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| DAC UPGRADE QUESTION There are lots of questions to ask here. Are you happy with the Qutest? Are you just seeking more? Is anything missing? Tonally, is they system good? The obvious step would be a TT2 if everything is perfect and you just want more. If somethi... | |
| Subs with room correction DSP? I have been pleasantly surprised with the ease of setup of my Perlisten subs. The DSP was so easy to setup I thought I must be doing something wrong. There are several subs that use in-room feedback and re-calculate output in realtime. They sta... | |
| New DACs High End Munich 2023 I have a customer who just traded in an Lampizator Amber 4 with VC for a Bricasti M3. | |
| $50k - $80k Budget…Opinions please. Start with the room. This defines what speakers you can fit and work with. How big is it? How is current damping? Can you treat it, etc... Once that is defined I suggest selecting a speaker as your choice will be a function of the room and yo... | |
| Amp question with size constraints An AGD Tempo power Amp and Alto preamp will solve your problem and sound MUCH better than your rega (and should since they are 10x the price). They will easily fit on your shelf and will only require a .5M set of XLRs to connect. The phono stage... | |
| DAC Shootout Starts This Weekend @willgolf Those are two of the DACs on my shortlist of units that are fine without a preamp. I would also say the MSB Reference and Select would fit here, but MSB equips them with a full preamp stage. After that, it is preamps equipped with ve... | |
| DAC Shootout Starts This Weekend I am 100% certain I am bringing in and am going to test the NS1 streamer. At some point I am sure I will hear the preamp but it is not a priority. In my system I am using the Canor Hyperion P1 preamp. It is rare that I hear any DAC that sounds... | |
| DAC Shootout Starts This Weekend So I tested two more DACs recently as we have become Meitner/EMM Dealers and I have the MA3 and DA2 here. First write up with be about the MA3 which is proving to be quite a phenomenal DAC considering its price point and feature set. The MA3 i... | |
| Chord M-Scaler burn-in advice/input welcomed So...give this a solid 100 hours before you consider any judgements and do not turn it on and off much over the first three weeks or so. The more time it spends hot over the first three weeks the better. Maybe shut it off an hour each day to let... | |
| New DACs High End Munich 2023 I spend a lot of time listening to DACs in this price range. There are some great suggestions above. Particularly I hear great things about Merason though I have not heard it personally. Two that I didn't see come up that I think you would find... | |
| Amp and Preamp recommendations for Yamaha NS5000 There is a difference in sound between Pass’s class A vs AB stuff. The warmer, more liquid sound is Class A where the AB stuff is less so. You should not assume the AB stuff sounds the same. Be careful and talk about specific models. Note that... | |
| Playback Edelweiss in the house @lalitk I have an MPS-X demo on order. It is selling FAST. I have not heard it but folks who have are raving about it. Orders placed today aren’t getting fulfilled till September. regarding software, it is a Roon endpoint only and does not have ... | |
| DAC Shootout Starts This Weekend Those are moderately priced IMO. The onboard streamers are shockingly good. I needed an Antipodes K50 (that equals a K22) to beat the on-board streamer in the Weiss and Bricasti. My hunch is the onboard streamer will beat a U2 Mini and be as goo... | |
| Rank the top reference DACs you've heard I would say that at the level Playback is at, “high fidelity” via detail, accuracy and staging is expected to be excellent and should be. It is these intangibles (musicality, dynamics, etc…) that make you want Playback over its competition of vic... | |
| Playback Edelweiss in the house @kren0006 i heard back from Andreas and the answer is no. For a myriad of reasons he is choosing not. Since nothing is natively produced at that level it would be an extra processing step which would definitely not add a sonic benefit. Andreas i... |