Cool info - but no firewire on a MacBook Air (my big remote control).

So no Apogee as a contender...

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Cool info - but no firewire on a MacBook Air (my big remote control).

So no Apogee as a contender...

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I have a Devilsound NOS dac hooked up to a Mac (hey, that rhymed). I'm using a Millet Hybrid amp with it and listening with HF-2s. My ONLY complaint is the highs are a tad grating; I've broken in the HF-2s for many hours, and I'm thinking it may be the dac. Time to EQ a bit more. Other than that, I'm really happy with this setup

it ain't the HF2s that is creating the high end hash

Edited November 26, 200916 yr by jp11801

Unless you have some $5k OTL amp sell it and get an amp suitable for grados (hybrid or OPT), I recommend the SOHAII. With the money saved get a good DAC. NOS DAC's have a nagging problem in that any frequencies over 15k stay there, in otherwords a 17khz tone is transformed into a 15khz tone due to aliasing with the lack of a filter. Some like this others don't only your ears will know.

I just swapped out my tubes in my Millet for some 12FM6s (Tung Sols) and the SQ with the Devilsound is perfect; I also found that pairing a SS amp with a NOS dac sounds amazing as well! (I tested out an EC/SS with the Devilsound - it's incredible!)

I have a "NOS" an2.1 kit and a otl amp (WA2) I use them to power my alessando ms-pro and to me they sound great.

Not that the an2 being NOS had anything to do with it, but when I was just using my asus stx as a computer source before the an2 the ms-pros sounded awful out of the wa2, the sound stage was compressed and the mid range clustered and unorganised.

I guess I dont really have a point, except, buy a good dac, its the weakest link in a lot of audio chains.

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This thread sucks.

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