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| R to r dacs I was completely taken by the sq of the Aqua hi fi la scala dac during a demo. Even with a discount the price is out of budget And that wasn’t the best of them. For your budget look at the discrete R2R from Soekris, Dutch manufacture with dealers ... | |
| Low volume listening Speaker One type does it the best that is full range, and that’s ESL’s, especially Quad 57’s. With maybe nice 20w Class-A solid state like a Schiit Aegir. Very unit/flat/townhouse friendly. This was reference quality back in the 70/80’s with Nelson Pass’s... | |
| Snake oil?? The silly phrase "Snake Oil" only seems to surface as it is related to price, not performance. Must be a "price police" thing. No, these are just $20 worth of voodoo "snake oil" black dot.https://ibb.co/LpDpf3fCheers George | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report tuzarupa65 postsTonight - in keeping with my tradition:Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade👍👌👍👌👍👌Got around 6 of these, the best for me for a very long time was the 1980 Philips 400-021-2 Kirill Kondrashin/Concertgebow Then I got the Jose’ Serebier?Lond... | |
| Technics SU-R1000 a new Class-D GaN Technology integrated @trinitrond BTW, think you should start a new thread on this amp, it probably will deserve it.Some like "Mytek Empire power amps, with GaN based technology." Cheers George | |
| Technics SU-R1000 a new Class-D GaN Technology integrated Hmm! interesting, could be a winner. They talk about transistor switching (hopefully frequency used) and "very gentle negative feedback" resulting in "silky tops".But don't give any details of the switching speed, feedback db's or what phase shift... | |
| How much difference in Sound quality can be expected from different streamers? Both CD systems provided better SQ I and many others have found with Redbook PCM a CD transport cannot be bettered or even equaled by a streamer. We even did direct A/B’s using an R2R dac at audio meetings and got the same results.Cheers George | |
| AGD Audion GaN Class D In The House I find the use of glass a gimmicky turn off.I had the same reaction. There are simple, practical ways to make a plug-in solid state module. Making it look like a vacuum tube and adding glow lighting is too much false bling for me. Not only that... | |
| DACS with a front of the orchestra presentation welcher DACS with a front of the orchestra presentation The better R2R ladder dacs do this the best, converting RedBook PCM cd not DSD.Best value for money discrete R2R seems to be this onehttps://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/discrete-r2r-ladde... | |
| High Gain? garyalex It’s very simple.If it goes loud enough for you with your gear, you don’t need extra gain.Remember what Nelson Pass says about "added gain" that’s not needed. Your just adding more noise with it, by throwing away vital "source signal" to ... | |
| Is louder better? Is louder better?Are there more details with higher volume?Concert levels are the best, BUT your system has to do it without a shred of strain or distortion of any kind. Just as if you were playing it at neighbor friendly levels, the moment it d... | |
| Gryphon Diablo 300 Page 13 of the Diablo 300 online operator's manual specifies unbalanced input #3 as being configurable to by-pass all preamplifier stages in the. Wow, didn't know that it could also be used as a power amp only, wonder if the Diablo 120 can be a... | |
| MSB select II vs all dacs ? smodtactical OP MSB select II vs all dacs ? I have an MSB Discrete R2R ladder dac, and direct into any of the amps I have, and it makes PCM RedBook CD (any vintage) sound great.Rich full bodied mids airy transparent highs, huge sound stage, slamm... | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report big_greg Still a little on the "bright" side The SHM ones are a bit compressed to the originals, any compression make things sound bright/loud and uneasy to me. http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list?artist=Steely+Dan&album=Countdown+To+Ecstas... | |
| Best DAC / Budget smaarch1 Best DAC / Budget Get a lower end Soekris discrete R2R ladder dac, and they have volume control, so no pre needed.http://www.soekris.dk/products.htmlhttps://soekris.modhouseaudio.com/soekris-audiophile-lineCheers George |