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| $9000 speaker Orangutan or speaker + amplifier Swampwalker, I cannot find the Dragons for $6500, If I did.....Mapman, your reply makes total sense.though my dealer claims a 40W Tube amp (Quad 2) can power SHL5. I did see some virtual systems powering SHL5s with 70-80W. THough he thinks with 30... | |
| DAC Recommendation around 2.5K I had the same question as you. See my thread at: http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?ddgtl&1375907174&&&/Berkeley-DAC-Series-1-anything-better-2-For now I settled on a Triode TRV DAC 1 SE. To my ears it handily beat the NAD M51. | |
| Berkeley DAC Series 1, anything better 2.5K$ After hours of playing jazz piano with a CD transport and multiple A/B/A switching. I realized I preferred the triode DAC with the Triode TRX-1 Pre-amp over the NAD M51. The piano sounded a bit dry with the NAD, but sounded so sweet with Triode th... | |
| AURALiC Vega Hi Nsirkin,What other DACs (the ones you did not mention) did you compare the Auralic against.Am curious about this DAC myself too. My top contender for now are the NAD M51 and Triode Tube DAC.I would be interested to know especially how this DAC ... | |
| Berkeley DAC Series 1, anything better 2.5K$ Charles1dad, am still trying to figure it out. Will report back soon after more listening.I love this hobby. At the end of all your "troubles" you are listening to music! | |
| Anyone familiar with Triode Corp. Tube CD players This is a response 2 years later. So is probably moot. But had to get it out there.I just purchased this CD player. Its AWESOME.Very detailed, yet smooth, non-fatiguing.Am spinning CD after CD listening to CDs that I did not even like before and e... | |
| Berkeley DAC Series 1, anything better 2.5K$ Its been 20 days with the NAD M51.Its awesome (only if you connect directly to the amp).When I connected the NAD to my preamp (Triode TRX-1), I preferred (very slightly) the Triode DAC (TRV-DAC 1.0SE) that costs $2500, due to some tube mid-range s... | |
| Berkeley DAC Series 1, anything better 2.5K$ Sabai,Does your NAD M51 directly connect to the amplifier ?I was directly connecting the NAD m51 to amp and it was pretty awesome.But once I got a pre-amp (Triode TRX-1) I feel like the NAD suffers, I have not yet put that to a thorough test, but ... | |
| Why are Kitty Kat Revelators so invisible? At the California Audio Show last week.I saw a pair of speakers by LRE acoustics.They were designed to be placed close to the wall.The speaker designer had them almost attached to the wall and they sounded fantastic with 500$ denon receiver and a ... | |
| Berkeley DAC Series 1, anything better 2.5K$ This weekend has been busy, so have not got a chance to do an A/B with Benchmark DAC HDR, but the NAD sounds great straight out of the box, think its beats the Benchmark already.Sabai, am curious what USB cable worked wonders for you.Am also bit h... | |
| Berkeley DAC Series 1, anything better 2.5K$ Hi Sunandmusic,Thanks for pointing me to the Audio Note DAC kit website, did not know an existence of something like this. Today I went to the California Audio Show and saw a 500000$ Audio note system. Nice to know a DIY Audio Note exists for ordi... | |
| Berkeley DAC Series 1, anything better 2.5K$ Pbrennan. Heard the Wavelength at my dealer yesterday. What a coincidence that he decided to stock Wavelength only recently.Heard the WV Cosecant ($4000), it was pretty extraordinary. Beat Rega, Triode and Benchmark very easily, but he did not hav... | |
| Berkeley DAC Series 1, anything better 2.5K$ Sabai, UPS says it going to land here today.Am excited. Will do A/B test with Benchmark this weekend, and Berkeley Series 1 with my dealer on Monday. | |
| Berkeley DAC Series 1, anything better 2.5K$ Charles1Dad,Thanks!! I will give them buzz to find out if I can listen to the Yamamotos.Pbrennan, I found an store in San Francisco that I did not know existed stocking Wavelength Audio, will check them out too.Am excited that my M51 is arriving t... | |
| Berkeley DAC Series 1, anything better 2.5K$ Thanks for your response guys.I get the feeling maybe I should spend some time looking at other alternatives.Sabai, your comment is very interesting, since I am about to receive a NAD M51 on a 60 day trial though I won't be able to directly compar... |