Ron’s New System
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As your cables are new I’d be figuring they’ll open up quite a deal as they settle in Ron. Ribbon tweeters are just more revealing than most and benefit from better cables with a more open and resolved top end. I had been thinking you’d possibly been chasing issues that related to your ICs but it’ll be good for you to be able to see if that’s the case.
Of course I shouldn't have made tube and 47' cable changes at the same time. 
The tonal balance sounds different. Any excessive sibilance is gone.
What a crazy f$&@ing hobby!
The tonal balance sounds different. Any excessive sibilance is gone.
What a crazy f$&@ing hobby!
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It’s easy to swap the tubes back to see what’s doing what when your cables are burned in… consider it play time.Of course I shouldn't have made tube and 47' cable changes at the same time.
The tonal balance sounds very noticeably different.
What a crazy f$&@ing hobby!
Of course I shouldn't have made tube and 47' cable changes at the same time.
The tonal balance sounds different.
What a crazy f$&@ing hobby!
Audio 101: change one variable at a time if you want to understand what affects what.
It's hands off the controls for me, pencils down. I am very happy with this sound.
I should've done this 47' interconnect cable swap sooner.
Shout out to Angela Cardas who suggested the Cardas Clear Reflection! Thank you, Angela!
PS: Does anybody need 94 feet of Belden 1192A?
I should've done this 47' interconnect cable swap sooner.
Shout out to Angela Cardas who suggested the Cardas Clear Reflection! Thank you, Angela!
PS: Does anybody need 94 feet of Belden 1192A?
I hear today's "Fields of Gold" playback as a bit smoother, a bit warmer, a bit more natural, omitting the touch of brittleness (dryness?) on the prior one. (A bit complicated because today's recording was at higher volume than the prior one.)
The 47' interconnects have been the most consistent element thus far. I actually swapped in the Ei KT90s about three weeks ago. But I think a basic cable was a rational place to start.
I am listening 89dB to 95dB to Famous Blue Raincoat (digital recording) and Thriller (bright-ish, mediocre multi-track pop recording). Edginess, brightness, dryness, excessive sibilance all gone.
I've actually done a lot of tube swapping even with the VTLs. No tube swap made a difference this significant. I blame the 47' Belden 1192A interconnects.
Musica Nuda's "Eleanor Rigby" sounds so different than it did in March.
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Ron,
It could be the Telefunken 802s doing the bass job too. But since you put them in all at once, it would be hard to tell. But what matters is the bottom line. There should be a noticeable improvement in overall sound quality with these NOS tubes.
Nah, I'm not interested in autopsies. I just want to get to where I want to be. I'm there now.
Are you going to change the IC to Cardas from components to preamp as well?
Optimising ribbon panel speakers is a joy, it’s so easy to hear when you are getting there and immediately clear when you are not. Dialling them in is easy as well because they let you know so much even with changes of fine increments.
If your loving these ICs at the start that’s great. I‘ve always found with cables while they all take time to open and unfold and settle into place if the essential balance and goodness is there at the start that’s a great sign that it’ll all be a good and an even better outcome in the end.
So while ribbons and panels don’t leave you anywhere to hide and that’s with any gear in the setup and every chain within the system… but it’s a whole different ballgame with cables and electronics when you have a tweeter that is helping out concealing any other system top end granularity by rolling off early.
Listening to "Fields of Gold" from a month ago, from a week ago, and from today, my feeling is about how little of the sonic differences survive the digitization in and out.
I think the sound from the system is now materially different from today's ubiquitous contemporary system sound. (To my ears this is a good thing.)
I think the sound from the system is now materially different from today's ubiquitous contemporary system sound. (To my ears this is a good thing.)
I'd hang onto the other IC's for the moment. You can't prove that they won't be better suited to a different amp or such. As in what if something else causes a sibilance but swapping IC's can tame it?
it will be good every time you post this, you reply to your previous video. That way all the videos stay linked together making it easy for readers to listen to the current one, previous one, so on.
You just can't handle the "truth TM" Ron, don't blame the cables for the mediocre recordings you like, if you want the pretty version of everything, just use tubes everywhere !
Oh yes you are doing that already !