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| Which R2R DAC UP TO 1K: ORGANIC, FULL-BODIED, DEEP SOUNDSTAGE Denafrips Ares 2It has everything you're asking for. | |
| Really need some help finding a full range speaker Have a look at the Zu "Dirty Weekend" offer. Great full range speakers that you can borrow for a weekend. Not huge, very efficient and sound wonderful | |
| A warm DAC? any of the Denafrips DACs. The Ares is a beauty for the price.They tamed the highs in my system. No loss of them, just better controlled and less fatiguing | |
| What was your most disappointing album purchase? Marcel Marceau's Greatest Hits.Not a track on it worth listening to. | |
| Is room treatment a science? yes, it's a science. But you can diy, cheaply and simply and hear an improvement/difference.It's easier to take brightness and echo out of a room, I would think, than the other way 'round.Having a large rug on the floor helps. Artwork on the walls... | |
| Wow an old album that rocked your world +1 for Spirits Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus! Ted Nugent's eponymous albumBlack Sabbaths first albumAny of Stevie Ray Vaughn's first 4 albumsplenty more but I won't bore you. | |
| Audio reviews: too many analogies, never simple, but most of all, never clear. that's fine. Plenty are. It is a bit low in hindsight, I was going to put sub $5000 but who am I to judge?I would wager that there are more interested in that price point than say $20,000 and up.To each his own. | |
| Audio reviews: too many analogies, never simple, but most of all, never clear. yep, sometimes I get to the end of a review and wonder if he/she liked it or not.Australian Hi-Fi magazine continues to be a good informative read. A nice balance of technical, listening and lab measurements. Descriptions of their listening rooms ... | |
| Non Analytical Sounding DAC Upgrade- Budget $1,500 or less @hilde45 Analytical to me means bright, shrill, harsh, sometimes lacking in fullness. Out of tonal balance if you like.It's what the sound was like when using a Rega DAC in my system. Of course, it depended on the source, some songs being not so... | |
| I think it’s completely overwhelming... The room is a pretty important variable too. Should we start with that or end with it? Probably just consider it as a link in the chain I would think.Moving everything to a different room has been the most profound tweak for me.With no room condit... | |
| Albums that you listen to straight through / start to finish whenever you put them on! Ben Liebrand - StylesSteppenwolf 7Miles Davis - Tribute to Jack JohnsonThe Amazing Rhythm Aces - Too Stuffed to JumpB52s - First albumELP - First album | |
| How good are $2 DACs? Some years ago I bought a little Pro-Ject DAC for listening to music from my PC via free Foobar to my hi-fi. Cost $12 as I recall from a local auction house and sounded great, way better than just the PC sound card. I was really happy with it.A fr... | |
| Efficient, affordable speakers for SETs? I toally back up rickraymond59. My Zu Soul Superflys really sing when running off a SET ampAs do my Klipschorns. As do my KEF Transmission Lines but you’ll struggle to find a pair of them as they were home built.I would think any Zu would work fi... | |
| MQA DAC with Coax Output Krilll, I have an Antipodes DS. I use USB from that to a Denafrips Pontus DAC. To my ears at least, the sound is really good and the Pontus is capable of 24bits / 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, 176.4, 192KHz on all Inputs and 1536kHz on USB & I²S Inp... | |
| Looking for best streamer without DAC under $3500 Have a look at the Antipodes range. The onboard DAC is pretty good although you’ve said you don’t need it. I don’t use it but it’s there if required.Prices are NZ dollars so the US exchange rate makes them very attractive.Their after sales service... |