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| The death of ultra hiend audio Check out the new top dog DAC from MSB, the Sentinel. A cool $375K. Hopefully it makes all music files (ok at least 16 bit 44.1K floor res) sound insanely good! | |
| Experience with Simaudio Moon North amps @taww Yessir. You nailed it with the highly resolving amps! Wide open window and sometimes when you look out you see weeds...Silly analogy, I know. I would love to hear that Gryphon amp someday. Always wanted to try the Diablo 300. My speakers are... | |
| Experience with Simaudio Moon North amps @taww I had the 791/761 combo for many months and can tell you that this pairing will need careful matching with speakers and cables. There is a slight tendency to forwardness / sharpness in the presence region. You can tame it / work with it as t... | |
| Experience with Simaudio Moon North amps @rkosak congrats on the 761 a very fine amp! I bought mine brand new almost a year ago now, and it took about 200 hours to stop changing in my system. During this time it was up and down going from nasal and constricted bass to wide open and good ... | |
| Experience with Simaudio Moon North amps Happy for you ackerdo :) | |
| Experience with Simaudio Moon North amps @ackerdo finding synergy is the battle! I had the 760A for several months and really liked that amp. It’s a tad darker and not as transparent/ revealing as the 761, which totally gets out of the way of whatever it is fed. Speakers matter too as do... | |
| Too much bass/feed back from Octave v70se Octave has higher output impedance than typical amps (damping factor is quite low, like under 10). It’s a few ohms IIRC, which may be resulting in underdamped bass driver- the low frequency rumble is, as you said, exacerbating the problem. Can you... | |
| ATC SCM150 Amp and Preamp recommendations @lonemountain Many thanks for chiming in. As a latecomer to the ATC party, I’m super happy I finally arrived. As Doug MacLeod says, “there’s a difference between late and too late”. I have a pair of SCM40 passives which hooked me then got the SCM5... | |
| Qobuz Connect Launched Yesterday Can confirm works perfectly with Lumin U2 | |
| ATC SCM150 Amp and Preamp recommendations @ei001h : I pretty much did the same thing as you: auditioned the active and passive version of ATCs and preferred the final system sound with a Moon North amp driving the passives (same exact front end, which included the insanely phenomenal ATC... | |
| ATC SCM150 Amp and Preamp recommendations @onhwy61 I believe the OP, since he just purchased and now owns ATC150 passives is not looking for another active vs passive thread- there are numerous such threads and like everything else in audio land, they are filled with opinions about what... | |
| ATC SCM150 Amp and Preamp recommendations @ei001h I don’t think you could go wrong with Simaudio and ATC. I’ve been listening to moon 761 with ATC Scm50 passives for some time now and love the synergy. The new sim amps (had the 641 on demo for a nice while) are really great. Lifelike vita... | |
| Is it possible to find a good DAC for under $50, 000? It’s very possible to find the best DAC under 50K; In fact it can be had for less than 30k; Playback Designs MPD-8; Designed by one of the best and brightest digital engineers we have been fortunate enough to have in our era. Make no mistake, prod... | |
| Which DACs are known to be sweet/rich/relaxed? @robert1976 on the lower end of your 25-40k budget try the Playback Designs MPD-8 DAC, direct into your amps. No need for any preamp and it’s among the most ‘un-digital’ smoothest, real music converters available. They have a long break in cycle, ... | |
| Send in the Clowns “Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted” William Bruce Cameron (quoted famously by Albert Einstein) From personal experience, and accounts of other audio friends, I’ve listened to many of the ine... |