philodox Posted June 5, 2006 Report Share Posted June 5, 2006 Hey guys, Recently I have been considering this... www.lessloss.com ...as a replacement for my Lavry. Any thoughts? I am undecided right now, mainly due to the cost. - Jay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkam Posted June 5, 2006 Report Share Posted June 5, 2006 From the specs it looks pretty good, and I've really been liking the pcm1704 dac lately. Thats what is in my Opus 21... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hungrych Posted June 5, 2006 Report Share Posted June 5, 2006 I was looking at that site awhile go, and uh, DO IT! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiberian Posted June 5, 2006 Report Share Posted June 5, 2006 the bel canto dac 3 is coming out soon before spending big money on the lessloss i am going to check that out first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aerius Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 Take one for the team! According to the this brief intro/impressions, it's better than a Wadia...grain of salt as always, but seems promising. Oh yeah, and it costs $10k. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philodox Posted June 6, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 Ummm, that's a computer Eaphan... Anyways... if I do get the lessloss, it will be a custom implementation with headphone xlr connectors on the front of the unit, their volume control, and hopefully two digital inputs on the back so that I can slave both my eastsound and my squeezebox to it. [my FLAC ripper also happens to have most of the qualities that $10k doohickey you linked has ] EDIT: And aren't Delta Sigma DAC's considered sort of icky? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philodox Posted June 6, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 This mother of tone stuff looks cool as well... someone linked it in head-fi recently. I've also been considering that 2K DIY amp that was posted a while back... I'll see if I can find the link. It is completely different in design from the lessloss. More of a crazy overdone bruteforce approach as compared to lessloss' rather simple design. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sacd lover Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 Hey guys, Recently I have been considering this... www.lessloss.com ...as a replacement for my Lavry. Any thoughts? I am undecided right now, mainly due to the cost. - Jay I think you need to give Welly Wu a pm for consultation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hungrych Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 Take one for the team! According to the this brief intro/impressions, it's better than a Wadia...grain of salt as always, but seems promising. Oh yeah, and it costs $10k. Bah just by a freaking computer and use your own dac for that much... "angling spindle".. what BS. Philodox, I have a pretty large mental list of various crazy amps and sources I've seen from 1-2.5kish, I'll post the ones I can remember tomorrow (about to go to sleep) so I can make the decision that much harder for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjg Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 I think you need to give Welly Wu a pm for consultation. hahaah earl u killing me man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkam Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 EDIT: And aren't Delta Sigma DAC's considered sort of icky? Thats BS, the CS4398's in my modded sacd 1000 are delta-sigma dacs and as anyone who has heard it can attest it sounds anything but icky . As with most things in audio I think piss poor implementation has a lot to do with the negative talk you hear about them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkam Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 Don't make me drop my monoblocks on your foot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFKMan23 Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 making me touch one of those 6BL7s would be worse BL7GTA at 500V Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Chalk Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 www.lessloss.comThere's some nice porn on that site. "... solid silver wiring suspended in mid-air..." indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philodox Posted June 6, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 Hungry - Thanks man, you are a real pal. Reks - Did you actually read all the literature on their site? They seem knowledgable and surprisingly grounded for a hifi audio company. I wouldn't write off a company because they typed an 'i' instead of a 'y'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hungrych Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 http://www.eifl.co.jp/index/wiby/wiby_ex.html http://www.diyaudiocraft.com/tda1541a-v2/tda1541a-v2.html (big thread on it: http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=934446#post934446) http://www.my3c.net/product/detail.asp?gid=0&ky=dac&pid=1922 http://www.diyzone.net/article.php?sid=713 seems to be being worked on, but I can't read chinese so I reallly have no clue (looks cool though) The D01 and D03 from http://www.storm-audio.com/ which should be out soon http://www.tentlabs.com/Products/DIYDAC/DIYDAC.html http://www.tentlabs.com/ProductEntities/CDplayer/CDplayer.html DDDAC1543 MK2 from dddac.de http://www.hagtech.com/chime.html http://audionotekits.espyderweb.net/dac2_1.html http://www.audiosector.com/ (search for the dac post in the news section) Some guy on AA really loves the mother-of-tone stuff: http://db.audioasylum.com/cgi/m.mpl?forum=digital&n=118164&highlight=mother+of+tone&r=&session= For amps I really can't remember any other than the Iris OTL kit: http://www.headwize.com/ubb/showpage.php?fnum=3&tid=5930&srch= http://www.diyzone.net/article.php?sid=712 http://www.diyzone.net/article.php?sid=638 http://www.diyzone.net.cn/article.php?sid=662&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 http://www.my3c.net/product/detail.asp?gid=8&ky=&pid=2811 Crazy chinese stuff. http://www.diyzone.net/article.php?sid=715 . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Post Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 my modded DAC-ah ate the lavry for breakfast and chunked out bits of the Benchmark, with streaks of the Grace m902 in there somewhere. it finished off by wiping its ass on the Zhaolu. long live NOS! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philodox Posted June 6, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 my modded DAC-ah ate the lavry for breakfast and chunked out bits of the Benchmark, with streaks of the Grace m902 in there somewhere. it finished off by wiping its ass on the Zhaolu. long live NOS! Suuure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Chalk Posted June 6, 2006 Report Share Posted June 6, 2006 i'm a quasi-vowel snob.Now that's just silly. You know engineers can't spell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysanthemum Posted June 9, 2006 Report Share Posted June 9, 2006 Yeah! I got your monoblocks right here....Bigboy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysanthemum Posted June 9, 2006 Report Share Posted June 9, 2006 Actually, I was thinking of taking four RS Hornets and doing something with them. It would take two to a channel in a bridged format. Then I would have mono blocks for a really crappy pair of cube 4" box speakers from Rat Shack and a source CD/DVD player from Daewoo. A perfectly matched system. No fancy schmancy $10,000 dac needed. This leaves in excess of $8500 for beer and pretzels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Chalk Posted June 9, 2006 Report Share Posted June 9, 2006 I don't think that qualifies as "thinking". A cat could put a more synergistic system together than that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysanthemum Posted June 9, 2006 Report Share Posted June 9, 2006 I don't think that qualifies as "thinking". A cat could put a more synergistic system together than that. WOW! Somebody actually took me seriously. Thats never happened before. You need to get out more often. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Chalk Posted June 9, 2006 Report Share Posted June 9, 2006 You need to get out more often.Yes. Yes, I do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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