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| Benchmark LA4 Preamp? It looks like I blabbered a lot on this thread. So here is one more:I have some incredible sound in my office now. It is a small room with a big Thiel CS3.7 speaker. The system is composed of the following:1) Benchmark DAC3B (connected to XLR1 on ... | |
| Mola Mola Tambaqui or Denafrips Terminator Plus? @robert1976 The Tambaqui algorithm or design was conceived by Bruno in 2006 (approx). I read an interview he gave on ASR web site on this. The Tambaqui was given a good rating on that site and he participated in the discussion to promote it. The D... | |
| Mola Mola Tambaqui or Denafrips Terminator Plus? It is @robert1976 that has the Momentum Integrated. I do not have it but I was in the same room as Dan A when he demoed the Momentum line a few years back. Sounded pretty good but I do not like the looks of the line.I have the CODA CSiB and it is ... | |
| Mola Mola Tambaqui or Denafrips Terminator Plus? I was considering both of those DACs but I decided on the Romanian AudioByte VOX | ZAP | HUB because I think the tech on that is incredible. The HUB is not available yet but expected to be shipping in March. This is an FPGA based DAC.The AudioByte... | |
| Matrix Mini -i 3 Streamer/Dac is now Roon ready!! My view on streaming is that the best way to do that is with Fibre Optic cable (not referring to Toslink). The improvement with Fibre over the microRendu to usb was massive. On my best setup, I have 2 DACs and both use a Sonore OpticalRendu with a... | |
| 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... |