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| Marantz SACD 30N @soix You make some excellent points about the obverse of a jack of all trades. I will check out the Musician Pegasus II R2R DAC and Denafrips Pontus 15th. I am resisting any true streaming/streamer. (I guess using an iPad to do Spotify is not ... | |
| Marantz SACD 30N @jdub39 Recently, I tried filter 2. The sound was more forward, a bit thin, blunt, and hard. Also, the soundstage seemed kind of blurry with odd proportions. Instruments seemed cool with less body. Needless to say, I didn’t care for it. | |
| Is it possible to find a good DAC for under $50, 000? I appreciate “high value” products: components that “punch above their weight.” That’s where I believe the fun is in this hobby/obsession. $4K-$5K is about the max I would pay for a DAC. Could I hear the difference between it and a $50K DAC... | |
| For Those Who Are Unaware of The Cable Company I’ve used them since the 1990s. I’ve always had a good experience. I don’t use their Lending Library if I’m just considering or toying with the idea of maybe getting some new cables, but haven’t really committed to a change. I do use the ... | |
| GRADO CARTRIDGE & TONEARM COMPATIBILITY Greetings to all, I recently got a Grado Platinum3 to use on my Graham 1.5c tonearm. Almost immediately, I noticed that the cartridge and arm would appear to “shimmy” on certain recordings. After doing some research, I found out about the “dre... | |
| Marantz SACD 30N Hello to all, I have a perhaps strange, perhaps normal question. I have a Marantz SACD-30n CD/SACD player. I like its sound pretty much, and I like what it does (i.e. receives internet radio, can use the DAC portion for streaming from my iPa... | |
| TO DAC OR NOT TO DAC? Hello to all, I have a perhaps strange, perhaps normal question. I have a Marantz SACD-30n CD/SACD player. I like its sound pretty much, and I like what it does (i.e. receives internet radio, can use the DAC portion for streaming from my iPad)... | |
| Lesson Learned I guess the lesson I learned was that you may not like something on day 1, or day 2, or day 3. But you may really like it on day 366. | |
| Lesson Learned Lesson Learned: Just over a year ago I bought a one-meter Analysis Plus toslink cable. I use toslink cable to go from an AudioEngine B1 Bluetooth receiver into my Marantz SACD 30n’s DAC section. (The AudioEngine B1 does have analogue outputs, bu... | |
| Have you reached your end point with this addictive hobby? Years ago, I had. I had a wonderful JRDG preamp paired with a Cary CAD-280 tube power amp. Wonderful remote controllability married to 2/3 triode and 1/3 ultralinear EL-34 sound. The sound from my ML CLS speakers was so musical, so seductiv... | |
| Do I need upgraded power cables? I use the Cable Co. a lot. What has worked for me is to borrow usually four cables at one time. I do a fair amount of research to try to narrow choices down to near four. Because they are already burned in, I don’t have to wait for each one to s... | |
| cable burn-in / system burn-in Settle-in (or Burn-in): It is Real! On Monday of this week I received four new Ice Age Copper-Copper power cables. I put them in on my Pass monoblocks and Martin Logan CLS electrostats right away. At first listen, they sounded thin, flat, and... | |
| New OFC Power Cord from Ice Age Audio Ice Age makes great cables that are truly an excellent value. But the OFC series does not appear to be OCC copper. This is copied directly from the Ice Age website: ”Our latest addition. This Cable is built from multiple strands of individuall... | |
| MNPCTech footers? I installed Gaia III footers on my trusty VPI HW-19 Mk. IV. They did seem to improve the isolation and thus the sound. BUT (and it is a big one), you have to be very careful about the threaded inserts into which you screw the Gaia footers. ... | |
| IsoAcoustics - A Class Act I installed Gaia III footers on my trusty VPI HW-19 Mk. IV. They did seem to improve the isolation and thus improve the sound. BUT (and it is a big one), you have to be very careful about the threaded inserts into which you screw the Gaia f... |