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asus stxII with sparkos discrete opamps
Hi. Thanks for the suggestion of the bursons. I will keep them very much in mind.Do you know of any opamps with a very high gain. My soundcard is 7.1 and the bass output is a little on the low side so want to boost it without having to resort to e... 
asus stxII with sparkos discrete opamps
Do you think a possible reason may be that slow slew rates result in poor treble in the buffer section, but may be advantageous to bass and midrange.Thanks! 
asus stxII with sparkos discrete opamps
Sorry, got a little lost, my knowledge is not as good as yours. Are you saying that a slow slew rate may be advantageous in the i/v position and a fast slew rate may be advantageous in the buffer.With the stock configuration of 8820 in the buffer ... 
asus stxII with sparkos discrete opamps
Thanks so much for the recommendation. I finally got the 827’s through soldered onto adaptors, sounds really good. A dark kind of sound, detailed, strong bass.While i was waiting for the 827’s, and after doing some searching, I played around with ... 
asus stxII with sparkos discrete opamps
Thanks!Do you know of any opamp which is sharp sounding. On the asus soundcard there is a lack of treble which may be because of the muse opamps and their slow slew rate as you rightly mentioned.Is it possible to replace the muses with a different... 
asus stxII with sparkos discrete opamps
Thanks!What do you think of analogue devices, is one of their opamps suitable. 
asus stxII with sparkos discrete opamps
I have found plenty of posts comparing sparkos against burson audio opamps, but nothing concerning muses vs sparkos. What is your opinion of the muse opamp, it is expensive but is it audiophool expensive, or genuinely high performance. Usually ... 
RCA Shorting Plugs
Do you think 100 ohms across an analogue input may damage somethingThanks. 
RCA Shorting Plugs
I tried the shorting plugs as well and they were brilliant, certainly could hear a difference between shorted and non-shorted.The problem it is difficult to get the truth out. When someone like tommylion tries something out and it works, we get pe... 
Hi-Fi amp recommendation
Is this the naim 200:  https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32835794156.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.20bb22b3ATwvxb&algo_p...The 5i you mentioned retails for about £800 over here in britain, if the nap 200 is better then do you think it will comp...