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| Thinking about getting a R2R DAC @adam8179Congrats. Pagoda’s with the Burr Brown dual chipset is nice, XLRs if you need them, and same tube compliment. Save this link for later, may not need it but just in case for "burn in and tubes"...http://www.mhdtlab.com/tube.htmThe stock tu... | |
| Thinking about getting a R2R DAC Will never forget the first time I heard an old version high $ Mark Levinson CD player and the old first version Audio Note DAC. Call it warmer or smoother or whatever, just sounded very "natural" to my ears years back. No grain or etch. Non-fatig... | |
| Thinking about getting a R2R DAC @jjss49 I don’t myself, not yet. However, following up with a friend this morning who’s messing with two different psu units for both his streamer and his dac, the psu is not going to work as hoped for the dac itself. Also validated a few others i... | |
| Thinking about getting a R2R DAC @bjesien "...One other thing that the op might want to pay attention to is power supplies. I added a quality external power supply to my Roon Nucleus and that really calmed things down while adding greater focus, space and a more vivid realism..."... | |
| Thinking about getting a R2R DAC @bjesien I did a blind shootout between the Mojo V2x and the Orchid and my updated Ayre QB-9 Twenty. I kept the Mojo- my wife and kids liked it best too. What it's all about, right here. Sounds good to your ears on your system. Better yet, f... | |
| Thinking about getting a R2R DAC @adam8179 OP: Quote - "Thinking about getting a R2R DAC...I was looking at the MHDT Orchid or the Border Patrol".Adam, as the original poster you had a question. Some answered to it, others not so much - going in an entirely different direction ma... | |
| Thinking about getting a R2R DAC Yep. Non-fatiguing. No oversampled or over processed fake echo sound. MHDT, 16-bit, Audio Note, 18 bit. Proven chipsets. Good transformers. "no over sampling, no jitter reduction, no noise shaping and no re-clocking. Digital filtering removed". Le... | |
| Thinking about getting a R2R DAC @adam81796moons review, page-2, MHDT Orchid, ...how it sounds :) https://6moons.com/audioreview_articles/mhdtlab/2/ | |
| KEF LS50 - Question @wassaicwill - "ever"? "Stereophile’s Products of 2013 Budget Component of the Year"https://www.stereophile.com/content/stereophiles-products-2013-budget-component-yearMaybe start here forward...Seems to me reviewers comment quite a bit about it a... | |
| Thinking about getting a R2R DAC @adam8179 "I was looking at the MHDT Orchid or the Border Patrol." It’s worth reading more on BP’s tube rectified power supply approach vs. MHDT Labs tube implementation for the Orchid DAC. The first time I heard my own R2R Ladder tube DAC, it qui... | |
| Quicksilver Mid Mono - power matching @spotconlon Nice, glad you got them, congrats! The QS Linestage Pre is a bargain, fwiw. Add some nice vintage NOS tubes, done. Silver non-remote version is preferred by the sonic purists, remote version comes in Black only. If you use a RCA/out to... | |
| Quicksilver Mid Mono - power matching @spotconlon Are you gonna snag those recent model mid monos listed on USAM? The newer ones with brass speaker terminals don’t show up that often, fwiw. People keep them for decades, usually. Disregard. SOLD today. Went fast. | |
| Question about length of SPDIF COAX interface cable length Yes, the 1.5M particularly for SPDIF/COAX, DACs, etc. As already noted, and several references around about reduced reflections, and how reflections can sometimes be somewhat attenuated by the longer cable's added capacitance depending on the cabl... | |
| Quicksilver Mid Mono - power matching @spotconlonAre you gonna snag those recent model mid monos listed on USAM? The newer ones with brass speaker terminals don’t show up that often, fwiw. People keep them for decades, usually. | |
| Quicksilver Mid Mono - power matching @spotonlon ..I’ve heard sensitivity is an important concern and that I should be looking at speakers with 91db or more? Is that good advice? Do folks have thoughts, guidance on this?-----------------------------------------------------------Capabl... |