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| dCS Bartok Apex vs any similar priced DAC The best DACs I have heard recently are the Esoteric’s. If you can stretch to the Grandioso it is probably top 3 DACs period. | |
| Full range stand mounted speakers If you have woodworking skills or can pay a cabinet maker to build them, these are nearly impossible to beat for less than $15-20K!! The F3 (-3db) is 33hz so pretty full range! https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/jeff-bagby-helios-speaker.... | |
| Intg Amps: Hegel 590 vs NAD M33 Masters vs Gryphon Diablo 120 I suspect that those dismissing the $12K H590 against the Diablo have never heard the Hegel or are unfamiliar with the brand! Gryphon’s cheapest Amp is not going to be significantly better than Hegel’s best Integrated. Maybe the Diablo 300 would b... | |
| Jay's "Ugly Truth" video I met Jay at this year’s AXPONA where Thomas and Jay were showcasing their product collaborations. I remember a few things about the interaction. 1) Jay is painfully shy in a crowded situation and Thomas had to prop him up so that he would push th... | |
| Pls help me decide Pass Labs X250.8 or Luxman M900u Looking at the impedance curve for 803D4, I don’t see it dipping below 2ohms? I see 3ohms listed as the minimum. | |
| T+A DAC 200 or WEISS 501 @ronboco If you don’t understand or didn’t know that your gear plays a HUGE role in soundstage depth and width (regardless of the room) then you owe it to yourself to find a store or a fellow audiophile who can demonstrate the affect using differe... | |
| T+A DAC 200 or WEISS 501 All these conflicting and opposite perceptions of these DACs (and some others) should give you a good idea that you will have to make the determination on your own with YOUR gear! You have NO idea what associated gear all these responders have and... | |
| Can a system sound too Holographic? There is Zero chance what your friend describes is the result of a ‘Footer’ change! There just isn’t that much of an affect that comes from isolation unless it was SO bad before that his system surely wasn’t ‘holographic’ to begin with!! Tweaks ar... | |
| Salk Future TBD @mlsstl You hit the nail on the head!! If all these people on here think it easy and logical to buy a speaker company, they should throw their hat in the ring and give it a go! There’s a saying in racing that if you want to make a small fortune, s... | |
| Furutech Mains Power Cables Hierarchy & Differences 😂 Someone please explain to me the insane notion that ‘Cable Breakin’ exists!!…. | |
| Made the Move and Not looking back! It seems that the comments about Roon should be separated into those using the Roon DSP and those only using the Hi-rez files (native). Without going thru their (questionable) DSP engine, Roon (to my knowledge) is only finding the file>extracti... | |
| My Final System Build in Words & Pictures @bigtwin For your platforms you should look into Constrained Layer Damping as a construction method using a Polyurethane as the Damping layer. I use the technique to build speaker cabinets and the result is a quite inert structure. I also make foo... | |
| user poll on seperates vs integrated The answer is more simple than many are making it seem. Price is absolutely a great indicator of performance! Very few expensive products perform poorly, but that does not guarantee that a lower priced product won't perform equally as well. To d... | |
| New DACs High End Munich 2023 Wow!!! There are SOOOOO many great DACs on the market these days and most peoples suggestions are solid (not the Marantz suggestion!). The only real way to decide is to audition multiple options (preferably in your one setup) and decide what ‘you’... | |
| How do you assess a DAC? I would definitely put Innous products on your list of standalone Streamers. I would also put Denafrips products on your shortlist of standalone DACs. The Teac UD701N will embarrass many $5K DACs and Streamers and put a few $10K DAC/Streamers on n... |