Necrolic
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I will be upgrading my amp and DAC soon, with a pretty decent budget. I'm willing to spend $1700 total on the upgrade.
For now it will be used with my D5000 with partial mods (see sig), but in the future I plan to upgrade to one of the following 3 headphones:
- DX1000
- LA7000
- T1
I really am clueless as to what to get at this pricepoint but I was looking at a few options, 2 of which are $700 under my budget so I don't know what I could improve from there.
- HeadRoom Desktop Ultra Amp/DAC (~$1700)
- Audio-GD C2 & DAC19 DSP-1 Version (~$1000)
- Heed Canamp and Dactilus (~$1200)
Now out of those I'm kind of leaning towards the Audio-GD combo or HeadRoom box, because I've heard nothing but great things about both, and that both are quite neutral yet neither is cold or analytical. As far as the Heed options go, I know the Canamp is quite highly regarded (although I don't know about in comparison to the other two), but I've heard next to nothing about the Dactilus.
What would be some good combos in the sub-$1700 range for me?
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For now it will be used with my D5000 with partial mods (see sig), but in the future I plan to upgrade to one of the following 3 headphones:
- DX1000
- LA7000
- T1
I really am clueless as to what to get at this pricepoint but I was looking at a few options, 2 of which are $700 under my budget so I don't know what I could improve from there.
- HeadRoom Desktop Ultra Amp/DAC (~$1700)
- Audio-GD C2 & DAC19 DSP-1 Version (~$1000)
- Heed Canamp and Dactilus (~$1200)
Now out of those I'm kind of leaning towards the Audio-GD combo or HeadRoom box, because I've heard nothing but great things about both, and that both are quite neutral yet neither is cold or analytical. As far as the Heed options go, I know the Canamp is quite highly regarded (although I don't know about in comparison to the other two), but I've heard next to nothing about the Dactilus.
What would be some good combos in the sub-$1700 range for me?
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