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| Matrix Mini -i 3 Streamer/Dac is now Roon ready!! The new Ethernet ROON READY works great. As does the AirPlay2. You get the visual display showing the artist info with both of these approaches. I also tried Wifi and it was good when it was connected. However, after a few hours the sound would ge... | |
| A stupid question for which there's no sensible answer. The room. A smaller room is likely harder to get right than a big room. I have big speakers in a small room and it sounds perfect, but there is a bit of acoustic treatment and DSP magic behind that. A million dollar system or a $1000 system likely... | |
| New Amp/Pre Amp for Paradigm Persona 9h Speakers @mi4 I have demoed the 3F | 5F | 9H and do not own any of them. If I had bought any of those speakers I would pair it with the CODA #8 amp or CSiB integrated. I would get version 1 of either, which is 150 watts @ 8 and the first 18 watts in Class ... | |
| DAC Choices - $5,000 to $7,000 @mitch2 I was planning on buying the AudioByte VOX | ZAP | HUB for $6K but my new Krell integrated has a built-in DAC (no choice for me). So I am not going to get the AudioByte in the near term. You should check it out. I was also considering the ... | |
| Upgrading from Thiel 2.7 to Sonus Faber or Focal??? Magico A3 needs good SS power. I tried with 100 watt AHB2 and it was pretty bad. Today, I am actually using 2 AHB2's for a speaker even more demanding than the A3. The A3 did sound great with the Mark Levinson 585 integrated and the $20K each ML s... | |
| What are you streaming tonight? Grace Jones - Hurricane | |
| Some DACs I am Considering-Any thoughts? @phill55 I have the same AMT3SE as you on order. Can you tell me long it took for the unit to fully break-in? | |
| Speaker cable length I just swapped out my Benchmark speaker cable with SpeakOn termination for some Audience FrontRow also with SpeakON terminations (you can get any termination). I only need 1 meter lengths because I have monoblocks right beside each speaker. I use ... | |
| Upgrading from Thiel 2.7 to Sonus Faber or Focal??? Definitely not Focals if you want warm, though they are warmER than Thiels. I think the 2.7 has the same COAX as the 3.7. If so, the Focal is definitely not as warm as the Thiel. Might be worth getting REW, a UMIK-1 calibrated USB microphone, and... | |
| Upgrading from Thiel 2.7 to Sonus Faber or Focal??? For my smallish room, I demoed the Magico A3 and was also considering the Kanata 2 because of the ease of placement (never demoed it). However, I went with a used Thiel CS3.7 (that I completely rebuilt), I think it is still a great choice and defi... | |
| No preamp? I added a preamp and it was much better than DAC direct. The DAC was the Benchmark DAC3 HGC to AHB2 amp and later a Parasound A23 amp.I then switched to the BM HPA4 preamp to the DAC3B to 2 AHB2's. It was much better. Especially at low volume. I t... | |
| Killer used integrated for Go up to $900 and get a used Peachtree Nova 150. I owned it and sold it after a few years. It served me quite well. | |
| Speaker cables I just got some 1 meter Audience FrontRow speaker cables and they sound great with my Thiel CS3.7's and all Benchmark stack. I love the Audience cables because nothing stands out. I feel like you are hearing everything that is there in the record... | |
| Which Component Has the Greatest Affect on Low-Level Listening My Benchmark HPA4 preamp had the biggest positive on low level listening. It has a volume control with 256 settings and it is quieter than any other source component you will use with it. Once of the reasons I got it was for late night low volume ... | |
| Recommended speaker pairing for ML 585.5. The Magico A3 was very good with the ML 585. |