jjss49
Responses from jjss49
| Chord DACs .. who has moved across to them from R-2R based DACs ? @soix first, to the comment below, all of schiit’s better sounding dacs are indeed r2r!second, i agree with your commentary about manifold different flavors of r2r d/a conversion implementation, the variables being os/nos, chip-based/discrete resi... | |
| Colapse to Hegel rost >> h90 on amp sectionrost = h90 on dac section (both relatively mediocre, now 2 gen old akm ds chips, simple implementation)you need to move to h190 to better the rost on both sections, and need to move to h390 for a very good dac by to... | |
| suffering over choice of VTL 6550 signature II or the ARC REF6se no suffering here -- very high class problem you have! 😄i can't comment on the vtl piece. but the arc reference linestages are really outstanding... so many of the positives of tubes with few of the downsides... | |
| Amp and Pre-Amp suggestions needed i agree with stereo5 in his statement about tone controlsmany many times listening to music i wish i had tone controls handy... if for no other reason than different recordings can have widely varying tonal variations (esp. too hot treble) | |
| Chord DACs .. who has moved across to them from R-2R based DACs ? @hilde45 @arafiq thanks for your nice compliments... i try to be of service where i have the knowledge and experience to share 😇@chopandchange i still have multiple dacs i keep (i am off-the-deep-end with equipment, been at this hobby/sickness for... | |
| Holo Audio May DAC investment value? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣the correct verb, i think, is ’spend’... | |
| Amp and Pre-Amp suggestions needed i listen very carefully to what speaker makers suggest and use to drive their productsthey would know better than most and certainly have the greatest incentive to find out, among the ocean of possible choices | |
| Harbeth Super HL5+ vs. Focal Kanta No.2 harbeths do better with high grade solid state amplificationtube amp softness and lack of damping factor does not ameliorate harbeth’s main weakness of lack of extension /slightly rounded off impact and transients compared to the bestupper focals ... | |
| Sonus Faber speaker boxes worth $1200 ? how do they sound? | |
| Looking for a ‘’No braine’r Integrated amplifier under 7500 or so Hegel 390, almost untouchable in the 5-6k realmas geof3 said... | |
| Focal Sopra 02 and Pass XA25? i agree w scott... that pass will sound great but depending on how large a room how loud you play might run out of headroom - sopra kanta need plenty current | |
| Amp and Pre-Amp suggestions needed choice is severely limited on good modern preamps if you demand to have tone controls... maybe better to get a well performing linestage and add a schiit lokithere are many many 'what is a good preamp' and 'what is a good amp' threads... search ba... | |
| Love to see the opinions on this piece about TIDAL not workig with hifi streamers...... i disagree with most of the assertions in the articleproblems are overstated, or just plain ol' wrong | |
| Chord DACs .. who has moved across to them from R-2R based DACs ? i have been through the gamutshort summary:chord dacs (2qute and qutest and hugo tt2) are very rhythmic/dynamic (tremendous PRAT), superbly clear/transparent/’alive’, throw a highly specific and palpable image - they are outstanding in that they a... | |
| Upgrade cartridge or something else? suggest a benz glider |