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| Pontus vs Gustard? I would not get the Gustard X26 Pro if you need to drive it Direct to amp. It has some bug that causes it to generate louder hiss after many hours. Going into a preamp does not have this issue.Going direct to amp is using more circuity than into a... | |
| Best or Most Interesting Speakers I wanted to update this thread because I am trying something old again and now it sounds very good.In the past I was saying the Benchmark AHB2 was too harsh with the RAAL SR1a. At that time I tried both the Audience Conductor SE and also Benchmark... | |
| Room size. My room is only 11x10 x 9 and I have Thiel CS3.7's in there. For over a decade I was hearing that you need a large room for these speakers so I held off from buying them. However, recently I put in room treatments and then Convolution file based D... | |
| Pontus vs Gustard? Hey I thought you already bought the Gustard I was going to ask how you liked it? Note that the Gustard is another DAC that is crap DAC direct to amp. I noticed that after several hours of playback DAC direct to amp the hiss would increase. I had ... | |
| If I bought Parasound JC 5 +, what preamp to go with it? If you use the LA4 you will hear the JC5, not so much the LA4. I have the HPA4 which is the same as the LA4. | |
| Top Ten Tuners of all Time?? @wturkey My XDRGuy modded Sony XDR-F1HD is great for the price. It is not as good as my Magnum Dynalab MD 102 but comes close at 1/5th the cost. The Sony is better at reception of weaker signals. | |
| Nad M33 vs Hegel H390... old question with a bit of a twist (ethernet and headphones) @atanarjuat99 Congrats on the Hegel. I was asking the same question at Head-fi.com then realized I do not want to connect the headphone amp to the integrated because of the volume control in both. This is what I would do in your situation. Buy a ... | |
| Nad M33 vs Hegel H390... old question with a bit of a twist (ethernet and headphones) @atanarjuat99 I have the same issue with my wired integrated amp which is the amazing sounding KRELL K-300i. It is wired streamed using CAT5. I am thinking of getting the ETHERegen to help out with the wired streaming or maybe just sell the unit s... | |
| What do we hear when we change the direction of a wire? I spoke with the tech at Audience LLC about the directionality of their speaker wires. I was getting my Conductor SE speaker wire chopped up and re-terminated. He said that their cables do settle in 1 direction of signal flow. If you reverse the ... | |
| Best Bang for your Buck DAC ? Gustard X26 Pro | |
| SIMPLY AMAZING: Coda Technologies 07x Preamplifier Last Night I had the following (with the bleed on Balanced 2):Balanced 1: Gustard X26 Pro DAC Balanced 2: Magnum Dynalab MD102 Tuner Disk:Aux: Today, I now have the following setup:Balanced 1: Gustard X26 Pro DACBalanced 2: AudioMirror Tub... | |
| Are Preamplifier’s Relevant Today or just a Hinderance with Digital Playback ? @oldschool1948 Your Innuos is likely helping out a lot in the streaming quality department. In my case, I do not do anything to improve my streaming pipeline until the Fibre cable then USB to DAC. So for me the difference was huge. So much so that... | |
| SIMPLY AMAZING: Coda Technologies 07x Preamplifier @rlovendale I will test this again tonight with 2 DACs. I know Tuners can bleed with other gear I have used. I will use Balanced 1 and 2 for the 2 DACs I will be testing with. | |
| SIMPLY AMAZING: Coda Technologies 07x Preamplifier @wturkey Thanks. I love the sound of the preamp. I mates well with the D-sonic amp I have. Though I am a disappointed in the spartan feature set. A mute button on the unit is needed. Along with a trigger and a standby.The bleed is not a big deal. | |
| Are Preamplifier’s Relevant Today or just a Hinderance with Digital Playback ? @oldschool1948 Try incorporating Fibre Optical cable to your streaming. It will make a world of difference. I use the Sonore Optical Rendu’s. Analog noise cannot travel inside Fibre Optical cable. A great equalizer in my opinion to cheaply getting... |