KingRex

It took me years to develop one of my panels. It takes lots of searching and testing. One lead to another until I had the final product. Now I am facing a shortage of parts as the world races to the bottom. Build it cheap and low quality. I can make 14 more panels, then the magic is over. The $3500 panrl will jump to $7000 and be a inferior product on some levels.

Welcome Wadax team. I had the pleasure of hearing a head to head listen between Wadax and MSB Select here in WA state. The Wadax was clearly more vinyl sounding. In the seasion I heard the Wadax next to world class vinyl. I would challenge most any guest to know which was which. I am happy for the product you make. I'm bummed its priced where a member such as myself can never attain it. But hey, thats the way of world. Best to you all. Rex Kingrex Electric.

Sorry to print the name wrong. VX-5 Twenty. How does it perform with a single ended preamp.

I have never really listened to an Ayre system. I have heard it at Pearl Audio in Portland OR. I have a client where I upgraded his electrical infrastructure. I had the pleasure of sitting in his very nice room in a room listening space. He had a world class amp and Magico speakers. I ranked it as one of the finer systems I had heard. That client told me his main amp was experiencing a slight buzz out of 1 speaker. I went through a whole process of elimination and could only point my finger at the amp. This was a very subtle buzz and only heard when you were not playing music and walked up to the speaker. But it was there. My point in posting was he got a Ayre VX5-20 as a interim amp to have something to play when he sent his $60k well known amp for manufacturer diagnostics. To his surprise he found he liked the Ayre better in a head to head analysis. So much so he returned his buzzing amp to the dealer and bought the Ayre monoblocks. I am tiptoeing the idea of purchasing his VX5-20. I love tubes. But at times appreciate the solidity of SS bass. Anyhow, seeing how a very budget friendly VX5-20 bettered an amp considered by most in the top 7 or so of amps makes me very intrigued by the product.

There are loads of tbreads on power conditioners. Even specific to parallel units.

I like Jason as a person. Nice guy. Heart is in the right place. But he's pretty dogmatic in his views. I believe in a more middle ground. Being a hobby, people should do what they have a passion for. If you enjoy computers and software, then room correction can create very good playback. I personally don't like computers that much. I would rather work with the physical room and treatments to tune it. That is the main reason I don't have a BACCH at this time. I am also confident I would benefit to a far greater level by spending $ on subs at this time. My bass falls like a brick at 50 herts. But, I just bought a new house. We move on June 12th. I will be setting up a new room. Once I have a handle on that, I will consider my options.

When my friends bought the Mac Mini version they paid $6750 for the complete unit. Included the Babyface Pro that is a hub for cables. At that time the ORC room correction software was included for free. That software is an additional charge now. You want the ORC software. I don't know the price of the complete package now. And I hear rumors the Mac Mini version may go away????? Not sure. I'm not on the inside loop anymore. The insane pressure in Audiophile Junkies private Whatsapp was distrubing. You were basically considered an Idiot if you didn't abandon the idea of analog and troom treatments for embracement of digital and room corrextion. It's a cult of digital worship in that group. That should not be a reflection on Edgar and the product. There are many outlets to purchase it. You can configure it a few ways. You don't have to digitize your analog. Being a Mac Mini, you can load Roon on it and ditch the server. This is part of what confused me. Audiophile Junkie would beat on people that servers are a waste of money. They are worse than a decent computer with decent software. The hardware does not matter. I honestly don't know if he is right or not. I have personally experienced software having a massive impact, yet hardware has a very small one. IE, use a desktop with Roon and a good JCat USB card with updated clock and would you hear the gain from spending $22,000 on a Aurender or other. I just don't know. So, the point is, can you just get the Mac Mini BACCH/ORC and load Roon and have a world class digital for under $10k. Not sure. But you might. FWIW. I know about 4 people that returned it. But I would also say they did not take the time and effort to dial it in. They threw it on a table, had it configured the first time, heard a small change and returned it. Its going to take many many hours to figure out all it can do and dial it in. With the personal effort put forward, its a solid product.

I know a couple of people who own BACCH. It's not a gimmick. It can be somewhat affordable. It's more like $8 to $10k for entry level. It has a new ORC software that is room correction. As with any device, you want a friend/expert to guide you. Its close to plug and play, but you can end up wanting to shut your stereo off after 20 minutes. The adjustments to bring.it back to natural and engaging might seem small and elusive. A skilled user can help you find it again. The units in the $25k up have what is believe to be MSB DAC parts. I have heard of people selling their Select DAC as they hear no difference between a BACCH direct.or through the Select. That is a lot of saved money. And you.got the Binural software as well as ORC room correction. All in one box. Edgar is a top notch person. Find a dealer that has expertise and time to help guide you as you learn the system. Too many want to sell you a unit then walk away and let your struggle. Its a time soak for dealers. Dealers like to make money. Not assist in creating great sound. There is not enough online content or teaching material to support the product fully yet. There is some.

FWIW, I am not disreguarding the IP. I think he is spot on. A pro is who fixed my good friends setup. Minor tweeks and he is back to happy. Overall he is satisfied with his DSP. But he says he got his at a sales price and would not spend the gull price to get what he got. This is a guy who is all digital. He had vever got vinyl to work in his system. So consider that. But pros do help. When I get some subs, I will use JR with Wally Tools to set them up. He uses tools to get it close then dials in by ear.

I am going to try some of it when I triamp my PAP Trio 15 coax. The goal is to eventually get it back to active analog crossover.

I use to be on Jasons Whatsapp. It was too cult. People walking in fear of saying anything bad about BACCH. I have a good friend with BACCH. He has the ORC room correction too. He has gone through phases of like/dislike. For a while he could not listen for more than 20 minutes. He had an expert look at his sweeps and made a few small changes and can listen again. My point is DSP is not so easy to integrate. It takes years to really perfect. I hear people brag they spent 10,000 hours dialing it in. And then you hear them saying they found a new better setting. Its almost like their music days are about analyzing the sound rather than enjoyment of music.

@austinpop I know one other person that put a powerwall in and attached his audio to it. They actually attached his whole house. He has a Gryphon Diablo and Magico A3. I don't know he heard anything. In my mind, that is a good thing. I need to circle back with him. But his installation was one where they added a transfer switch so his grounding changed. So did the entire power supply. He has no way to go back and forth and listen. Then he went and upgraded to S3. So now his system is so radically different. Its hard to tell the impact with amplifiers. This person also does not futz over his system. He turns it on, it plays music and he is happy. I am personally more interested in stand alone battery systems. That is what most audiophiles what to know about. Can a battery better the wall. The other group is people adding batteries to deal with power outage and they want to know will a battery and transfer switch damage the sound. Or could it maybe be better. The topic of a whole house powerwall system has not been pursued well. For one its not easy to do. If you reroute the service wires from the utiltiy stike out of the main panel and into a transfer switch, you have no way to do a comparison. Whats done is done. you have to rely on memory.

What do you mean Romoved XLR. XLR to me is a balanced interconnect. Are you in Europe. Is XLR what you call the male end of a power cord. Power cords and their length have nothing to do with cleaning power or ground loops. Not unless they are something like a Shunyata NR that has a filter built into it. Not to be rude or unkind or dismissive. I am not questioning the hum issue you are experiencing at this time. I am interested in what affect the EcoFlow has on the sound coming from your system. When I recommend a filter to someone, I am looking for that filter to reduce noise on the utility line and allow dynamics to increase, bass to become tighter and more integrated with the mids and for the soundstage to expand in all directions. I and I believe others want to know if a Ecoflow improves the sound from your system. How would the Ecoflow compare to having an electrician come to your home and run new wire from your panel to your rack. If it does not make your overall audio performance better and only gets rid of hum from an amp for some reason, then its not really an options for someone who is looking to improve the overall presentation of their stereo system. When I lay out a design for someone such as yourself and advise 4 x #10 romex be run to the room bla bla bla. The resultant end outcome is almost universally the noise floor is lower. Bass is significantly tighter and faster. Bass and midrange integrate better. Sound stage is more solid. Separation of instruments is more clear and defined. I would like to know if you had time to really investigate what your system is voicing like, what your battery setup is doing. My assumption is its more clean an quiet. But I bet you lost some dynamics, the bass is a little soft and the soundstage is slightly compressed. Its clean and quiet. You might hear a little more detail. But you gave up some. Thanks in advance if you can make time to really listen and report back.

It seem right on topic. A poster has said he likes a battery as it seems to have fixed an issue. I am questioning his analysis process to determine if the battery system itself fixed the hum, or did something else. I am then clearly asking for a through analysis of his EcoFlow battery power system to wall power with McIntosh amps. You only use Headphones. A far different system to power. That is very much what people assessing what a battery want to know. Can they power amplifiers with a Battery. More people can afford to do this than put a Tesla Powerwall on their house. Were talking $6K to $45K. Still a battery.

One last point. I never heard you talk about putting a shorting plug into the input of the amp and attaching to the speaker only. Then turning the amp on. If you still hear a hum from the speaker, there is an issue with the amp. If you hear the amp itself hum, that is generally the amplifiers power supply is being saturated by DC and the core of the transformer is vibrating. Filters will generally stop DC from saturation of the core. They almost never stop hum out the speaker. If you have a shorting plug in the input and hum out the speaker, that is usually a poor design of the equipment where a power trace is to close to a ground trace and the power couples to the ground and puts voltage onto the ground destabilizing the whole circuit.