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| Schiit Freya plus. Is this an upgrade? i believe the Tung Sol is a reissued tube from Chinese origin... not that this makes it a bad tube, but not an original 6SN7 which is a beautiful thing ion the right circuit. I hope the current 6SN7 that Schitt sources is great as I will probably ... | |
| A good taste of DSD--what is your experience? i did a bit of reading and unfortunately, Apple does not support native DSD playback | |
| A good taste of DSD--what is your experience? @geoffkait I have those same ABKO Stones files. They display as DSD 1 bit format in Audirvana.... strangley enough, they do not display as DSD 128,256, whatever when they play on my SMSL SU8. That may be due to a display or actual functional limit... | |
| sellers trying to sell used product for 10-20% off of list price 1 year old is about 10-20% off for new-ish productpawn shop will give you salvage value of 33% on anything NEW with transistors | |
| $1300-1500 DAC TEAC NT-505there shall be only one.... | |
| The New Luxman SQ-N150 Tube Integrated Amp outstanding !! | |
| tube pre-amp for active monitors @soundsrealaudioI use the SMSL SU-8 dac via USB with a Wyred4Sound Re-Clocker | |
| tube pre-amp for active monitors @almarg The balanced inputs bypass the built-in dac and tone stack | |
| tube pre-amp for active monitors I wonder if there is a simple stereo tube buffer I can fit between DAC and monitors? | |
| tube pre-amp for active monitors @georgehifi I am using the XLR balanced inputs on the Air Pulse monitors | |
| tube pre-amp for active monitors @mrdecibel I was thinking along the same lines but thought that a tube might give up some majik for the ribbon tweeters. I currently have the monitors toed in about a foot in front of me noggin. I need to take the room or of the sound field as it ... | |
| tube pre-amp for active monitors @atmasphere no chi-fi would be appropos? | |
| tube pre-amp for active monitors @atmasphere i do not need a phono section. I only use the MacBook pro. Budget would be.. budget as in less than 200 dollars. | |
| What are the current "speaker trends" in your opinions? nuclear speaker modelsfusion of course... hahahafission is so 1950's | |
| JBL 100 Classic or Klipsch Heresy III? hahaha... funnybut oh so true |