Recent content by Hooch500

Can’t see them all but presumably one into headphone amp and other to MF amp.

Is it there with deck turned off ?

I tried to like mine for 7 years with various amps ( valve, class D, A/B, A ) before I gave up. Best of the bunch was an Avondale amp. I had a 160 Naim but it was ragged by comparison.

Could have sworn they had XLR. I’m wrong. Music First perhaps ? I really rate TVC preamp’s.

Townshend Allegri.

They are.

Avondale SE series are a great match. My Yorks are gone but easily the best I heard them with a TVC pre amp and then a valve pre.

I’ve done a fair bit of recapping valve amps. My concern with that unit would be the flying leads on those Hovlands which are very long. They tend to act like antenna and can cause problems with hum and even instability. A few years ago a built an EL84 amp point to point wiring and did a lot of...

60 day trial temping plenty of time to compare.

As long as they haven’t thrown the baby out with the water great.

I think that’s exactly right. Listening to some of the latest Dacs the differences were small but going back to the CXN you’re aware of its ease of listening. Subtle but discernible. I can see why folks swear by the Rega DAC with same chip set. I know the latest Dacs have phenomenal technical...

I will give it a try though.

So many ways to go, a few of the Dacs I’ve tried had digital pre amps. I must confess I haven’t tried the Cambridge pre mainly because I love both my pre’s one a TVC and the other a valve. The TVC just completely gets out the way but there’s no denying in certain aspects a good valve pre can...

Hi I bought the Cambridge as a streamer so it was a huge bonus to find the DAC was so good especially given the outlay. I quite like the Cambridge app using Qobuz too after a few initial hiccups. I’m not saying it’s the best DAC but being honest I’ve found DAC differences marginal lately and...

I can speak from experience with regard to this. I had an Audionote 4.1 DAC for years that I used with various CD transports I finally got into streaming music through the CXN v2 which I intended to use with the Audionote. As an afterthought I decided to a/b the internal DAC against the...