@@milosciric2337 Dear Milos, Thank you for this report. When you say "loud noise" do you mean an indigenous noise such as from a transformer in the preamp? Or do you mean a ground hum? Or do you mean tube noise or microphonics which you hear through the speakers? Please kindly explain what is the nature of this noise? Thank you.

I will explain to you. It is not the noise heard from the amplifier, it is not the noise of the transformer. Neither is the hum created by grounding. The closest description of noise is that it comes from tubes. It is heard loudly all the time, regardless of the position of the potentiometer(s) of the preamplifier. The noise comes through the speakers. Unfortunately, the noise is also heard when playing music. He is always present.

@@milosciric2337 Interesting. Do you hear this noise on all sources? Do you hear it on digital and on vinyl playback?

Dear Sir, I use both digital and analog sources. Power cables are very high quality, interconnect and speaker cables too. The problem occurs when I use both speakers. When I use the Jadis with Fyne Audio F1-12S speakers, it's a total disaster. I substituted a Jadis dCS Rossini Apex player preamp in place of the preamp for testing. The problem and the noise are gone.

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@@jiyadas That sounds like a wonderful system you have there! Enjoy it! I agree on the reliability and service research, thank you.

@@keithfox2995 Thank you for telling me about your system, Keith. My friend from New Jersey, Russ Prince, was very active on Audiogon forum in the 2000s. He loved his entire suite of Jadis electronics for many years, including the JP200MC. Did you have occasion to compare directly JP200 to any other preamp in your system over the years?

@@whatsbestforum I can't say say i have compared it to anything else.. However if you are ever in CO your welcome to a visit.

Thank you very much for the kind words, Andreas! I'm delighted you like the interviews!

@@marcusfordal4973 That is a good suggestion, Marcus! Have you auditioned them? L-8000 DHT? Tell me about them. Have you compared it to Jadis or conrad-johnson ART88?

@@ashvarma2486 Thank you very much for your comments. Obviously we have a similar approach to the hobby. I like very much Ken Stevens' CAT amplifiers. I like Ken personally, as well! I spoke with him at length at AXPONA this year. (Rather, he does most of the talking and you do most of the listening.) I have never heard his famous CAT preamp.

@@saturdayboy4454 I have now heard them on Auditoriums, on Piccolos and on my Studios.

@@saturdayboy4454 Don't take anybody's word for it - - you're welcome to visit here and hear them for yourself!

@@CarlVanDoren61 Thank you! The REIs sure bring the woofer ribbon to life! But all solid-state is too much for me. I agree with the view that "there should be a tube in the system somewhere." I am looking forward to going back to an all-tube preamp (a new Trafomatic Lara) later this week.

@@nicktube3904 Hello Nick, It is great that you are enjoying your digital system! I have not had any Antipodes component in my system, so I cannot report with personal knowledge of the sound of Antipodes components. All of the major digital brands seem to be working hard to close the digital gap to analog believability. dCS, MSB, Taiko all very recently released new top-of-the-line products.

@@nightingaleaudio Thank you! "Enjoying" feels a little strong. I think my digital is a sonically respectable way to play tracks I don't have on vinyl or tape. What is very fun is that my friends are cultivating their own Qobuz playlists on my Innuos Sense app. You can't do that with tape.

@@Ivy13276 No; I think they are DIY speakers.

Those are actually Cube Audio. Well spotted, @Ivy13276

@@ChicagoHiFi I knew it!!! I have a pair in my living room as well!

@@CarlVanDoren61 Interesting, Carl. With a linear power supply on the streamer, the PhoenixUSB reclocker, Cardas digital cables and the EtherRegen, I am not going any deeper down the digital rabbit hole. Overall, my digital set-up is modest by WBF standards. I think it represents very good sound quality per dollar, and, with the LampizatOr Baltic 4, I am surprised with how good the whole thing sounds.

Might I suggest an Afterdark clock and LPS for the AD unit to pair with the Etheregen. It makes a lot of difference. The better the clock the better the Etheregen!

@@roofermarc1 Hi Marc, Thank you for the suggestion! But I have decided arbitrarily that I am done for now. I'm simply not going to go any further down the digital rabbit hole. But I appreciate the suggestion! Best wishes, Ron

@@roofermarc1 Hello Marc, Thank you for the suggestion! At this point I am making the arbitrary decision to stop descending further down the digital rabbit hole. But I appreciate the assistance! Best wishes, Ron

@@andreas7278 Hello Andreas, Thank you for your comment. On what basis are you concluding that it doesn't match what you were seeking sonically?

@@whatsbestforum Hello, it's entirely based on my experience having been in this hobby for 26 years already. My personal taste is heavily geared towards SET class A no feedback tube chains (with few exceptions in the market, e.g. the Nagra HD line). So it's not a chain I would personally put together since it doesn't fit my personal taste. However, I am aware of the multitude of possibilities to put together fine systems and this is certainly a very fine chain. I am basing it on my experiences I have had hearing some of the gear used here at various circumstances at shows (I know, shows and their compromised setups under show conditions but it often has to serve as a first measure which directions you are willing to pursue further). So, for instance, the G3 Trio and the CH precision stuff, while being top notch gear, just doesn't seem to do it for me personally. The sonic presentation doesn't appeal to me compared to certain different approaches of other brands. This has nothing to do with the quality of the gear itself, just like with every hobby there is a good portion of personal taste involved. Hearing the personal conclusion of the owner of this chain I felt happy for him since I am familiar with the process of having to audition a lot of things until you find something that just ticks all your boxes and works out for you. So when he said that it can't possibly get any better I knew that, while it's probably not true and we all have that itch to tune the system even more, at the same time it sounds like he found the combination that is just right for him and I can relate to that feeling. It's an amazing feeling and only those who have been there after their own journey will understand this.

@@andreas7278 Thank you for your very detailed and thoughtful reply! I happen to be a tube person as well, so I fundamentally agree with you. I believe in the maxim: "There should be a tube somewhere in the system." Todd now has Phasemation tube amps, which sound wonderful on AG.

@@whatsbestforum I am not familiar with Phasemation tube amps. Personally I am a big believer of tube gear with a very neutral voicing, i.e. not that typical overly warm thick tuby sound that a lot of people think of when they hear tube gear and certainly exists in all shades in this industry. For me it's not really about having a tube in somewhere per se, it just is that well engineered DHT tube gear has the possibility for a very lifelike presentation due to the side effects of going down that engineering route, i.e. very short signal paths, extremely linear behavior (when driven with the right DHT tubes within their respective good ranges, good manufacturers limit output to these ranges) instead of having to correct for it, use of film capacitors instead of electrolytic capacitors, typically by default class A (no switching) and no feedback applied (which is not true for all gear and can also be done for FET or bipolar transistor gear and the difference to class AB or class D can clearly be heard; also leads to very immediate pulse response), no higher order distortions which the human is very susceptible too (so nothing to hide/correct, it's just absent all together as long as no feedback is applied as a shortcut to reduce THD values) & resonance behavior approaches that one of the one created inside human ear with low order distortions based on some psychoacoustic scientific papers done on this subject (fun fact is that the up to nearly 10% of low even order distortion is created inside our ear canal by all sounds we pick up, so these types of distortions are natural to us, we hear them all the time not just in hifi and as long as they don't get too high/much higher we are used to we are not bothered by them), vacuum and what I see in high quality constructions often gold, zirconium and the likes in tubes instead of plastic in bipolar transistors. Each topology lends itself to certain pros/cons due to the inherent culprits of that construction. Now tubes also have a couple of downsides and certainly don't work in any system or for everyone but I find it much easier to find DHT tube gear where the presentation simply appears naturally in the room while I have heard some kind of artificial presentation in many solid state designs (e.g. colorations in voices). As always a lot depends on the specific implementation but the topology sets quite a few relevant parameters from the start. The optimum would be no added noise, coloration or anything of that sort in a system but we all know that this will never be truly achieved. Some compromise is inherent to the problem of a complex playback chain. I believe that one of the reasons tube gear survived (same with some other stuff like vinyl) is the absence of some issues (as limited as some things in vinyl seem there are quite a few issues one has to deal with when going digital, all kinds of noise that has to be dealt with) and the let's call it "lucky coincidence" that the distortion pattern of tubes (w.r.t. amplitude, frequency as well as the combination of harmonic distortions) is somewhat similar to the human hearing as mentioned. Back then people didn't know that, the scientific papers finding that out came decades later but humankind simply only had tubes (and some other very specific niche analogue amplification devices but not for the masses) at their disposal. So while modern approaches are nice in many ways (energy efficiency, power output and all the good stuff) they have to fight other battles (just like e.g. a good parallel set DHT tube mono amp has to go the extra mile just to get sufficient power output within their linear range or be current stable to deal with less than optimal impedance loads maybe dropping to 2 ohms, a feat that a very basic class D amplifier module can do "quite easily" in comparison). Some companies rightfully in my eyes have started to not only see it from an engeering standpoint but start their designs from a psychoacoustic standpoint. Human hearing is not linear, we are used to have increased distortion at higher levels, we are used to hear certain reflections, we are also extremely tuned to certain aspects such as slight errors in timing since that was fundamental for pinpointing from where an intruder approached in the stone age (direction and speed is just a result of very fine differences in timing after all). Very slight manipulations of amplitudes at certain frequencies (up to a maximum of 0.5dB, often times 0.1 or 0.2dB is enough) can for instance move soundstage back and forth or adjust vertical soundstage. There are many aspects in hifi that are a direct result of the way our brain interprets sounds the way we evolved as the human species and highend gear seems to only start to incorporate more of these things. There are a few companies that base their whole engineering concepts on psychoacoustics such as Kaiser Acoustics or Riviera Labs. So they try to "get it right" not by putting their own soundstamp on it (even though each gear has some of their own intentional voicing) but by trying to find a way to approach the most neutral human perception which often is not the linear measurement. But in the end, whatever system you have, once you personally find that it "just sounds right" and manage to forget the gear to enjoy the illusion of a real presentation you are there and it doesn't really matter what gear you have chosen. For different people different approaches seem to do just that.

Thick tube bass can still be bought but tube amps rivaling solid state also exist nowadays

Thank you for the kind words! I am delighted you like the videos!

@@JRadian Hello J, The sound on the video bears little relation to the actual in-the-room sound. The room is a very well done, carefully treated, fully dedicated listening room.

@@whatsbestforum Just video recording from a phone then?

@@JRadian Actually, worse. Video recording of the audio to the internal mics in the Canon XA50 camcorder.

@@whatsbestforum You'd be surprised how many viewers go with first impressions of these youtube sound samples. For future videos, you might want to consider a good external mic for Canon XA50! I realize these things are a pain..

I think the WVLs -- along with Songers -- are great field coil speakers!

@@billdemars-beautyofsound Thank you, Bill!

@@elgingaragegym Thank you, Elg, for the interesting report! Which DAC did you have prior to the Aero?

Come on over!

@@mugen2002 LampizatOr people all seem to use USB. I'm just following the herd.

@@CarlVanDoren61 No; in my personal testing they change the sound in unpredictable ways. Rather than a power conditioner I started at the beginning and established a completely separate electrical infrastructure with chemical grounds. I would consider a Torus balanced power isolation transformer device to isolate all of the digital components for peace of mind.

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I have liked almost every field coil based loudspeaker I have ever heard. I personally believe there definitely is something to this reincarnated technology. I am ready for a field coil ribbon dipole panel speaker!

Hi Mike, How did the DAC sound? I have no idea . . . totally unfamiliar system in an unfamiliar room.

@@whatsbestforum Yeah, I guess it's impossible to know what the DAC is contributing. How did the system sound as a whole?

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Thank you for the kind words! I'm going to tell Tinka what you wrote! 😊

@@52gerg Thank you!

I believe all wood, with heavy internal bracing. But best to ask Peter to be sure.

Thank you. I would like that very much!

I wish I could!

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@@lexlarkin It is a specially commissioned one-off.

@@whatsbestforum Got it. Thanks!