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Hi, I'm from the UK. More into home cinema but do like music, predominantly house, old school garage, funky disco etc. Still a raver and like my bass.
I bought an ET3 for CD gapless playback as my CD drives into my Eversolo DMPA6 does not do this.
This is for a second room, fed into a pair of devialet phantom 1's, which are connected optically to the A6.
I have bypassed the A6 and connected the ET3 via optical to the phantoms and they do sound better with CD playback.
I will be comparing direct playback via the ET3 and playback with the ET3 connected via USB to A6 and optical to phantoms.

 

Greetings!

Electrical engineering drop-out turned economist here. Originally from the mid-west US, transplanted to New York City for the past two plus decades (and yet I somehow still haven't managed to make it to CanJam NYC...). I've been a music enthusiast since the days when we recorded mix tapes off the radio, and I still miss the serendipity of wandering around record stores. During the pandemic years, a combination of financial stability at last and too much time on my hands led to the inevitable treadmill of gear acquisition, quickly moving from the likes of wall wart-powered Schiit tube hybrid amps to the more exquisite offerings from DNA (and here I am!).

Also interested in astronomy and film photography, so other analog technologies like tube amps feel right at home.

 

New member
Recently retired to Cambodia to be a grandpa
Vinyl headphone rig
Here to learn, like what I see

 

new member here
long time music and hi-fi enthusiast
writing from Italy
Graham speaker's lover

 

Hello, my name is Matt and I am new here. Just a Hifi audio enthusiast, DIY builder, and musician.

 

Hi and welcome!

 

Hello, been lurking for a while and I admit I posted before without doing so here so apologies.
Mainly a speaker lover but enjoy reading about dacs and amps especially and finding others insights into using gear that I stumble upon.
Current setups are a Ragnarok 2 with ELac Carina bs speakers and Drop 58x Hp, trying to decide on a DAC again
Have a lyngdorf 1120 with Carina FS towers for tv and a quad vena 2 with a thorens record player that we inherited and some streaming with it.
Favorite band is The War on Drugs, thanks! I’ll go back to DAC reading now.

 

I've been a member for a few years, but this is my first post. I'm active on Steve Hoffman, Audiogon, and DIYAudio, all using username jaytor.

I have been an audiophile for about 50 years, and studied electrical engineering in college because of my audio interest. I have spent my career doing digital design (computer graphics and super computers) and software and currently run an ecommerce cycling business.

Since covid, I have been primarily working out of my home office which is at the back of my main listening room, so haven't been doing much headphone listening of late, but have a nice set of Audeze phones in my office at my warehouse.

Over the past 4 years or so, I've become interested in building my own gear. I've now built four speaker systems, four pair of monoblock amps, three stereo amps and two preamps, with several more projects in the works.

I've updated my user profile with a list of gear and some photos of my main listening room.

My systems are all strictly digital. I sold my turntable in the early 90's when my kids were little and I didn't have a good place to set it up, and sold my record collection a few years later. I love finding new music and subscribe to Tidal and Qobuz, using Roon for control.

I listen to a wide range of music, but primarily jazz, folk, indie-rock, classic rock, singer-songwriter, and some classical.

 

Hi All,

New here but have been lurking in the background. I don't post often, but I do read a lot and have enjoyed many of the threads here. I love all things audio and play around a bit with car audio too.