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Gallium Nitride GaN Class D Amplifiers
What SQ characteristics do distinguish from the auditioned Class D Gan amps that cause you to still prefer tubes. I suspect I would agree with you and pick tubes but for my rooms allergy to heat. Have you ever experienced a class AB amp that got... 
Gallium Nitride GaN Class D Amplifiers
@marco1, thank you for specifying the amps. Interestingly, two of those...AGD Productions and Orchard Audio...were two I also auditioned about four years ago. I arrived at the same conclusion as you did. Nevertheless, I believe AGD Productions ... 
Gallium Nitride GaN Class D Amplifiers
Do yourself a favor and just find the right amp.  I went the Class D route and now sorry other than it will probably be my summertime amp. @marco1, you have made this comment in different threads. I respect your opinion, and I made a similar d... 
Quite a few Bricasti M21 DACs for sale cheap
@sksos, I edited my post to correct M21 to M12. Your clarification is duly noted.   If having both LAN and i2S inputs is not standard, and an additional input was added by machining the rear plate and adding an i2S card, then I consider this cus... 
Quite a few Bricasti M21 DACs for sale cheap
I brought my own M12 to the Bricasti factory and had the back panel machined to add the IS2 port hole and then they installed the IS2 board as well. I do use their new M19 transport with the IS2 connection and it sounds superb! @sksos, yours mu... 
Gallium Nitride GaN Class D Amplifiers
@bhvf, in my system, bass was not light from AGD Audion amplifiers. It was deep, resolved and tonally balanced. More truthful might be an accurate description. The "tube" in the AGD amplifiers contains the GAN chip, and was designed to allow ea... 
Quite a few Bricasti M21 DACs for sale cheap
Bricasti can upgrade their DACs to current specs. Current spec would include new display (red dot display is the older version), and current MDX (relatively inexpensive). Having both i2S and LAN inputs is not standard spec (at least it’s not shown... 
Gallium Nitride GaN Class D Amplifiers
@jfrmusic, I have not heard the Atma-Sphere GAN amps. I mentioned having auditioned Atma-Sphere OTL amplifiers; specifically, M-60 mono blocks. I auditioned AGD Audion mono amplifiers. They share common characteristics of naturallness, tonal ric... 
Gallium Nitride GaN Class D Amplifiers
I’ve auditioned the Orchard Audio and AGD Productions GAN amps in my system. To my ears, they did not sound alike, and other than being GAN chip amps were not sonically comparable. The AGD Audion amps were natural, extended, and transparent with ... 
Audio Note DAC Owners- please share your thoughts
I have a partial Audio Note system that has gone through various iterations over the years since 2008. My system is on the Systems Page. In 2020/2021, I did a DAC search in which I had a pretty good selection of DACs in my listening room for exte... 
Tube rolling Audio Note DACs
It’s hard to beat TungSol 6x5GT in Audio Note components, but I understand the quest. There’s an excellent Audio Note thread on Steve Hoffman Forums with a solid cadre of AN owners. Tube rolling is often discussed. You might search that thread fo... 
OCD mickey website and negativity.
Respectfully, Audio Note dealers are happy to explain in granular detail what’s inside the boxes, and explain why what’s inside matters. They are also generally amenable to removing the covers to show prospective buyers the circuitry. Audio Note ... 
Bricasti M1 SE
Try this: Press and hold the Standby button. The resets the remote trigger.  I had a similar issue with a Bricasti M3, and Joe recommended this procedure, which worked perfectly.      
You want a DAC that sounds *different.* What factor helps you find it?
Over the past year or so, I have either owned or had extensive in-home auditions of the following DACs: Audio Mirror Tubadour IV SE Audio Note 3.1x/II Balanced Bricasti M3 Bricasti M1 SE EMM Labs DV2 Holo Audio May KTE Mola Mola Tambaqui R... 
Audio Mirror Preamplifier
I am a past owner of an Audio Mirror Tubadour III SE DAC and Reflection 45 SET amplifiers, so I have intimate familiarity with the house sound of Vlad’s components, which is extended, holographic and pleasantly on the warmer side of neutral withou...