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| Preamp or DAC? @kellen I also went with the professional XLR StarQuad from Benchmark because the folks at Benchmark were very confident that these cables, which can carry a signal at 24 dBu+ (no idea what that means) will bring the best out of the system. Consum... | |
| Preamp or DAC? @kellen Congrats I have a feeling you will be very happy. Post your thoughts when you have it setup.BTW - someone asked me a PM question on some things I said on this thread. I am going to post my reply since someone else may find it useful. 1) I ... | |
| Preamp or DAC? BTW - use balanced XLR's for your Benchmark gear. Their StarQuad cables are very good. I also use Audience AU24e XLR's with them. | |
| Preamp or DAC? The HPA4 is something you should consider over the LA4. I was going to get the LA4 because I was not into headphones. However, people were saying that the HPA4 has one of the best headphone amps so I thought I may one day get headphones and be bum... | |
| Benchmark LA4 Preamp? Yes, I have heard similar about various entities. The reason I was interested on the review was not to read about the sound quality. I have demoed them so I already know. I want to learn more about the road map for the NS line of speakers. Sometim... | |
| Benchmark LA4 Preamp? The Benchmark HPA4 (same as the LA4 + headphone amp) is the best audio piece I have ever owned. Just love it. BTW - Does the new Absolute Sound have a review of the Yamaha NS5000? I do not see it online. For my System #2, I am going to be hooking ... | |
| Should Equalizers make a comeback? I have been meaning to post this now for 10 years. Sorry for the delay. Equalizers are actually popular today but they are now done in software vs hardware. I listened to the following talk a few days ago and they brought up equalizers in the disc... | |
| Rush and Quantum Physics https://www.thestar.com/sports.html Geddy is at the baseball game today in Buffalo. | |
| Recommendations for next headphone Last night I had a problem with my work. So I started some work at 9PM and finished at 5AM this morning. All that time I was listening to the Meze Empy with WyWire Platinum XLR. I was streaming the "1976! Songs of the Year" playlist on Tidal. It w... | |
| Recommendations for next headphone I have no clue what my Meze Empyrean driver type is but it sounds amazing with both my Benchmark HPA4 and Bryston BHA-1. I listen for many hours each night and now afternoons too (no 2 channel amp any more). I used to get fatigue and hated headpho... | |
| Best Speakers for a small Nearfield room, budget at most $10000 (used is also ok) Floorstanders (with manageable bass for small room):Focal Kanta 2Vivid Kaya 45Paradigm Persona 3F Monitors:Magico A1 (I liked the A3 but not heard A1 yet)Yamaha NS3000 (have not heard the NS3000 but loved the NS5000)TAD ME1 (have a lot of bass)KEF... | |
| Can anyone recommend a good streamer/DAC? Push your Ethernet and server noise to Fibre Optical cable and lose the noise. Lot more talk about this nowadays. The Lunin X1 is the only DAC that has direct Fibre input on the DAC. I think a lot of networking streaming products become obsolete w... | |
| DAC Measurements vs Actual Experience @frederick21 I have the HPA4 + DAC3B with Meze Empy and I got some incredible headphone sound with them. Better than with my second Bryston BHA-1 headphone amp. I also use all XLR (Benchmarks) and yesterday ordered the Benchmark AHB2 amp to get my... | |
| Paradigm Persona: what do you think? The following reviewer has some interesting observations on how to connect the speaker wire to the Persona’s (see section CONNECTION METHOD). https://www.hifi-advice.com/blog/review/loudspeaker-reviews/loudspeakers-passive-reviews/paradigm-persona... | |
| Headphone amp + DAC + Volume + ROON READY With Foobar2000 are you playing lossless music streams for free? You must be playing your ripped CD's for free.After 4 years of using ROON my lifetime license is essentially free for me now. However, even if I had to pay I would for the following ... |