ddafoe
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| Contemplating DEVORE SPEAKERS (and others)....LONG audition report of many speakers @fsonicsmith, have you ever heard the Devore Super Nines? I'm curious as to how they compare to the O series and the similar sized D7.2s. | |
| Bryston 7Bcubed vs Mark Levinson @yyzsantabarbara, are you talking the ST series only, or have you also heard the Cubed series? I purchased a 4B3 a couple years ago to try against my Pass X250.8 and thought it to be just as refined and smooth as the more expensive Pass amp. I ... | |
| Atma-Sphere Class D… Amazing I had a photo of the inside of the amp that is the subject of this thread and commented that the parts could not justify the price. @fsonicsmith, how many other audiophile products (that many folks purchase and enjoy their sound) would this... | |
| NAD M23 Stereo Amplifier: Best Amp Ever Bench Tested?!? What he did on the Atmasphere amplifier thread was just awful and mean spirited. @troidelover1499, 100% agree... | |
| Atma-Sphere Class D… Amazing The facts as I see them are most here would like you (you know who you are) to stop blabbering. Yea, it is sad to see an enjoyable GaN related thread derailed yet again; this one didn't do much better: https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/gan... | |
| Atma-Sphere Class D… Amazing @ddafoe Which Pass amp do you have and how does it compare to the GaN amp? I owned the X250.8 for maybe 5 years and switched to the XA30.8 a couple years ago. I find Pass to be very smooth, a tad warm, offers zero fatigue, very natural tone, a... | |
| Atma-Sphere Class D… Amazing Idle current is so low that it invites leaving them on 24/7 yet if the amps happen to be cold, they need little to no warm-up to sing. @pstores, congratulations on your purchase! I've had my pair for ~ 2.5 months now, and leave them on 24/7; i... | |
| Is optical mostly a waste of time versus Ethernet? "here is the thing, I am guaranteed the foremost expert on networking on this site." Who guaranteed this? | |
| Class D Amplification Announcement I've been using a Pass X250.8 and then XA30.8 spread over the last 7 years and love the sound. I recently purchased a pair of the Atmasphere Class D GaNFET monos to compare with my XA30.8 and so far have been very happy with them. They may not ... | |
| Etheregen - doesn't seem right that it gets so hot, dangerous? Unpredictable? I was using fiber into the EtherRegen with an LPS 1.2 and was very happy with the results and I didn't have any issues with it, but I ended up selling it for a much cheaper StarTech MCM1110MMLC Gigabit Ethernet Fiber converter along with a iFi Po... | |
| For those that have separate Streamers & DACS The Bricasti M5 would be a first rate option. The M5 is at its best when connecting to a DAC via AES. +1 for the Bricasti M5 with AES. I've tried my M5 with USB, SPDIF, and AES and prefer the AES. I've decided M5 with AES to my Meitner MA... | |
| Point of diminishing returns for a Network Streamers? @erik_squires, yea a Pi running Roon + iFi power supply makes for a good sounding streamer for the $ at least. I have two in the house with SPDIF boards on them. I did swap out the one in my main system for a more expensive Bricasti M5 and ha... | |
| Competitive class D amp suggestions Who here actually heard in their own system the Atmasphere class d amps? I'm in line to hear a pr when my dealer gets his demo set. I have a pair incoming. I currently use a Pass XA30.8 so it will be a very interesting comparison! I love ... | |
| Energy speakers My first pair of good speakers were Energy Pro 22s. A very nice speaker for the $$ in my books. One of the best pair of speakers I’ve ever owned were the Energy Veritas 2.8s. They could really energize a big room and had a nice slightly warm left... | |
| DAC Shootout Starts This Weekend vs FPGA where you probably have one guy designing the chip. Just fine when that person is Andreas Koch, Nicloae Jitaru or Rob Watts, but I would not have faith that any FPGA delta sigma will perform as well as any chip based delta sigma without ... |