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| Luxman 590axii with KEF Reference 1 You may want to consider the KRELL K-300i integrated that I am using to drive KEF LS50's. It is very smooth (tube like) and very powerful. It will rock those KEF 1's. This KRELL has amazing bass on both my LS50's and Thiel CS3.7.In the future,... | |
| Hoping for a recommendation for stereo amp around $1500 or less ($2k max) @brandini I had a Topping A90 amp for a few months, just passed it off this afternoon. I also have RAAL SR1a headphones (with ribbon) that may have similar characteristics as your RAAL.I was looking at amps in the $1500-$2000 range because my Benc... | |
| Hoping Michael Kiwanuka wins the Grammy tonight @ghasley Michael Kiwanuka is amazing. Glad to see another fan on this site. Since you have an open mind to new music have a listen to Lux Prima by Karen O / Danger Mouse. This came out in 2019 and I still cannot get enough of it. Especially on a ... | |
| Where to locate Equipment? Use long XLR cables from your gear kept on the side to the amp in-between the speakers. If you have well designed gear the XLR quality should not make that much of a difference so you can use cheaper (but very good) XLR, such as pro XLR's. You can... | |
| Hegel H390 vs Krell Vanguard digital integrates amps With regards to Turn On and Off I do get a slight Thud sound and that was indicated on the manual as being expected. However, it is rather low in sound for me. | |
| Hegel H390 vs Krell Vanguard digital integrates amps Preamp OutputLevel Trim – In this menu you can add a volume offset to the preamp output to compensate for gain differences between an external amplifier or subwoofer and the internal amplifier of the K-300i. The adjustment range is +/- 10dB.Outp... | |
| Hegel H390 vs Krell Vanguard digital integrates amps I was just going to say that your OPPO likely has a preamp with volume so you need to set that to fixed and use the volume control on the KRELL. Looks like you solved that. I actually had the same issue this afternoon with a headphone amp and DAC.... | |
| Best Amp With Some Warmth and Midrange Magic To Pair With The RAAL Requsite SR1a's? For the RAAL SR1a I have or had in the house by either buying or demoing (2 weeks or longer) the following gear:- Benchmark AHB2 + DAC3B + HPA4 = awful with SR1a - Benchmark AHB2 x 2 + DAC3B + HPA4 = not so awful but not great (my 2 channel ref... | |
| Streamer wanted I have the Matrix Mini-I-3 Pro and it has very good streaming options. I am about to pack it up today and send to my buddy so he does not annoy me with he crappy music listening options. The unit has Apple AirPlay2, ROON READY, WiFi, Ethernet, Blu... | |
| Do Mono Block amps provide better sound ?? In my case it was a huge improvement. My Thiel CS3.7 require a lot of power. I had a single Benchmark AHB2 in stereo and it provided around 250+ at 2 Ohm. It sounded under-powered. So I got a second AHB2 and switched to mono mode on both AHB2's to... | |
| Anyone interested in nearly perfection on a headphone a a great price?? @larrman Do the LSA HP-1 sound good with a very neutral amp and DAC. I am sending off my Topping A90 and Matrix Mini-i-3 Pro to a friend but do not know what affordable headphones to recommend to him. My Meze Empy sounds great with this gear but i... | |
| Best Amp With Some Warmth and Midrange Magic To Pair With The RAAL Requsite SR1a's? @nightfall What did you end up with? I have spent the last 3 months playing with different amp combos with the SR1a. My previous post about the HSA-1b maybe not correct since I have found some amp combos that are great with the SR1a.. | |
| Benchmark LA4 vs. Anthem STR Preamps I should have added that the secret sauce that makes my ROON setup sound incredible is the fibre streaming. All that noise I have in my network is tamed (maybe all eliminated) by the fibre (at least in the office DACs).Now that is not the case for... | |
| Benchmark LA4 vs. Anthem STR Preamps As an FYI to anyone interested in ROON Core | Convolution | PowerLine Network | ROON READY Zones. My current setup is running a ROON Core with DSP Convolution filters on a cheap but powerful PC. It could have been the ROON appliance that ROONLabs ... | |
| Benchmark LA4 vs. Anthem STR Preamps @mike_in_nc A little background on how I got to my current software setup.I got into the Convolution stuff because I wanted to figure out how to use DSP for my small office with big floorstanders. At first I looked at the hardware based options th... |