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| Weiss 204 Dac or LTA Audio Aero Dac as an upgrade from Chord Qutest Dac @brbrock I was not in my office yesterday and did not want to trust random photos on the web. There is an optical input on the back. It is labeled S/PDIF rather than Coax and Toslink as it is the standard rather than the type of connector. The 20... | |
| DAC Shootout Starts This Weekend You guys are all too nice. Thank you. | |
| DAC Shootout Starts This Weekend @azwill I used the Tambaqui with a preamp. About 2 years ago Vivid changed distributors and went to GTT Audio who happens to be the Mola Mola distributor. They offered to keep me on but after reviewing the dealer agreement I declined because I wou... | |
| DAC Shootout Starts This Weekend Recently, I received a Mola Mola Tambaqui in on trade. This is a unit I have really wanted to spend some time with given the raves and I have a great stable of products in to do some comparisons. Right as this arrived, I became a Linn dealer and t... | |
| Speakers for Graaf GM 20 OTL I have a customer who runs these amps. He has had great success with Audiovector and Fyne. Obviously you need to find speakers that are a bit more efficient and if you can get to 92 or 95 decibels efficiency you will have good results. Full ... | |
| Tube Pre/ Class D Amp - Who has done it? I have had my Canor Hyperion P1 Pre paired with most of the AGD Monos and also a VAC Master paired with AGD Duets specifically driving some Cantons. I have also used NAD and Primare Class Ds with the Hyperion. All of the combos were excellent. ... | |
| Thinking of changing things up. Need advice on DAC/Streamers I am dealer for both and have spent a lot of time with both. The Meitner is a little warmer and sweeter with slightly soft bass. It is extremely musical and if you are supporting your system with a nice powered subwoofer, it is wonderful. I have ... | |
| Best $10-15K bookshelf speaker? Be cautious with Borreson and Raidho. They don't work in every space. You need minimum 9' between the speakers and typically 3-5' behind them or the glorious image that you are paying for will not come together. Incredible speakers in the right... | |
| THORENS in USA I have reached out to Thorens to see where distribution may be going. Focal Naim has basically had not stock for months and what I had is sold out. If you want something sooner, I would look at a Linn Majik or something like it as an alternative. | |
| DAC Shootout Starts This Weekend @tonnesen I didn't have any new news for a long stretch. I had a lot of gear in on trade I was underwhelmed by and this thread is not about criticizing gear I don't like. I tried writing up a few and just wasn't happy with the posts and am focus... | |
| DAC Shootout Starts This Weekend @yyzsantabarbara This is helpful. I will pick up a device and see how it works when my new Klimax DSM arrives vs. ethernet straight from the wall and from the ethernet direct out from my Oladra. My customer did not want to wait for a device to... | |
| DAC Shootout Starts This Weekend @yyzsantabarbara I am 99% certain you are correct that it has a fiber ethernet input like the Lumin. I have not tested that as I don’t have a device to convert my signal to fiber and one I bought failed within two weeks. If you have a suggestion... | |
| DAC Shootout Starts This Weekend First unit to write up is the Linn Klimax DSM. This is a $45.5K device leveraging Linn’s first ever FPGA DAC called the Organik, has Linn’s on-board streamer/roon endpoint and and uses their proprietary Space Optimization system. Linn reached out... | |
| DAC Shootout Starts This Weekend So, it has been a while since an update. I have had a lot of units in and generally I am observing the rule of, "if you can't say something nice." I have had a lot of underwhelming competitive devices in. Just because something is produced with... | |
| Why are DAC's so much more expensive than transports? If you get a full CD player or SACD player, from most manufacturers cost is same or higher for the CD player if the DAC is of equal quality. If the unit is just a transport and is only a tray with digital circuits and one transformer, it should be... |