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| Great sounding smallish DAC, balanced output, $3K The DacMagic is excellent, but with a budget up to $3K, it is certainly not in the league of the Bel Canto DAC3 suggested earlier. As a disclosure, I sell both brands. | |
| wadia 170i to dac magic What the manual means to say is that the output goes to the preamp section of an amplifier (such as an integrated amp or receiver). They weren't completely clear. The DacMagic cannot be hooked directly to a power amp as there is no volume control.... | |
| What medium priced amplifier is best with vinyl? If you don't already have a phono preamp, the Roksan Kandy K2, or the older L.III for that matter, comes with a good MM phono stage built-in. | |
| Review: Usher Be-718 Monitor They definitely love power. I use the Bel Canto REF1000 MkII monoblocks and they really like having 500W per side available. | |
| volume level with Bel Canto dac3 Absolutely feel free to crank up the volume with the DAC3. I'm currently running the DAC3 into the Bel Canto REF1000 MkII monoblocks driving Usher BE-718 speakers. The Usher speakers are quite inefficient, but can take a lot of power, so if I'm wa... | |
| Your Best HiFi DVD Here are some of my favourites in no particular order:Loreena McKennitt - Nights from the Alhambra - great picture and soundPeter Gabriel - Growing Up Live - great picture and soundElton 60 - Live at Madison Square Gardens - great picture, sound, ... | |
| Question regarding DAC3 Standby Many questions can often be answered by reading the manual. The two dashes in standby mode is indicated in the manual. I'm not trying to be a smartass, but I often get questions about things that are stated in the manual. They truely are meant to ... | |
| Connecting low-end DVD player to Bel Canto Dac3 The posters above are correct, but you're not quite done yet. You also need to go into the setup menu of the DVD player and set the digital output to be stereo. You'll see that option as PCM, LPCM or something of that nature. It can't be bitstream... | |
| Bel Canto Service and Customer Support Quality Yes, Matt is very good to deal with. They are a good group of guys. The nice thing about Bel Canto is that their products are extremely reliable, so the chances of you having to deal with support/repair is slim. | |
| NAD C372 Integrated or Bel Canto s300i Integrated Mapman's suggestion is a good one. As long as you don't have analogue sources, the Benchmark should make for a good preamp eliminating the need for an integrated amp. Considering your interest in the Bel Canto S300i integrated amp, the Benchmark i... | |
| Herbie Hancock, River: The Joni Letters Wow, are we talking about the same CD? "Sonics are lousy" and "hashy and spitty" are far from how I would describe it. Sure, I have plenty of better recordings in terms of pure sonics, but this one, in my opinion, is definitely a considerable cut ... | |
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| Dac's? anyone tried the new Cambridge Dacmagic-B I agree. It's a very good DAC at a bargain price. | |
| Totem Mani 2 Signatures vs. Usher BE-718 IMHO, you're a little short on power to make the Usher BE-718's sing. But then, if you had the power to make them really come to life, they would be too much speaker for your size of room. They were bordering on too much for my room which is 11'W ... | |
| musical small sub for B&W 805s's There are quite a number of very good options for small musical subs. It will depend on your budget and room size. You may want to check out something like the Velodyne DD10, some of the smaller MartinLogan subs, or the ACI Force XL to name just a... |