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| Looking for a McIntosh amp that gives a great example of the “McIntosh Sound” I recommend the Mc152 which I’ve owned for about 8 years. It definitely has the McIntosh house sound: smooth, good sound stage depth and width, nice imaging, a touch of warmth and always listenable even with a mediocre recording. It sounds very mu... | |
| Topping Pre90 Switching op amps? Thanks for the update. I found myself consistently preferring the way more expensive Hegel p20 and p30 so the pre90 will eventually go up for sale. | |
| Amazon music vs Qobuz @Robshaw I used this method until about a year and a half ago. I did find adding a separate dedicated streamer fed by ethernet via a switch and optical cable lowered the noise noticeably in my set up. I stream Qobuz via Mconnect, but have not fou... | |
| Amazon music vs Qobuz @Robshaw You said "I use a windows based computer to stream through my Meitner DAC hard wired via Ethernet cable." Can you explain in more detail? I assume the ethernet cable goes from your router to your dac which contains a streamer. Can... | |
| LTA microZOTL or Backert Labs Rhumba Extreme 1.3? You can do the two week trial with the Microzotl. I did and found it was not a good match with my power amp. | |
| Preamp with selectable outputs? I would call a pro audio store like Sweetwater and ask if they have a remote controlled out put switcher. | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @americanspirit I have a P30 which I use with a McIntosh MC402. It's very nice, especially with natural timbre. I hear the P30A won't be in the US until November or December. How does the M8sPre sound with the Mac? | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @americanspirit If you're still looking for a preamp, you might want to try a Hegel P20. I use it with the 005 and the McIntosh MC152. I found it was better than the McIntosh C47, more dynamic, detailed, and timbrely accurate. | |
| Schiit v Topping The Pre90 is beautifly transparent, but in my system rendered a portion of my music collection thin, harsh, and fatiguing. I will try a tube buffer, but that might reduce the transparency. We'll see. I am interested in enjoying my music collectio... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @sns " . . . Both [analytical and romantic approachess] made certain recordings intolerable, you know you've hit the mark when pleasurable listening sessions don't require a culling of recordings based on sound quality." Yes. This is my goa... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @sns I agree it's possible. I just need more information to understand the details of how they achieved it. One question would be: how does does it handle mediocre, harsh, or thin recordings? Would the result still be musical or fatiguing? | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @yyzsantabarbara The Serene review seems impossibly contradictory. More transparent than the Benchmark, but yet more engaging and musical. I would need a lot more information in order to understand what exactly their reporting. | |
| Topping Pre90 Switching op amps? @rrboogie I look forward to hear your impressions of the Yaquin with the Pre90. I did notice that the s/n ratio is listed at greater than 75db for the Yaquin. It seems it may be too noisy for the super quiet Pre90. | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @melm Nice hypothetical. Were you a philosophy major? I was. | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @batvac2 You said: "These [quantitative] characteristics - to me - provide a broad sense of the fitness of the engineering and industrial design." I think what you are saying, if I can restate, is your method of evaluating the quality of a piece... |