stuartk
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| Suggest Transports that can be Demo'd at home Mooglie: thanks for providing your sonic impressions of the Atoll. They are apparently available from a store in San Francisco by special order but even if they were in stock, I happen to know that particular store will not allow an in-home demo.... | |
| Suggest Transports that can be Demo'd at home Mooglie67-- many thanks for your helpful/informative response !Your list of considerations/priorities is very much in synch with mine. Can you give me any idea how the Atoll has affected your system, sound-wise ? I'm very pleased with my Aqua DAC ... | |
| Suggest Transports that can be Demo'd at home Thanks, twoleftears-- I've read a review of the NuPrime but wasn't aware of the Primare. Will check it out. | |
| Suggest Transports that can be Demo'd at home Yes-- I'm aware of the Cambridge and it may sound strange for someone with a 25K system to worry about a product being too inexpensive, but I do worry about that. Any opinions on using readily available/easily demo'd CDP's as transports, such as R... | |
| Please suggest bookshelf with best bass response under $4000 pr. Late follow up. . . I bought an Aqua La Voce DAC, coupled with Empirical Audio Synchro-Mesh re-clocker and coax cable, which made me realize there's nothing wrong with my speakers! The system, as it was configured before, simply wasn't doing just... | |
| Still looking for a DAC I can demo at home. . . To wrap up, I ended up buying Aqua La Voce. Together with Empirical Audio's coax cable and Synchro-mesh re-clocker, this has brought major improvement to my system-- a very worthwhile upgrade. It's very possible the Empirical gear would've correct... | |
| DACs and bass response? PS: I can report that the "dark" tonality I noticed in the system was solely due to the cheap Best Buy cable linking transport and re-clocker. As soon as I replaced it with a Blue Jeans coax, a veil lifted and the music immediately became noticeab... | |
| DACs and bass response? Shadorne: Thanks! This was my first standalone DAC, so I had no previous experience to rely upon-- only what I read online or heard for myself. I frankly didn't know what such a component might contribute to my system.There are certainly more DACs... | |
| DACs and bass response? Final post: My desire for better bass has been more than amply satisfied.The Aqua La Voce, it turns out, has a prodigious bass capacity! In fact, I’m frequently astonished by the bass my monitors are delivering, now. In my system, there were two f... | |
| Best affordable digital coax cable for connecting transport to re-clocker? OK. Message received loud and clear! Thanks. | |
| DACs and bass response? @goofyfoot: I think we can all agree that what's important is that each listener discover what approach is most rewarding for him/her. @gdhal: Thanks for the Joni link. I only got to see her once, in Santa Barbara. That show, with Jaco, Michael Br... | |
| DACs and bass response? @gdhl: With all due respect, the difference I heard in the bass presentation as a result of changing digital cables was not "infinitesimal". I was about to give up on La Voce and continue my search. Swapping out the cable changed my mind. I bought... | |
| DACs and bass response? @charles1dad: I tried swapping out the digital cable, then the power cable. At first, I thought they were both contributing to the improved bass. After posting the above message, I listened further and and determined that the replacement power cor... | |
| Still looking for a DAC I can demo at home. . . @soix: Hex is apparently no longer being made, so it would be useful to check to see to what extent it shares architecture with Adagio. Message me and I'll give you the e-mail for Metrum sales manager Anjo DeHeus-- he should know. | |
| Still looking for a DAC I can demo at home. . . @soix: Metrum dealer Mike Powell at Verastarr (great guy) suggested jitter from my transport ( modded Jolida JD100 cdp) might be to blamebut if that's so, why does the La Voce sound so great paired with the Jolida? I should point out that my resp... |