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| Next Best Upgrade for Tidal MQA? It seems to me the weak link in your system is the BluSound Node. I would look into a new server/streamer. Innuous Zen or Zenith will be a significant upgrade over the Node. After that you can consider a DAC upgrade but the DAC you have now is ... | |
| Who's using Harbeth with tubes, what speaker model and how many watts per channel? I've heard my 40.1's and now 40.2A's with Primaluna and Cary tube amps and thought they made lovely music, but once I switched to solid state amps (LFD NCSE and now Hegel H590) I am much happier with the sound. The 40 series speakers are hungry f... | |
| Holo Audio May DAC @redwoodaudio I agree with this assessment. I made a similar comparison to the Mytek Brooklyn. The Mytek is a wonderful DAC but the May DAC just sounds more "real" than the Mytek. Difficult to describe but once you hear it you know. Herb Reich... | |
| Holo Audio May DAC @cal3713 They offer a 10 day satisfaction guarantee. Not very long but for me it was immediately evident how great this DAC sounds. Keep in mind that you will pay return shipping to HK if you return it. Probably best to sell it if you're not ha... | |
| Holo Audio May DAC @phastm3 I look forward to hearing your thoughts on how the May DAC compares to the Gryphon. | |
| Holo Audio May DAC Brief follow up: I'm about six weeks into ownership of this DAC and can say with confidence I have zero regrets. I've been doing a lot of streaming from Tidal recently since my CD transport is in the shop. I like streaming while I'm multi-taski... | |
| 2 weeks and the new Hegel H390 is sounding better and better Robert Harley wrote a nice piece about the listening room he built a year or two ago.https://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/building-a-listening-room/Maybe you can glean some useful info from this article. Happy listening! | |
| Harbeth 40.2A - LFD NCSE Mk3 and Hegel H590 Compared @bassdude I have yet to listen to the onboard DAC. I'm sure it is good, but I just bought a new Holo Audio May DAC and am completely in love with it. It's not that I'm afraid to hear the Hegel DAC, I simply don't believe that it will sound as go... | |
| Upgrading to a Hegel H590 I recently bought the H590 to match with my Harbeth 40.2 Anniversary speakers and am extremely happy with this combo. I've heard several amps with these speakers and this is the most satisfying combo to my ears. There are many other great amps o... | |
| The Grateful Dead tune that would still make for a great James Bond Theme Song Good one! | |
| Upgrade my tone arm? I've been using a Tri-Planar with Lyra Kleos for a couple of years now and could not be happier. You might find that upgrading both the tonearm and cartridge to be well suited to each other is a better way to go, but you'll never know until you'v... | |
| Parasound halo JC2 what a joke Parasound makes awesome stuff. I have the JC3+ and have yet to find anything that sounds better.As for the made in Taiwan thing... I spent 20 years in the bicycle industry working for a medium sized bicycle manufacturer. We had our frames manuf... | |
| Lemons are an actual thing in high-end audio I found your post very interesting, as I too have had several "lemons" from a wide variety of manufacturers over the past 25 years. I don't mind naming brand names, but in more than half of the cases the manufacturer made right on the problem is ... | |
| Sport Court as Listening Room? Ultimately my listening room goal for our next house is NOT to make it look like a listening room. I want to have a sofa and some comfy chairs in a space that sounds really good but isn't a "chamber" for listening. I have several friends who are... | |
| Holo Audio May DAC JC, I started my listening using RCA interconnects, but a couple of weeks ago I got a new amp that has balanced inputs so I switched to XLR cables. I think the sound got even better. Just thought I'd share in case you hadn't heard the difference... |