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Recommend Class a Amp
The JC1 sounds great, super transparent, super powerful, great value. Doesn't have the sweetness of the Pass Labs.Trade offs basically. 
The sound out of jplay 6 is astonishing
Depends on how you set things up, jplaymini is the player. But I use foobar -> 64bit aaio -> jplay. I don't use the streaming features.You can use asio bridge for apps that doesn't support it. I use MPC-BE -> wasapi asio bridge -> jpla... 
Bricasti M1 DAC vs PS Audio Direct Stream DAC
Interesting, Ricred1 what is your source? 
Equitech with digital only?
No idea about Balanced Power Technologies, the main difference seem to be bpt adds additional noise filtering components after the transformer while equitech is a HUGE transformer in a box.I've had very bad experience with noise filtering on the m... 
Equitech with digital only?
Yes, I got an equitech for the digital and another one for the music system.It's a miracle. 
Considering Bricasti and Lampizator
From another forum"I've heard three different Lampis (4, and two Big 5s I believe) via a variety of Schiit or EC amps, and they seem to be all over the place. None of them sounded exactly the same. It irks me that there are so many models, making ... 
Bricasti M1 USB
You can buy the DS < 4K used. Great value. 
Why so many PS Audio DirectStreams for sale?
Nope, the DS is just out and they are still working out bugs. PS Audio got their hands full on the DS. 
Is revealing always good?
I've come to the conclusion the only thing I look for is musical-ness, everything else is irrelevant. 
Why so many PS Audio DirectStreams for sale?
When everyone sells, now is the time to buy. I am selling one for a great price. 
Equitech Model Q vs PS Audio P10
Forgot to say, I was using the ET2R at first, then bought the 3RQ. I probably should sell the ET2R since I no longer use it... 
Equitech Model Q vs PS Audio P10
Not much to say really. With P10 sound is just much better, much less wrongness to it. With the 3RQ, it's more of the good stuff, and even less wrongness.With P10 -> Equitech, it's somewhere in the middle of the scale.My power quality here is e... 
Equitech Model Q vs PS Audio P10
I ended up selling the P10.While the P10 made a big improvement to the sound, the equitech unit made an even bigger improvement. Sadly, the P10 before the equitech degraded the sound so I had to sell it. 
Help with System Musicality
In addition to the above, check your power quality, if it's bad it'll kill the music as well. 
Help with Preamp selection
Canare star quad is really all you need for the xlr and speaker cable, they really clean up the sound.