cal3713
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| MHDT Orchid or Lampizator Amber 3? @caglioti Hi there, from the above list I've had the AM T3SE, Amber 3, and Holo May in my system for 7 day or longer home demos. Here are my brief thoughts. Feel free to ask for elaboration.Amber 3 - Bright and lively, energetic and dynamic. T... | |
| Aric Audio's Motherlode II line-stage keep me up all last night Congrats Aric... a great, and well deserved, outcome from everything I've read about you and your products. | |
| Best means of isolating digital equipment i.e. DACs, CD transports, wall warts etc. @audio2design It would make the forums a better place if you could post disagreements and corrections without appending personal attacks. | |
| Cube Audio Nenuphar Single Driver Speaker (10 inch) TQWT Enclosure @abd1 Congrats! Looking forward to reading more as they break in and you settle on positioning. | |
| DAC Choices - $5,000 to $7,000 @rajugsw I'm not trying to invalidate anything you've said, but I've had the Directstream (and May, and a number of other dacs) in my system and they've all sounded quite different. Not sure why, but the DSDsr just didn't work for me. I actually t... | |
| Holo Audio May DAC I believe the front panel power switch is actually a standby and keeps some of the internals running to minimize warm up time. I know that was true of the spring at least (https://community.roonlabs.com/t/holo-audio-spring-r2r-dac-does-dsd512/1851... | |
| DAC Choices - $5,000 to $7,000 Sorry I'm not sure about the application to clock signals. Steve @ empirical audio would know though and would probably respond quickly if you emailed or PMd him. Can't quite remember his agon user name unfortunately... | |
| Another new DAC: Audio Mirror That's the worst part of using tubes in my opinion. Usually they just gradually lose their "vitality" over time rather than failing in a noticable way. Best thing to do in my experience is to get a second pair of your main tubes and try switching ... | |
| DAC Choices - $5,000 to $7,000 @mitch2 Perhaps you've found it doesn't matter with your gear, but best practice is to have your spdif cables be 1.5m (or longer) to prevent digital signal reflection induced smearing. At < 1.5m you run a small risk of having a signal go down t... | |
| Looking for new (to me) Speakers for Leben CS300XS---Devore, Harbeth, or Reference 3A? Strongly agree with the pack up amp and audition recommendation. If the list gets too big and needs some trimming, I would suggest sending it to Leben and asking if any options are particularly good matches in their experience. They've got more re... | |
| Holo Audio May DAC FYI, I just put the May up for sale. A great dac and worth an audition. | |
| Holo Audio May DAC @georgehifi Honestly, I've only flipped the May out of NOS mode once. Didn't listen critically, but did prefer the NOS. I bought it explicitly because it was non-oversampling and the reviews have been so consistent in preferring NOS that I didn'... | |
| DAC Choices - $5,000 to $7,000 @mitch2 Congrats! Really looking forward to reading your impressions. Obviously you greatly enjoyed the MV3 given that you upgraded. Interested to read about how much of a change the new unit is. Glad you'll have the old one on hand so you can... | |
| Best tube preamplifier for under $15k @mahgister I think it's worth repeating (I don't have the energy to go back and search for the reference). And always good to visually see the duplicate votes in a situation/thread like this. | |
| Holo Audio May DAC @falconquest I have both in my system (see my system page for more information) right now. The May is extremely clean and extended with great tonality across the frequency range. It paints an amazingly tall and wide picture across my soundstage. ... |