wasquatch
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| Best used or new DAC under $3500 I was like you and sick of Sabre DACs. Give the Metrum DACs a shot. I've owned probably 20 DACs in the last 3 years and the Metrum Pavane and Metrum Onyx (what I have now) are by far my favorite. Musical and resolving with loads of tonal textures.... | |
| Class D is just Dandy! I haven't seen much discussion of the NAD M22 outside of general discussion of the Hypex nCore modules, but I've had this amp for the better part of a year. It replaced an Ayre V-5xe which put out too much heat for the hot southern summers I have ... | |
| Preamps: Ayre K-5xeMP vs Pass Labs XP-10 vs Arcam C49 Thanks everyone for your feedback. I did indeed just end up nabbing another K-5xeMP off the listings here and have been happily listening to it for the past several days. I decided to not roll the dice with a preamp I had not heard in my system an... | |
| Preamps: Ayre K-5xeMP vs Pass Labs XP-10 vs Arcam C49 @nitewulf That's actually what I'm leaning towards now. I wanted to try something different just for kicks, but the Ayre was so good that I can't quite get its sound out of my head. I'm temporarily using a Parasound P5 and it's a radical differenc... | |
| Preamps: Ayre K-5xeMP vs Pass Labs XP-10 vs Arcam C49 @don_c55 Well now that's an interesting development... thanks for sharing! | |
| Preamps: Ayre K-5xeMP vs Pass Labs XP-10 vs Arcam C49 Thanks, really appreciate your feedback! | |
| Preamps: Ayre K-5xeMP vs Pass Labs XP-10 vs Arcam C49 @erik_squires By "technically" I mean in terms of soundstage and detail retrieval. Sorry, I should have explained that better. | |
| Preamps: Ayre K-5xeMP vs Pass Labs XP-10 vs Arcam C49 @erik_squires Which Arcam integrated did you listen to? Did you find them technically close to Ayre components, or was the general warmish tonality the only similarity? Yeah I don't think I've actually meet someone who's heard any Arcam preamp,... |