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Had to take my fjord back to the shop because of horrendous ringing

Rub and tug?

Nah, legalized assault and battery.

@Armaegis might be a reference to a popularish site squig.link where assorted folk have been sharing their measurements sorta like what that person who had a Renaissance painting profile photo (sup?) had but much more polished.

@YMO Sounds wise. You can check out any time you like, but...

@YMO You'll feel different after midnight.

Ahaha a lot of us use it for ZMF. Yeah, who would’ve thunk that Focals work nicely, too?

It’s crazy when you move from the 3F/N to another amp, and it just sounds wrong.

I'm not a particular fan of the Utopia - it's great but just not quite for me, inc. from my Stratus - but I always fondly recall hearing it anew from my buddy's 3F. One of those beautiful, clear, rich, sparkly sounds that stays with you.

Yes! 100% true minimum phase speaker! A good coaxial with phase compensation like what you did with kefs, or something like my setup that also destroys any thd and imd at the cost of complexity.

I'll reproduce your kef setup for another room, and do this phase treatment to all my other speakers. Once you go true minimum phase, no going back from that.

Also, I was thinking along the lines of, maybe 8th orger iir is too much, I'll try it with 2nd and 4th orders too. But I'm just blown away anyway

Short update. Tried it with 2, 4 and 8th orders.

2nd is the best sounding with least fatigue, but it's a marginal improvement. Fir is a galaxy wide difference.

Clarification:
The torch you carry in your hand for illumination?
The torch you carry in your heart for another?
The torch you use to join or cut metal?
Other?

Checked my source (Yggdrasil) just to make sure no issues and it works fine with other amps.

No signal coming from the pre-outs either.

Any advice?

I will say the gain switch has always been a bit of an issue trying to get it to go into low gain correctly (usually have to fiddle with the switch just a bit to get the channels to equalize). Other than that, no issues. The amp made no noise or smoke either.

Bad gain switch might throw it into protection mode. Seems like the prime suspect.

aren't we all

gninrael

Glad you don't have my problem.

Streamers seem like one of those things that don’t need the latest computer boards

Hmm, this appears to have worked! As the rep suggested, it made a god-almighty crackle in the left driver, but it does seem to have unstuck, and sounds like it's back in action. No clue whether this would've degraded the driver. Hopefully, the LCD-4 drivers can take a bit of abuse.

Back to running them with the Phonitor SE, a surprisingly good match, and the internal DAC in my iFi Neo Stream, which I don't care for, as I feel it sounds insipid. But I might try upsampling through HQP and see if that helps anything.

Either the rep is really good at it, or Audeze knows about this for a long time, of course I take the latter. So glad to see they are back alive!!

I am a toon noob but when looking for tubes This guy seemed competent with good prices:
https://www.die-wuestens.de/dindex.htm
Has a French long life version and an equivalent from Tungsram called PV 200 / 600 on stock

I fixed it :) https://i.imgur.com/TtQZDfc.jpeg

Lots of glue?

But for real, what a gorgeous tube.

but ultimately it does work simply as a powered hub doesn't it? and it would have a better power supply than a typical hub

I think it's a heat issue with the external nvme drive I'm using. But let me rule out other stuff first.

it's not exactly a heavy read application... what could be causing it to generate that much heat?

Happens all too often in tech. Fingers crossed on Audeze...

Water cooled MJ3?

@dubharmonic don't be silly, you gotta do oil submersion

At that point y not cryo

The MCD85 doesn't have digital outputs? CD player vs transport. I'm curious how one would compare them.

I should have said, “Urd + Yggdrasil A2”.

Unsurprisingly, it comes down to synergy and taste. So nothing revelatory to say in a status update.

However, this may be the best implementation of the ESS stuff I've heard. The shrill and harsh highs I thought were emblematic of these chips are simply not here (yes, @purr1n had already told me not all ESS implementations sound the same, now I have experience).