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Who has Luv for the Lyngdorf 2170 and is thinking about the 3400.

Hello All,
I’m coming up on 40 yrs in this hobby,and or obsession of ours,and I started with a pair of Khorns and Macintosh at the age of 12 and Offcourse owned a ton of different gear over the yrs.
I bought a 2170 a little more than 6 months ago and I enjoyed it so much that I quickly realized I don’t really need anything else,solid state,tubes,or even dac’s anymore.I could step off that silly merry go round of amplification and just enjoy music.I was able to utilize the extra money and time and put together a really great sounding network audio system that rivaled the best in analog that I have ever had,I was mainly a analog guy all of these yrs but finally gave it up,I even sold my longtime record collection of 3k records which included many Hot Stampers that I purchased and also several that I found on my own.

So who Luv’s the 2170 and is maybe also thinking about the new 3400.

Happy Listening,
Kenny.

kdude66
kdude66 OP
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radiohead,
No I’m not wrong.I know the manual says only Dsd 128,but I have upsampled to dsd 256 or 512 via Roon and or HQ player and stream via Ethernet in my local network to my Sotm ultra 200 endpoint,which Offcourse is a Usb renderer and then Usb to the Lyngdorf.

Works for me all day everyday,I prefer pcm 32/384 So that’s what I use mostly for everything that I play.

Are you using the USB input.

Glad to read that you like it.

Kenny.
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robelvick
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Hey everyone,

I’m looking to add headphone amp with my Lyngdorf 2170. What are all of you using?

I have a Audioquest Dragonfly Black that I use with my phone, but looking for something to integrate with my whole system. Guessing it needs to be an amp/dac combo to take in coax out from the digital out of the 2170.

Best,
Robert


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uberwaltz
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Robert
You can use the digital out OR the analog single ended out, either work well and you can set the volume level of each for matching to a headphone amp.
I use a Burson headphone amp that has analog inputs and digital coax inputs ( usb too but I do not use that).
I actually found the analog inputs to be better on the Burson.
One nice thing on the 2170 is you can set the type of output, full range, headphone, tape out etc.
kdude66 OP
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I may have figured out why in my system with the 2170 that I can stream dsd 256 or 512 into the Lyngdorf via USB.Even though I know they say the limit is 128.I can do this with either Roons upsample engine or HQ player,and the difference maybe that I don’t install Lyngdorf’s plugin on my computer’s,I have 3 total,but I’m only currently using my latest one.

More experience with trial and error may be needed,As I’ve said before I mainly prefer 32/384 pcm the best even with the handful of Dsd recordings that are 64 or 128 that I own.

Anyway it’s all about the sound and this is a minor thing IMO.

Kenny.
essrand
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Just got an in house demo of 2170 today.

Wow! I am blown away. It has changed my entire notion of my audiophile journey and preconceptions: tubes, a sweet spot, separate components, speaker positioning -- they all seem so unnecessary. 

All that audiophilia bugs itching all the time. All gone. Just get a Lyngdorf and keep listening to the music from (gasp!) any part of your room.

It was too good, beat my 300b system in every single way except the sweet midrange on my favorite Mingus tune (goodbye pork pie hat).

Think I will be selling my tubey-stuff and placing an order for a 3400 soon.
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