melbguy1
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| Review: Boulder 1060 Amplifier Hi Bigamp,the Boulder amps are the most transparent of amps and are fast and powerful. They are wonderful, but for my taste need a warm, liquid sounding source & warm/rich sounding cables to balance the sound. I haven't heard Transparent cable... | |
| DAC Accustics Art - Ayon CD5S - AMR DAP 777 Audiofun, agreed! I wonder how the CD-5s compares to the Reimyo CDP-777? Perhaps Pani can chime in as he's owned a Reimyo.. | |
| DAC Accustics Art - Ayon CD5S - AMR DAP 777 Audiofun, thanks for posting a very enjoyable review, and as a CD-5s owner, I also agree with your comments.Gunsur, here is a list of improvements in the CD-5s over the previous model CD-5 - - improved Japanese analogue volume control- new preamp ... | |
| Review: Boulder 1060 Amplifier Hi Whitecap, if I can offer my point of view, I was considering a true balanced valve pre (Ayon Orbis) to match with my Boulder 1060 until very recently, but finally decided to get the 1010 instead. Factors which swayed me included (in no particul... | |
| Review: Boulder 1060 Amplifier Rdoc, I thought i'd update my review to report I have decided to buy a Boulder 1010 preamp to match my 1060. The 1010 has been ordered & is on it's way. I'm also doing a cable upgrade at the same time & am upgrading to Jorma Prime pc's &am... | |
| Biggest Baddest Audio Cables Tbg, i'm glad you're enjoying your Exemplar cables. I am in the process of upgrading several of my cables (including pc's) to Jorma Prime. As you said, each to their own.Cheers,MG. | |
| Boulder 1060 amp and upmarket p.cords and filters? You're welcome Mert, The Isotek Nova is a good conditioner. Pad are good cables, a bit on the dark side of neutral, but they are a bit warm sounding. I will likely go with all-Jorma cables in my system now (Origo/Prime). Prime in particular is sup... | |
| Boulder 1060 amp and upmarket p.cords and filters? Mert, I also own a Boulder 1060. I would recommend connecting it directly to the wall (as I do) unless you have what I consider to be the only power filters which actually work & sound good with a powerful amp like the 1060, they being the Iso... | |
| Best integrated Amp for Hansen Prince V2 Hifi, I would think the Vitus SIA-025 would be appreciably the best out of the 3 integrateds you mentioned. Paired with a Vitus front end, it is the most mellifluous and analogue sounding amp i've ever heard. Just a lovely sounding amp. The Grypho... | |
| Ayon cd5-s or Skylla -2 dac. Big improvement Hi Denon, As Audioman noted earlier, the stock Chinese rectifiers can lose their composure with complex orchestral passages, so it's worthwhile replacing them with NOS rectifiers. Audioman mentioned some rare (and expensive) examples, however in t... | |
| The best CD Player for the money Larry, Marantz made some terrific players back in the 90's, but have very recently started to get back to thier roots & build some serious players again. But Marantz have always represented good value. Cambridge makes me shudder! | |
| The best CD Player for the money I think it would be hard to practically tell the difference between a server source versus a recent even decent quality CD player through the same DAC in most cases (its hard for me in my rig), but technically the server technology no doubt has th... | |
| The best CD Player for the money Overall, I think drive-based storage is still maturing, and yes some high rez downloads can sound excellent (as can ripped music), however the very best server-based systems I have heard coincidentally were connected to some of the best dac's i've... | |
| Ayon cd5-s or Skylla -2 dac. Big improvement Hi Audioman, I'd agree the Furutech fuses could be a good option. Thanks for the tip on the Furutech nano fluid. I think though in the Ayon circuit, we're only talking about a very modest improvement. And inevitably such a change is going to shift... | |
| Ayon cd5-s or Skylla -2 dac. Big improvement Audioman, I don't doubt your findings however I think that most owners would not want to depart too far from the warm, rich house sound of their Ayon component. The f/b I received from my audiophile friend was he felt the HFT fuses thinned out the... |