Quote Originally Posted by hornucopia View Post
Brings back memories of listening to the latest 7" single in a booth, in NEMS store, Liverpool, 1960s ( run by Brian Epstein of Beatle manager fame!)
O.K., I'm teasing....it's not THAT small! My own system has been described as 'like having huge headphones' (!!) which I had thought meant the QUALITY!.
Maybe double-edged, as head-to-speaker distance is only 8 feet/250 cms!

I'd have your Oppo; would remove two pieces, as long as the dac wasn't a step back from my Havana (modded!). Always liked the idea of a Carver, but I only need a few watts these days-always did- I ran Klipschorns for years.
LOL! Yeah, I'm about 6 ft away from my speakers, and they're about 6 ft apart. Near-field listening which is probably why this room doesn't sound so bad. I'm so close to the speakers, their direct sound overpowers the 2nd and 3rd reflections in the room.

If the Havana you're referring to is the MHDT Labs unit, I'm sure it's better than the Oppo, just because it's a dedicated DAC with tubes. The Oppo is good though. I think I mentioned it before, it replaced a fully upgraded Schiit Bifrost.

I just swapped out speakers again a few minutes ago, and as with the Sony speakers, these too are rated at 90 dB @ 1 watt, so I really have no need for 390+ watts per channel. But I have it, and it sounds great. You can't go wrong with plenty of amplifier headroom.

I'll post up pics soon of the "new" speakers... Which I have used before, several years ago.


Quote Originally Posted by Liffy99 View Post
Can that DBX function as a multi- input preamp (digital only) ?
How would you connect an RCA SPDIF output to an AES input ?
The dbx only has one set of inputs, so no multi-inputs. And as far as I can tell, there's no way to use it as a preamp. As for SPDIF to AES, don't know.