Recent content by rfernand
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PSVANE Horizon Vacuum Tube Giveaway and Audition Event
McIntosh MHA200 - uses 2x12AT7 and 2x12BH7A Schiit Freya+ - uses 4x6SN7 (so the 6SL7 and CV181work) Bonus: Schiit Folkvangr. I don’t think anything in the list fits.- rfernand
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- Forum: Sponsor Announcements and Deals
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McIntosh MHA200 Impressions
Next year it’ll still be $2800, but without the signature.- rfernand
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- Forum: Headphone Amps (full-size)
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Cambridge MX10, AX10 Network Streamer
Just like the CXN, “it just works”. Lack of USB, well… can’t think of a competent DAC with no coax. The built-in dac is not bad at all, btw.- rfernand
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- Forum: Dedicated Source Components
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McIntosh MHA200 Impressions
Same here - while I’ve had a lot of fun rolling tubes on the MJ2, there’s nothing I’d change to the MHA200, tbh. Synergy with Utopia’22 is bananas good.- rfernand
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- Forum: Headphone Amps (full-size)
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McIntosh MHA200 Impressions
RAG2 vs MHA200: Very different soundstage. Blackgroubd and dynamics are better in MHA200. But the Rag2 does so many things it’s a bit of a Goldilocks device.- rfernand
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- Forum: Headphone Amps (full-size)
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Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up
(1) I agree with the characterization Jason says his resident engineers came up to. It is another digital volume control scheme. This is not a diss, it’s just what it is. (2) The white paper is short on details - btw, the AES paper is actually here...- rfernand
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- Forum: Jason Stoddard
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Feeling lucky? A tour of our audiophile factory awaits
Greetings from the Pacific Northwest in the U.S. of A.! Without a doubt, I’d listen to Peter Gabriel’s So in its entirety (the 2002 remaster). Carefully crafted, timeless, with many sonic innovations including shoving a diaper under the bridge in Tony Levin’s bass to create that muted “Don’t...- rfernand
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- Forum: Sponsor Announcements and Deals
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Schiit Folkvangr - Impressions Thread
You gotta Gungnir that Schiit! :-)- rfernand
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- Forum: Headphone Amps (full-size)
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Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up
I’ve “neglected to return” a friend’s MJ3 for over a month now. It does wonders with a Gungnir MB and DCA Stealth, and perhaps unsuprisingly it preamps my desktop Genelecs nicely as well. I think I ordered my second-run silver the day it was announced, so anytime soon. Should it stay in...- rfernand
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- Forum: Jason Stoddard
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McIntosh MHA200 Impressions
Impression after a few months of bliss. Yggdrassil A2 + MHA200 + Focal Utopia’22 was a magic combo for me. Unusual, since I always feel no headphone set does Yggy justice. The MHA200 is super opinionated about music placement - it puts the mids very forward, so there is a bit of a 3D “V”...- rfernand
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- Forum: Headphone Amps (full-size)
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Schiit Folkvangr - Impressions Thread
I preamp the FV out of a Rag2 out of convenience. Works great. Tried MJ3 out of curiosity. Other than warming up the room, nothing to write home about.- rfernand
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- Forum: Headphone Amps (full-size)
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What a long, strange trip it's been -- (Robert Hunter)
Hard to say. The OG in my big rig it’s DAC endgame, so I never bothered trying others. People whose ears I trust and tried both agree LIM is a little warmer and that’s about it.- rfernand
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- Forum: Mike Moffat (Baldr)
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Beatles Listening Party: Let's Come Together Now and Then
Hey, how about we ask an AI to show us “what if they had written this in 1964 when they were young?”- rfernand
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- Forum: Sponsor Announcements and Deals
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Beatles Listening Party: Let's Come Together Now and Then
Remember the group broke up before they were 30 years old - and this is John, in his late 30s, in New York , with two lifetimes worth of experiences behind him… … and two 80 year olds are going by notes they made when they were 50…- rfernand
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Beatles Listening Party: Let's Come Together Now and Then
Put the track through the MHA200 which is super mid forward. Yggy OG, HD600. Pretty glorious. Love me do, oh my. So good.- rfernand
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- Forum: Sponsor Announcements and Deals