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Hegel H590 integrated amp

What can I say?  This, especially for the money, and it's far from being cheap, is the best integrated amp on the market!!!  Immense power that can drive any inefficient speaker, including my notoriously hard to drive Revel Salon 2 speakers with authority, sublime sound quality, features to die for, superb DAC, built like a tank and is as reliable as heck.  The Hegel H590 is one of the very few, and I mean, very few, end-game integrated amps on the planet today.  And, the beauty of the Hegel H590 is that, it's so darned "OUTSTANDING" that you don't have to spend more or want for more.  The Hegel H590 is, without a doubt, the best value for the money when it comes to the current, ultra high-end integrated amps on the market.         

kennymacc
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jjss49
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@kennymacc 

great choice of gear!  the h590 is an absolutely world class amplifier, takes back seat to none, and the dac is quite good, but can be exceeded by top tier outboard dacs, so imo you are using the h590 exactly as it should be used in a very high level system

and yes, to the other question, the h390 and 590 are not yet roon ready, but coming soon, is the word...

kennyc
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Congrats. Enjoy.

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Congrats, I bought my H590 shortly after Axpona 22 and it is impressive with the power it has. I don't have a hi end dac so use the built in 590 dac with a roon nucleus trouble free. IDK what roon ready means but the h590 is mqa compatable, with every other format and does play well with the nucleus. Mine drives a pair of Blades.

yyzsantabarbara
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ROON has a software communication protocol called RAAT. When a device is said to be ROON READY it means that the device adheres to the most thorough implementation of the RAAT protocol. Thus the ROON READY device and the ROON Core server can work together without restrictions. 

There are lesser ROON integration levels, and as a ROON user I am only interested in ROON READY devices.

 

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