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Ayon S5 VS Aurender W20
The Lumin S1 is not quite as warm as the less expensive A1 if your taste goes towards more warmth, the Lumin is amazing.It also depends on how you were demoing the Lumin NAS or direct connection, the Lumin sounds amazing over a network connection ... 
Professional Audio Calibrator recommendation plz
I do this for a Living and this is a very difficult room to work with based on its structure, is the idea that you want to turn the room into a real theater? Or is music listening as important?A true home theater is about absorbing reflections and... 
Heard of Soltanus Acoustics ESL Virtuoso ?
He is the distributor so it this surprising. 
Walker Talisman for cd's
an excellent device and it really works, lowers noise floor, make the midrange fatter and opens up the sound stage.I used to use it a lot but now use a Lumin Music server and it sounds even better than the CD playback 
YG Acoustics Hailey 1.2
I would find a pair of Polymer Audio MKS to listen to as they are exactly the same price as the YG speakers, even if I had to fly to find a pair. If I was going to spend that much on a pair of loudspeakers, I would absolutely want to listen to thi... 
Integrated advice
I have a better idea, the Nuprime IDA 16 which is a massive 200 watt integrated with very nigh headroom.The Ice amps do not have the midrange liquidity of the Nuforce and the Nuprime product is Nuforce's re-emergence back into the high end market.... 
Can the Hegel H300 outperform the Ayre AX-5?
The Hegel is very good but not any more of a giant killer than a number of other really good integratedPersonally I would take a Devialet 120 to either of these. The Devialet is way more advanced in terms of technology and sounds amazing. Or if I ... 
DSD and Femto Clocks The New Standard?
I would say the answer is a resounding no!There is a new dac out of Italy that doesn't do DSD or use a Femto clock and it is getting absolute raves by everyone who has heard it.I read about the company on Six Moons and then in a review by Jon Dark...