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| Help choosing an power amplifier Depends on the size of your room, how loud you listen and how much power you want/need. Given that B&W is a challenging load with a forward sound profile, a warmer amp that handles lower impedances would be ideal.For lower power I would look ... | |
| It's time to replace my 2009 factory-modded Wadia S7i with a current R2R DAC. My experience with decent CD player vs. decent standalone DAC, server and HD is that they will perform very similarly. What is most important and what will deliver best performance is clock synchronization from server to DAC. If they don't synch... | |
| Nucleus vs Nucleus plus - sonic diff? @jaytor is right. The Nucleus is limited in its application of DSPs to DSD but it absolutely processes DSD just fine. | |
| Better/best fullrange nearfield speakers? Not sure it this is spot on but the Revel Ultima Studio IIs were amazing in near field. That is how I demo'd them at the Harmon Store. | |
| BW 800 D3 Floor Speakers The AVM Ovation MA 8.3s can drive virtually any speaker. Despite the 1100w power rating, they are surprisingly refined and delicate. They would be brilliant with those. | |
| dcs bartok vs DENAFRIPS TERMINATOR-PLUS Good luck! | |
| VTL MB 185 SERIES II In triode you will love them. They are awesome sounding amps. With autobias, I wouldn't hesitate as long as 110w is adequate. | |
| dcs bartok vs DENAFRIPS TERMINATOR-PLUS That amp and those speakers look amazing. Which DAC is best is going to depend on the exact tonal profile of the piegas. Assuming that is a typical ribbon (and is nor terribly bright) my hunch is the Dave and MScaler combo would be the slightly be... | |
| 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... |