Best bang for the buck

Had the chance to fire up my K&K Trio Phono Preamplifier recently, after years of sleep.It sounds wonderful, full stop. It was driving a Rega P/10, Ortofon Cadenza Black, in a system I’m intimately familiar and helped assemble and setup. Pretty cool.

The K&K being a sleeper if you can find one.

I just tried out my new Schiit Vestri using Amarra on my iPhone and driving a pair of Sennheiser HD650’s.

Holy crap, this is the best bang for buck ever. Superior to my Audioquest Dragonfly and actually competitive with my Woo WA6 driven by my Yggdrasil. I am impressed. $99

Other than buying lots of gear used, my WiiM Ultra is fantastic for the price. 

Bryston 3B purchased used in 1984 for $500. Still going strong. 

When the Bryston SP1.7 l was using as a 2 channel preamp bit the dust recently l bought an interim unit so I could keep listening. Fosi P4 with 3 rca inputs and remote for $100 is quite good and l’m not convinced l need to spend more on something else.  

I run a set of Linkwitz Orions, which being multi-amplified, call for 8 channels at 60 wpc.  I paid all of $500 for a 12 channel B&K MOSFET amp back in 2008.  Still running it today.  Sounds great.