spearl8
Responses from spearl8
| DAC question - is music streamer DAC better than mcintosh DA2? I have a C53 with DA2. It’s an amazing dac plus it saves on cables. I think you have to spend $15k with good cables to beat it. | |
| Shunyata Denali 6000/S v2 and Typhon T2 Review I just got a typhon T2 for my monoblocks. It’s pretty insane. It’s like the power in my amps doubled. | |
| dCS Bartok Apex vs McIntosh DA2 - Trouble Hearing the Difference I agree the DA2 is incredibly good. I have a C53 and it took sonore optical streaming and Ayre qx5 to beat it | |
| DAC Comparison - Aurender A200 vs McIntosh C2600 The DA2 is surprisingly good. My Ayre QX5 beats it but the DA2 is better than you would expect. HDMI eARC into the da2 sounds a lot better than my anthem avm70. | |
| Cardas Golden Reference or Clear Cygnus? Which would you choose? I had the Cardas Clear Cygnus and loved them. Really no faults. Very musical and could happily live with them. I made the leap to clear beyond speaker. The Cygnus has the same sonic signature but the clear beyond adds just a tremendous amount of c... | |
| Revel Salon2s: Seeking Advice The salon 2 really is quite special. I love mine. I compared head to head in the same system at my dealer salon 2 vs wilson sabrina x and it wasn't even a question despite the salon 2 being much older. Even today, especially with inflation, I thin... | |
| Cardas Clear Digital SPDIF @dr3 it seemed a little more musical and open. Has that nice Cardas rightness to it. | |
| Cardas Clear Digital SPDIF In my system Cardas clear spdif was a small step up from transparent premium spdif. | |
| Cardas Clear Beyond XL PC vs The Rest I have 4 clear beyond xl power cords. I prefer them to shunyata. I actually think it’s the best product Cardas makes. | |
| New Speaker, Wilson MAXX 3, Alexandria series 1, Alexia series 1, YG sonja models Have owned alexia 1, maxx3, and X2 Series 2. I still think the Maxx3 is the best looking speaker Wilson ever made, especially in silver. Maxx 3 is better than Alexia 1 and really not that much bigger of a footprint. X2 series 2 beats maxx 3 but mu... | |
| New release - Shunyata Omega interconnects and speaker cables I found sigma v2 to be super clean but sort of bland in my system. Can’t imagine what omega is like. | |
| Aurender N20 I have about 200 hours on my N20. It’s amazing. Also a surprisingly beautiful and heavy chassis. If you can fit it into your budget I think the N20 will impress you. | |
| The difference between Qoboz stream vs purchased songs I compared purchased music on hdtracks vs the same album on qobuz using Roon. The hdtracks files are in fact slightly better. Not dramatically but they are better. | |
| Make the Transparent move? Transparent is excellent. I’ve tried a lot of cables and to me they’re the gold standard. | |
| Warning for Revel lovers It's true, for $12,000 used (give or take) you get a speaker that for some reason is a masterpiece of a product. Without a doubt still as good as current offerings. A total joy to listen to. |