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| What is your experience with the NAD M33? The M33 won Stereophile product of the year and remains on global allocation with significant backorders. The issue more than anything now is that the unit is a few years old and is less shiny and new. It seemed like it was in every other thread... | |
| Suggestions for a streamer only (I have a great DAC) Lots of other options but software is a partial driver of your choice. The interface you want to use matters and then picking the device with that interface is best approach. I use Roon so I am almost universally focused on a server/player solut... | |
| AGD Tempo in the house @voodoochillin I don't have a ton of preamps here to test. That is a bit of a shortcoming with my current inventory. I did have it paired with an AVM 5.2 which was quite nice. Regarding a range of speakers, that will build through time. Whe... | |
| AGD Tempo in the house @atmasphere Fair enough. That being said, I have had multiple Class D amps that sound cold and unnatural fresh out of the box and warm over time. I also have had some that have never improved and sound cold and unnatural forever. Of course, I c... | |
| AGD Tempo in the house Class A, yes. It is warmer and seems to have tons of power despite the modest rating. SET…no. Certainly not my 300B I have sitting right next to it. I have not really heard anything that can replicate a SET. Even the First Watt stuff falls a ... | |
| DAC Shootout Starts This Weekend @fai_v I have never heard the mini-Ts and cannot speak about there ability to deliver micro-dynamics. That said, I am biased heavily against standard wood box speakers when it comes to production of fine details. My bias shows up in my own de... | |
| DAC Shootout Starts This Weekend I have promised a few more reviews here as some new devices have come in and one specifically is the Musical Fidelity M3s CD. This is a CD player with SPDIF, USB and TOSLINK inputs and lists for $1599. I bought it before AXPONA in 2019 for CD Tr... | |
| New Perlisten S7T Towers I have the S4b's and D12s on "display" as I work out of my house. I am in Jersey City. Not sure there is another local dealer. I very simply don't have room for the S7t. | |
| Looking for a warm sounding amp or integrated with a torodial transformer Have you looked at Rega? I recall years ago I was upgrading from a Rega Brio R and the guys at Needledoctor were of the opinion that Rega was the warmest gear they carried and they were Rogue dealers. That was vs. stock tubes so not sure how it w... | |
| Which Tweeter preferred- dome natural material, Beryllium/Metal or Planar Ribbon? Why? There are too many good and bad implementations of each of these materials. I have heard incredible Beryllium tweeters and painfully bright ones. I have heard awful diamond tweeters, I have heard brilliant. Same with ribbons, ceramic, aluminum,... | |
| BiAmp Focal Kanta 2 speakers with 1 set of posts. @tablejockey i did not know the OP already had a primaluna 400 as that was not stated in the initial post. I do not like criticizing peoples choices and would have abstained from this thread had I known. Those amp aren’t my first choice for ... | |
| BiAmp Focal Kanta 2 speakers with 1 set of posts. The Kanta No 2s are not a perfect match with those Primaluna amps. The impedance dips a hair below 3 ohms and is a hard to drive speaker below about 120 hz. Bass will be a bit flabby. This really is a speaker that is best with warm, SS amplif... | |
| Naim Audio system owners - What speakers are you using with Naim? A Hugo TT2 will definitely help. It is brighter than Naim’a DAC. I have not had a chance to test this sort of setup with Chord. | |
| CD transports I heave heard about challenges with the native software for streaming but not about QC challenges with the actual hardware. Interesting. | |
| Naim Audio system owners - What speakers are you using with Naim? Naim is designed to be paired with Focal which are brighter speakers. it is warmer amplification. Spendor is not a bright speaker. Nor is the Audiovector. I might look at a brighter amp as you are clearly leaning toward neutral to warm speaker... |