jaybarnett
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| Open baffle speakers @dz13 My experience exactly. The openness and transparency of the X5s do it for me! @dbt Not my experience exactly. I hear X5 mids as nicely fleshed. Of ourse there’s always the factor of what they are being fed. | |
| List Of Small Company Tube Amps I second Whammerdyne. My DGA-1 is a wonderful match with my Spatial X5s. | |
| Is there a way to switch one set of speakers between two sound systems? I use this device to be able to alternate between a Lyngdorf TDAI-3400 and a Whammerdyne DGA-1 feeding a pair of Spatial X5s. It is a quality product: https://dodocus.de/UBox3.html You'll need to translate from German to English. I had no ... | |
| Amplifier and Speaker A/B switcher I use an amplifier switch made by Dodocus in Germany (dodocus.de). It is super high quality. As of a couple years ago it cost $460. Well worth it. | |
| SET amplifier (for AvantGarde Duo's-original) recommendations Have you looked at Whammerdyne? I have their DGA-1 (2a3s) driving a pair of Spatial X5s. Obviously the Spatials (open baffle, 97 dB) are very different from the AvantGardes, but wow that Whammer is special ... and absolutely quiet ... and in your ... | |
| DAC recommendations @earthbound - to possibly expand your options - my streamer (Lyngdorf TDAI 3400) does wireless streaming, but I was getting frequent dropouts with wireless. Like your situation, my media cabinet is about 50' from my router and a wired connection i... | |
| Suggestion for $10K soup to nuts digital? @holmz - it is the whole enchilada! Ethernet in, speakers (Spatial X5s) out. Tidal and Qobuz via Roon. RoomPerfect makes a subtle but noticeable improvement in my room. It sounds REALLY GOOD! BTW, it can stream wirelessly, but I had occasional mom... | |
| Suggestion for $10K soup to nuts digital? If you are talking soup to nuts digital, I highly recommend the Lyngdorf TDAI-3400. For less than $10K it is all you need to have in front of your speakers. I took mine on trial from a dealer (whom I will gladly name if requested) nearly two years... | |
| Looking for Speaker Recommendations I've gotta +1 for Spatial Audio Labs. I have X5s. It takes no power to drive them beautifully - I am using a 2a3 SET amp. A couple months ago I spent a few hours at the Pacific Audio Fest in Seattle. To my ears, NOTHING matched the Spatials in ter... | |
| Qobuz or Apple Music? I stream Tidal and Qobuz through Roon on a dedicated Mac Mini —> USB —> MSB DAC —> Whammerdyne SET amp —> Spatial X5 speakers. With this setup Tidal and Qobuz are VERY close, but I decided to consolidate my library to Qobuz. Wouldn’t y... | |
| DAC recommendation in 5 to 10K range I picked up a used MSB Analog DAC a year ago for under $5k and have not given DACs another thought. The first thing I played through it was Solitude by Francien Van Tuinen. My wife actually cried. That was a first. | |
| Dumping it all for Lyngdorf??? Just a note, I bought my Lyngdorf TDAI-3400 from Neal at Sound Science. He was absolutely great to work with. No sales pressure. He truly wanted to make sure I was happy with the product (TDAI-3400) and that I knew how to get the most out of it be... | |
| Dumping it all for Lyngdorf??? Lyngdorf lover here. I have a TDAI-3400. Speakers are Spatial Audio X5. I also have a Whammerdyne DGA-1 (SET amp) and an MSB Analog DAC, which goes against the OP's goal of simplifying, but I can toggle between which source system drives the speak... | |
| Spatial Audio Labs @jan_mc: I owned the Beveridges from the early '80s until 1994 (when the Northridge earthquake caused them to jump out of their bases and crash onto the floor). So I am going by distant memory, but I recall them sounding on the sweet and slightly ... | |
| Spatial Audio Labs The X5s make me happy. Over the past 40 years I have gone from electrostatics and ribbon speakers, including Beveridge 2SW2, Sanders, and Magnepan (1.6 and 3.6), to open baffle speakers designed by Clayton. Prior to the X5s I had the original Eme... |