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| I’m looking for an sleek integrated amp under $15k That is an easy one. Not becasue it 'destroys' all the competition (lot of great amps listed in this thread.) But the Vitus house sound is something special. The Vitus SIA-025 Mk2 or 030 if you needed a bit more power but don't let the power rat... | |
| Mola Mola Tambaqui Roon vs Separate Streamers Calgarian The Grimm and the Tambaqui are a special combination if you can make sense of the cost of the Grimm. Something about that AES output from the Grimm that the Mola just loves leaving it to DAC only duties. Metaldektor said it correctly, a... | |
| Need help to select a speaker Nothing good about Dynaudio at low volumes. Good sound at low volumes is complex and not related to sensitivity either. There are some speakers with a deserved reputation for good sound at low volumes, Harbeth comes to mind. How your system atten... | |
| Amplifiers in use with big Harbeths (Mon 40 series) that work very well I have owned 40.2 and anniversary 30.2. I believe the 40.2 was the best full range monitor I have ever owned. Alan Shaw always liked to claim Harbeth to be amplifier agnostic, and I believe to a degree he is correct. They seem to keep the Harbeth... | |
| High end high quality int. amp for low level listening Low level listening and having good sound at low volumes is way more complex than the power rating of the amp and I would disagree with the amount of power on hand being a useful metric. Some speakers are "on song" at lower volumes better than oth... | |
| High end Class D amps? Hey Ric, nice to see you around, 20 years ago I had one of your wonderful modded Dacs. That was my point, how do you account for DF independently. My point too was more about lowish DF vs. the ridiculously high DF in most of the OEM modules, one o... | |
| High end Class D amps? Atmashpere, how would one ever test that variable independently outside of other amplifier qualities? Plenty of seasoned audiophiles and reviewers alike that would argue subtleties in how a woofer is damped is second only to an amps ability to pro... | |
| High end Class D amps? Having owned the lot from Merrill to Nord to Rowland to every conceivable output board in multiple iterations, including Bruno's latest which to me sounded very similar to Ncore, tube input stages, transformer coupled input stages, etc etc..the be... | |
| The Future of Audio Amplification Distortions,your hearing is excellent. What you are hearing is the best class D amps made to date that no one paid any attention to. The DS series amps from ARC. Lowish DF for natural bass (the DS225 is under 200) , no NFB, in house output, no OEM... | |
| Sony HAP-Z1ES Hi-Res Music Player RMAF 2013 Thanks, I am going to assume it is a digital volume control and can be connected directly to an amp. | |
| Sony HAP-Z1ES Hi-Res Music Player RMAF 2013 could someone confirm for me that the Sony unit actually has variable outputs (both balanced and SE). Most Sony digital sources have in the past. I realize the handheld has volume up/down but no where on the specs does it actually claim fixed vs v... | |
| Hypex Ncore 1200 Hey thanks for your response. I own Merrills. Driving Pioneer S1ex (very similar to TAD evolutions). Very nice combo. If they can handle the legendary load of the MBL's then they can handle anything out there I suspect.... | |
| Merrill VERITAS monoblock amplifiers Just took a stab at a pair of Merrills after a few email exchanges with Srajan at 6moons and some great long discussions with the gentleman I bought them from. Over the years I have found Srajan very consistent in his approach to products and what... | |
| Merrill VERITAS monoblock amplifiers Im going to chime in here as a new owner. Now that I have lived with them for a while its a little surprising to me these new modules from Hypex are not getting a little more attention.My opinion is that these amps are more than just the continued... | |
| Harbeth P3ESR vs Fritz Rev 5 vs DeVore Gibbon 3XL Roscoeiiiplease post your impressions after a little break-in. I think when it comes to the LS50 the typical hang ups come in to play full force: looks, cost, can't be that good. Thats the impression I got from the thread I started, equal resistan... |