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| DAC Shootout Starts This Weekend Bozzio Levin Stevens - some excellent musicianship. Love this disk. My 2 $1500 DACs, Benchmark DAC3B and Gustard X26 Pro, did manage to produce the bass line clearly. | |
| **The Official/UnOfficial Audiogon Head-Fi System Thread** @freediver if you are in the Los Angeles area, CanJam on 3rd week of Sept will have a booth for demoing the new and old RAAL's along with their 3 headphone amps. | |
| Audience Clairaudient 1+1 I tried to make then work in my office however, I never could because I did not have enough space. I kept the KEF LS50s and sold the 1+1. I think in a bigger room these speaker would have shone for me. | |
| Stock Voyager GaN amp (350/600) Contrasted with my EVS1200 (600/1200) The Voyager is slightly warm on top, Not so much that it hides some details. It is actually very detailed. | |
| **The Official/UnOfficial Audiogon Head-Fi System Thread** RAAL SR1a + KRELL K-300i integrated + Benchmark DAC3B + Sonore OpticalRendu. The KRELL also has a built-in streamer and DAC that I use occasionally. | |
| So I just bought a Hegel H390 and I have the original KEF LS50's hooked up to a lot of good amps. Currently I have the Benchmark AHB2 monos on them. I love how the AHB2 pair with the LS50. If I could get a Blade to fit into my room I would but I am using the LS50 + KEF KC62 sub. I... | |
| Thiel Owners A lot of great American made gear these days. Most of my stuff is made in USA. Thiel, KRELL, CODA, Benchmark, Audience wires.BTW - the thread "SELLING IT ALL" indicates that some Thiel gear is available for local pickup in East Texas. | |
| What preamp with your GaN power amp? I use the CODA 07x preamp with the LSA Voyager 350 GAN amp. It works great sonically. Though the 07x has some operational gremlins and design choices that annoy me. The sound is mostly a winner though. A little bit of whisper quiet hiss also bugs... | |
| SIMPLY AMAZING: Coda Technologies 07x Preamplifier The bleed through is likely a common issue on all the 07x's. Mine has it and also another A'goner who was DM'ing me on the CODA 07x has the same issue.I hate the push button volume control that can accidently go into the unwanted state if you inad... | |
| Streamer/DAC+integrated vs All in one? Look at the KRELL K-300i. It is amazingly convenient all in one which sounds great, and can incorporated HDMI inputs and HDMI output to a excellent TV picture. I both he internal DAC and also an external DAC.Stereophile compares it to the $15K Bou... | |
| Peachtree Nova 300: good reviews. Any members own Peachtree? YEA or NAY? I owned the NOVA 150 for about 2-3 years and was my main gear. Just before I sold it I did some testing with other preamps connected to the amp section of the NOVA. I realized that the amp section of the NOVA was not bad. The preamp section was no... | |
| Magico A3 price increases 50%+ At $15K the Yamaha NS5000 and the TAD ME-1 were greatly preferred by me over the Magico A3. The Vivid Kaya 45 at $18K was also preferred by me. I was demoing all of the speakers before COVID. | |
| Class A Power in A/B amplifiers? My Krell K-300i has Class A for the first 90 of 150 at 8 Ohm.My CODA #8 Version 1 is the first 18 | |
| Recommendation for Dac for streamer If your streamer has USB output then the Luxman CD player will work. That disk player seems pretty good, especially of you plan on still playing disks (like me).Before you spend too much $$ on a DAC try out the Gustard X26 Pro for $1500 with 30 - ... | |
| Thiel Owners @jafant Enjoy. I liked the release a lot though I am reading posts by sceptics. I only discovered ATMP this year. I thought that album was only My SWEET LORD. However, I luckily discovered it was exceptional throughout. |