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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: Fancy Cardas Caps: Good, to Better, to Worse in 1 Year? by Paul S on 2009-03-08 
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I have reason to suspect that my beloved large Cardas couplers have continued to loose HF past the point I described as "settling".  HF is no longer correct but rather attenuated relative to LF, and clarity has begun to suffer, too.I will ask K&...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Notorious cap by Paul S on 2007-06-18 
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Functionally, these are the same caps I already replaced once/twice (and wrote about) before, namely the big "parafeed" couplers.  The unit came with bypassed 4 uF Kimbers, which were fuzzy and slow, so I replaced them with 3.3 uF Mundorf Silver...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: Fancy Cardas Caps: Good, to Better, to Worse in 1 Year? by Paul S on 2009-03-08 
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I have reason to suspect that my beloved large Cardas couplers have continued to loose HF past the point I described as "settling".  HF is no longer correct but rather attenuated relative to LF, and clarity has begun to suffer, too.I will ask K&...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #38: Caps du Jour by Paul S on 2010-02-06 
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Remember the death and "re-birth" (via good electricity) of the big Cardas caps?  Well, it finally got to where things were not made good enough anymore by good electricity, so I went on the hunt again.  This time I settled on Sonicaps from Sonic Cra...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #34: Since I Brought It Up by Paul S on 2009-03-11 
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Well, Kevin Carter says he's had no trouble with his own Big Cardas parafeed caps, and his caps have been in service for 3 years.  He did not say anything about anyone else, but he did suggest there are plenty of other likely susp...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: A big change for the better by Paul S on 2007-06-17 
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I must say that I have always thought the Cardas "Golden Ratio" schtick was pretty lame.  So it was with no small measure of trepidation that I sent off a rather outlandish sum of money for two Cardas Golden Whatever 4.7 uF caps for th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Well, they are "different" by Paul S on 2007-08-06 
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It seems like lots of folks use parts to try to tune/voice their systems, and the V-Caps are just another option, IMO.  No matter what people think of new parts as they break them in, they will eventually tire of the overall sound from...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1743: Shield Unused Phono Jacks by Paul S on 2020-11-16 
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Metal caps over phono stage unused RCA jacks can help with stray EMF/RFI. Cardas and others sell them.Not saying something is wrong with the PP, just saying it doesn't take much to get noise from a phono stage, including any change in ground potentia...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: Priorities by Stitch on 2013-08-17 
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The normal audiophile has a problem when he marries first and wants to add a good Stereo System later.One of my friends did it right, he bought his system first and married later, before he did that he showed all to his girlfriend and said "You know,...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Caps? What caps? by Romy the Cat on 2007-06-17 
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I’m sorry, I’m not getting you. Where did you use those caps and what values/voltage do you use? I never use any Cardas caps. Their cables are notorious crap, why do you feel that this caps should be better?...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: A comparison, perhaps? by Paul S on 2007-06-18 
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I'm afraid I lack the savvy and/or the patience to figure out from those links how to buy just two matched Electrocube 950Ds, since all the distributors seem to be geared to industrial purchasing protocols.But if someone wants to send me a match...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #35: False Alarm... by Paul S on 2009-04-05 
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"Cap problem"?  Naturally, it was the BEP, again.  @#*&%!!!This afternoon the electricity was as good as it's ever been, and things sounded even better than I ever planned (ie, almost as good as I could imagine...).IOW, the Cardas cap i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #43: What was Lost is Found (and Then Some...) by Paul S on 2010-02-28 
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This has been one hell of a ride!  The new caps had gotten so bad yesterday and this morning that I was almost convinced (again...) that my cartridge was finally, really shot this time; what else could it be?  The upper mids and lower treble had suck...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #208: The horrors of calibration by N-set on 2012-07-14 
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I'm pathetically slow with my 834 clone, but that's what I am....Sorry for boring you but I treat this threat a bit like a blog on my "progress".I've tried to fight more with PS induced ham and interferenceby putting the PS transformers and HV rectif...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: The what's how's and why's by Paul S on 2007-06-18 
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Romy, I am aware of your well-reasoned prejudice against audiophile/boutique parts, and I agree that they are by-and-large the first recourse and last refuge of Morons.I thought I'd chronicled this phono stage stuff so far, but obviously not in ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Re: quotations, leads to source, the caps.... by Romy the Cat on 2005-11-03 
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[quote user="Antonio J."]Thanks a lot, I've forwarded to him your answers, let's see what he says. I have tried Mundorfs in some critical places in the integrated tube amp I'm using now and they are pretty good, expensive, but not at the level of tho...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: PCC data by N-set on 2017-02-06 
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Paul, thank you for your explanations. No idea if PCC is alkaline but according to its manufacturer it has some isoalkanes and isopropyl. Visually it does remove it quickly (also my Cardas solder is not leaving much of a flux): http://www.kontaktchem...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Re: Starting the project by Antonio J. on 2005-11-03 
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Dear Romy,Thanks a lot, I've forwarded to him your answers, let's see what he says. I have tried Mundorfs in some critical places in the integrated tube amp I'm using now and they are pretty good, expensive, but not at the level of those Auricaps, Ho...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #100: My assault by N-set on 2011-08-30 
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After going through the anal pains of the Image Gallery upload (it is sohuge now that my browser slows down 10000x times loading it and it ocasionally kicksmy router out of this world; can we do something about it?), here are some picsof my assault o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #150: Yes sir by N-set on 2011-11-20 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Well, you need to get rid of transformers and to make your phonocorrector to have no noise of any kind with any transformers. From MM level you need to have no more then 1-3mV AC at output and absolute not noise. After you...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #30: Need new capacitors? by drdna on 2009-03-08 
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[quote user="Paul S"]I have reason to suspect that my beloved large Cardas couplers have continued to loose HF past the point I described as "settling".[/quote]Well, it might just be the electricity, but if you need to replace them, maybe it is time ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #255: Audiopedophile's hell by N-set on 2013-03-22 
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[quote user="Paul S"]I have not tried the Eichmann, but I will do so in the near future.  It seems stupid to me that they do not make a Ag socket.[/quote]Yes indeed, and I'm very much reluctant to have a free-air (i.e. not soldered) connection betwee...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #269: 95%? by Paul S on 2013-04-02 
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But why would you consider brass connectors because of 95% of boutique RCA if the idea is to wind up with the best signal path?Probably, you will not use continuous wire from the cartridge coil, and you will probably not solder but use some sort of c...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Single core cables by Amir on 2018-12-09 
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between the cables i have tested the only cable had correct tone without un-natural high frequency was purist neptune.I have checked many cables like Acoustic Revive , Fadel ART, Transparent, shynuta research, cardas ,... none of them were good.puris...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Rules of good Sound by drdna on 2009-05-31 
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[quote user="Paul S"]If "all "points in space and time are connected", then would a temporal "gap" and/or its effects be unpredictable, or would there not as likely be a random(izing) effect?[/quote]Sorry for the generalization and skipping steps. Of...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #36: New MOSFETS and New Adjustments by Paul S on 2009-10-04 
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Another K&K user contacted me recently, and he subsequently sent me new MOSFETS to swap with those I had in my unit.  Original MOSFETs were Supertex DN2540.  New MOSFETs are IXSYS 1N100D.The only reason I swapped these was out of curiosity.  The ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Vintage AN, anyone? by Paul S on 2007-08-07 
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Well written article, I think, and he is good enough to share right away that he is a "vintage" guy, and an AN guy, which helps me contextualize his observations, even though he does not reveal the nature of the $$$$$$ "ultimate horn speakers" (...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #54: The sound of one hand clapping by Paul S on 2008-06-11 
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I was wondering how the record heat would affect your progress.  Lucky you.Interesting observations about the air cap.  Of course I am curious whether the added clarity additionally rewards/punishes +/- precision with VTA/SRA?I have zero ex...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1571: Im back by N-set on 2017-04-01 
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Paul, my system is back to the operational mode after the EMT tonearm disaster. Actually the biggest disaster was not the lost connection in one of the pins but....the bearing gave up according to my EMT tech (!!!) I must say I've never heard of a to...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #910: "HF attenuation" ? by Biggy on 2011-12-01 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] 6) Ok, the first half elephant in the room – the dynamics. Believe me or not but PP3000 is more dynamic then PP2000. It was very sensible from the very first note that I heard from the PP3000.  I do not know what to say ...
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