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| Advice on a budget R2R DAC @alaindexe With your restated budget of $1.2k, you have a good chance of securing a nice unit. If you'd consider something like @jjss49 suggested, Metrum Acc, or others used (second hand) for less than half the cost, you could wind up with a real... | |
| Advice on a budget R2R DAC Schiit Modi "Multibit" select version (drop down list option) for $249 is claimed by Schiit to also be a R-2R Ladder design DAC. I emailed them and asked, is it truly a R-2R Ladder DAC?, and they confirmed, "yes", fwiw. Multiple type chips used fo... | |
| PSVANE 12Au7 12At7 12Ax7 "-T MKII" 2020 production run of small signal/driver tubes Viva has been great for me as well, buying/testing 14+ tubes, past two years and zero returns.Switched back to my vintage 1965 Mullard Blackburn 12AU7 / 12AT7 pairs for the past few months to re-compare for a while. Was just thinking tonight that ... | |
| Update on Audiogon Member Almarg Tonight I was reading a thread about interconnect & speaker cable capacitance and inductance here on Agon. I looked over to the left and the date was from back in 2009. And, to no surprise interesting posts by you know who, Almarg. Always enjo... | |
| MHDT Lab Havana Driver Did you save a backup copy of the original installed driver on the Havana before you installed the new driver?If not, here are the .01 and .02 versions of the driver, and try the other one. Hopefully one of these works better for ya. Email MHDT if... | |
| Tube Amp soundstage @dtapoYou may have already answered your own question, comparing first hand. Trust your ears. Maybe there is some magic in the distortion and 2nd and 3rd order harmonics. Gotta ask oneself why many of the high-end class A solid state designers a... | |
| New Cary DMS 700 That’s ridiculous. I’m sorry and I’m a long term Cary amp and preamp owner too. Uh, $7995 retail ??? for a network-streamer-DAC with R2R. People are using iPads, pads, laptops, not a puny display on front of a unit smaller than a mobile phone. A g... | |
| DAC's Made in the USA +1 @twoleftearsReading this thread while helping a friend looking for the same as @stebut the first DAC that came to mind was Border Patrol. Maybe a 2nd-hand Border Patrol SE I noticed for sale on USAM (made in Maryland) until I saw the "optical" ... | |
| Biamping with a tube and SS combo @arafiq"...I described above with the more common tube pre + SS amp combo? If you have compared both, which one sounded better to you?"..Having tried all scenarios mentioned above, I’ll mention results can vary quite a bit when you start intermixi... | |
| Black ice Audio owners, pet peaves Here is an opposing reference: A brand new base model Black Ice Audio F22 integrated amplifier (Jim Fosgate design) arrived this week at a friends place. Our local Northern California dealer who deals in a lot of Class-A tube, triode, and Class-A... | |
| Analysis Plus Solo Crystal Oval 8...OMG!! @b_limo The big silver ovals result in more upper end detail. I had silvers in another brand before going back to AP OCC copper "Crystal RCA interconnects fwiw. For grins, every once in a while I’ll swap back to other various OFC copper ICs in hig... | |
| Black ice Audio owners, pet peaves New models are barely out for Black Ice Audio, they are sold out right now, backordered on the F22 EL34 integrated amp. A few friends tried to buy them recently. Their new website is not even up yet, coming soon. For folks to judge build quality b... | |
| Analysis Plus Solo Crystal Oval 8...OMG!! FYI, we are referring more so to the Crystal copper "OCC" version of the Analysis Plus speaker cables and interconnect cables and digital coax cables in OCC. OCC (Ohno Continuous Cast) in the AP patented "Oval" design. In comparison to prior OFC c... | |
| Analysis Plus Solo Crystal Oval 8...OMG!! Analysis Plus"Crystal OCC": 16 months later, the AP Crystal Solo RCA interconnects definitely smoothed out and filled out. A very long settling in period. Patience is absolutely required for these. Former founder/owner Mark Markel of Analysis Plus... | |
| Black ice Audio owners, pet peaves @audioman58 On the old gear what I was rambling was true. The New Jim Fosgate line F series Now Black Ice Audio is noticably better all around. I have the F35 integrated....I owned the last generationWhy did you title your thread about "Black Ice ... |