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| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @kishan What gear are you going to use with the next DAC you buy? I had some interesting gear combos with the 005. I tended to like it best with some gear that was a bit on the warm side of neutral. These included the following: CODA 07x pream... | |
| Is R.E.M. underrated by new music nerds? Well now for a contrarian opinion. Last night, I had an 80s'-90's ROON radio stream kicked off by "NIGHT TIME" by Killing Joke. REM came up on this stream and I was just thinking how good they were and that I need to go back and listen again to so... | |
| Made in USA A lot of my gear is Made in USA. Benchmark DAB3B | LA4 preamp | AHB2 monos CODA #16 amp RAAL VM-1a | SR1a | CA-1a (RAAL-Requisite is 50% USA) Schitt SYS | Jotunheim R Sonore OpticalRendu’s The rest of my gear is Canadian, Japanese, and Ch... | |
| Inter Connects - What I know and don't know I think the comments on XLR's not affecting the sound is tied to gear that is AES48 compliant. Most consumer audio gear is not. My Benchmark gear is AES48 compliant and XLR's from Benchmark XLR level and up, such as Audience AU24 SE do not make a... | |
| Future DACs with Fibre Optical Peter W from Lumin posted on the AudioShark forum that there will not be an upgrade to the X1 in the foreseeable future. He said they have nothing better than the X1. They will continue to do firmware updates to the unit. I know there are lots o... | |
| Future DACs with Fibre Optical Is the the After Dark cable and Finisar you bought? | |
| Future DACs with Fibre Optical I was going to ask you about that Finisar. I have 1 OpticalRendu with the expensive Sonore power supply and a short cable remaining. I need to get 2 more transceivers. I also need to get a fibre optical cable. Thanks for the feedback on that. I a... | |
| Analyzing DACs If you don't have a preamp, it cannot degrade the sound. Listen to a DAC direct to amp at low volume and then listen to the same DAC via a preamp like the Benchmark LA4. There are some expensive DACs that are similar to the LA4 level of volume,... | |
| recommendation of amps I have the LA4 preamp and I had someone over yesterday to buy a DAC. He loved the LA4 and CODA #16 combo so much that he went home and ordered the LA4. He has a Pass Labs amp (maybe the 250.8). The CODA #8 is $6K new and I also owned it and liste... | |
| Network optimization for serious streamers My error. I was beeching about the EtherRegen getting hot and likely failing. The cause was not the eR. It was ROON + Lumin X1 + eR. I have put back the eR but this time I am using the Lumin app and not using fibre, just Ethernet. This is a basel... | |
| Lumin P1 or Pre / Streamer / DAC separates? @mm1tt77 Your Krell Duo 300XD is amazing. I sold my Duo 175XD with the plan of buying the CODA #16 or the new KRELL KSA i400. I got an offer on the CODA #16 so I went with that. Love the KRELL Duo sound too. I recently bought a Lumin X1 DAC/stre... | |
| Considering A New Streaming DAC (Pick 1 of 4) I was considering the Bricasti M12 but the lack of fibre input and the desire for less streamer boxes made me go with the Lumin instead. It has to be fibre for me. I was going to use the X1 direct-to-amp (CODA #16), but I found out I liked my Benc... | |
| Considering A New Streaming DAC (Pick 1 of 4) I have a Lumin X1 streamer with fibre. I would use the DAC's mentioned in the OPs choices with fibre converted to USB. I find it interesting that GTT (distributor of Mola Mola) used to demo the Tambaqui with an external streamer and not the built-... | |
| Peachtree GaN 1 Beta When Ricevs competes the mods on the GAN1 I will have it up against some really severe competition. CODA #16 | Benchmark LA4 preamp | Audience AU24SX speaker cable | RAAL SR1a earphone | Lumin X1 with streamer built-in OR Musetec 005 DAC with S... | |
| Network optimization for serious streamers My EtherRegen is starting to fail on me now after 2 years. I was using this as an FMC. I think this is the 3rd FMC that has failed on me. So, from now on I am going to use simplicity for streaming. A network switch with SPF into a Sonore OpticaRen... |