soix
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| Digital system upgrades I’d do a trial of the Audio gd R8 DAC from Underwood HiFi that’s $1000 under your budget. Not sure how you’re getting the signal to your Zen, but with the remaining funds I’d consider adding something like an Optical Rendu that also can also prov... | |
| Looks for Headphone Tube Amp No prob whatsoever. I’m just hoping this all works out well as everyone’s tastes are unique.Anyway, you’re probably gonna hate me for this, but to me cables matter like tires matter on a sports car — underspend and you can ruin the whole experienc... | |
| Digital system upgrades Depends. What types of improvements are you looking for? | |
| Need a DAC Recommendation. Lots of excellent options in that price range. What sound characteristics are most important to you? That’ll largely dictate which DAC might be best. | |
| How bad is it to place 5.1 rears from behind rather than on the sides? My friend had a setup where his surrounds were in-ceiling speakers behind the listening position and it worked really well, so that might be another placement option if the ceiling is workable. | |
| Looks for Headphone Tube Amp USB from computer to E30 should work fine. The Toppings will probably require some hours of playtime to break in and sound their best so try not to judge too quickly. Let us know what you think. | |
| First tube preamp recommendations (under $5k) want to explore what tubes can do to the sound (slight warmth, biggest soundstage, better layering etc etc). Given what you’re looking for I’d add the Don Sachs linestage that fully tricked out is around $2500, and he offers a trial period that’s ... | |
| Best DAC? Key sonic characteristics?Uh, that’s kinda what we need to know from you to make any kind of useful recommendation. | |
| Bookshelf/Small Speakers Not enough info to go on here. | |
| Looks for Headphone Tube Amp Looking closer at your headphones I’m not sure the iFi would be the best match sonically nor would a tube amp given the 99’s low input impedance. Personally I’d be looking to a more neutrally-voiced amp/DAC like the AQ Dragonfly Red that I own so... | |
| Looks for Headphone Tube Amp should I use both a DAC and an amp?Absolutely — your headphones are plenty good enough to reward you significantly by feeding it a better signal, and the DACs in iPhones and iMacs suck and will greatly limit your sound quality. At your budget I’d ... | |
| SQ - AV processor preouts vs. stereo linestage preamp i have run the processor preouts into a preamp and found i need to turn up the preamp sound all the way to get sound to come thru from the processor.You can control that by increasing the level of the L/R channels in the prepro’s level balance tha... | |
| Ten year old digital source upgrade suggestions? Everything does matter, and that definitely includes streamers. That and you have lots of disparate pieces working to produce sound. If I’m you I’d get an Innuos Zen Mk3 streamer with onboard drive and storage, load all your CDs into it and plug... | |
| Best dac under $2500 - comparing build quality and technologies I did a lot of research and listening for a friend and chose the Yggdrasil as definitely the winner anywhere in that price range.@ghdprentice — What other DACs did you listen to? | |
| SQ - AV processor preouts vs. stereo linestage preamp wish i never learned about stereo pre’s - ignorance is bliss.But crappy sound isn’t. How do u use avr preouts.Just run a pair of interconnects from the front L/R preouts of the NAD to an unused input (or HT Bypass if there is one) on the stereo pr... |