vthokie83
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| Has anyone had on of these CD players? How good are they? +++ Audiolab 6000CDT, blows my old standby Onkyo C-7030 away. Running it through a Denafrips Pontus II DAC.....amazingly adept at delivering sonic improvements across the board | |
| Denafrips Pontus II vs Venus II I did not audition a Venus, but I do have a Denafrips stack that I adore (Pontus II DAC, Hades Pre-Amp, and Thallo Amp…..all true balanced with Morrow XLR cables driving a pair of Buchardt Audio S400 Mk II speakers. After all we’re broken in, I am... | |
| When a budget speaker is preferred to a high end one... I think it's also the reason that cheaper speakers are preferred, what is your environment? I had an AMAZING pair of Thiel CS3.6s, that are the best sounding speakers that I've ever heard in person and had a simple system that drove them incredibl... | |
| DAC recommendation in 5 to 10K range jl1ny, Funny how small changes can cause some sweet sound, just a little money and time to find a better solution. If you want to upgrade that USB cable, there are some very good "reasonably" priced cables that will improve your sound even furthe... | |
| Best "Budget" / "bang for my buck" 2-channel amp and speakers can I get new? Don't own one, but test drove the Hegel H190 integrated amplifier, about $4,300.....also has built in streaming capabilites should you ever decide to add that to your mix. I didn't end up buying the Hegel in the end as I went with separates from D... | |
| Reasonable but not outragious interconnects ++ Morrow AudioCables - MA4 XLR cables, and DIG4 digital co-ax....Mike Morrow indicated to me that the Level 4 class cables are the best bang for the buck in his line up, and I am incredibly satisfied. These cables MUST be broken in, I used the 20... | |
| What cable companies make the best cables and sell them directly? For me cables do make an audible difference, but I am a big believer in "Bang for the buck" cables.....nothing I have is more than $300 per cable in my $12,000 system, below are cables I have used with great success and some new ones I'm going to ... | |
| DAC diminishing returns Dsfreeh, I wondered the same when looking for a DAC for my system, and in my research, I had decided to go with an FPGA or R2R Dac instead of a DAC chip based model.....would a $1,000ish DAC like the Denafrips Aries II R2R at $820 be sufficient, ... | |
| DAC diminishing returns To clear up some incorrect information......Denafrips products are sold by an amazing distributor in Vinshine Audio and it's owner Alvin Chee, I've communicated with him many times (as I've bought several Denafrips products), I have never had such... | |
| DAC diminishing returns Test drove a few DACs over the last 3 months (Audiolab M-DAC, Chord Qutest, Denafrips Pontus II - on loan from a friend).....and heard the HoloAudio Spring 3 Level 2 that a friend owns. To my ears the Denafrips and HoloAudio R2R dacs were the best... | |
| Tube Integrated Under 1,500 Bryland, I've owned a Tubes4HiFi VTA ST-120 amplifier for 5 years, and loved every second of it. It ran my Thiel CS2.3 floorstanders for most of it's life, only being moved when I purchased my Thiel CS 3.6 speakers....which I've recently sold as ... | |
| Best Smaller Bookshelf Speakers For Use Exclusively With Ambient Music? Used Buchardt S400 MkI, great speakers with an exciting mid bass.....sounds great at lower levels. I ended up with the new S400 MkIIs, but the MkIs were exciting speakers in their own right | |
| DAC recommendation in 5 to 10K range Elan, I don't have the resources for the Terminator, but I do have a Denafrips Pontus II DAC. When I intially hooked it up to my old system using unbalanced Coax (no need to get into that), I too found the impact (attack) to be too laid back, sou... | |
| Best streamer for a returning audio guy Twodogs, I too am on the Bluesound Node bandwagon, but get the newest version 3 model (back to just being called Node). As was mentioned previously, it is quite an upgrade from the Node 2i: faster processor (1.8GHz vs 1 GHz), better on board DAC ... | |
| Need Help Matching to This System To Speakers Here's a short update. Yesterday I visited a local dealer that carries a few of the speakers that I wanted to listen that are on my list (and some that weren't), and updated a few things. Please note I am not great with flowery expressions, or tec... |