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| Giga Stack vs Integrated amp ($8k-ish) I will eventually replace the Kara F preamp with a second Benchmark HPA4 preamp. I tried it on the setup, and it improves the sound a lot, but the $800 Kara F preamp is good enough for a few more years (a bit of faint praise). I also tried the Sc... | |
| HAVE CABLES EVER TAKEN YOUR SYSTEM FROM SOUNDING JUST OK TO SOUNDING GREAT? Experiences ? No, except speaker cables (Audience FrontRow on both systems). I found some gear are immune to RCA and XLR magic. On my headphone gear the cables made a massive difference. However, there was actual math behind the headphone cables from RAAL-R... | |
| Your first concert was to see who and when? RUSH in Toronto around 1983, Great show. BTW - for you folks that mentioned Led Zeppelin, check out the BECOMING LED ZEPPELIN on Netflix. Zep is my fav band but after seeing that documentary they moved up to another level. | |
| Validation I love my Livingroom system and consider it my end game done system. However, I had a friend who is a musician and audio hardware vendor come over to listen. His hearing ability was written up on 6moons.com and I had also noticed the same genius ... | |
| DAC suggestions? Wait until August for the new Schitt Byggi. It is supposed to be their best ever DAC, and I owned the LIM, MIB, and the latest OG. Still have the MIB and OG. I am going to convert the MIB to the Byggi. These guys sell direct to consumer so a big... | |
| Full Audiophile system for sale in Chicago TMRAudio.com Audiogon.com USAudiomart.com | |
| Does Chat GPT just give you the answer you are hoping for? Just need to watch out for AI Hallucinations (a real thing). | |
| T + A streamers. I need help. Apps could be involved in quality but the most important is to isolate the streamers noise from getting into your DAC. This noise is analog noise not 1 and 0’s that people say is bit perfect and all streamers are the same (not true). ROON is a gr... | |
| New Product - Schiit Byggy DAC Details though some fans of the classic multi-bit sound may find it less warm or euphonic compared to the YGGY LIM DAC. That is great news to me. The ForkBeard implementation of the Byggi is supposed to have a digital volume. Normally, I would frown ... | |
| New Product - Schiit Byggy DAC Details I just tried to get my DeerFab D.BOB to output DSD over PCM to my Yggi+ OG from an OPPO player. All OPPO players work with the D.BOB. However, the Yggi+ does not seem to work. I recently sold my Benchmark DAC3B, and it always worked with the D.BO... | |
| MBL Insolvent I was not being sarcastic. I also see where something is not considered desirable unless the price was higher. Case in point, was the TAD ME-1 that went from $15k to $10k then back to $15k. I lost interest in buying that after that play. | |
| Geer Fab DBOB coax cable problem I use a Benchmark SPDIF from my GeerFab to the DAC. I used to have the Benchmark DAC3B on this chain and it worked all the time. However, I sold the DAC3B and now have the Schitt Yggi+ OG on this setup. I have not had time to try it out yet. I wil... | |
| New Product - Schiit Byggy DAC Details The Yggi+'s cases are rather large, and one reason upgrades are possible. The old Yggi's need to get the Yggi+ form factor to apply the Byggi innards. | |
| What to upgrade from a Kef ls50 meta? I was thinking of getting the Ref 1 when I had the LS50 Meta and the KC62 sub. However, I decided against it since the setup sounded as good as the Ref 1 and maybe played deeper. I did not need the LS50 Meta to play louder. | |
| MBL Insolvent They should have raised their prices to attract the clientele that they are after. |