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DAC Upgrade Advice, budget $5k
the used mojo mystique v3’s are down from ben’s sitecall him for details if you want to get one down the road 
DAC Shootout Starts This Weekend
scott, i got my weiss dac502 yesterday, just gathering initial impressions... what a superb piece... i am going to need some time to figure this thing out it has a lot of toys on board (most interesting of which is room correction), and carefully ... 
My Experience With Tekton
I am generally not a conspiracy theorist but are these recurrent Tekton threads and posts an attempt to salvage self inflicted brand damage? it happens often in life when people are impulsive, emotional and irrational, insufficiently self-aware, a... 
My Experience With Tekton
@fsonicsmithgood eye -- burner account... how sad, how low... 
Harbeth 40.3xd vs Graham LS5/5
Sorry , but for my money I'd buy the British built ATC SCM50 SL passive classic series speakers, for 20K.not for mine... 
Offer / counter-offer? Audiogon rules
no (and you can pretty much ignore all other comments from the cheap seats) 
MHDT Orchid TUBE ROLLING
6922 on top of converter will go through the cut out of the top plate... unlike the 6sn7 whose diameter is larger than the hole in the top plate, thus running that tube w converyer you need to run without top plate or enlarge the holebut the 6922 ... 
Perfect match for ATC speakers
@soix ’s comment is on pointthat been said, i would add that in my experience atc’s are very demanding of amps in terms of power as well as tonality - atc’s are ruthlessly revealing and hard to drive (quite inefficient)... their lower tier speaker... 
DAC general question
input stageclockingd/a conversion (chip, fpga, or r2r ladder)power supply (linear, switch mode, separate/combined for various stages needing power)output stage (ic, tube, transformer, ss discrete...)isolation (physical and electrical)it all matter... 
Harbeth 40.3xd vs Graham LS5/5
@echoz hard questions are absolutely allowed, and welcome... though convenient and good answers may be hard to come bythe following review may help a bit... as i mentioned earlier, the modern iteration of the spendor sp100 is the closest analog to... 
Harbeth 40.3xd vs Graham LS5/5
the reality is, all these are tip top speakers in the bbc heritage, produced by two of illustrious current producersthus in a good setup, with proper accompanying componentry, good room, any and all will sound brilliant (save the mon 30, which wil... 
DAC Upgrade Advice, budget $5k
worth trying:audio mirror tubador sedoge 7higher audio note or ank dacsdenafrips pontus or above (with gaia)higher chords w scaler... though beyond your budgetholo mayas mentioned earlier, used bricasti m3ps audio directstream with newest sunlight... 
Helping a friend build a new system
@arafiq as you know, the key in system building is understanding the nature of the specific components and then gathering pieces that synergize - this is perhaps the most true in matching speakers with ampsyes proacs and speakers of its ilk can be... 
Rank the top reference DACs you've heard
@ghasley hey if amir at asr says it so, it must be true right???  😆😆😆😆 
Harbeth 40.3xd vs Graham LS5/5
opthe harbeth mon 40 series has always had a forward (but excellently detailed and nuanced) midrange... it is characteristic of that speaker, despite it huge size and excellent capability also in the treble and bass regions@tobesyou can search bbc...