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| Full featured balanced dac/preamp advice Underwood HiFi is now selling Audio GD kit. Their dac/pre has a R2R dac, and at a most reasonable price R28 (2021 version) Balanced preamp with resistor ladder DAC & 9.5wpc headphone amp $1499.00 https://www.underwoodhifi.com/products/audio-gd | |
| AGD Audion GaN Class D In The House @ricevs I just came across your reply to me. "The odds that he will deliver on his newest date are very, very low. But, it will happen......some day.....maybe this year. I don’t know why you keep posting about it.. "Well, I always say that it w... | |
| Diagonal Connection With Two Pairs Of Binding Posts Jumpers, what jumpers? Most jumpers are 100% CRAP. Invest in a HQ set of audiophile grade jumpers, then decide | |
| Class D amps that are superior to all or most? Over the decades, I owned numerous class Ds several from W4S, then Emerald Physics 100.2SEs with custom fuses, then Audio Alchemy DPA -1, PS Audio M700s, and for ~ 1.5 years (long before PS Audio introduced the M1200s), I have owned a EVS 1200. At... | |
| Full featured balanced dac/preamp advice I don't recall, but TAS reviewed it back in 2017-18ish | |
| Open Baffle Opinions - I Won't go back to Boxed Speakers Evr Again (maybe....) After reading this post yesterday, I decided to rearrange the placement of my 4 Argent Room Lenses. 2 are now ~ 5ft directly behind the drivers and 2 are closely butted up against the inside of each speaker. I must say, this significantly improved... | |
| Speaker cables under 1k used Wire World has been making excellent cables for decades. As WW improves their cables previous models become available as users move up. Best is series 8, but 6-7 should fit your sonic needs | |
| Favorite cable brand. So far, after owning quite a few over the decades is Wire World, especially series 7 & 8 | |
| Class D amps that are superior to all or most? @ricevs wait, what? Did I read your closing comment to George correctly? Are you back making the EVS 1200s? and you can have a dual mono stereo modified version (remember.....1200 watts into 4 ohm.....drove the Alexx speakers fine) for a little o... | |
| A great balanced R2R ladder DAC: Mhdt Lab Balanced Pagoda Underwood is now selling Audio GD kit; amp, dac, headphone amp, ...Here’s snippet from their R2R dacThe R1 is an R2R full discrete DAC that uses 8 groups fully discrete R-2R DA modules to combine into a real balanced push/pull decoder. it also use... | |
| Floorstanding Speakers on Platforms In the past I have spent a good bit of money attempting to isolate my speakers. But that is only part of the problem- placement can make or break the overall enjoyment as every room is different. My solution was to buy wooden dollys from Harbor Fr... | |
| Which best CD SACD with XLR connections It would be helpful to you if you provided a budget.Many, most sub $2000 sa/cd players are not actually TRUE BALANCED, so you will not notice any difference aside from the fact that XLRs are a vastly superior connection to RCAs. Also your amp/prea... | |
| Open Baffle Opinions - I Won't go back to Boxed Speakers Evr Again (maybe....) FWIWWhile I am aware of wings, my Emerald Physics OB 3.4s are wingless, but image just fine. MAYBE it’s because the 12" driver has a 1" polyester concentric tweeter. Remote passive XOs are some 2ft away from each speaker. I replaced the CRAP OEM j... | |
| Speaker Upgrade Recommendation for Current Analog System - under $10,000 Budget Emerald Physics Open Baffle should be a match made in heaven. I have 3.4s with upgraded passive XOs. The driver is 12" with 1" concentric polyester tweeter. It’s ~ 99dB efficient which should make your 40 wpc amp very happy. If you need more bass,... | |
| Full featured balanced dac/preamp advice I have a Audio Alchemy DDP-1 (dac/pre) + PS 5 outboard power supply. It is really good. Peter M who is/was AA) designed the dac/pre/streamer for Elac. I've not heard it, but Enjoy the Music raved about ithth |