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I have two pairs of Sparkos SS3602 opamps if anyone is interested, £70 a pair posted. If anyone is running Sonic Imagery 994s and has been wondering what the Sparkos sound like.
I also have a pair...

If you make your own with off the reel cable you can get the mains plug and iec sorted then you can always rebuild with a different off the reel cable.

You don't have to be too handy to build...

I've done quite a lot of power cable experiments, I settled on a sort of "go to" cable for most things a while back and have not tried my Nord on anything except that cable I don't think (that cable...

If you're interested in W11's then give Alto a shout on here or PM me and I'll pass you his contact details, he's not that far from you really and is a dealer for Boenicke and Lumin and has even had...

I saw Colin earlier, we were discussing the binding posts. He was saying they are a good patented design, and of course it's unlikely to cause any audible benefit changing them we were both agreed.
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I'll have a check, measure up everything and shout back.

I've got round my immediate curiosity by connecting up one wire raw screwed down by the binding post and the other wire (which is a...

Just looked at the back of the Nord, something occurred to me...

I had been thinking about maybe swapping my speaker cable terminations to locking banana plugs for the additional reason that the...

I tried a Benchmark Dac 3 HGC straight into my Nord, I didn't like it at all, it was unrefined for me and a bit digital sounding too, but I am used to a Bryston BDA2 --> ATC SCA2 --> Nord, so I'm not...

A quick return with my decision and purchase of XLR cables for my Pre-->Nord that I was posting about a few pages back. Ok, so I'd had great results with the Audience OHNO at £350 and even slightly...

You'll be able to get great results with a Dac or Streamer that has variable outs. A pre is not necessary. That said, all Dacs with variable out will sound different, as will Pres.

It all depends....

Can you change the title of this thread so it contains all the amps being compared?

Good stuff, you likely will find it will improve too over the next two or three weeks. Enjoy!

I mentioned previously I would compare a couple of XLR interconnects which I have tried feeding the NordOneUP-SE with…

So, I started with making some Mogami Star-Quad with Neutrik XLRs, I made two...

I popped by to see Alto again today and had the chance to hear the SST in the same system that I'd heard the Hypex NC500 in before. I did not hear the swap but I was very impressed with the SST in...

Here's the review http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews2/nord/1.html ...by the way, anyone unfamiliar with that website, it is a multi-page review, the navigation to the next page is not obvious but is...

ATC SCA2, Bryston BDA-2, Ruark Talisman 2, Cyrus CD Signature, Nord OneUP SE Stereo with 994's.

Some diary notes from warm up... (might be interesting to some people, boring for others)

1st Day
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::AT COLIN'S::
Picked it up and first hearing was in Colin's system fed from Cambridge...

I met Alto yesterday, a nice chap who's obviously had a lot of experience with some great high level hifi! I'll report back soon with experiences of the Vovox Vocalis XLR he's provided me to audition...

I think "fleshed out" is quite a good description of the Sparkos vs the 994 for the limited time I had to listen. I'll report back when I've actually experienced the change in my system too.

In fact, the following will interest some people, I combed through all of this thread to find absolutely all the comments people have made so far relating to warm-up/break-in and cut 'n' pasted them...

No problem... will be back with more notes once I've written up my diaries of break-in (because I'd been looking for more details about the break in before I bought, but no one had seemed to say much...

Ok... I will return to write much more about the warming up / break in, which I made notes on every day, but the general feeling is one that it is the treble settling to be more refined and the...

Ok... let's move to the Nord, plugging it in in my own system, day one, immediate impressions.

Note at this point my ATC SCA2 Pre is a fully balanced design with XLR outs (and ins if wanted) there...

Ok, a quick note about buying, I collected my Amp from Colin, and heard it connected to some of his IQ Speakers, which I believe were the ST2LK. He was feeding it from one of his Nord Preamps, from a...

Hi, new to this forum, but felt it was a good place to put my feedback on the Nord OneUp SE Stereo which I bought in Black a month ago, I had it with the SonicImagery 994's and Neotech internal...