clio09
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| Audio Note DAC Owners- please share your thoughts I also own the ANK 4.1x, stock parts but some upgraded tubes. Part of the enjoyment was just the fact that I built this DAC. I have never compared my kit to an original Audio Note DAC, wouldn't pay the price tag on them as digital is not my primar... | |
| A DIY Swarm-based Distributed Bass Array for SOTA Bass I know Fritz and enjoy his speakers. Bass response is very good. The goal of a distributed bass array is to get smooth and fast bass, not necessarily deeper bass. The Acurus could do the trick and power the bass drivers. Use an active crossover li... | |
| Congratulations Atmasphere! @grannyring, I use the Atma-Sphere MP-3. | |
| Congratulations Atmasphere! Having had the Class D amps in my system for a couple months now it's my opinion a hybrid version isn't necessary. As I hear it, the design exhibits the best of what tubes, OTLs, and Class D has to offer. I've mentioned this to others including Ra... | |
| Killer vintage 70's, 80's reel to reel to add to my setup. If you want to throw $20,000 at it: https://sonorusaudio.com/atr10 This deck is based on the Revox PR99 chassis. It uses a combination of original parts and new parts. As an alternative, you could just get the cleanest PR99 you can find and send ... | |
| Competitive class D amp suggestions @ghdprentice, maybe I should have stated my point a different way. I know too many people who when doing comparisons think along the lines of, "Well it cost $100,000 so it must be better...". To your point, I do go for value, but I go for the high... | |
| Killer vintage 70's, 80's reel to reel to add to my setup. The Metaxas & Sins decks are based on the Stellavox SM8, arguably one of the best decks ever produced based on comments I have heard from a few recording engineers. I have the capability with that deck to use the internal electronics for playb... | |
| Killer vintage 70's, 80's reel to reel to add to my setup. Going to be hard to find a new deck for $7.500. J-Corder refurbished decks could be had in your price range and United Home Audio decks have gone up quite a bit in price over the years. Metaxas is well above your budget. Otherwise, I'm not sure wh... | |
| Competitive class D amp suggestions @mglik, the Berning Quadrature Z are $33k list. I'm not one of those people that feels the higher the cost the better the sound. While the Berning amps are quite good, and I respect David Berning as an innovative audio engineer, I'd never pay $33k... | |
| Killer vintage 70's, 80's reel to reel to add to my setup. For vintage I use Otari 5050, for new production Mataxas & Sins Tourbillon, for portability and fun a Stellavox SP-7. | |
| Competitive class D amp suggestions Nelson Pass is correct about the 2nd harmonic, great for simple music, but not for complex music. Here is a quote from the late Roger Modjeski on the topic as well: "Once again, I remind people that 2nd harmonic is not benign on complex music, i... | |
| Competitive class D amp suggestions @niodari, other than the Class D amps I previously mentioned, as well as the Merrill amps, I have no other listening experiences I can share. I will say this, it is worth paying attention to some of the unique design aspects of the Atma-Sphere amp... | |
| Competitive class D amp suggestions @niodari first I will say at it's price point, especially if it was purchased with the introductory discount, the LSA amp is a good value. There is a lot to like about it. However, the upper frequencies did exhibit some distortion, it's overall ba... | |
| Competitive class D amp suggestions I've known Ralph for a while and have been an Atma-Sphere customer for some time owning an MP-3 preamp and M-60 OTLs. I have had the Class D amps in my system now for about 6 weeks. In the simplest of terms I will say they made the OTLs obsolete. ... | |
| Amplifier for distributed bass array I use Dayton Audio woofers as well for my DBA and use Class AB amps, namely a Acoustat TNT-200 or Electron Kinetics Eagle 2C. I have also used Bel Canto Class D monoblocks. Really you don't need anything too expensive and just need something that ... |