badgerdms
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| DAC contest: Border Patrol Sei or Chord Qutest? These two are a lot of "apples and oranges". In MY system, the Border Patrol is the pretty clear winner over the Qutest (and yes, I've owned them both). I really enjoyed the Qutest when I dumped my Ayre Codex about three years ago. All the thing... | |
| New DACs High End Munich 2023 Hi Milpai, first I want to know which NOS Mazda's you are using with your Backert? I've got a Rythm 1.3 and have some tubes that Andy sent me which I like but love to tinker sometimes. Next, I want to recommend the Maerason DAC1. In my rig (McG... | |
| Grimm MU1 Streamer - Really "The Best"? @nyev If you are interested in trying the Purple Fuse on the Innuous, here is their link for changing fuses. https://innuos.com/kb/replacing-the-fuse-on-innuos-products/ Also, I think Marten speakers recommend Jorma cables, so Marten dealers w... | |
| Harbeth 30.2 or Falcon Gold Badge For a point of reference, my other in-house speakers (in addition to Harbeth) are Volti Rivals, Fleetwood Deville SQs, and Studio Electric M4s. If someone finds the 30.2s boring there is something else amiss in their system. | |
| Harbeth 30.2 or Falcon Gold Badge Sounds like LarryI works at Deja Vu, a shop that focuses a lot of its business on Audio Note. I owned the AN-Js for about three years, and now have a pair of 30.2s in-house. I think they have pretty different sound signatures. As LarryI intimat... | |
| Technics SU-R1000 - Good but not the king of switching amps I had the G700M2 for 30 days last year and agree about how good it is. In audio, you are always chasing the last 10-15% and that's the case here. Quoting the maker of some extremely expensive high-end speakers about the R-1000 vs the G700MK2, "I... | |
| Fee for home audition Find another dealer. There are lots of other options out there. Before I bought an integrated from Linear Tube Audio, I tested all three of their integrated amps in my house, with no charge or deposit. Same with a Naim Uniti Atom, HiFi Rose 150... | |
| Technics SU-R1000 - Good but not the king of switching amps Just wanted to dust this off. I've heard it and had it in my system. It's a superb, full stop, whatever name is on the badge. Ironically, I also know someone who ditched his Luxman amp and Backert Labs Preamp for this and he doesn't seem the le... | |
| Best Class D GaNFET Amp Comparison. Who to invite? Strange list that includes all kinds of things that are not GaN. NAD M33 is not. Both the Technics SU-R1000 and SU-G700M2 are, AGD, Atma-Sphere & Peachtree all make sense. Aavik is 4x the price of the most expensive other options here, not... | |
| Best DACs under $7,000.00 I haven't heard the Peachtree, but I have heard both Technics GaN integrated amps. They are both unbelievably good. I've also got LTA, McGary and Backert Labs in the house for comparisons. With the right speakers, I'd put the SU R-1000 up again... | |
| Ideon DAC's I tried the Ayazi with the 3R Master Time Black Star (along with a bunch of other stuff) with my Fleetwood Deville SQs, Backert Labs Rhythm 1.3 and McGary Amp. The bottom line is I did not love it. I got to go back and forth between the Ideon st... | |
| Problem with my Rose 150 b Sorry for jumping off topic, but interested in what other owners have found to be their preferred digital filter/upsampling settings? | |
| Bricasti M5 vs Ultrarendu Advice? OK, one way to look at it--if you buy either the M3 or M1 the price to add a network card is $1K. It's identical to what's in your M5, without the case. The entire "Rendu" line is about galvanic isolation and converting the signal coming in to... | |
| opticalRendu network streamer – a review I have an OpticalRendu and an OpticalModule Deluxe (feeding a Merson DAC1). Really love the sound from this combo and want to throw out another option that I think makes a big difference--the Linear Tube Audio (LTA) LPS+ linear power supply. I ... | |
| What's your favorite $5-7000 turntable? I know a couple of folks locally who dumped their belt drive tables for the Technics SL-2000G (or GAE if you can find it). One got rid of his Fiekert Woodpecker FWIW. |