eniac26
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| $1300-1500 DAC Not sure if your only thinking new stuff or used equipment but you can get your mits on a pretty nice used DAC for that price point here on Audiogon.For the price point mentioned I would keep an eye out for some of these offerings:1. Benchmark DAC... | |
| You've tried other amps and ended with Pass, please discuss Over the years I've owned 3 different Pass Labs amplifiers. I kept going back to them for several reasons.1. They just work every time2. They do no harm3. They are very pleasant sounding with all music styles/genres4. They can drive basically anyt... | |
| DACs and bass response? I've owned several DAC's to date and some were more on the "thin" side in terms of Bass and others were a bit "thicker".I have a hunch that the power supply design and how well its isolated from the rest of the sensitive pieces play a pretty big r... | |
| Pass Labs XA30.8: is it enough for Wilson Sasha 2? I believe the XA30.8 would work pretty well also in a small room with your speakers assuming you plan on listening below 105db or so.As a reference, I used an XA30.5 for about 3mo in my room driving a pair of Magico S3's which are a more brutal lo... | |
| Classe's New CP-800 Pre-amp/DAC. Impressions? I've owned this unit for about 3yrs now and have been very pleased its sound. I've recently gotten the itch to move on to something else but am a bit scared that the increased price of another unit may not necessarily equate to improved sound.From... | |
| Pass amps can they handle a highly reactive speaker load? My Pass XA 60.8's drive the load of my fairly ruthless Magico S3's without blinking. These speakers have been shown to dip into the sub 1ohm range at the top of the audio band much like some panel speakers.So far, the Pass XA's are the only amps t... | |
| JL Audio F110 Vs F112 I've wanted a sub in my system for quite some time and considered going the F110 route at one point until I read a few reviews on them showing their fairy limited SPL output before resorting to higher then ideal levels of distortion.If I remember ... | |
| Any comments on DAC going direct to power amplifier or to pre-ampliifer? I wouldnt recommend using a Y-Splitter to my worst enemy. Especially in a DAC direct scenario.Run in the other direction as fast as possible from that advice :) | |
| Do I need a power conditioner? @leotis I haven't yet tried to run my Amps off of the Denali but the only reason for this is due to the location of my gear. Front End gear is on the other side of the room from where the Amps & Speakers are.I wouldn't hesitate to run off the ... | |
| Do I need a power conditioner? I use 2 power conditioners with great results. One being a Shunyata Denali 6000T for my front end gear (Preamp & DAC) and a Torus Power RM20 for my monoblock Pass Labs XA60.8's.In terms of the Shunyata, it was an eye opening experience once it... | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? Those who tend to pull/play the expectation bias card also tend to assume that large sums of money were already given away to acquire the competing cables or "fileintheblankherewithsomethingelse" and because of that the testers expectations will ... | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? Maybe I missed it somewhere before page 11 of this thread but I wonder how long the various cables were tried before a determination was made?I was never a believer of fancy speaker cables until I tried some very good ones and let them simmer a bi... | |
| Good Speakers with Pass XA30.5 Power Amp? I'm running an XA30.5 at the moment with a pair of Magico S3's in a 15x24 room and find it to be an excellent match short of trying to reproduce Rave/Rock Concert levels in my room.I would doubt that your speakers load is much of an issue for this... | |
| Any comments on DAC going direct to power amplifier or to pre-ampliifer? I also prefer a PreAmp in the chain verses DAC direct BUT with that said and speaking about Briscasti specifically, I have a hunch the new M12 would change my mind about DAC direct. Though, at that point it would only be a kinda DAC direct setup :... | |
| Pass Labs 150.8 and XP-20 versus PrimaLuna Dialogue Premier HP integrated Not sure how you can mention anything PrimaLuna in the same sentence as PassLabs but in any case My vote would be for the Pass gear by a country mile. |