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Post Subject: Sea ChangePosted by Paul S on: 12/17/2010
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2010 was marked by the best music sessions I have had in my life. Changes to the K&K and iDAT DAC that I have chronicled were challenging to integrate but ultimately very worthwhile, and re-working the DEBZ crossovers has gotten me, I think, about as far as I can go with this format. I still suffer the ups and downs of the electricity that the utility serves to me, but overall I had many more acceptable and more special days than in the past, whether mostly due to Smart Power or relentlessly dialing the extra "HF" out of the system, I can't say. A fair bit of new-to-me music has been a nice surprize. I suppose the "Hobby" part of this is the relentless quest for "improvement". But I am actually pretty content on the Music level at this point, given good power and good Program. Of course, "improvements" also open the door to the old Hi-Fi staple, re-listening.
At this time I am well into a wild and wooley experiment with substantially modifying and/or building my own drivers, goaded by Haralanov, who is light years ahead of me in codifying this stuff. I am excited about what I have heard so far, but it's far too soon to say more.
If business improves the way it looks like it might, I may even get into the frey directly with APS in 2011. Perhaps then my bitching about them will be tolerated again! I also have on hand - finally - all the materials I need to make up a pair of fully-shielded, multi-metal phono ICs.
Happy Holidays to All!
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