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In other words, you are kind of covering shipping costs?with an introductory discount on pricing
In other words, you are kind of covering shipping costs?with an introductory discount on pricing
In other words, you are kind of covering shipping costs?
Hope things go well. I saw you had this up, and yesterday posted a link to your product over on a thread at CA. The question was less than $500 DACs that were of good quality and not effected by the USB connection. So yours fit the bill, measures excellent, sounds excellent, and I could say "yes, I've heard it with my own golden ears, it gets my stamp of approval".
......mmmmmmm......OK I am thinking about this, could be a nice little product but would have to wait a few months until the rest of the range is sorted out.I have a Pioneer PL L1000/Shure V15 IV and Technics SL10/ EPS-310MC. Currently not used.
My amp doesn't have a phono stage. I am looking to getting one but just haven't got around to it.
Consider 'very high performance' in phono stages is relative these days to what else is being produced. We are a long way from the performance heights of the phono preamplifiers stages of old.
After the introduction of CD, phono stages essentially became 'legacy' stages with a massive downgrading of performance. A huge part of the cost of preamplifiers prior to CD was the high quality phono stages, due to the very lowest noise, carefully matched and expensive high gain, wide bandwidth devices they used.
This is the phono stage specs of one of my favourite preamplifiers. When did you last see a current manufacture phono stage even come remotely close to these numbers? And this preamplifier wasn't even that expensive back when new.
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The phono stage is a beautiful discrete design (IC DC servo), fully DC coupled and runs on +/-32V rails with a very low output impedance. It would be a fantastic design to modify for a standalone product.
HiCan you share the range of price points for your amps? I'm very interested.
SOTA doesnt necessarily entail ultra expensive. Just needs good design and I wouldnt embark on the product if it was going to be half arsed , but to be honest it wouldnt come in at less than $400-500 US. Have to gauge whether there is a justifiable market.My hearing doesn't justify SOTA.
One of these will probably meet my needs: NAD PP4 About $AU250. It will have to wait until my audio budget recovers from the new TV plus LSR305 MkIIs purchase.
SOTA doesnt necessarily entail ultra expensive. Just needs good design, but to be honest it wouldnt come in at less than $400-500 US.
I’ve long followed and admired you work! I’m especially interested in your power amps. There’s been so much progress in transparent DACs and headphone amps, NOW I’d like to see that kind of improvement in reasonably priced speaker amps.
Best of luck with your new (ad)venture, and thanks more meeting us here at ASR.
Hi
As above I will start a thread on the power amps later today
...do you feel the above is close to state of the art?...
Sorry the secret sauce is remaining under wraps. Suffice to say its es9038 based.@March Audio Do you have internal pics?
...Sorry the secret sauce is remaining under wraps...