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| What makes a DAC so expensive? Mahgister I agree some are more transparent than others, sometimes the ones that measure great sound like hifi and not like real music and some that don't measure as well sound closer to real music. I do not believe the measurements we currently u... | |
| What makes a DAC so expensive? They aren't even audibly transparent. | |
| What makes a DAC so expensive? If it results in distortion then it is measurable. If it is above a certain level it will be audible. If it is audible then it's a lousy DAC sell it to an audiophile and move on. DACs that are well engineered DO NOT have sound signatures they are... | |
| For anyone who moved from tubes to solid state — a question There is a guy on another forum that biamps with the 400's and the 800's into a pair of apogee full range. | |
| ls FM radio even listenable any more? I believe it depends on how much compression the fm station uses. The stations that use a lot of compression sound bad on a good system and the stations that use very little sound much better. | |
| What makes a DAC so expensive? No audio equipment is 100% transparent to the human ear, not the recording studio equipment, and not the playback equipment. | |
| For anyone who moved from tubes to solid state — a question Lissnr do you have the big 400 monos or the bigger 800 monos? How is the bass with those compared to the krell monos? | |
| What makes a DAC so expensive? You really think the output stage has no effect on sound, maybe you should just stick to an avr with good measurements. | |
| What makes a DAC so expensive? To me, in order to get guitars that sound like guitars then the DAC does not add or change anything when it reconstructs the waveform. DACs that are capable of doing this can be bought for a few hundred dollars. Some like DACs that deviate from th... | |
| Tubed Preamp recommendations? You can't beat the hand made preamps like Aric audio or space tech labs for sound quality in your price range, you would have to spend a lot more on mainstream preamps to beat them. | |
| My pet peeve: "revealing" speakers Speakers that are revealing just mean a tipped up treble most of the time, what about revealing bass. | |
| What tube pre-amps pair well with Pass amps? The Aric audio preamps seem to be built well with a good circuit design.Can they optimize it for the pass amps when you order one? | |
| High Performance Audio - The End? The fact of the matter is that the bulk of audiophiles' systems are not that good. Contemporary music sounds bad on these systems because they simply cannot handle it, while superior systems can. It's foolish to blame the genre of music when the s... | |
| Tubes? As was mentioned several times earlier get a tube preamp with octal tubes like the 6sn7, also a tube rectifier. I put a tube preamp in front of my krell amp and it sounds great, it sounded horrible with the solid state preamps I had. I know you ca... | |
| Preamp suggestions, yes again The Don Sachs preamp is a good suggestion, but over your budget. Don used to own a space tech labs preamp and he liked a lot, space tech labs has lots of models of preamps that are built to order. |