charles7
Responses from charles7
| DAC shopping - Trying to sift through the Hype. Can I trust the reviews these days ?? For accuracy, I have an RME ADI FS 2. It has USB, Toslink, and coax inputs. Among the half dozen digital filters is NOS. And a five-band parametric equalizer if you are into that. "I'm all about analog. low fatigue sounds. full sound with timbre, ... | |
| Heard the $325000 Acapella's Sphaeron excaliburs? Does the owner of these have matching taste and sensitivity to music? The violins sound like they are in the room: in other words, you can't sit in 90% of the seats in a concert hall. | |
| Upgrade from Revival Atalante 5s The sound from your Galion TS A20 amplifier may be as good as the company's web page exults. Still, it is a 20 watt amplifier. Despite my experience that a low-power class A amplifier drives speakers well beyond the limits you'd think from the spe... | |
| Help Select an True Bookshelf Speaker Can you mount them on top of a piece of furniture so that there is more open space behind them? I tilt mine down to the listener's ears. Just put one or two rubber doorstops under them. Sound is excellent. | |
| Low Volume Speakers to pair with Gato 150 "does not need to be a very resolving system, but much rather looking for that musicality." Sealed bookshelf speakers in the BBC tradition would be great. Spendor A1's are a current model, BBC design principles but modern materials. They were good... | |
| speakers that are a little laid back in the mids Perhaps another way to go at it: equalization. The RME ADI FS 2 includes a five-band parametric equalizer. | |
| Looking for a narrow baffle small footprint speaker Do you want narrow baffle or narrow width? Assuming the latter, you get great sound out of the Spendor A1's. Height 308mm (12.1 in.) Width 165mm (6.5 in.) Depth 186mm (7.3 in.) You can mount them on stands so that you are not labeled as having b... | |
| Best Options For A Tubed Preamp - $2500 Or Less, Preferably Used To Maximize Value Van Alstine Transcendence RB 10. | |
| Help With New Preamp Decision Van Alstine Transcendence RB 10. Just what I needed (ha ha) between a great DAC and a class A amplifier. | |
| Bypass the op-amp input buffer - only Audiophonics? Thank you. The Audiophonics option of bypassing the input buffer proved unneeded to me. The RME ADI FS-2 DAC can be set at -5, -1, +7, or +13 dBu, and the Boxem class D amp, for example, offers input sensitivities of 9.4, 3.74, or 1.79 V at 8 ohms... | |
| Who owns / owned a First Watt F4, and what are your experiences with it ? Nelson Pass' FirstWatt F8 does a great job driving Focal Aria 9xx and Spendor A1 speakers - from experience. | |
| Opinions about Daniel Hertz Daniel Hertz is an audio equipment guy. Lol. | |
| Eliminated my preamp with amazing results The RME ADI-FS DAC has a volume control. It is a top-notch digital implementation; I believe the claim that the sound quality is the same no matter how low the volume setting. I turned my preamp volume to near maximum, then raised the DAC volum... | |
| Pass Labs XP32 or XP22? I'm happy with a FirstWatt F8 driven by a Van Alstine Transcendence RB 10 preamp. | |
| getting into streaming Have a home wifi network, with a computer on it? A device like a Denon HEOS2 receives streams via wifi and outputs them via TosLink or USB, which you can feed into your Accuphase. Use an Android app like BubbleUPnP to control things. |