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| Bryston BP-17 cubed or Benchmrk LA4 Preamp Given what you’re looking for sonically you’ve identified two excellent candidates IMHO. I can’t speak to the Benchmark, but I owned a Bryston BP6 (very similar to the BP26 minus the balanced connections and separate power supply) for years and i... | |
| Advice regarding separate DAC purchase The DAC1 module in Mac gear doesn’t have a great reputation and several here have replaced it with a separate DAC and been very happy with the improvements. I’d recommend getting the Pontus ll along with either the Iris or Hermes DDC and use the ... | |
| Bryston BP-17 cubed or Benchmrk LA4 Preamp What improvements/sound characteristics are you looking for? | |
| Bryston BP-17 cubed or Benchmrk LA4 Preamp What’s your budget, and are you looking for new or used? | |
| Seeking Honest Opinions: Your Experience with McIntosh Audio Gear About four years ago I worked for Magnolia at Best Buy and got to hear pricey Mac electronics paired with KEF Blades in a dedicated room just for that system. I’d heard the Blades before at shows and found them to be very neutral and natural-soun... | |
| Esoteric S-05 30 watt Class A Amp I’m a “leave the amp on” kinda guy but even I wouldn’t do that with a full Class A (or tube) amp. Hopefully your amp doesn’t require many hours to get to its optimal operating performance, but many Class A amps unfortunately do. If you do a lot o... | |
| Help me pair the KEF R11 Metas...? I replaced the cables as well, switching from custom audiophile speaker cables, to simple OF bare copper. I then connected a new Cambridge Audio MXN10 DAC/Streamer as a Tidal source, instead of using Bluetooth, and let it rip...OMG....night and d... | |
| Anyone else order Caladans from Clayton Shaw? @vthokie83 Any initial thoughts/impressions on the Caladans? | |
| Please be gentle with me! 🙏 Oops. I misread and thought he was using the DAC in the phone. Not sure if DAC in the Node would be an improvement or not. My bad. | |
| Please be gentle with me! 🙏 Yes. It’ll sound better both as a streamer and as a DAC so he’ll get improvements on both counts. He should also be using a quality streaming service like Qobuz or Tidal. | |
| Legacy Focus 20/20 Speakers AMP/Pre Amp Congrats man! Enjoy!!! | |
| Revival Audio Atalante 3 vs Fritz Carbon 7 SE MKII I’d add the Joseph Audio Prisms to your list. Haven’t heard the other two, but I’ve heard your 705s at length and the Prisms are at another level entirely and in every way. Just another option FWIW. | |
| Kids, Dogs, and Speakers You could look at speakers like Totem Audio Forests where the cabinets can be filled with sand that significantly increases their weight making them hard to knock over and also improves their sound. | |
| Streaming Curious I've heard a few streamers and in general think they sound very compressed and 2D. The depth and air of vinyl is completely absent I feel. Sorry, but this seems a bit silly to me. How much do you have invested in your vinyl equipment? And yo... | |
| Interconnects To answer your question, no. There is no difference between interconnects unless they have some type of resistor or other electronic altering device built it. Ah the flat earthers once again rear their ugly head where they’re clearly not needed... |