benzman
Responses from benzman
| DMS 600 Owner review Crazy as last night I was watching a movie on HBO thru the Cary’s optical. For 2 channel you would swear you where listening to a surround system. Rock sold center image, fantastic bass and front channels with enveloping sound. | |
| Network Switches Local Hi Rez rips and downloads played from a SD card sound 7.5% better than Hi-Rez and MQA from Qobuz and Tidal on my Cary DMS 600Regan coming . Will see if it can close the gap | |
| Upgrade from Paradigm Prestige to Persona Forget the center channel. Run phantom with 5fs and you will be glad. Great center image. People come over all the time and say where is the center channel? Plus it gets a speaker out of the way. Try it | |
| Paradigm Persona the right source matters! I had Audience Au 24Sx on my 5f’s prior and switched to Cerious Technologies Matrix line. CT Matrix jumpers,but was told not a lot of improvement from bi-wiring. Please don’t tell me there is...... | |
| Audio Kinesis Swarm Subwoofer Awarded 2019 Golden Ear Award by Robert E. Greene I sent my deposit into Duke last weekThis system is going to absolutely kick ass in a Golden ratio room with an Iso wall system ! ! | |
| Looking at Anthem preamp. Do I need it? Also the Innuos Zenith (Zen?) and or Lumin T2? Try a Str preamp and a used Aurender N100h The Aurender will give you the ability to store local files and is a rock solid streamer. If you want no storage a N100 can be had fo 1300-1400. Just use the dac in the Str. Room correction a big plus in... | |
| Streamer Recommendation The W20 is still available. The W20 SE is an upgraded version. Pretty sure you can upgrade the from the 20 to the Se | |
| Looking at Anthem preamp. Do I need it? Also the Innuos Zenith (Zen?) and or Lumin T2? Stay away from a Lumin T2. Not a good match for the Personas. Trust me I have 5f’s and a T2 and could wait to get rid of it. Good player but not for the Personas. Look for something that uses a AKM chipset. Much warmer and a much better match for ... | |
| Should I need a pre amp for one source? SYS looks good but no remote. The Ldr passives look great but again climbing back up in price. anything around 500-700 with a remote? | |
| Should I need a pre amp for one source? Yes it drives my Kismet Monoblocks nicely. I just like to leave the digital sources at 100 and let the pre take care of volume while increasing the voltage.Funny my goal all along was to get rid of a pre in the chain. I had a Gold Note DS-10 which... | |
| DMS 600 Owner review Yes no denying the Personas have a bump in the upper registers but can all be taken care of with careful system matching. So if a speaker measures flat it automatically sounds good?‘Please let’s not turn this into a Persona thread. There are plent... | |
| DMS 600 Owner review That is all BS. When I first got the Personas I had Audience Au 24sx cabling. Damn near world class but not a good match for the Personas. Switched to Cerious Cabling and still all the good with the Personas but got rid of the etch. Tried the Lu... | |
| DMS 600 Owner review Room is 16x14 with the system on the long wall. That will change as I am breaking ground on a 29x18 listening room Persona 5f’s replaced Magico S3. Odyssey Kismet Monoblocks , Cerious Technologies Graphene Matrix cabling. The Cary has been in ... | |
| DMS 600 Owner review The Cary is just settling in. My room is my limiting factor which is about to change. Its really unbelievable what this machine does. As far as connectivity and decoding all formats and resolutions.Specs say 23.5 lbs but the 600 with the upgraded ... | |
| DMS 600 Owner review Just replaced my Aurender A10 with the DMS 600not sure why this player does not get more chatter. The full list price is 6999 but with tier pricing and their sales you can purchase for much,much lessMy whole goal was to be able to get rid of my pr... |