BlueSound has its own very good app that runs on a phone or tablet. Match that with a good inexpensive DAC like a Vivaldi Apex (just kidding!!)…umm I mean Border Patrol DAC and off you go.
System for Under US$10,000 MSRP
- Thread starter Ron Resnick
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Why not the Blue sound NODE X streamer and DAC itself .
It sounded very good on the brussels show
799 on amazon
Headphone connection incl and everything controlled via the Blue sound App like you say , i might pick one up myself actually
It sounded very good on the brussels show
799 on amazon
Headphone connection incl and everything controlled via the Blue sound App like you say , i might pick one up myself actually
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I have a node and the internal DAC isn’t close to a good external DAC…
The NODE X has a different DAC chip then the NODE ( ESS Sabre DAC)
So it might be better
Agree a valve integrated offers better value than solid state but the friend doesn't want to mess with tubes, so are there any solid state amps out there that offer high end sound for $5K, I doubt it. If he kept his speakers he could probably get a good SS amp for $8K and spend $2K on the turntable.
The Konus Audio Integrale (http://www.konus-audio.com/integrale-2000.html) is excellent for this niche.
This is why I was thinking hybrid Pathos, the classic is pretty good. The remix II is interesting but I think too expensive.
Ron , I feel that we all , yourself included, really do require a little more feedback from your friend regarding the salient points raised in this thread thus far , until then we are all merely waving our saveloys in the wind on this one !Peter, mtemur,
I do not understand why you guys can't process that not everybody wants to be an audiophile hobbyist, auditioning extensively at dealers and learning about all sorts of components, and what sounds like what, and what causes what to sound like what, and learning about system matching, etc., etc., and going down all of our various rabbit holes.
Some regular people just want to listen to music by buying a modest but nice-sounding stereo with some advice and some educated guesses thrown in.
If my friend read all of the posts on this thread and researched the pointers in all of these different directions and responded to all of your questions I am quite sure he would throw up his hands and say: "Thanks but no thanks, I'll just keep what I have."
and update to a better DAC if he gets into the possibilities streaming offers. Leaves more money to be applied some where else.
Hi Ron, this is a fun topic. Caveats: 1) these are separate pieces, 2) you didn't ask me (apologies):
The Konus Audio Integrale 1000 (http://www.konus-audio.com/integrale-1000.html) and Vinyle 500 MM (http://www.konus-audio.com/vinyle-500mm.html) are super good and in budget. The amp is 33 watts/channel into 8 ohms, class AB, and has purity/speed that I really love. The phono is battery powered and sounds great. (My biases are triode amps.) Just lots of fun.
I'm the US importer for Konus so take all of this with the appropriate skepticism.
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Lovely little solid state amplifier that sounds good on speakers that typically enjoy valves.
Look good! Does it require high efficiency speakers?
And now for something completely different… - Gy8
The Konus Audio Integrale 2000 amplifier, Digitale 2000 DAC and Vinyle 3000 phono-stage – Part 1
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Sounds great on e.g. 91dB 1watt/1 meter 4 ohm nominal speakers I carry, if that helps. Surprisingly good bass.Look good! Does it require high efficiency speakers?
And now for something completely different… - Gy8
The Konus Audio Integrale 2000 amplifier, Digitale 2000 DAC and Vinyle 3000 phono-stage – Part 1
All my lines are high(er) efficiency, but if you're considering a 33 watt/channel amp as a reasonable choice for a set of speakers then I think you'll be in business.
I don't understand the preclusion of only new stuff. New turn tables under $10k are so inferior to everything else, and the P-Mount stuff is all used. He's going to need to have something setup once and then just swap stylus on the same cart.
The EAR phono is a superb suggestion for the taste.
A true burning question is how willing is this person to have speakers out in the room? What is the room shape? Are corner horns an option?
The EAR phono is a superb suggestion for the taste.
A true burning question is how willing is this person to have speakers out in the room? What is the room shape? Are corner horns an option?
Probably (understandably) it’s about availability and ease and coming together with gear Ron’s friend can audition… while I’m sure Ron gets the advantages of opening up to second hand but for his friend there’s also the comfortable mainstream perception/illusion that for gadgets like hifi latest = greatest.
There’s plenty of good things in going to second hand but given the brief that’s all moot… sticking with the budget and buying off the shelf is the brief Ron has to work with. It may also be the thing that could hold this to being more about a renewal and replacement and less a potential for something of a real upgrade which the audiophile instinct in us probably innately reaches towards.
While going to recent second hand even just for the speakers/amp combo could take the outcome up quite a ways towards it being a real potential step up… I spose you could offer two solutions one showing what all new buys and contrasting with a proposed setup with an example of going to recent second hand options for the speakers and the amp and put together with a handsome vintage turntable. But that’s making all this much more the kind of commitment an audiophile wants to chase rather than being a straightforward solution for Ron’s friend.
It’ll be interesting to see what Ron will be able to work up as a system at any rate. It’s a tight budget for sure.
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Okay, no proglems.
Short answer: There are options.
Rather than post a longish reply in this thread, I moved your question and response to the new thread below:
Is there any decent record cleaning machine in the <$500 range which operates like the VPI 16.5 ?
Ron Resnick posed this question to me in the thread https://www.whatsbestforum.com/threads/system-for-under-us-10-000-msrp.38228/page-8#post-944451 ... Serious question: is there any decent record cleaning machine in the
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I use to buy used. I had so many bad experiences I determned it was less expensive to buy new.
Those JVC TT. If your honest with people, everything I have read says they are great once you spent a whole lot of time and some money hot rodding the unit and getting the electronics rebuilt.
Same for Lenco, Technics and Garrard.
Those JVC TT. If your honest with people, everything I have read says they are great once you spent a whole lot of time and some money hot rodding the unit and getting the electronics rebuilt.
Same for Lenco, Technics and Garrard.
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