creditingkarma
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| Is the Rockport Avior II an Endgame Speaker? I have owned the Rockport Atria II and Cygnus. Both are impressive speakers and I never noticed the bass being muddy with them. The Cygnus did put out a lot of bass in my room but that was easy to remedy with a bit of digital eq below 100hz. I fou... | |
| Do high dollar mono blocks truly improve the Sound Quality over the mid tier amps I would consider eliminating the preamp as you have the MSB reference Dac. I would also recommend trying a pair of MSB m205 monos. I went from D’Agostino momentum m400 with momentum pre and a discrete Dac to a premier and s200 and am loving it. Th... | |
| Relaxed/Analog sounding DAC for under $10k (used or new) Having owned many dacs from chord, Metrum, dCS, MSB and others I would highly recommend the MSB Discrete Dac. You can find it used for under $10k. | |
| What is your front end ? My front end is an MSB Premier dac using the renderer input module. This is fed from my M1 mac mini running roon. The signal goes through a Gigafoil before entering the rendered. This converts the ethernet to fibre and then back to isolate any ele... | |
| D’Agostino Integrateds @g9taylor I understand on the room size. I went from Atria II to Cygnus. I loved the Cygnus but had an issue with the pair that I got and decided to go with Estelon. My room is 15 X 17. The XB diamond play really well n the room and are not bass ... | |
| D’Agostino Integrateds @maxwave Unless I am mistaken the output section of these amps are solid state. The tube is only in the pre section. This should not affect bass output. Also there is a difference in power between the amps. The Dag were 400w into 8ohms and 800 int... | |
| D’Agostino Integrateds @maxwave I am referring to the Brama gear in comparison to the D’Agostino. I have experienced the Brama separates not the integrated. I found them lacking bass and also bass control. The rest of the sound was really nice and I love the remote. I d... | |
| D’Agostino Integrateds @maxwave With MSB dacs there is really no need for a preamp. This is especially true if you are using their amps. The dacs and amps are designed to work together with matched impedance. I do not have any analog sources so being completely digital ... | |
| D’Agostino Integrateds @g9taylor That is a serious front end for a pair of YB MK II. Are the thinking of upgrading the speakers to larger Estelon? | |
| D’Agostino Integrateds I am in an interesting position to comment on this. I used to own a pair of Atria II with the momentum HD pre and M400 monos. I also had a pair of JL F110 v2 subs. This was an incredible sounding system. I decided to upgrade to a pair of Cygnus wh... | |
| MSB Discrete vs Premier @eugene81 I agree with you on the discrete. I moved from bartok to the discrete Dac and found the move to be for the better. As far as upgrade policies go MSB actually has a great upgrade policy. They give you back 100% of retail towards the new u... | |
| Ethernet streaming I have owned a few dacs with a built in streamer. The dCS Bartok was pretty good and I found that the Ethernet input was the best sounding input. I also ran this Dac directly into a Krell duo300xd to good results. I have an MSB premier with th... | |
| Eversolo DMP A6 with or without preamp I have not used the eversolo before. I would say that it depends on the output section of the Dac. I used to use a dCS Bartok straight into an amp and it was good. I have since moved to MSB w currently with the premier Dac and s202 amp. There is s... | |
| MSB Discrete vs Premier I have owned the discrete and currently own the premier Dac. I found that with the premier the background became even more black. The soundstage also expanded and everything had more definition. With this move I have actually decided to go full MS... | |
| Picking Speakers 20k-30k @brewerslaw I am down in the Chicago area. The Rockport dealer is here in Palatine. The shop is The Audio Experience. |