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| Odd DAC Pricing The Mola Mola Tambaqui originates from a design Bruno did about 20 years ago. Bruno mentioned this in an interview on ASR. This design went into the DAC section of the Mola Mola Makua preamp. Customers asked for a standalone version of the DAC mod... | |
| Tube Pre-amp Suggestions. I have a CODA #16 and use the Benchmark HPA4 preamp with it. I also had a CODA #8 at one time, this is similar to the Schitt Wotan amp. I have tried the following preamps with the #16, #8, and the Wotan.In order of preference: - Benchmark LA4 an... | |
| Interim SS Amp - Likely Candidates? The Schitt Tyr are more polite than the Wotan I mentioned. This was from Jason Stoddard the designer. The Tyr are on clearance now and will be replaced by a new more expensive replacement that has some of the Wotan's designs. The new Tyr should be... | |
| Interim SS Amp - Likely Candidates? I have owned the Parsound A21+ and liked it though I thought it was a little thick. A good amp for a bright speaker. My recommendation is the Schitt Wotan at $2k. I consider it as good as a couple of $8k SS amps I owned in the past. The Wotan has... | |
| Flatscreen between speakers A projection screen or no screen if music is the top priority. | |
| Rolling Stones - Hackney Diamonds Fan of Hackney Diamonds and they had a lot of other material from those sessions that are going to be released. | |
| Sonore OpticalRendu I have 3 OpticalRendu’s ROON Only version. I also have the audiophile power supply and cable for Sonore in 1 of the 3 Rendu’s. If I had to do it again, I would not buy the expensive audiophile power supply and cable. I cannot tell a difference, an... | |
| What is a good all around high quality speaker to purchase? @onehorsepony I owned the Thiel CS3.7’s and I think you are being a bit hard on them. They are a very good speaker, though I think the drivers on them are surpassed by Beryllium and the even better Zylon (as detailed but not harsh). This what I t... | |
| Why most $3000 and lower DAC’s sound almost identical I went from a $15k DAC to the $2800 Schitt Yggdrasil+ OG. Sold the $15k DAC immediately and got great speakers with that money. The concept of glare is trickly to address. Sometimes you get a veiled sound that does not have glare and is considere... | |
| Splitting line level out from preamp, versus using 2nd set of outputs A splitter made the sound worse for me. When I needed this same feature (amps), I purchased the CODA 07x preamp which has 2 sets of XLRs. This sounded much better than a splitter. In my case, 1 amp drove speakers and the other amp dove my RAAL SR... | |
| Digital Room Correction vs Room Treatments @captouch Mitch creates a DSP package called a Convolution Filter. He uses some very expensive audio software to do this ($20k). This software is way more powerful than any physical audio gear that is inserted in a processor loop. As I mentioned ... | |
| Benchmark DAC2 HGC as compared to current DACs @johnnotkathi One of the smartest buys I have read on A'Gon. Congrats. | |
| Benchmark DAC2 HGC as compared to current DACs Send me a DM if you want to discuss my streamer. With regards to the 192 issues on the DAC2 I do not remember what I did 10 years ago on this. However, the easiest way to figure this out is send Rory an email. Rory@benchmarkmedia.com Rory ... | |
| Digital Room Correction vs Room Treatments Contact Mitch Barnett or read his book on DSP (Amazon.com). I got his book and found out it was too complicated to do myself, so I paid Mitch the $750 for his remote DSP service. If you have DSP done by him, you should not need other physical tr... | |
| Benchmark DAC2 HGC as compared to current DACs @johnnotkathi The DAC2 sounds the same as the DAC3 as stated by Rory Rail at Benchmark. I have had both and would agree. I recently sold my DAC3B because I had too many DACs. The DAC3 and DAC2 are both a bit hot on top. If you have a warm syste... |