eugene81
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| Where to buy Metrum Octave? Bought one from Hifi Heaven's website last week and it shipped out the next day. After only a couple hours I am impressed! At first I was rather cheesed about the dealer mark up, but even at $1100 this thing appears to be an incredible bargain. I ... | |
| Speakers and air-conditioning Maybe connection problems/inadvertent multiple clicks. Not *that* annoying. | |
| Good optical cable Wireworld Supernova 5+ or 6. | |
| Sonus Faver Grand Piano kruipen.com | |
| Which used speakers in the 5K range? I am very happy with my Tannoy Turnberry SE. The Prestige series dual concentrics produce a unique and very realistic tone and timbre that I've not heard matched by any other speakers, period, along with fantastic coherence and a huge, deep sound.... | |
| Mini Monitors under $500 used ACI Sapphire III or Anniversary if you can find a good deal. I thought my old Sonus Faber Concertinos sounded good but the Sapphire III were much better. | |
| USB DAC/Preamp Suggestions $1k to $2k Ah, missed the part about the analong inputs. The Bel Canto DAC2.5 has those. Analog volume control will be very difficult to find, though. To me there's nothing wrong with a good digital attenuator. Bel Canto and Berkeley do it well from my exper... | |
| Recommended USB- SPDIF converter for Metrum Octave Oddly enough I had the opposite experience as Elberoth2...I had the AP2 for about 3 days before I sold it. It sounded hard and fatiguing in the upper midrange/lower treble with slightly compressed imaging, though it did offer noticeably more detai... | |
| USB DAC/Preamp Suggestions $1k to $2k Bel Canto DAC3 is full featured and sounds fantastic IMO. Very detailed, precise, and incisive, yet liquid and very musical with a touch of warmth. | |
| Pass Aleph 5 vs. Pass XA 30.5 / 60.5 I've owned the Aleph 3 and 30 and XA 30.5. To my ears there is no comparison -- the 30.5 far outclassed both Alephs. | |
| dacs as preamps ? Generally yes, a preamp in the chain is much better... but I am mightily impressed by the implementation in the Berkeley Alpha DAC. | |
| Headphones? Anyone? Do you like the Grado sound? I have SR-225is and they get fatiguing pretty quickly for me. I find the treble and overall presentation is too forward, though not piercingly bright. I much prefer Sennheiser HD-600s. The sound is darker with more bal... | |
| For money Quality which is better arcam or NAD? I have owned the NAD C340 and C350 and also the Arcam Delta 290 and preferred the Arcam. Contrary to Ryder's experience I found the Arcam to have more depth as well as a smoother, sweeter sound. The NADs were enjoyable as well (the C350 more so) b... | |
| Who here uses Von Gaylord amps or other gear? I just upgraded most of my cables from the Chinchilla to the Legend 7000s including interconnects from DAC to pre and pre to amps + power cords on the DAC and preamp -- still running the amps with Chinchilla. WOW, a substantial improvement where I... | |
| Review: Berkeley Audio Design Alpha DAC Series 2 DA converter Interesting. What did you feel was lacking and what have you found that satisfies you? What is your type of sound? I take it you're not turntable guy? I think this is not an exciting DAC that reaches out and grabs your attention. Definitely on the... |