charles1dad
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| A DAC that crushes price vs. performance ratio Roxy54, I wasn’t trying to discourage you at all regarding the Lab 12 DAC. Quite the contrary. I just decided to comment because of you mentioning the Holo Springs which I had direct experience with. I say go forward with your plans to acquire tha... | |
| A DAC that crushes price vs. performance ratio Roxy54, I do understand the appeal of NOS and R2R chips and ladder topologies. I would just say that there’s more to the "big picture" viewpoint. I haven’t heard the Lab12 DAC SE but have no reason to question Teajay’s enthusiastic review. A frien... | |
| A DAC that crushes price vs. performance ratio I agree with the comments in regard to the cost of the chips in the DAC under discussion. The cost of the chips isn’t a predictor of how the DAC will sound as a finished product. IMHO too much attention is placed on the chips to begin with. I’d su... | |
| A DAC that crushes price vs. performance ratio Agree wholeheartedly with wcfeil. It'd be difficult to find a more irrelevant factor in my opinion than lack of an XLR output and its effect on component accuracy. Charles | |
| A DAC that crushes price vs. performance ratio Al, Your rationale is easily understood. The only reason to keep a tube amplifier is if it's clearly superior sonically to the solid state component. In your assessment of the Pass XA 25 it is the sonic equal of the VAC. That is an obvious comp... | |
| A DAC that crushes price vs. performance ratio Hello Al,I’m not surprised that you find the Pass XA 25 a very good match with your efficient and easily driven Daedalus Ulysses speakers. Is the Passgoing to replace the iconic VAC Renaissance 70/70 or will you retain both? Pure class A minimalis... | |
| A DAC that crushes price vs. performance ratio Hello Roxy54, Teajay used the Concert Fidelity DAC as his reference source for quite a long time and consistently preferred it to other highly esteemed DACs. Granted it's just one man's opinion but it does provide some means of a comparison/refer... | |
| A DAC that crushes price vs. performance ratio Teajay, I echo David_ten's comments regarding your contributions to fellow Audiogon members. I believe that quite a few people appreciate you discovering exceptionally good audio components and bringing attention and exposure to them. Keep it up.I... | |
| Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions Jcarcopo, Thanks for the reply. I'm glad the Lyngdorf has fulfilled your expectations.Charles | |
| Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions Hi Jcarcopo, Good to read your initial listening impressions are so pleasing and will surely improve with subsequent burn-in hours. Do you listen to much jazz? I'm interested to know if it conveys the emotional connection of a Miles, Chet Baker, ... | |
| Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions Hi Jcarcopo, I hope that I'm not going to far out on a limb but I get the impression you're quite happy with the Encores😀😀.Charles | |
| Audio research Maxwell,I owned the ARC SP9 MK II for about 18 months and I would consider it a decent sounding preamplifier but nothing more. I subsequently replaced it with the Quicksilver full function preamplifier which was better in every respect with digit... | |
| Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions Jcarcopo, I understand your predicament. I currently have a 300b SET and two tube class A/B push pull amplifiers. For what I listen to 90% of the time (acoustical jazz) the SET exceeds all prior types of amplifiers. It’s simply the most convincin... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts Hi jcarcopo,As with Chris (waltersalas) I appreciate you taste and listening impressions. I look forward to your opinion of the popular and highly praised Lyngdorf. I've had the feeling that at some point you were going give it a try.Charles | |
| Which DAC ??? - Aesthetix Pandora Eclipse OR Bricasti M1 SE? Very thoughtful and wise counsel from Johnny R. The context must be the entire audio system and the overall sonic result. Johnny R. has addressed the situation from this approach. His comments regarding NFB(negative feedback) compared to zero NFB ... |