show off all the hidden details they simply were too anxious to be able to reveal otherwise.

Tranquility rack, you will love rediscovering music.

 

[VintageFlanker]

Home

For the audiophile who has to have it all, Sony is now offering an SD card that claims to offer 'Premium Sound', ideal for its new range of high-end, high-resolution Walkmans.

www.whathifi.com

 

[antcollinet]

Home

For the audiophile who has to have it all, Sony is now offering an SD card that claims to offer 'Premium Sound', ideal for its new range of high-end, high-resolution Walkmans.

www.whathifi.com

Good god.

I'd love to be able to force Sony to explain how that is better for sound - complete with measurements to back it up.

When a mainstream manufacturer like Sony starts oiling their way into the market like this the industry is truly screwed.


EDIT : I notice that article is from 2015 - hopefully it bombed hard.

EDIT Some more : Pretty much every search result is from 2015 - and most seem to roundly mock it like the video below. If anything should persuade you that Sony is not the company for you, the fact that they have moved in this direction (even if 8 years ago, and even failed), it should be this.

 

[VintageFlanker]

When a mainstream manufacturer like Sony starts oiling their way into the market like this the industry is truly screwed.

Agreed 100%.

EDIT Some more : Pretty much every search result is from 2015 - and most seem to roundly mock it like the video below. If anything should persuade you that Sony is not the company for you, the fact that they have moved in this direction (even if 8 years ago, and even failed), it should be this.

Oh, they also raised quite a few red flags back in 2016...

How the heck the copper chassis of a DAP would have anything to do with acoustics or conductivity?!

 

[xaviescacs]

Home

For the audiophile who has to have it all, Sony is now offering an SD card that claims to offer 'Premium Sound', ideal for its new range of high-end, high-resolution Walkmans.

www.whathifi.com

No way....

First check: it's not fake nor joke...

Second step: live with it...

 

[IAtaman]

Home

For the audiophile who has to have it all, Sony is now offering an SD card that claims to offer 'Premium Sound', ideal for its new range of high-end, high-resolution Walkmans.

www.whathifi.com

It comes with a DSP maybe?

 

[xaviescacs]

It comes with a DSP maybe?

xDDD