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Thanks Martin
Musical Fidelity AMS 35i / Electrocompaniet EMC 1UP / Transrotor ZET 3 + Konstant M1 Ref. psu / Jelco TK-850S / Hana ML / Bigbottle mk3 phono stage / KEF Reference 3 / Auralic Mini / Chord Qutest / Isotek Aquarius / Sbooster mkII psu
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My Yamaha receiver which does daily radio duties & makes my telly sound better.
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Is there an equivalent-value/quality dac around? To put together a 'cheap as....' set-up.
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Just be aware that the early ones withOriginally Posted by dantheman91
Having fun with a Leak Stereo 30 sounds bloody good for over 50 years old - this one original Non plus version and working which is a bonus...
Germanium transistors have a tendency to fail quite violently!
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Revox B250-S integrated.
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Lot's of satisfied customers for this:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Topping-D30...A2UWBVY2W3G8CS
This is the updated version with a headphone section. I've got the older version which is identical minus the headphone section (also still available if you prefer).
DSD, USB Asynchronous, Coax, Toslink, compact. Great Dac, very neutral.
Or even cheaper one (but probably not quite as good sounding) I haven't heard this one though but probably similar sound signature.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07B46KQ..._t1_B01JU9EA2U
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Budget DAC -- +1 for the Topping D30. Amazing thing.
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'New' amp - Crayon CFA-1
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That looks interesting Jerry, what's it like ?
To be honest I'd never heard of them...
Bev
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No, Bev, I hadn't heard of them before Jake (lordmortlock) acquired one and seemed deeply impressed.That looks interesting Jerry, what's it like ?
To be honest I'd never heard of them...
He's still having his valve love-in and I bought it from him on the condition that I give him 1st refusal to buy it back if I sell it on!
Weird looks. Seems like a rather large Lego brick to me.
Crayon - weird name, I wonder what's behind that?
Only had it switched on for about half hour but very impressed so far.
A lot of kit gets the thumbs down within the first minute, but this one raised my eyebrows in a good way! A bit of an "Oooh, that's nice" moment.
Hugely "musical" - whatever that means.
Very clear and lucid throughout the range - bass is deep, taut and powerful, bit of a shock actually given the meager power rating (28wpc into 8 ohms, I think).
Soundstaging might well be astonishingly good but I'm gonna need a while to get my head round it all, I think.
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