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| Roon Nucleus as a streamer You would need to find a DAC that is "Roon Ready" which means that it has a built in rendered/player if you want it simply to connect via the network. | |
| dcs bartok vs DENAFRIPS TERMINATOR-PLUS You didn’t mention what you have today? The dCS and Denafrips are going to sound a bit different. The dCS is going to be a bit more more forward and detailed. Alternative options would be the Chord Dave with an MScaler which I think beats the Bart... | |
| Full featured balanced dac/preamp advice I believe the Rockna Wavelight has all the features that you are looking for. I had a customer who did a side-by-side with Bel Canto and the Rockna and like the Rockna much better. Of course, it is almost double the price so you would hope that ... | |
| MSB S202 Stereo Amplifier - what's the experience so far? I have a customer who has this amp and I have spent several hours doing some very critical listening. He runs an MSB Reference DAC into it. It is superb. He is using it to drive Vivid B1 Decades. Vivids are not a particularly difficult load ... | |
| VTL MB 185 SERIES II I had the series ones. Used for a solid 9 months before I acquired the Art Audio line as an importer. You will want to used these in Triode. They are not good in Tetrode. Assuming that Triode offers enough power for you, these amps will not di... | |
| Amp for Vandersteen 5A Carbons In terms of power, you ought to be fine given that you are not driven low frequencies. Tonally, you might find that you want something a bit more forward though. Obviously you can't be certain of that till you get them in the room. Very much de... | |
| Holographic Soundstage ? So....We are talking about swapping in a low powered tube amp for 150w krell.The fact that any tube amp is delivering inferior bass compared to a Krell is not surprising. No amount of burn in or time is going to fix that. Krell is known for deli... | |
| Looking for a cd player that plays nice with classical orchestra. Musical Fidelity M6CD is lovely. Relatively neutral. Good separation as MF is well known for producing a good DAC. Was just looking in the distributors system and am not seeing it and believe it has been discontinued. So, hopefully someone has... | |
| transistor pre with the sound of tubes Ayre's preamps are very good. The K5xeMP is a steal used and has a warmer sound than some tube units I have heard. | |
| The new Raidho’s vs the new Borressen’s ? I am talking to the guys at Borresen about becoming a dealer. Thinking I will have to get a pair of the cryo treated. If you are looking to consider something other than Raidho vs Borresen I would look at Kaiser and MBL. | |
| REL 12" Carbon vs JL Audio 12" Fathom I know this is an older thread but Rel vs. JL is no longer a complete comparison. You have to hear evaluate Perlisten subs. The D12s can easily go toe-to-toe with either of these and IMO, has a better DSP for integration. The DSP recalculates 1... | |
| Class D amps that are superior to all or most? I believe MBLs electronics are Class D. Huge power and ability to drive anything at 4 ohms. They should be mentioned here. I personally have 5 Class Ds at the moment. Three of the five have tube input stages. Rogue Hydra, Canor AI 2.10 and AVM... | |
| Class D amps that are superior to all or most? Although not Class D, the Chord Ultima Line uses a switching power supply and runs cool. I think technically they are Class G or H but they are phenomenal sounding amps. I would certainly put them up against other amps in their price tier and th... | |
| Jadis DA88S mkii integrated I have a great relationship with Bluebird and they are very pleasant to work with. Vienna Acoustics, Jadis and SME have been with them for a very long time and they are not exactly mediocre brands. They also have AVM, Canton and Weiss. Those ar... | |
| Small Footprint SS Power Amps AVM MA 30.3s are half width monos. Haven't heard them yet but (brand new models) but they look really interesting. |