Z Review - Yamaha A-S301

So you said this 4 days ago and I said that 2 days before the 4 days. . Shit I am behind.

ZeosPantera

I thought you said the aeon flow open review would be up in 2 days

Agree...I guess it will just keep us up to date on DACs. Running a Micca Origen now, as I no longer needed it on my desk. What speakers are you powering?

Cool. Glad it worked.

ZeosPantera

I have one of those. It's a decent integrated amp. The only downside is that it doesn't have optical in. I haven't noticed any signal leakage. I did have to ground the turntable to the ground screw on the amp. It was humming a bit.

That did the trick. I took some flexible fairly large gauge wire resembling speaker wire and ran it across the picture window, about 40 feet in total in a closed loop. Reception is a good 2-3X as good as it was. I must say, the HD radio isn't really audiophile quality--but it's darned good. The weird thing is, other than the Sangean, you can't get stand-alone tuners with HD capability. It's all integrated now.

2 days?

ZeosPantera

I have no idea. My father use to just run some small gauge speaker wire around the room.

ZeosPantera

I didn't have it stand out but no I did not actively seek this.

ZeosPantera

While we're talking radio reception, anyone have a recommendation for an indoor FM antenna? The dipole that came with the Sangean HDT-20 HD tuner is passable, but I could use something a little better without getting up on the roof.

That Sony reciever I showed you with the red dot also has a motorized knob. Companies are just stupid and lazy and don't want to pay the extra dollar per knob to indicate properly.

IDK, I think if I had that problem I'd prefer to stick a small white disc / large white "dot" as an indicator on an otherwise featureless round knob, instead of a line/strip. More elegant IMO.

BeyondWakanda

how soon as we talking?

I just got a marantz PM8005, which I love and the Japanese build quality is holy god....but it leaks signal too. Did you check the Onkyo?

Wow shortwave. I never would have guessed

ZeosPantera

I have alway just cut a thin strip of some white label stock and stuck it on all my volume knobs.

I used to use all six of the inputs on my Marantz, Phono, CD, Tuner, Computer, Recorder (cassette), and shortwave. I've since dropped the shortwave because there's very little on now, and most of it's accessible via the internet.

I just printed an arrow with my label maker and stuck it to the volume knob. Now I can see it across the room. But, yeah, it's amazing how much more feedback you get knowing where the volume is.

I'm loving the non-headphone reviews ;)

Based on the Z review of the Audio-GD R2R11 (& the FUBAR going on @MassD over their "inspired" RDAC), I got one last week ($381.xx, shipped to U.S.). My Monolith M1060s have a new life, on my desktop.

Step away from the Blue "Tacky" & Google "DIY LacquerStik". I didn't want to post links to my reference, for my H&K USPc application, as my choice of solvent was for a tennifer treated slide. For plastic knobs, you'll need a different solvent.

lol, z's gone off the deep end with the blue/white tac. Someone should make an entire amp with tac, should have good insulation, right? low noise.

Jan Miller

Thank you!

For those yeah. Or seek Audio-GD at the $300 level.

ZeosPantera

I filmed it yesterday and just uploaded it tonight. So it will come soon.

ZeosPantera

I liked their sound but the weight n clamp ruined it for me plus the seal they make made my ears pop, that and i didnt like that they were too relaxed

Yes! I love my LCD2C's and was very interested in those as well! Dude, Z, if I'm not gonna be a balanced whore, will the Asgard 2 fit the bill? Aune x7s seems a bit more difficult to obtain and closer to $300 now...

Afraid not

Doh!

Numba 1!!!

When are we gonna see some more headphone reviews im curious on your thoughts of the aeon flow :)