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Hi Frank,
nice selection of music (system doesn't ring any bells, although I have heard of Sennheiser). What is the defender?

welcome. Guy.

Welcome Frank, I had to google Whitebird Virtus 01 amp having never heard of it. Looks very nice. http://www.highfidelity.pl/@main-294&lang=en

Hi Frank,

Welcome. Your CD player is a modifiers wet dream. Loads of stuff on the tinternet regarding what can be done to it if you are that way inclined.

Hope you have fun here, i do.

Stu

Thanks all for the warm welcome

guy wrote:Hi Frank,
nice selection of music (system doesn't ring any bells, although I have heard of Sennheiser). What is the defender?

welcome. Guy.

In layman terms from I understand it break the 5v in the USB connection from the PC to DAC and cleans it up. Have read a few comments on it, some say it works, some say it doesn't and then there are others who have not tried and said it will not work.

I took the gamble and it seemed to have cleaned up my 0 and 1 's, has tighten the bass up a bit, and added a tad more detail.

More detailHere

Cheers Frank

antonio66 wrote:Welcome Frank, I had to google Whitebird Virtus 01 amp having never heard of it. Looks very nice. http://www.highfidelity.pl/@main-294&lang=en

Very happy with it, weights a bit as well. May be asking about tube rolling soon, as I have no idea about valves. At the moment have a pair of very old KT66 Osram in it

karatestu wrote:Hi Frank,

Welcome. Your CD player is a modifiers wet dream. Loads of stuff on the tinternet regarding what can be done to it if you are that way inclined.

Hope you have fun here, i do.

Stu

Not really into modding myself, may have a look, was looking at replacing it this year.

Cheers Frank

Hi everyone,

My name is Jacques and I live in Burgundy.

I have always been a hi-fi nut. It all started in 1972 or so with my dad's hi-fi. Well it was not especially hi-fi but hey he had a nice Dual deck!
I bought my first equipment circa 1981, a Dual CS505, a Shure V15IV, an NAD 3020 and a pair of AR38 speakers. I had to work hard for that!
Anyway, here I am 36 years later with my Ditton 66 and OTA QUAD ESL 57 speakers, and a lot of stuff, among which tons of vintage B&O, and first gen CD players.

I always buy broken (otherwise I get bored, what's the point buying things that work?) and I fix things myself because I have electronic knowledge.

I have always looked at Linn/Naim stuff with lots of laughter - we weren't that much infected this side of the channel, the shops selling the stuff all went bankrupt - and I am a cable and fancy op-amp sceptic. I do own valve gear though!

I've been a Hi-Fi World subscriber for 26 years. Apart from their cable testing rubbish, a nice monthly read.

I can prove to you cables sound different and some are better than others.

I have to agree with the Doc. I'm running in a set of TIS and they are different to any other cable I've used. I'll maybe post a review soon - although what use it would be I don't know as TIS (Mk1) is on the way out.

Would the '57s be able to show any differences ? So far everything I've tested sounds the same.

Yes. The original NVA cables back in the early 80s were selected (you can't say designed) when 57s were my reference speakers. Around 1985 I went through just about all the *RG cables available and I could hear differences with all of them.

*RG = USA military spec