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| Sonus Faber Il Cremonese Amp Pairing suggestions Just a thought off the top. Your first concern for an amp should be if it offers the sound characteristics you’re looking for because if not what’s the point and then concern yourself with power. The Cremonese’s sensitivity is a relatively high 9... | |
| Example of a piece o’ crap, useless review So in the end it is a business for the professional reviewers. If they were to give critical reviews about specific products other manufacturers will avoid them as it could stop the business for a small manufacturer. So in mutual dependency we on... | |
| Connection options from Node to Denafrips Iris to Pontus Streamers. A quick look online and a couple of models pop up. Eversolo 6. Innuos mini. Thoughts? I’d go Innuos assuming you mean the Pulse Mini. It’s a new model incorporating some of their latest developments/thinking, and their app cons... | |
| Aurender n200, talk me out of signing on the dotted line @soix Aurender N200 is a dedicated streamer and not a streamer/dac combo. @audphile1 Ah crap, I looked up the A200 by mistake. My bad. Thanks for the correction. | |
| Sonus Faber Il Cremonese Amp Pairing suggestions I’m interested to hear if you think the STR would be a "laughable" pairing for the Il Cremonese? No, not at all (for now anyway — read on). In fact, as you’re already familiar with the the sound of the Anthem gear I’d highly recommend you conti... | |
| Example of a piece o’ crap, useless review There isn't a baseline for ones sonic preferences either. @uncleang Sure there is. It’s your own ears and they’re the best possible baseline you could have. | |
| Connection options from Node to Denafrips Iris to Pontus It is a 2i, so that may not be good news. Bad news is that’s not gonna work as it’s only got SPDIF and optical outs. Sorry man, I feel for ya FWIW. Good news — Daddy gets to shop for a new, better streamer! Woohoo!!! Are all HDMI cables able ... | |
| Example of a piece o’ crap, useless review Reviewers almost never give an actual bad review because they know if they do that, manufacturers will stop lending gear for evaluation. @roadcykler Actually that was not my experience. Over 17 years I only wrote one negative review, and I was ... | |
| Streamer/DAC combinations Yeah @vthokie83 brings up a very important point. I think only the latest Node has a USB out so the Iris won’t work with older Nodes although I read something that one of the model’s maintenance USB port can be reprogrammed to work as a USB out bu... | |
| Usher Mini Dancer 2 or Q Acoustics Concept 500 - Marantz PM Ki Ruby My pick in this price category is the Joseph Audio Profile that is an extremely well balanced speaker and has imaging/3D soundstage and pulls off a disappearing act that are among the best in the industry and would be well worth adding to your lis... | |
| Usher Mini Dancer 2 or Q Acoustics Concept 500 - Marantz PM Ki Ruby Really depends on what improvements and sound characteristics you’re looking for, and are you looking for new or used? | |
| Connection options from Node to Denafrips Iris to Pontus What model Node do you have? That’s the key question here. | |
| Example of a piece o’ crap, useless review Given true long format reviews typically take six months to do. It is really not that surprising that each issue could only contain a few of these. Do the math. @ghdprentice I can’t speak for TAS, nor would I care to, but at Soundstage we had t... | |
| Example of a piece o’ crap, useless review There are full format reviews on a number of the components: Burmeister turntable, Vandersteen speaker, Magico speakers, and some others. These all contain sections on associated equipment, and are in depth. @ghdprentice Yeah but how many of th... | |
| Example of a piece o’ crap, useless review Since every reviewer has a different setup and all of us have different setups the variations are endless and so are the subjective outcomes. @tom2015 That’s exactly why making relevant product comparisons is absolutely critical. Humans are i... |