ketcham
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| How is EMM DAC 2X? I had it and sold it. Detailed, but sterile and un-involving. The new firmware update improves things. I had it for 18 months, had a hard time selling it in mint condition. Sold it for less than half value. I paid 11K for it originally. One buyer ... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Matt. If you could arrange a lampizator seven, ModWright's Elyse tube dac alone with the allnic, this would give readers a good base comparison regarding tube dacs to empirical. | |
| Allnic 5000DAC I sent my personal D5000 south for some bench tests which tested with similar results to John Atkinson. Interestingly the person who was kind enough to take the time study the dac also auditioned the dac and found it quite musical and enjoyable. H... | |
| Direct Heated Triode Tube DAC by Allnic Audio Labs After a somewhat long delay, I wish to report my thoughts on the D5000. Since this is a DHT tube dac, I was not able to burn the dac in 24/7 and rapidly achieve what I believe close to its optimal sounding potential. Instead this dac was burned in... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD I too think Diamond SX would be good branding, reflecting a stellar audio product. | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD I fear I take my dac to a jeweler for some mods and they switch to a less quality cap...er. I mean diamond. | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD I have been consistently impressed with Empirical over the last many years. As new designs are discovered he offers mods at a nominal price. His most recent mod made the SPDIF converter obsolete with the odse. Matt, I agree that quality trumps pri... | |
| Allnic 5000DAC Waversa who designed and manufactured the digital components for Allnic has investigated Bryston's implementation. This has been an ongoing issue before Allnic was designed and built.I have not heard from Allnic or Waversa of any issues from other... | |
| Allnic 5000DAC Bryston is very proactive r and d division with continuous firmware updates implementing improvements Much sooner than other manufacturers. Depending on the firmware version the dac works. Waversa other times rewrites their software to be compatib... | |
| Allnic 5000DAC Al,My apologies for taking your quote completely out of reference. I wish Audiogon would allow display of all comments simultaneously instead of refreshing the page showing only one comment. J | |
| Allnic 5000DAC Having owned the D5000 for the last 5 months, I encourage everyone reading this thread not to dismiss this dac based on the Stereophile review.After reviewing the article and researching some background regarding the physical dac used by Stereophi... | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz Linkster- I used z-plugs over banana with my last two sets, including Audience 24se (a wonderful cable at 1/5th the price, btw). Can you provide a link of a z-plug with the proper thread to fit into the UR speaker cable? How did you fit yours?Thanks! | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz If banana plug fit loosely, would you stretch them out using jewelry screw driver mentioned previously on this thread. eons ago?I certainly appreciate everyone's endeavors.PS thanks for defining PRAT...I read that term often with little meaning. | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz Calvin,I ask because I know of some amps I like but they could be limiting at 86 dB. The 50W Allnic A6000 have some power for being 300b x4 per monoblock. That said, I believe there are many wonderful amps that will pair better.Separate question: ... | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz Calvin. Tell me more about the studio 2 and why they need a ton of power. What is the rated efficiency, for example? |