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| Gryphon Diablo 300 vs Vitus RI-101 Both the Gryphon and Vitus are great integrateds with different sound profiles. From my experience, the Diablo 300 sounds a tad more forward, especially with the vocals in comparison to the Vitus. I felt the sound got a tad harsh in the highs at h... | |
| Audioquest Firebird Zero @meuch I would go with either Thunderbirds or William Tell Silvers. The Robin Hoods are pretty low gauge in comparison. I have personally tried Thunderbird Zero cables with ML 11As and was overall impressed with transparency and resolution. I h... | |
| Ethernet Cables The biggest difference I have heard is with switch itself. I changed my Cisco SG switch to a Ubiquiti smaller switch and noticed a drop in crispness, separation, and clarity. I have come to realize this is all about clean power. The cable carri... | |
| Luxman 509 or McIntosh 8900 Deadhead1000, were using direct coupled McIntosh amps? As Stereo5 mentioned fatiguing would be the last thing I would categorize McIntosh ampa. If anything warm and at times lacking crisp details would be my experience. | |
| All-in-one integrated, 10-15K range, class A/B only A lot at this price point, especially demo/pre-owned. Vitus RI-101 a must listen at your upper price range, it has a DAC/streamer option. Gryphon 120 or 300 are also solid choices. | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? I have yet to not hear a difference on the impact of cables in a system if and only if the system is resolving enough.This doesn’t mean a $5K is better than a $1K cable, because it all comes down to design and synergy.If you don’t hear a differenc... | |
| cable connection Power cable wall to amp would be my first choice, then power cables to components, then moving on to interconnects.I started off spending a lot of effort on interconnects never focusing on power. When I demoed a full loom of Ansuz power cables an... | |
| Audioquest Firebird Zero Bob, the new AQ speaker cables have two components a treble/mid cable and a bass cable. The treble/mid cable is called Zero and the other is called Bass. You can use the Zero cable as a stand alone cable or combine it with Bass cable for bi-wiri... | |
| Audioquest Firebird Zero I had the Thunderbird Zero cables and before than Oak and Mont Blanc. The new cables are in a different league in terms of transparency and resolution. Of course this is all system dependent and personal preference whether you would like it.One ... | |
| Amp Upgrade time, $6000 budget, used or new. @andrewkellley A few of things to consider with ML speakers. The ESL X’s dip to 1.6 ohms at higher frequencies. Also the bigger the panel the more soundstage. The highs tend to roll of a bit so warm amps don’t always work well for certain types o... | |
| Vitus versus Gryphon I have heard as well that balanced inputs, if possible, are the way to go with Vitus given the design.I do have to say if someone likes tubes but wants the power/bass control of solid state they should try to demo Vitus gear. Been looking for thi... | |
| Vitus versus Gryphon Nasaman, congrats on your purchase!Georgehifi, you stated above you didn't know the specs of the Vitus products, not sure it's fair to give advice relying on Vitus's website marketing/specs.While the Diablo 300 is an amazing and powerful integrat... | |
| Vitus versus Gryphon Gryphon and Vitus are both great amps. I demoed both the Diablo 300 and the RI-101 and liked the RI-101 since it was a bit more organic and fit the sounds signature I have been looking for for a while. The Diablo was great, just felt that it sou... | |
| Lumin X1 or dCS Bartok A few that come to mind are Auralic Vega G2 (cheaper), MSB Discrete with network renderer or a tad higher priced would be Bricasti M12 (M3 is cheaper), Brinkmann Nyquist MKII, Bel Canto Black EX DAC, Vitus RD-101, amongst many other.There are a bu... | |
| Lumin X1 or dCS Bartok Lumin focuses mainly on streaming - they make steamers with DACs, not DACs with streaming capability like others. The streaming side is rock solid, rarely has issues. Nice part is not only are their DACs fantastic, you can use the digital out ca... |