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What is the best DAC ever made? Hi Pubul57, I was looking through my past threads and couldn't locate but I believe it was the Acustic Arts Dac MK4 at that time compared to the ARC cd7 which I had on lone and prefered the AA which as you know has no tubes. I use to have CAT JL3 ... | |
Reference DACS: An overall perspective Hi Teajay, great to read that you are still enjoying the AA Tube Dac as I am. Have you made any further tube changes, if so what and your thoughts. I'm really enjoying my latest being the MBL 1621A but still feel the the Oracle 2000 I had surpasse... | |
What is the best DAC ever made? Hi Murataltuev, thanks for the response. What tubes were being used in the Acustic Arts Tube dac, did you guys experiment with any others and what digital cable were you using along with the connection and of course transport. If you used it with ... | |
What is the best DAC ever made? Hi Murataltuev, Thx for the response. My system consist of different pces than Teajays, firstly he has MAG 20 panels and I use MBL 101E speakers and at no time have I ever heard my AA Tube Dac sound as you put it "very bright", "soundstage desinte... | |
What is the best DAC ever made? Murataltuev,making such a statement suggesting these are in another league is very bold. I'm quite interested in what you heard in your system. Please share some details regarding the sonic differences between them. See below what Teajay's experie... | |
Tips on Buying Quiet Quality sounding LP's Lots of great info. for me and others reading, thx.Are recording companies like "Blind Pigs" "Chess" "Arhoolie" known for great recordings across the board reputation wise or is it still hit and miss.Info. gathered it appears that one step prior t... | |
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What is the best DAC ever made? Murataltuev, curious when you did your comparison between the Berkely and AA Tube DAC what your system set-up consisted of along with what tubes you had in the AA Tube DAC.I have not directly compared the Berkely as of yet but have put the AA up a... | |
Reference DACS: An overall perspective Accustic Arts Ref Hybrid Tube Dac via Stealth Sextet digital cable with a MBL Ref 1621A transport, Very Happy!I have tried a few other dacs costing substantially more along with the matching Ref MBL Dac and still preferred the AA combo with the 16... | |
Micro Seiki RY-5500 motor noise repair pdf Hi Jaspert,Reading your thread I see you just got a Micro Seiki 5000, I have been looking but with no luck any advise how to locate one?I also read you own a TW Raven One, do you still have that?I do not have a table currently (use to own a Teres ... | |
Audio Research Ref 5 preamp Hi guys, the comparison was very interesting and was done in a blind text method, the only difference being switching out pre-amps, this was done in my own set-up and I had five other individuals to assist over a four day time period and then we a... | |
Review: Pass Labs XA60.5 monobloks Amplifier Hi Teajay,nice review on the Pass amps, good to see that you are enjoying. Did you ever get around to putting other fuses in your MBL 1521 transport? I currently replaced the original ones with the HiFi-Tuning SilverStar ones in my 1621A and very ... | |
Audio Research Ref 5 preamp I was contacted by someone who saw this thread whom actually in the past bought amps from me and just happens this person bought a Ref5 which I'm told by him is well broken-in and was nice enough to lend to me so it has been in my system since lat... | |
Audio Research Ref 5 preamp Hi David_coppell, no that is not what I wrote so lets not get mislead, I clearly wrote;"I would still want to hear one within my set-up to see if it justifies even that amount though." | |
Audio Research Ref 5 preamp Hi Bvdiman, really like your set ups and enjoy reading your threads, only wish you were close enough to be able come and listen, no one around me has such and I'm sure sounds marvelous.Regarding the Ref3 and Ref5, please if you or anyone can do so... |