Duelund hook up wire 2 version 2 versus stock cable wire.

Hi vyokyong, glad to read. I remember you were traveling to Hong Kong to get them.

The Indra are pretty special IC's. I enjoyed every minute of having them. For me, just a little to much so. I ended up staying with my Kimber 1030 to 1030 IC's (RCA).

Serendipitous, to having the Indra in my System (used), I traded back to Joe at the Cable Co., for the Kimber Select KS6063 Speaker Cable 8ft WBT-0681-Ag Spades ~and~ Shunyata Research Ztron Alpha Digital Power Cord (used for the KS6063 and new for the Alpha Digital).

What these Kimber 6063's and Shunyata Digital power have brought to my System.....are not replaceable!

{Thanks Joe, at the CableCO, for helping catapult my System to Liquidity with Dynamics........and subtlety}.



Further sonic pleasure improvements have been Tube Rolling:

NOS/Platinum/Ediswan's CV2492/6922 /Inputs = ZMA are breathtaking.............. .

*Also: Cryoset 6H23N-EB's, rotated in and out of Inputs/ZMA*
(Way different internal guts/halo/getter...they are NOT 6N23P-EV's)

NOS/Platinum/Telefunken 6922/E88CC for Input Tube/CSP3 ~ not taken for granted neither......... .

NOS/Platinum/Ediswan's CV2492/6922 /PRE Outputs of CSP3, running  into ZMA Inputs with Ediswan's = revelatory!  



Furthermore, customizing my Acoustic Zen Adagio's:

Acoustic Zen Adagio's x-over's Modified/Full Range with Mundorf MCap Supremes-single Cap to each Tweeter/4.5k cross
(Gutted: 3kHz/18dB/Octave, Linkwitz/Riley Crossovers....with all crappy parts = gone)
...........................Revelatory!

Especially when the Adagio Drivers are equipped with underhung voice coils and Neodymium magnets – a short voice coil in a long magnetic gap allows to eliminates most of the distortions and coloration.

......then with the Transmission Lines.....magnificent overacheivers!


Enjoy the Indra's! Your System I bet, is glorious with them!



PS: Goals in 2016/for my System:

1) Three more choice/select/NOS/Platinum pairs of 6922's from Upscale Audio.

2) I'm bringing in a PASS LABS XA 30.8 (used/demo/seasoned in), to challenge my Zen Mystery Amp. Yes, the XA 30.8.....not the XA 30.5.
(I'll probably end up keeping the 30.8 & the ZMA will be going nowhere~it stays/period).

3) Kimber Internal Silver wire or Duelund, inside Adagio's...and Upgrade Caps to Mundorf Silver Oils.








Listening Room:


Room Treatments from Michael Green & Home Brew

Sony as Transport (DVP-NS57P)/Sandwich weighted for Isolation

Illuminati D-60 Digital Coax IC

Shunyata Research Ztron Alpha Digital Power Cord to ZDSD!

Decware ZDSD DAC / Recorder
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W/Steve's Output Transformer's/kicking to the curb quite a few superb DAC'S!
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(@ -20 Ref Level, 0.0 Input volume and @ 16/192)

WBT-0102Ag RCA Kimber Select KS1030

Decware CSP3 w/Jupiter Caps
(NOS/Platinum/Telefunken 6922/E88CC for Input Tube~NOS Platinum Ediswan Cryogenic 6922's for Output Tubes & 5U4G-C Rectifier)
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10 of 10 for Input tube & *9* of 10 voltage for Output tubes
Volume adjustment usage at 25% to 55% from 0
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WBT-0102Ag RCA Kimber Select KS1030

Decware Zen Mystery Amplifier
~BIASED at *60* mA~
(NOS/Platinum/Ediswan's CV2492/6922 in my A12 an B12 positions~6N23P-EV's for Inverter Tubes~JAN Sylvania 0A3's & Tung-Sol KT66's)
ZMA adjusted at 20% to 30% from 0

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Kimber Select KS6063 Speaker Cable 8ft WBT-0681-Ag Spades
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Acoustic Zen Adagio - Black Pearl (Modified)




Acoustic Zen Adagio's x-over's Modified/Full Range with Mundorf MCap Supremes-single Cap to each Tweeter/4.5k cross
(Gutted: 3kHz/18dB/Octave, Linkwitz/Riley Crossovers....with all crappy parts = gone)


XLO Pro Power Cords to CSP3 an ZMA
PS Audio P3 Power Plant / Pangea AC-9SE from wall to P3
(Transport, ZDSD an CSP3, Regenerated/*122*~ Multiwave off...ZMA on High Current Output)
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PS: NOS/Platinum/Ediswan's CV2492/6922 /Inputs = ZMA are breathtaking.............. .

*Also: Cryoset 6H23N-EB's, rotated in and out of Inputs/ZMA*
(Way different internal guts/halo/getter...they are NOT 6N23P-EV's)

NOS/Platinum/Telefunken 6922/E88CC for Input Tube/CSP3 ~ not taken for granted neither......... .

NOS/Platinum/Ediswan's CV2492/6922 /PRE Outputs of CSP3, running  into ZMA Inputs with Ediswan's = revelatory!  

Based on the info in this thread, I picked up a Lightspeed Attenuator on eBay for about half-price. Using it with the volume pots on the ZMA and CSP3 both fully open yielded very satisfying results immediately, more-or-less in clarity and open-ness. Loud music is more intelligible and delicate music just sparkles.

Today I bypassed the volume pot in the ZMA. Even better. Great mod if you aren't habitually riding gain.

With just the Lightspeed into the ZMA, I don't have the volume boost I needed when I bought the CSP3. The received wisdom seems to be that a single gain stage into the Lightspeed (if you're missing the volume) is ideal as far as purity of signal path. A friend has my ZSTAGE, but I'm getting it back tonight. If it is "better" somehow than the CSP3, I guess I might remove the CSP3 from the system for now. If the ZSTAGE isn't quite enough, I might leave the CSP3 but bypass the volume on that as well.

While I had the ZMA down on the table and more-or-less taken apart, I also used Mad Scientist graphene oil on all the RCA and banana jacks, as well as all of the contacts in the tube sockets, and the fuse clip (which currently holds a Graphene Sluggo). Taking out the volume pot may account for a lot of it, but all I can say is that I definitely like what I am hearing.