mikhaelkuz
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| AURALiC Aries price reduction wharfy, from your perspective what is "price point proportional"? IMHO it is hard to justify (for me at least) price of a streamer to be the same as DAC/preamp.Also comparing oranges to oranges - Auralic Aries femto used now runs 1000 or below, so... | |
| AURALiC Aries price reduction exile_ken, yes now it is running Lightning server and LightningDS.I have approximately 60,000 tracks from various sources (my different rips, tracks purchases, hdtracks downloads, etc) and library is very manageable. I did not measure, but it took... | |
| AURALiC Aries price reduction I got used Aries recently. I do not know how much Aurender is better, but compared with OPPO-105 Aries streaming sound quality is way, way better and easy audible. I actually very surprised as I bought it for convenience and was shocked how much m... | |
| Has anyone made the jump to $uper High end and were disappointed? Some time ago I used to go to various shows, where I could listen to stuff I never will be able to afford. Some of sounded amazing and you wanted to sell your kidney, some not so much. But in general dcs, MBL, Lamm, Focal Utopia, etc sounded spect... | |
| Swapping W4S to Pass Labs XA- worth it? Well, I decided to pull a trigger on used 30.5 (late build, less then 2 years old). 30.8 is simply too big for my rack and will stick out too far. Will report results when all received and set up )))PS I am not using preamp, instead I am switching... | |
| Swapping W4S to Pass Labs XA- worth it? Stereophile measurements of 30.5 shows quite different numbers then 1% at 30 watts, in fact extremely different. I think 1% is at clipping when in AB. Here are those charts. https://www.stereophile.com/images/archivesart/509Pasfig4.jpgI am not "pl... | |
| Swapping W4S to Pass Labs XA- worth it? Just checked - output impedance of my CD player/preamp is 300 Ohm, so in theory 30K input results in 100 ratio, which should be OK, I hope. Wonder if anyone drove Triton One with XA30.5 (30.8)? | |
| Swapping W4S to Pass Labs XA- worth it? The only measurement concern I have is iinput impedance (30K for Pass vs 100K for W4S), as I will drive ( driving) them directly from CD player/DAC.But more importantly - will there be serious difference in sound quality. Did anyone ever compared ... | |
| Swapping W4S to Pass Labs XA- worth it? According to Stereophile measurements it goes to 195 watt before clipping into 4 Ohms, It is still less then 450 into 4 ohms by Wyred4Sound (or 350 by my old Krell), but still should be plenty, Or so I think. | |
| Schiit taking orders (as of Dec 23) on Freya preamp I disagree with "turn volume all the way up - and here is your bypass", as I guarantee that one day you will switch inputs forgetting to lower your volume - and blow your speakers/amp/ears.I believe that omitting this feature is a mistake, and for... |