chesebert
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| Need help matching DAC to speakers and amp op, you shouldn't feel the need to constrain yourself to equivalent priced dacs. I have Harbeth spkr, ayre integrated and linn klimax ds, and I don't think I could have spent my budget better given the size of my listening room and spkr amp requir... | |
| Transport for California Audio Labs System 1 DAC Forgot to add Delta does not work well with alpha. I had both and delta sat in the box for years. | |
| Transport for California Audio Labs System 1 DAC I had an alpha dac for quite a few years only sold recently due to a lack of 96khz (mine was the non version). To get the best sound out of the dac you would need really high quality transport. I used sd transporter via a high quality aes/ebu cabl... | |
| The Emperor DAC has no Clothes Assuming you are not trolling. For someone who had spent few hundred thousand on a yacht you can just buy a sota player and live with it for a year (I would recommend pd mps5 or klimax ds/1, should go well with your Merlin ) You can always sell an... | |
| Best Sounding CD / SACD player under 15K Ayre does not belong with the above-mentioned players. Spent few hours with C5-Xe MP, EMM stack and Orpheus Labs OneSE, and it took all of 10min to decide Ayre should not be part of the comparison.Add Esoteric K-03 and Klimax DS/1 to the list (alt... | |
| Need Advice On A Network Music Player Bobaudet,I can assure you your latest $900 entry level DAC will never sound like/better than a Klimax DS, which is already a few years old. There isn't a DAC introduced since the introduction of Klimax DS that has surpassed it. Klimax DS is update... | |
| Need Advice On A Network Music Player I would add Linn sneaky DS. May be more musical compared to the ones already listed. Sneaky DS is also an integrated amp, a great starter system, which you can later move to a second system. | |
| The Emperor DAC has no Clothes I am going to break down my own experience over the years into DAC quality vs $ and note my observed threshhold for each level of sound quality (highly subjective and based on my own system or system I am familiar with)$2000 < $10,000 - no obvi... | |
| Bricasti M1 - where is the music Ronnjay,I am not so certain that more filters is a good thing. There is exactly one filter for Klimax and it makes beautiful music no matter what type of music played (even the less-well recorded ones).Sirotseta,It's great to hear BADA2 is matchin... | |
| Bricasti M1 - where is the music It appears that filter 4 that I used may not be the most optimal. I may go for another listen when I get some time. So are the filters numbers on every DAC different? Or just the ones sent in for review? Why the discrepancy? | |
| Bricasti M1 - where is the music M1 was set on filter 4. | |
| LINN Akurate DS vs. ANY CD PLAYER Nothing, really. You could build Klimax DS functionalities (don't have Akurate DS)using a server + Transporter + dCS or any of the other $15k DACs out there. The downside is that there will be more jitter in the system than using your Linn DS alon... | |
| How good of a DAC is the Logitech Transporter The low-jitter attribute of wireless also applies to regular wired connection. Many actually prefer wired over wireless because of the reduction in emi/emf from turning off the radio antenna/receiver in TP. | |
| Benchmark DAC1 vs CAL Sigma I had both DAC1 and Alpha in my system for quite some time. Alpha was better than DAC1 in all areas I cared about (bass, midrange, air, musicality, and PRATT). I ran both DAC1 and Alpha from SD Transporter. Alpha was more affected by the transport... | |
| Transporter vs Ayre CX-7e PapajoeI have no idea. I did not hear the 2 side by side. |