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| How many brands use own drivers? > From the manufacturer, in house drivers is a HUGE cost savings, and removes your product from being perceived as a pure commodity.If this would always be the case then almost all brands would do it. Only very small brands would have to wait u... | |
| Best Headphone system under $1000??? You can get more ideas from reddithttps://www.reddit.com/r/headphonesIf you want to try more headphones I recommend Beyer Dynamics. Dt1990 is said to be very good and details. I have the Amiron Home which are a bit softer. They are both probably b... | |
| What are the top 3 dream speakers you wanna buy next regardless of price? Frankly, however, I would not buy any of those. This is all utopia, there are no realistically sounding speakers. There are many problems in the way of achieving it and the first one is signal conversion. We hear electricity imitating reality, s... | |
| What are the top 3 dream speakers you wanna buy next regardless of price? (not ordered)Goldmund ApolougeMagico M6Focal Grand Utopia EM Evo | |
| Decent DAC/Streamer Have you looked att Raspberry Pi based systems?You can add s/pdif ports or dacs.https://youtu.be/2fX7NSaAKYUOr try some new integrated solution like this.https://www.miveraaudio.com/forum/puremusic-jr/puremusic-jr | |
| Who makes great active preamps ? Tube or solid state or hybrid. Naim and Mark Levinson usually gets Good reviews. I heard a Constellation amp that sounded fantastic. | |
| Thinking to upgrade speakers Hi fellow Stockholmer!I'm sorry but I can't help you choose from those models. Did you go to High-end Mässan?They played the Revel Perfoma and it sounded great. I also liked the Kii Three with bass towers, should be about the same price. And the A... | |
| What area or country do you live in ? Stockholm, Sweden | |
| Full Range under $5k-ish You can add Audio Solutions speakers to your list. I heard a model I think was the Figaro L at a show and it sounded great. I know it was around $5k in price and a floorstander.http://www.audiosolutions.lt/ | |
| Another help me spend money thread or maybe not.... going to AXPONA I just heard some of these att an audio show. The Magico and Focal were fantastic. Some large MBL 101 were equally good and probably closer to the Maggie sound.Other ones I liked were Vimberg, Kii Three with bass towers, Aequo Stilla, Paradigm Per... | |
| New speakers? No thanks. If you're happy with your speakers then you don't have to change anything. Enjoy the music.I haven't heard any Vandersteens, they are uncommon in Europe. I just heard a pair of MBLs and they were fantastiskt! Totally different Price though. They P... | |
| Question About DACs Measurements are 100% accurate in predicting sound quality in DACs if you listen to them blind. @mzkmxcv I think you will have a problem proving that. There are many people hearing differences between dacs, even when listening blind. I have h... | |
| Question About DACs I couldn't see what the rest of your system is. I would not trust measurements very much for dacs, there are very good sounding dacs that don't measure that well and dacs with good measurements that don't seem to sound that well.Try to find a dac ... | |
| Need DAC/Streaming Advice @ghulamr you probably want to re-clock as close to the dac as possible, not near the source if you go through another device. puppyt, re-clocking is when a device takes in a digital signal and then sends it out (or to some internal part) but chang... | |
| Gryphon Diablo 300 Integrated or Dartzeel LHC-208 Integrated with PMC Fact 12 Speakers I have not heard those. I agree with those who suggests the Gryphon based on its higher output that should med your speakers.One other relevant brand I have heard that was good is Devialet. |