110V AC, otherwise interesting.
MDAC First Listen (part 00100000)
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110V AC, otherwise interesting.
Mikas
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John, please remember you have clients highly sensitive to leading edge bass impact and not so for sound stage.
...Sound stage is, for more than 90% of the music I play, the result of an audio engineer, producer and sometimes musicians, mix decision.
It's an artificial setup. I can be pleased with the result, but it's not what I appreciate the most.
Michael
JohnW
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John, please remember you have clients highly sensitive to leading edge bass impact and not so for sound stage.
...Sound stage is, for more than 90% of the music I play, the result of an audio engineer, producer and sometimes musicians, mix decision.
It's an artificial setup. I can be pleased with the result, but it's not what I appreciate the most.
Michael
Michael,
While I will use MOSFETS in the output stage due to there switching speed - I use a local error correction loop to avoid the problem.
Steven Toy
Accuphase newbie
Soundstage, although allegedly an artifact is a good indicator of timing and coherence. Good transient response, instrumental separation, harmonic structure, note decay all tend to go hand-in-hand with good 3D soundstaging and pin-point imaging within.
JohnW
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This is my experience too - for me soundstage is very important, I cannot live with flat two dimension sound.... if its on the recording then it should be reproduced, no more or no less!
You could make a trip 10 years in the future and return with some vacuum field transistors :0)
Steven Toy
Accuphase newbie
The bass response from my system with tube pre and power (13 valves altogether) is anything but soft. It also has lovely rippling texture that solid state amplification seems to lose.
Steven Toy
Accuphase newbie
Maybe I got used to it and the fact that there don't seem to be any timing issues.
Hi john, i'd like to upgrade my mdac so tomorrow i'll send you the money by credit card on the lakewest mdac2 website. Please, let me know at which address i should send the mdac, what kind of upgrade is avalable now and how many days do you need for the upgrade. Sorry for my bad english...
JohnW
pfm member
Cuko,
Its very important to understand that the MDAC2 upgrade is still in development, and realistically units will be upgraded BY early November - so before the years end.
No upgrade is currently available, the current payment are to "fund" the development of the MDAC2 and secure a position on the upgrade list - with the MDAC2 PCB being sold "At Cost" once its available.
JohnW
pfm member
Thanks too a little chinese ECC83 I now have drums and bass back
Downside is I'm going cross eyed with detail again !
Amazing that a tube can make such a difference but happy to hear you have your Drums & Bass back Thankfully with TDAC and the TAMP there is only one manufacturer of the tube so I can optimise the design.
Me too !!!
By the way i think that i will finally go for L3 ! and stay on the tdac list (if there's one)
BR/
misterdog
Not the canine kind
Think I may have sown a seed
Despite never having owned a valve amp I took the projected M/imp /amp project and changed the prefix to a T, in my eager anticipation.
I thought the idea may balance well with the TDAC.
You know how fluid organic ideas are;
Did you see Jack White at Glasto ?
John,
I know this has been an issue, but my left channel is down today. no crackling, just no sound. I powered on/off 3 or four times, Unplugged the whole thing for 30 minutes, re-loaded A10 (Mac), then tried the headphone jack, both channels work and sound great, but when unplugged from the headphone jack, it goes back to Right channel only. If I switch the interconnects the opposite amp/speaker works, but the one connected to the left does not.
Any suggestions?
jim
I know this has been an issue, but my left channel is down today. no crackling, just no sound. I powered on/off 3 or four times, Unplugged the whole thing for 30 minutes, re-loaded A10 (Mac), then tried the headphone jack, both channels work and sound great, but when unplugged from the headphone jack, it goes back to Right channel only. If I switch the interconnects the opposite amp/speaker works, but the one connected to the left does not.
Any suggestions?
jim
iansr
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Think I may have sown a seed
Did you see Jack White at Glasto ?
Fraid not, take it he was good? Were you at the Leadmill when the white stripes played there about 10 years ago? Outstanding.
JohnW
pfm member
Jim,
This sounds like a Relay issue - you might be able to coerce the Relay into working by cycling the headphone jack (unplug and plug the headphones a few times so the Main output relay is cycled).
If your units out of warranty then I can repair it for free for you.
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