skoczylas
Responses from skoczylas
| Former Tekton owners: What have you moved on to? I moved from lore s to tannoy. Very happy with tannoy. | |
| Hegel Mohican vs. Bryston BCD-3 Good question I am interested as well. I have only heard the Hegel once at a store and it was great in particular with the balanced outs. I would suggest to read carefully the warranty information as CD players can break. My impression is that Bry... | |
| Magnepan 1.7i vs. 3.6 Consider if you will add a sub or not as that might influence your selection. The Hegel Maggie is a great match. | |
| Streaming Services - do they do everything? I live in a country where tidal is not available and have been using Deezer premium. I’m pretty sure it does everything you mention and the interface and selection is excellent - I listen to a very wide range of music from jazz to classical, opera... | |
| Integrated amp match for Zu Soul Superfly You might consider you speakers first. Are you committed to them? They are great speakers but tend to match with a particular type of amp - usually a set or vintage I think. If you want something with a remote, Dac and phono perhaps there are som... | |
| Integrated amp match for Zu Soul Superfly Good idea on the vintage. I wonder if a Croft would work well for Zu. It’s a very neutral sounding amp. | |
| What's the Best Bluetooth Streaming Receiver w Dac under $500? I would go with a cheap Yamaha. The key is to get one of their stereo receivers not the home theater one. They manage to get the nice yammy sound even in their low cost units. Plus they look really nice. Crutchfield has some Bluetooth stereo rece... | |
| What's the Best Bluetooth Streaming Receiver w Dac under $500? Rereading your email I guess you are looking for a streamer with an amp - the node isn’t an amp so you would need an amp or to run it with powered speakers or the bluesound speakers. | |
| What's the Best Bluetooth Streaming Receiver w Dac under $500? The bluesound node 2 has excellent sound and includes Bluetooth streaming. I found you need to spend a lot more to beat the sound of this streamer and dac. I removed my other dacs from the system because it sounded great on its own. It’s 500 dolla... | |
| No frills balanced ss integrated amp? I’m not sure you will top the Hegel 200 in this price range for solid state. You will find slightly different flavors with the ones mentioned. The only thing I could think of that would be a different sound would be something like a first watt but... | |
| Looking for a good DAC under $500 I agree with wtf - at the 500 range it won’t be clearly better than the node dac. Might want to save for a higher range dac later on and just enjoy the node. | |
| Step down transformer (220V to 100/110V) or buy 220V version of Shindo preamp I live outside the USA and have used two step ups for ten years with three amps and a dac without a problem. They are heavy and take up the space of a shoebox if that’s an issue for you. They can also produce a slight hum (not via the speakers but... | |
| Hegel vs Rogue Glad you are enjoying the Hegel. Hegels are very versatile with speakers so you can go in almost any direction. Smaller Maggies, Harbeth and Spendor are popular matches for the 160 and they sound great. If you like the sound of zu the Hegel should... | |
| Mid grade Integrated amp choices I would give Hegel and parasound an audition. Both are great. I have a Hegel and love it. Very versatile amps that sound good with a wide range of speakers. | |
| New Yggdrasil - First (and second) Impressions I have found very small differences when switching dacs also. |