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| Newbie HiFi Headphone & Amp pairing suggestions A very good headphone amp for $400 or $500 is the Topping A90. I compared it directly to my $3K Benchmark HPA4 and it is pretty close. Neither of those 2 are warm. However a warm DAC like the Audio Mirror Tubadour may be nice with them and give th... | |
| The indisputable benefit of fiber for music I am duplicating my home office fibre setup for someone's office. Everything is the same except 100 feet of fibre and 40 feet of fibre for 2 DACs in 2 different rooms.I was told that short fibre wire is not ideal, less than 10 feet. | |
| Luxman L-590AXII vs Pass Labs INT-60 @kren006 I have not listened to the Krell on my floor standers yet. I was just using them on my RAAL SR1a headphones. However, I am going to be rearranging gear again this week which will give me the opportunity take the Krell out of the rack and ... | |
| Hegel H390 vs Krell Vanguard digital integrates amps I own the Krell K-300i. It is a very smooth sounding unit with a bit of bass thump. I own the CODA CSiB (again) and it is not as smooth sounding as the Krell but an overall superb sounding unit. I would not say 1 is better than the other. It ... | |
| Luxman L-590AXII vs Pass Labs INT-60 The new Krell K-300i is also in the Class of the CODA CSiB. I have both. I like them more then the Luxman 509x (the Class AB amp). | |
| Best or Most Interesting Speakers I think the following DACs that I own all sound better than the internal KRELL DAC- AMT3SE- Benchmark DAC3B- Matrix Audio Mini-i 3 ProThe internal Krell is good and I would always get it just to get the HDMI parts of that DAC. | |
| Embarrassed....Audio furniture help I had the same issue to deal with last week so 2 days ago I bought this unit. I checked out the non-corner unit at a local store and it was nice, very solid and a cool feature to avoid scratches on the top plate. It is 20 inches deep and has air f... | |
| Best or Most Interesting Speakers My final word on the Krell K-300i. It is now 3AM and I have been saying one more album for a few hours now, I think I need to stop listening to the Krell + SR1a + AMT3SE. A phenomenal combo. I am very happy with the choice I made to go with the Kr... | |
| Best or Most Interesting Speakers @arafiq I am not ranking the amps at all. It really depends on the application and my listening preferences. I tend to like detail and clarity in my sound, especially on my Thiel CS3.7, so the Benchmark stack for me is as good as it get in this r... | |
| Best or Most Interesting Speakers After the sound settled down with burn-in I decided to compare 3 DACs that I now have available on the office rack via ROON READY. The AMT3SE and Benchmark DAC3B are connected by fibre optic streaming. The internal DAC on the Krell is connected by... | |
| Best or Most Interesting Speakers I got the Krell K-300i directly from Krell 2 days ago. It was a dealer demo model that needed a repair on the display so it came directly from Krell. I must say I am very impressed by the packaging for this unit. Perfectly done and nice instructio... | |
| Live at Leeds scratchy old original I saw Roger and Pete with some other players in Vegas a few years ago. I really enjoyed that show. I was not expecting to given how old those two were. | |
| Question on Streamer/Dac and Roon I am going to setup a RaspberryPI with a Benchmark DAC3 tomorrow for someone. I never used that streamer but it is supposed to be good and cheap. 3 - A Raspberry Pi Roon endpoint with OS based on ROPIEEE. This is the smaller box that is a Raspberr... | |
| Topping A90 failure issues. Should I try a 3rd A90? I have the A90 and it is a workhorse for me. I have been using it recently to break-in new gear. So that means playing it 24 x 7 for a week (no problems). In this scenario I use iPhone ear plugs to output sound. When it is not doing break-in work ... | |
| Better XLR/RCA adapters I am using Cardas on a SACD player from XLR to RCA. It sounds OK. I am not using it on my best source though. |