bigfatpaulie
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| Advice needed: It's time for a new DAC Hi Everyone! I thought I would pop in and post an update on my DAC journey. First of all, I really appreicate all the help, advice and guidance post here and that I received though PM's. Thank you all. I ended up audtioning a few DAC's. To... | |
| Advice needed: It's time for a new DAC Hi everyone!! Thank you for all the input. I'll do my best to answer everyone, but if I miss someone I'm sorry. @yyzsantabarbara Of the DAC's I used to own, my favorite was probably DAVE, however, I was using it with a DNA Stellaris amp, ... | |
| Advice needed: It's time for a new DAC Hello @ghdprentice ! Thank you so much. I really appreciate your comment as you've owned the Berkeley. The CD9SE... WOW! I really adore AR stuff. The some of best amps I've heard (save the Boulder 2160) have been AR. Thank you for y... | |
| Advice needed: It's time for a new DAC Hi @audiotroy Thank you for your reply. To answer your questions: what are you using currently using? An RME-ADI2fs how wil you feed the dac? A Lumin U1 How does this information help you answer my initial question? I use AES/EBU r... | |
| Spec-chart for digital cables "Digital is just 1's and 0's." We've all read this, over and over... And you know what, I was the same. I saw this today and it really changed my opinion. It's Adam Savage and two other gents who really go though the differences between exp... | |
| Am I broken? Am I stuck? Do I have to return my audiophile card now? Hi Everyone!! Sorry it has been a while - I've had a few big things come up which really slowed things down. Anyway, I really appreciate all the advice, insight, experience and thoughtful replies so thank you to everything that replied. ... | |
| Am I broken? Am I stuck? Do I have to return my audiophile card now? Okay, round 2. I replied but Audiogon had a pop up - something about a wanting my phone number or whatever - and it ate my last reply. Sick programming. Anyway... First, thank you to everyone who took the time to reply and provide input. I re... | |
| Speaker Recommendation Help Please. Hi Everyone, I wanted to start by thanking all of you for your thoughtful suggestions, help and kind words!! Thank You! Second: I bought a paid of speakers (YAY!!). More on this in a minute. Third: What happened. Many of the suggest... | |
| Speaker Recommendation Help Please. Thank you so much for all the replies everyone!! If I don't reply to you specifically, please know that I have read and taken note of your advice. Thank you :) With all the replies I just can't reply to everyone individually. I really apprecia... | |
| Speaker Recommendation Help Please. Hi @sbank ! Not only have I never heard Larson's, I've never heard OF Larson! Thank you for the suggestion. It looks like they don't have a distributor, much less a dealer in Canada, but I did just email the closest distributor to see what my o... | |
| Speaker Recommendation Help Please. @spenav Thank you. I tried to be as complete as possible. I appreciate you taking the the time to read it all. The trouble with pushing my speakers out 4 feet is that 1) they would then be 6 feet from my ears and 8 feet apart and 2) it would be... | |
| Speaker Recommendation Help Please. Thank you for the suggestion and no, I have not heard them. The trouble is I have limited access to pre-owned kit being in Canada so sourcing and auditioning a pair will be very problematic. I will certainly keep my eyes open, however! |