I'm looking for the next high-end component in my rig, and I've decided on using the upsampling (24/384) DAC in the Azur 840c. It's gotten tremendous reviews and has been compared to other CD players around the $5,000+ price point. If you haven't read about it, you should. It's supposed to be incredible.
Anyway, it costs around $1,600 (but you can get it for $1,400). The problem is that every single store I have checked in the U.S. and the U.K. has it on backorder. To anyone interested in it: Do you know how long it will be on backorder for? And do they want a deposit to put you on the preorder list?
I am also looking for a good pair of 1.5 meter analog RCA cables to go with it. I ordered a Cobalt Cable Digital Coax which was about $60, and is compared to cables costing 10 times as much. A pair of their analog cables is only about $90. Anyone else have some suggestions for some very good (but not excessively or unreasonably priced) interconnects? The Azur 840c has balanced outputs but my amp does not have balanced inputs, so I just need a good pair of RCA interconnects.
If anyone could help with the above questions (and also give some reviews of the 840c if you own it) I would be grateful.
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Anyway, it costs around $1,600 (but you can get it for $1,400). The problem is that every single store I have checked in the U.S. and the U.K. has it on backorder. To anyone interested in it: Do you know how long it will be on backorder for? And do they want a deposit to put you on the preorder list?
I am also looking for a good pair of 1.5 meter analog RCA cables to go with it. I ordered a Cobalt Cable Digital Coax which was about $60, and is compared to cables costing 10 times as much. A pair of their analog cables is only about $90. Anyone else have some suggestions for some very good (but not excessively or unreasonably priced) interconnects? The Azur 840c has balanced outputs but my amp does not have balanced inputs, so I just need a good pair of RCA interconnects.
If anyone could help with the above questions (and also give some reviews of the 840c if you own it) I would be grateful.
Thanks, and welcome back to Head-Fi. It's great to finally have it back up. You may need to redo your signature and correct your URL links, and your PMs are probably gone, emoticons aren't back, but other than that it's running again. The staff put in lots of hard work to get it back up and I am grateful to all of them. Myself and a few others were going through "Head-Fi Withdrawal Symptoms".
Happy beginning of the Christmas season, fellow Jews, Christians, and Aliens.
Regards,
Phil
