johnah5
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| What is your opinion of single driver speakers I had the exact question. I would love to hear them. Have you seen "Real World Audio" youtube? Check out Janos who talks a lot about Voight Pipe speakers which are single driver. Pearl offers a 30 day in house trial but you have to pay for the... | |
| Zu for Pass Labs? I had a First Watt F7 and a Pass Labs XA 25 and ran Heresy, Forte IV, Zu omen DW, Zu Soul 6, and other speakers. It was awesome. I did not lack for power on the F7 or XA25 but the XA25 was faster, more quiet and a ton more power. Not sure if y... | |
| Which DACs are known to be sweet/rich/relaxed? Reimyo 777 or 999. These dac's are relaxed and "tube" like or sound similar to Audio Note DACs. They only do cd redbook but holy smokes they sound holographic and warm and like music Love this stuff jh | |
| Devore O vs Audionote Also consider NSMT speakers. Not sure where you live but good to hear the different models someplace | |
| Ditching Class A Amps due to Heat - Sort of a Poll Great Question! I had a pass labs xa25. Loved the amp but it was = to having 4 60 watt light bulbs on. Yes there was heat and yes I didn't like it because I was running my AC in the summer while a small heater was on. The sound was great and ... | |
| DACs with Preamp Stages, Pt 2 Hi, great question. I just bought a dac Reimyo 777 that was made around 2008. It only does 44.1 cd quality so I have to down sample from my Lumin U2 mini. My SPL Preamp has a DAC in it that will do all formats. I much prefer the sound of the Re... | |
| Where should I go from here with my digital front end? I just got a U2 mini and love it. I had a high end digital coax cable, a mogami digital coax cable and a mogami digital AES cable (xlr). I could not hear any difference between the cables. I think it is because the Lumin and the Dac are so good.... | |
| Do Streamer only devices really impact sound quality? This is a great question and one I have been thinking about. I just switched from an all in one streamer/DAC/Preamp so no cabling involved to a lumin U2 into reimyo dac into SPL preamp all with Canare quad XLR cables. I can not hear a diff. So ... | |
| Aurender vs Roon I heard a diff when I was trying Roon vs Qobuz directly from the Lumin. Roon is all software so it is in the Roon ready streamer and there is no way to get any closer to the server JH | |
| Synergistic Research Euphoria HC power cord. @bwguy I had the N05XD which was a streamer/DAC/Pre-amp. No interconnects needed. I swapped it out for a Reimyo 777 DAC, SPL Director Preamp and Lumin U2mini streamer. Then traded the XA25 for the SPL S1200. My system is now very accurate but... | |
| Synergistic Research Euphoria HC power cord. @bwguy so in that case more detail would be not good? If so then try cables that don't add to the detail and push the system in that direction. I have been going through a similar experience where my Esoteric DAC/Streamer was detailed and my pas... | |
| Synergistic Research Euphoria HC power cord. I did comparison between AQ Robin Hood Speaker cables and a no name brand. I heard a diff in the highs and had a friend listen who heard the same difference. I didn't tell him what I hear first. Anyway there is a diff in sound but subtle. What... | |
| Synergistic Research Euphoria HC power cord. Funny when I spoke to Jason a while back he had the same recommendation. I think maybe these places get a SPIF or something for selling those brands? Whatever you get please write back as I would love to know what you hear. I won a power cord fro... | |
| To ROON or not to ROON ? I just ended my trial of roon after three days. I found it to be full of frustration. Like no easy way to tell what icons are for and how to use them. There is no guide to find out how to do things. For example they sent an email talking about ho... | |
| RCA is loose wonderful sounding cable |