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| ???Anyone Here UpGrade From Yaqin/Cayin/etc... To Another Tube Amp Considered Hi End??? My experience with Raven Audio was completely positive. I bought my Blackhawk used and when I contacted Raven owner Dave Thomson about a minor problem with the remote control he followed up with multiple messages and phone calls helping resolve th... | |
| Suggest Best DAC under $1500 for "Elac Navis ARB-51" Active speaker. And I see there is a Bel Canto DAC 3 on US Audio Mart for $750. The preamp section of mine works extremely well as a front for my tube amp. | |
| Suggest Best DAC under $1500 for "Elac Navis ARB-51" Active speaker. If you're open to buying used, I'm extremely happy with a Bel Canto DAC 3 I bought used for considerably less than your budget. Any of the Bel Canto DACs that are within your budget would give you the sound you want and with XLR outputs. Aside fro... | |
| Can you build a digital music streamer around a Raspberry Pi 4 with an external DAC? One place to start is with some of the videos on John Darko's site. Here's one and there are others explaining further options.https://darko.audio/2020/01/raspberry-pi-audio-streaming-101/ | |
| Should people who can't solder, build or test their speakers be considered audiophiles? There are two kinds of people in the world, those who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don't. | |
| Should people who can't solder, build or test their speakers be considered audiophiles? Seems presumptuous to me to tell people what they're permitted to enjoy and under what conditions. | |
| Bel Canto DAC3.5VB MK2 I was curious about your question since I have a Bel Canto DAC 3. Looking at the manual for your DAC, one of the design features listed is "110dB dynamic range 24/192 ADC input for your analog sources." I would think that means that an analog sign... | |
| ???Anyone Here UpGrade From Yaqin/Cayin/etc... To Another Tube Amp Considered Hi End??? Yes, I went from a Cayin A-50T integrated to a Raven Audio Blackhawk LE and the difference is substantial, for the better. The Cayin is a very fine amp, especially at its price but The Blackhawk is clearly better in every way. | |
| VTL integrated amp and exaSound DAC remote controls As far as I know Apple has made only two remotes, the slim silver one with black buttons that came with Apple TV devices and the Siri remote that adds voice control. Neither are programmable (again, as far as I know.) You should contact Apple supp... | |
| Are CD players goig the way of the 8 track,and the cassette? I expect the most important factor in the viability of the format is the availability of the mechanical transports. Being a mechanical device running at very high speeds they all fail eventually. Since the computer market offers optical disc reade... | |
| your opinion on buying an older Simaudio i-5 integrated The I-5 is a wonderful amp. I had both an I-5 and an I-5 LE for years and enjoyed them as much as any piece of gear I've owned. The sonics and the build quality are superb. It's worth owning one just to be able to feel that silky-smooth volume kno... | |
| In case you need a new "source" for audiophile units..... You're right, isochronism, "Rare" in that context usually means the seller is the only one who was dumb enough to buy one. | |
| WHat did Audiophiles hear during Tape deck era? During the early 70s when I worked at the University of Texas in Austin and lived close enough to walk to work, I would pass a record store just a block off the Drag that would let you take new albums home overnight to audition for $1. Bring the a... | |
| Raven or Hegel? A couple of other things that make the Raven amps attractive is the 45-day free home trial and that if you buy an amp and decide to trade up within the line during the first year you can get a full-credit trade-in on your amp. | |
| Raven or Hegel? In addition to their superb build and sonics the support from Dave Thomson, the owner of Raven, is the best I've encountered. I've cycled through a lot of amps over the years, some more expensive and well known than my Raven Blackhawk and it's in ... |