First off, let me apologize for using the words sad and whatever in refering to HighD's original post. It was a reaction to tone. And as I read your following posts, High, I found much that I agreed with (someone else said the same thing). That got me re-thinking a scheme I posted on a few days ago. But no one was interested enough to reply! (It' under "A New Way of Tweaking" or something like that in this forum). So let me kick this horse one more time...bam..ow!...
It sounds as if most of us have arrived at a similar place, but we are arguing about how we got there. What if we took tweaks proposed for Transporter and actually tested them together? Together here meaning those of us who are "traditional measurement" cum skeptics and those of us who are "Let's try everything" cum skeptics? Here are tweaks already mentioned in this forum that could be tried on Transporter (with a bit of editing for clarity: POSSIBLE TRANSPORTER TWEAKS 1. Chassis Damping, with Dyna-Mat like material 2. Replace the NE5534 Op Amps with Op Amps with "high audiophile cred" such as OPA627 or AD8610 3. Piggyback the AKM 4396 DAC chips 4. Add RFI/EMI Sheilding and/or ERS to the SMPS's 5. Replace the IEC input with a filtered IEC input If we ran these tweaks thru an agreed process with all of our brainpower, we would come up with pretty good info. I proposed a simple process we might use: 1. Idea Generation 2. Cost/Benefit Analysis of Ideas 3. Testing of Selected Ideas 4. Consensus on Proven Ideas to Implement -- atkinsonrr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ atkinsonrr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7214 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28080 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
