dougthebiker
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| Benchmark DAC 3B Vs. Schiit Gungnir Multibit and a question. Buy the Yggy. It will save you a lot of grief and wasted money experimenting with other DACs. Nothing under $8k even comes close to the purity, the soundstage or the bass control. | |
| The NAD M33 will cancel your complaints about Class D Check out John Darko’s YouTube on NAD. He’s not the only one who thinks NAD has had a breakthrough on Class D so it’s finally competitive.but if you want GREAT sound, get a pair of Schiit Aegir monoblocks. Nothing anywhere near the price comes ... | |
| Where are the cheap home streamers? Orchard Audio Raspberry Pi. Check out review on YouTube.it’s incredibly good for $499 with DAC. Replaced an Oppo Sonics streamer $899 with it and it’s better and is a Roon end point.MUCH better than BlueSound or Sonos. | |
| Streamer's without built in DAC options? I asked this same question several months ago. Auditioned lots of recommendations and bought the Innuos. Biggest step up in SQ since going to full Class A monoblocks. | |
| Does anyone do off-axis listening as well as Magicos? Been a life- long on axis guy. Just got a pair of Tekton 2-10 Perfect Sets and they are better off axis. Toed in only slightly. Incredible soundstage and accuracy. | |
| Matched interconnect cables producing different volume left and right Now that's good advice. Will probably lead to the least aggravation. | |
| Matched interconnect cables producing different volume left and right I've got continuity on all three and no shorting.Not sure how much solder is too much, but there's not a big obvious glob of excess solder on any of them.All three pins on the male connector appear to be of identical length and none of them feel l... | |
| Matched interconnect cables producing different volume left and right No, that was the first thing I checked. I've got continuity on all three. | |
| spend on the streamer or on the DAC ? You’re getting some unusual advice here.The sound of any system is going to be the result of two things, 1) the weakest link in the chain and 2) the interaction of the components, cables and room.The Node2 is a weak link and nothing you’d want inv... | |
| Replacement amp for subwoofer Not sure what went wrong with the old a/d/s amp in the subwoofer. It's distorting at any volume level over a whisper. Nothing visually wrong with the capacitors or any other components on the amp boards. I hooked up the two 10" speakers in the ... | |
| Power Supply for Schiit Mani Phono Preamp Thanks to everyone for the great input. I shall never mislabel an AC transformer that sort of looks like a DC power supply again. I'm certainly no smarter, but definitely more discerning now.bkeske has convinced me the Swagman transformer is def... | |
| Power Supply for Schiit Mani Phono Preamp TableJockey,What would you consider a good “next step up” from the Mani? My current system is a Schiit Freya feeding two Shiit Vidars operating as 400W monoblocks with Tekton speakers. | |
| Power Supply for Schiit Mani Phono Preamp Exactly which model of Swagman LPS did you buy for the Mani? | |
| What's the best non-DAC streamer? I really appreciate the input from everyone. I think I'm leaning toward the Innuos Zenith MkIII. But one thing's not clear to me, does using Roon actually impact the sound quality? If so, how? | |
| What's the best non-DAC streamer? Thanks for the recommendations.I can do either wireless or wired.Anyone else have experience with SOtM? I've never heard of it before. And don't see any reviews of it. The price is certainly right. |