Total silence while everyone decides whether to finally consign me to the loony bin for falling head over heels for a DAC that cost me £75.
... not to mention an amp that set me back £119.
Used with speakers that currently retail at £23k
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Total silence while everyone decides whether to finally consign me to the loony bin for falling head over heels for a DAC that cost me £75.
... not to mention an amp that set me back £119.
Used with speakers that currently retail at £23k
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I'm MG.
For Spotify I use a Chromecast audio using my old sony 930 minidisc as the dac, would getting one of these babys be a better way to go?
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I'm Mike.
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It's not the first time I've been told I've got a mullet of a system.
But then, they hadn't heard it either.![]()
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Location: Kent
Posts: 85
I'm john.
A mullet of a system?
Buisness in the front, party in the back?
If a digital fronted system isn't a mullet system then you've not spent wisely.
Or you've maxed out.
One or the other.
Current Lash Up:
TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > Troels Gravesen Faital 3WC-15.
Lol - indeed... Although one wonders how it would sound with a £23k front end (digital or analogue) and amps to match!
Or even judiciously selected £5-6k ones, for that matter... But we've been here before
Marco [Who advocates a 'balanced cost' approach to system building].
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & regulator mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat with Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight. Isonoe feet & boots. Ortofon RS-212D tonearm with Denon DL-103GL, in a Denon PCL-300 headshell, fitted with Funk Firm Houdini and Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp and Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp, fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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I'm Lucky.
Thanks for the heads up on that Valve DAC Jerry. I've ordered one. I've had a lovely Audionote DAC in the past and its' sweetness is much missed. Cant wait to play my Chromecast Audio into it.![]()
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