markcdaniel
Responses from markcdaniel
| Looking for a good full range floor stander You didn’t say anything about budget, so I’ll throw a couple out there that could handle your room size. Legacy, Focal Utopia, Magico come to mind. | |
| The best speaker for a small room...at any price point. @yyzsantabarbara I have Focal Electra 1028 Be speakers in my primary listening system in a large room (20' x 30') and could not imagine them in a smaller space. The Kanto is the replacement for the Electra, so I would expect a similar performance... | |
| The best speaker for a small room...at any price point. I have Focal Aria 926 speakers in a small room and they sound wonderful driven by two Schiit Vidar Monoblocks and a Mytek Brooklyn DAC+ / PreAmp. They will not overwhelm a small space but retain excellent detail, transparency, and fast response w... | |
| Preamp for Rogue Stereo 100 amplifier OP, please forgive me for hijacking your post, but I think my question is relevant and may assist us both.Anyone have experience comparing the PSAudio BHK and Rogue RP-7 directly? Impressions? Which one would you / did you buy?Thanks. | |
| Anyone running Schiit Audio Freya preamp and a pair of Vidar power amps? What speakers? I have been running Freya and 2 x Vidars since the Vidar first came out. In a nutshell, they are excellent. A lot of people have a tendency to qualify that statement with “for the price”, as if to imply that there is some deficiency or compromise ... | |
| Recommendations for bookshelf speakers My favorite bookshelf speakers right now are the Focal 906. I have used them as near field listening monitors for PC, as L/R paired with a PS Audio Sprout 100 in a 2 channel configuration, and as Surround L/R in an all Focal 5.1 configuration with... | |
| Looking for my first DAC @soix The rumors are unfortunately still true. There customer support through the entire value chain from pre-sales to RMA is sorely lacking, I mean non-existent. I could never get an update on the shipping date for my Brooklyn despite numerous em... | |
| Looking for my first DAC Soix,i have not compared the Liberty directly to the Bifrost, but I have compared the Brooklyn to the Bifrost. The Brooklyn is essentially the Liberty’s prosumer big brother. The major differences can be understood in this review of the Liberty-ht... | |
| Looking for my first DAC Mahler123,Thanks for recommending the Liberty. I realized right after I hit send that the Liberty would be a good choice for him. You are right, it retails for $1k. | |
| Looking for my first DAC Curiousjim,I use a Schiit Bifrost Multibit with one of my office systems. I have been very happy with it. It sounds great, especially for the price. If you are concerned about MQA, DSD or other formats of questionable value and low adoption, then ... | |
| CD ripper I completely agree with EAC and the recommendations above. I have ripped well over 7k CDs this way. However, if you are looking for a fool proof, plug and play ripper that supports FLAC, checkout the Bluesound Vault II. It is a small footprint, ab... | |
| Looking for speaker recommendations Goldenear Triton One or Goldenear Triton One Reference would provide orders of magnitude bass slam compared to where you are at currently.If you are committed to a 2.0 system. A 2.1 system would give you much more flexibility to select the best sp... | |
| Which integrated amp do you suggest? I concur with the Yamaha A-S801. I have a used one that I could be convinced to let go of if interested. It was my first real integrated amp and served as the catalyst to what has become a very expensive, but very rewarding habit. I had it in serv... |