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Post Subject: Happy 2025!Posted by Paul S on: 1/1/2025
Happy 2025! I’m glad I finished physical construction of
The Loudspeakers in 2023, as I had my metaphorical hands full with the last of
cancer through most of 2024, including a 3rd surgery in the 1st
quarter that was/has been life altering. C’est la Vie! How nice to have audio and
resultant Music to turn to! Strangely
enough, looking back, 2024 was as good an audio year as I have ever had, in
terms of the Music I have harvested. I finally fixed my skipping Accustic Arts
CD transport, and I had Andy Kim (Needle Clinic) re-tip my MC3000II phono
cartridge, and I got both of my sources dialed in as well as they’ve ever been,
including honing the voltage (and V swing) to the first stage of my K&K
phono stage. The Loudspeakers are spectacular, now that they are broken in, and
I have learned more about how to use them. Of little things that mattered, I
added a Moray James S/PDIF cable between the CD transport and the iDAT 44 ++
DAC, and I finally took a breath and replaced the Placette cables that have
long connected the T3000 SUT to the K&K with Audio Sensibilities phono
cable. Both cables are totally boring, like the ones Bud Purvine made for me,
that I use for the run between the DAC and my TAP TVC. Oddly enough (and no
explanation for it), I had similar “issues” with massed violin sound from both
sources, and both cables actually helped with this problem by allowing air
around the violin notes, just as I had hoped. Sure, I read about the cables
before buying them, but Cables are always a crap shoot. Anyway, they
didn’t need to be “better”, just more to my liking with massed violins without significant
losses. I did wind up dialing back some
of the phono stage voltage I’d added, after the new phono cables broke in, in
order to keep both sources “on par”. Like Romy observed, it’s a matter of
twisting the lens back and forth across “maximum focus” until it comes across
“the best”, and in this case I wanted a sort of “Happy Medium” between my
sources. I added several Bruckner CDs
and LPs that I greatly enjoyed in 2024, along with American composer, Kevin
Puts’ Contact. I am so happy to have accessed this Music, and I look forward to
mining it through 2025 (and beyond)!
God Bless Us, every one!
Paul S
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