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| What isolation feet under your amp with great result? the Herbies tube dampers are well known, his tall tender feet work very well at absorbing vibration and firm up the imaging for under $60 for 4 they are a $$ excellent buy.i have used comes and bearing type in my system too analyticalsounding , t... | |
| Marantz PM Ki Ruby vs Musical Fidelity M6si I had a $6 k Krell vanguard and bought the Marantz ruby integrated .i know the musical Fidelity’s latest 6 , it is fast and pretty musical but the KI Ruby is for sure more fleshed out and involving especially instrumental depth and soundstage dept... | |
| What makes a DAC so expensive? If you are newer to audio class leading quality per dollar $$ spent Are Denafrips, tons of awards, Schiit audio, Mytek ,and Bench mark, p.s Audio each one will have a different sonic character ,the most analog per $$ spent a Denafrips R2R... | |
| What makes a DAC so expensive? There is some things way ver priced but fantastic DCS is a premiere digital company you can spend $90k on their top effort Dac, power supply, and super clock with temp controlled ovens the most realistic in sound quality quite possible but at a ex... | |
| What makes a DAC so expensive? Power supply filtering has a lot to due with lowering distortion with digital jitter,noise artifacts do matter. Even usb cables matter a lot if you have quality cables And equipment to justify the added costs for example I bought a excellent usb c... | |
| What's going on with Synergistic Research fuses? Silver, copper ,gold top conductors in synergistic nope brasswith a treatment $160 no thanks I had theirs in my other it was not as pure as the silver gold Hifi tuning , at half the price ,it just matters where it goes ,luckily my new dac uses a ... | |
| Any thoughts on Denafrips Terminator Plus Yes I heard them side by side just 2 months agothe terminator even had the Gaia clock the plus has even better clock overs better parts quality and huge power supplies almost 20 lbs heavier 44 weighs 44 lbs. the plus is more fleshed out and refine... | |
| What makes a DAC so expensive? The complexity of the build ,the power supplies, are essential in the S/N and purity of signal, many aftermarket linear power supplies are over $1500 alone ,brand name , how fancy the case If a R2R multi ladder dac each resistor has be matched to... | |
| Analog or Digital and why? Records = headaches ,pops scratches,cleaning like space sonics can be Verygood but today you can get verygood digitalstsrting at under even $1k rhe Ares2 from a Denafrips R2R dac then better resolution and depth as you pay more .metrum , dcs, MSB,... | |
| kinki dac vs denafrips pontus Recently the Areas2 dac ,and in March the Pontus has a new processor board as well as upgraded DSD same board as the Venus and terminator it comes with any of these dacs as of March 2020if you have a older model for $260 you can unplug,and plug in... | |
| What's the deal with Vintage Tube Service? Andy is a bit forgetful at times , and doesnot do work or a schedule or a timely fashion Andy is probably 70 now .if a problem Brett Jesse or audio tubes .net | |
| Which R2R DAC UP TO 1K: ORGANIC, FULL-BODIED, DEEP SOUNDSTAGE Please remember the Denafrips Pontus ,Venus, terminator all use a new the same processor board with clock upgrade and DSD upgrade ,for $260 us very easy unplug ,plug in new one for any dac before March 2020.Pontus with big seperate linesr power ... | |
| DAC upgrade This you could put in Quotes if you have $2800the Deafrips Venus dac is a R2R multi ladder dac just look it up Vinshine Audio. Just look at the great build quality the whole bottom is a huge linear power supply . I have the Pontus the Venus is ver... | |
| Any thoughts on Denafrips Terminator Plus One more thing ,no fuses to get in the way of the signal path they use a thermal thermistor if it has a fault ,it thermally just disconnects until it cools down vs a fuse all fuses degrade the signal in all a Denafrips dacs, Only their excellent b... | |
| Would this be a good starter system for streaming? The new Denafrips Pontus is exceptionally good .i sold the latest Schiit yggs dacas well as lampizator 3. It will meet or beat ant 6 k dac out there and shipping was 4 days DHL for $1700 with shipping a no brainer ,a very detailed naturally warm dac. |