mapman
Responses from mapman
| New DAC Not a Dramatic Improvement? Tholt,Tvad's interpretation of what I said and meant is correct.At that price point (used), I think separates in general will work better. I think the build quality needed for an integrated with similar performance would make it cost more.Not to s... | |
| New DAC Not a Dramatic Improvement? The A3CR performs way beyond the $600 it goes for used. It is over 100 w/ch and almost doubles into 4 ohms ( exact specs available online at the MF site). I bought it a year ago half expecting to move on to something bigger immediately but it has ... | |
| New DAC Not a Dramatic Improvement? THolt,Maybe, but I do not know a good high current integrated for the Gallos that could do as well as the A3CR + pre-amp combo for that price? | |
| New DAC Not a Dramatic Improvement? Assuming the Mc integrated driving the Gallos is the issue, here's one cost effective solution that could work for significant improvement at perhaps even lower cost.Sell: DAC - $2000 Mc Integrated- $1000Buy (used): Juicy Music Peach Tube Pre-amp... | |
| New DAC Not a Dramatic Improvement? Far,There is no good reason to not tell us which DAC! No one is going to treat any more or less fairly than any other product that gets discussed on this site. More specific information can only help, not hurt!Also the more I think about it, the m... | |
| New DAC Not a Dramatic Improvement? Farjamed,In general, I do think a change in amp makes a bigger difference in sound than a change from one SS DAC alone to another.I try a tube DAC and if that doesn't improve things enough then it may be time to consider another amp with those Gal... | |
| New DAC Not a Dramatic Improvement? Cerrot/poster,Yes, it would help to know what DAC it is in question. | |
| Most musical player or DAC? I'll vouch for the mhdt Paradisea especially with the NOS Tung Sol tube in place of the stock GE. It uses a Philips chip I believe. It sounds fantastically musical putting my digital in competition with analog as I think only a tube DAC can and I ... | |
| "Watts" Versus "Current" Both are important depending on the speaker.Watts will determine how loud the speakers will go cleanly.Current will determine how balanced top to bottom the sound is on speakers whose impedance loads vary greatly at different frequencies, particul... | |
| box to music ratio How about $$$s spent for equipment + recordings total, divided by total hours listened to for cost/hour of musical enjoyment? | |
| New DAC Not a Dramatic Improvement? Tok20000,Technically, a music server is not the same as a transport, but I hear what you're saying. I've also found that a feed from a music server can sound very very good. In my case I use a Toshiba Vista laptop with Windows Media Player that co... | |
| Speakers as diving platforms? If my kids climb on my speakers, I might well climb up there after them and proceed to suplex them to the floor to teach them not to do it again.I can see where it might be tempting to kids though and certainly dangerous. | |
| New DAC Not a Dramatic Improvement? Tholt,I am a big fan of the philosophy "if it ain't broke, don't fix it.But, if you are listening, and think it is "broke", then for all practical purposes it is and something needs to change. The hard part is figuring out what it is that needs to... | |
| The best "imaging" speakers? For full range, multiple drivers configured to approximate a point or short line source might image almost as well as a single driver can because the geometry of how the sound propagates is similar.There are some omni designs that do this trick wi... | |
| New DAC Not a Dramatic Improvement? I did not catch which external DAC you are now using and comparing?Assuming jitter is not the problem (since you say you have two sources that sound similar, this may not be a bad assumption, but an assumption nonetheless)just using any external D... |