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| Accuphase class A amps - going up the food chain from an A-48 to an A-80 or A-300? So CAN $ 27,999 = US $ 20,251 @toronto416, any idea what the US Customs rate is for Made in Japan electronics? I've been watching a few used Accuphase items for sale in Canada, but I assume there will be an additional custom cost to bring i... | |
| Best speaker brands for transient response I've been running D9s for 6+ years and really love them. Previous to the D9 was 3 years of Magico S1s, a quick trip with Cornwall IIIs, and then a few years of Revel F52s. I like all of these speakers and they all sounded very fast and 'live' ... | |
| 3 choices for power amp I've owned the Benchmark and currently own the Atma-Sphere Class D. I personally think they sound pretty different. I found the AHB2 to be extremely clean sounding, very solid bass, and highly resolving. It had a super black background and... | |
| Back to the DAC I've owned both the Yggy LIM and M3 and liked both. ~$3500 for the M3 with streamer and remote is a great price! If you don't need the integrated streamer and volume control the LIM was a nice sounding DAC to me for ~$2K but I thought it lacked ... | |
| Atma-Sphere Class D… Amazing @mikepowellaudio, are you not an AGD dealer? Assuming so, maybe you should at least drop that disclaimer in your post before you enter a competitor's thread and dump on the product. I'm also not getting the point of your not so subtle jab 'If ... | |
| Linear Power supply for a Weiss dac 204? I purchased a Keces P3 and it makes a nice improvement on the 205 in my system. It is a dual output LPS and I use the other output on my NUC running Roon ROCK and that difference was maybe more noticeable to me than the change with the DAC. | |
| Stereophile review of the $30,000 tekton speakers I read about this earlier in the week on ASR in the following thread https://audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/legal-fund-for-reviewers-erin.53577/ which is discussing creating a legal fund for the reviewer; very sad... | |
| Handling Heavy Amps @jfrmusic, I purchased the 4B3 and AHB2 while I owned the 250.8 so I could directly compare them with the big Pass amp. I ended up slightly preferring Pass amp over the other two, but it was really just pros/cons of each and ultimately with my s... | |
| Handling Heavy Amps @jfrmusic, if you end up listening to Pass and if you like what you hear, then also try to listen to the AtmaSphere Class D monos (~13 pounds each). Over the last 5+ years I've owned the X250.8, XA30.8, 4B3, AHB2, and now own the Class D monos, ... | |
| Quite a few Bricasti M21 DACs for sale cheap The reason there's so many for sale is because people are finding out that the Wyred4sound 10th anniversary DAC for $4,500 is much better than the bricasti, I was on their site and they're also out of the silver version only the black version lef... | |
| Meitner Ma3 Streaming vs Aurender When I owned my MA3, I used its Ethernet Roon streamer and compared it with my Bricasti M5 using AES, and I slightly preferred the sound quality of the AES input with Roon. It was close and I doubt I would have purchased a dedicated streamer if ... | |
| Volti does it again! I guess, in theory, he could have a "generic" tour model...but then again, how are people going to feel about eating two way shipping costs of $500+ if they don't like them....let alone all the finger pointing that could very well occur when a 11... | |
| DAC Shootout Starts This Weekend @verdantaudio, were you using the stock power supply with the 204 or something else? I have the 205 and just purchased a Keces LPS for it and thought it was a nice improvement in dynamics and maybe it offered a little more fullness/mass to the p... | |
| Do You Buy Speakers Without Hearing Them? I purchased Magico S1s (out of state) without ever hearing any Magico speakers. Hindsight it was not the smartest decision. I liked them but never loved them and sold them 3 years later. I don't regret owning them, it is the loosing some $$ on... | |
| The new Coda S5.5 amplifier: It's a "Petite Beast"! Does anyone know the damping factor for this amp? I don't see it listed, but do see 200 listed for the no-8. I had a Pass X250.8 and XA-30.8 (both listed at 150) and really liked them but didn't find either as good as a few other amps I've own... |