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Tony Bennett has passed away
one of the greatest ever rip tony   
Why Don’t You Post Your System on Your Profile?
it’s obvious that posting one’s current system doesn’t capture the sum total of one’s experience in the hobby... but i don’t think it can be argued that it can usually provide others with a decent idea of it  
Odyssey Audio Kismet Mono Blocks
i take what klaus posted to refer to input impedance of his amps in k ohms  
Why Don’t You Post Your System on Your Profile?
But then is that not normal of people to pontificate beyond their actual scope of experience? no, not if you’re earnest in trying to help other people   @nonoise sorry you had that experience that said, my takeaway would have been that you... 
Streamer+R2R dac+True balanced Class A preamp all-in-one?
@soix don’t waste your breath on this thread the op is a clueless b-s artist  
Odyssey Audio Kismet Mono Blocks
one other thing i would add is that the odyssey amps have pretty high input sensitivity, and they run best via the rca inputs -- sometimes people have trouble with gain matching depending on what they use to feed the odyssey amps in terms of pream... 
Odyssey Audio Kismet Mono Blocks
i have had many hegels and also have a stratos stereo amp with the various upgrades i think the big hegels will have an ever so slightly more detailed presentation (i am talking about the amp section only of course) and a smidge tighter bass, whe... 
Why Don’t You Post Your System on Your Profile?
managing our manifold interactions with information, how we access it, how we screen it for veracity, how we choose to disseminate it, is a very key part of living successfully and safely in this world we are in this includes figuring out, among ... 
Cary slp-98p owners!
it has been several years since i had a cary slp98p - one of the issues i had with the unit was the phono stage did not have a very low noise floor... it worked ok as a line stage but i found the phono stage unacceptable in terms of background his... 
For Innuos owners
for daily, normal use i leave my streamer and front end digital gear on 24-7 (unless i am away on a long trip away) -- only exception is if i am using a tubed dac... then i will turn off the dac to save hours on the tubes  
Why Don’t You Post Your System on Your Profile?
for the noob, or an occasional poster, i can understand it is some trouble to take good photos and post their systems, enumerating each component for regular posters and ’contributors’, they should indeed post their systems, they should be proud ... 
Magico's M9
@roxy54  that username is definitely on the 'high b-s quotient' list -- i've called it out numerous times in the recent past  
Eversolo dmp A6 vs Master edition vs Z8
@jackd i agree with you pretty much, except to say that a superior clock in the streamer can help some downstream dacs sonically ... this depends on connectivity scheme to chosen dac...    
Eversolo dmp A6 vs Master edition vs Z8
@soix @brianportugal et al i am currently on a summer vacation in spain, will be gone for another week, so i won’t really have proper answers on the streamer comparisons for probably another several weeks ... sorry about that not being any sooner... 
Add External DAC or Upgrade to a New Streamer / DAC?
@jdm11 i have not had a hifirose unit in my own system, but it seems that pretty much all reviews of hifirose gear points out that this brand of gear voices their sound on the leaner/clear/crisp side - this is also consistent with the typical sou...