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why expensive streamers What @jaytor said ^^above^^, and very well articulated. | |
Esoteric Amps with Revel Salon 2 Speakers While the Salon 2s will play with lower powered amps, the designer has been quoted as recommending a minimum of 500 watts for the best performance. My experience with them confirms this, they simply come to life with a new level of performance and... | |
Lawrence Audio? Their primary distributor in the US was Jay Kaufman at Audio Revelation, and once he retired a few years ago the brand seems to have disappeared in this market. | |
Has anyone actually heard the Dali Epikore 11? Impressions welcome. https://www.soundstageultra.com/index.php/equipment-menu/1225-dali-epikore-11-loudspeaker | |
Denafrips Terminator II 12th anniversary VS. Terminator PLUS 12th anniversary I emailed Alvin at Vinshine Audio to bring this thread to his attention so that he will hopefully respond. | |
Help me pick a Dac Just a correction regarding the post above from @woots, the Lumin T2 is not a current model. They've had the improved model T3 which has been out for some time. https://www.luminmusic.com/lumin-t3.html | |
Is it still worth buying a Lumin x1 in 2023? Lumin doesn't make hardware upgrades to their existing models, so when they come out with an upgrade to the X1 it would likely be an entirely new model. There has been no official announcement of a new flagship model but I also expect one to be co... | |
Aurender Model Choices Just a point to keep in mind for anyone considering the idea of using a Mac running Audirvana if you have a significant collection of DSD files. Macs will only play DSD via DoP (DSD over PCM, which transmits DSD data in PCM frames) since they don’... | |
Luxman leaves me wanting My Luxman C-900u preamp with M-900u power amp also leave me wanting... wanting to listen to more music with their absolutely stunning performance. 😍 | |
New Falcon distribution in the U.S.? According to the Falcon UK website they are actively seeing new distribution and dealers in the US. States that individual customers can contact them. https://www.falconloudspeakers.co.uk/distributors | |
Floorstanding speaker experiences/recommendations in the $12-25k range @mbmi - with all due respect what I've heard in videos from Børresen is that it uses the same type of ribbon design as their top tweeter but is not identical in its construction details. Quoting directly from their website: "The tweeter chosen for... | |
What makes One Music Server Sound Better than Another? Digital data transmission can be perfect for computing, and bit perfect when comparing the data streams of many music servers/streamers/players at widely varying prices. What can account for significant sonic differences despite being bit perfect ... | |
Revel Salon2s: Seeking Advice The Salons when properly driven would be considered by most as an upgrade over your Kantas, but keep in mind their relatively low sensitivity. The designer of the Salons recommends driving them with an amp of 500 watts and while you can get away w... | |
New streamer @dhungana - Of those three DACs the only one that supports direct DSD playback (without converting playback to PCM) is the Okto which supports DSD via USB. | |
New streamer @dhungana - Not sure what convinced you that the HiFi Rose RS130 doesn't support DSD, but according to the product page on their site it certainly does. It has codecs to support DSF and DFF file types, and shows support for native DSD from 64 up t... |