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| DAC with HDCD function under usd1000 Assemblage from Sonic Frontier DAC 2.6 or DAC 2.7 at $700 is one of the best HDCD DAC you can get? Happy New Year | |
| Sonic Frontiers Line 1,2,3 & SFL2 Rating Have heard L3 into B&W 801 and compared to AR R2 into same speaker. Preferred L3. | |
| Sonic frontiers Line 3? vs. BAT? I have auditioned the Line 3 with 300B feeding Mezzo Utopia and Line 3 into Bryston 7B into B&W 801. Both have provided a top notch presentation. Have heard BAT into Thiel and don't think it compares anywhere close to the L3. I guess it depend... | |
| DAC at us$1000 Try Assemblage DAC 2.7 with the parts upgrade. It does the job for me. | |
| amp for B &W 801 Bryston 7Bs works good. Am going to experiment with just the 7B for low and uses Canary 301 for high. The Canary uses a quad of 300Bs and according to a few who had tried it, they stuck with it. | |
| CDP isolation platforms I believe what you're trying to isolate is the vibration casued by the rack/floor and your environment. First you need to decouple from the rack/floor using a point which a cone or nail on 3 or 4 corners would do. You also want to let the CDP to f... | |
| The best speaker wires under $500 new or Audioquest CV-4. Or TaraLab Prime 1000 with individual runs for each poles. This means if your separate Mid/Hi from Low frequencies, you need a total of 8 runs. | |
| Top Ten Tube PreAmp of all time? Sonic Frontier Line 3 with micro-matched tubes. Canary CA 801. | |
| Top Ten Pre Amp Solid State of all time? Ayre K1. | |
| Tube recommendation for SFL1 Hi, Try Siemens, or Telefunken. These are a bit more pricy, however, depending on the kind of music you like. You may find these more suitable. Simon sm_fung@hotmail.com | |
| CD Changers Hi, Anthem CD 1 is an above average CD changer. Certainly worth a try. Regards,sm_fung@hotmail.com | |
| Does silver speaker wire sound bright? Hi, I had the same problem initially. However, after reading about it on stereophile that one of the reviewers uses RF stopper to improve the situation. I tried it on mine and it solved my problem. RF stopper is not that expensive, you may want to... |