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The Aune S16 was close to being powerful enough for blu ray and games, fine for music, and like most AMPs it likely falls short of the 600mw spec by 30-100mw. The Gustard H10 (4.1 Vrms measured) needs +6 gain with the Essence and +12 with the M-DAC. Audiolab M-DAC: XLR Blanced I/O Level: 4...

Great information! I know this isn't exact, but choosing an amp based off the alleged or preferably measured max power helped me immensely after relying on soley on subjective reviews and not looking at the specifications or reviews with measurements (did any exist?) back in 2014-2016 when I...

I prefer to have at least 700mw (Beyer T90's & HE560 main headphones) for theater like experience for everything aside from podcasts. Perhaps I need hearing aids.

It's not untrue if one has similar power requirements to myself, or wants a quarter of that power since the L30 peaks at 117mw into 300ohm.

Ludicrous to you, not myself and three other people I regularly listen to content with via headphones. Also based on what the OP typed, he can't know how much volume he likes because his A30 (180mw max power) suffers from distortion, and buying a balanced cable (50$) and AMP like the Magnius...

The implication here is that I'm lying or have a weird balanced amp, which I do, and linked to in my first post. I purposefully listed what my volume PREFERENCES are in my first post in the first paragraph. You can repeatedly claim I am wrong about how much volume I LIKE, but that's not going...

I don't care what someone else's volume preference is. I posted what mine is and what I look for. I would rather read a book in silence than listen to content with 100mw max power.

I have these as well, and they need around 40% less volume (my HE560's need the same amount of volume regardless of the cable type) when connected with a balanced cable to my A 281 AMP. I like to crank the volume (usually @3 O'clock on the volume knob), and watch blu-rays which require much...

https://shenzhenaudio.com/products/hxmelody-hx500-digital-turntable-player-lossless-pcm768k-dsd1024-dst-direct-solution-player HXMELODY HX500 balanced dac with XLR, DST, a nice screen with the file bit rate and hz, and alleged "DTS: Built-in dual-channel decoding, support downmix, can output...

Thank you for the review. It looks like the Singxer is the better, but uglier choice.

This looks useful since I can connect my Audiolab M-DAC to it, then out put to an XLR amp and speakers instead of disconnecting the speakers when I want to use the amp.

Purchased from Massdrop in April, arrived in May. I am not a fan of the Sennheiser veil versus the brighter (and sibilance tamed via op amp swap in the Gustard G10) sound of my Beyerdynamic T90's which I want to pair with Hifiman Sundara's. Shipping from Canada, B.C. within Canada or to the US...

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/review-and-measurements-of-nad-m51-dac-and-digital-preamp.6681/ I don't find this performance acceptable @ >100$

Thank you for the reply. I wish the manufacturer would be more clear as opposed to having this information on forums and re-sellers websites . Also, do you know if this also applies to the SAGD1? I'm in Canada, and the shipping price is double for the Schiit Modius versus the Soncoz which...

Is point #4 true? (pressing F to doubt) Source=Hifi Go. This claim is absent from the official LA-QXD1 manual and product page, and the higher end SGD1 as well This is a very important feature to me since I plan on connecting the XLR out to my Violectric V281 clone, the Accurate Audio...