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    Quote: Anyone?  bang for the buck, DAC vs Tube amp for first purchase?

I'm making a purchase soon, I just can't decide between getting this dac or the project sunrise tube amp?  I'm thinking if I start w/ the dac I could find a cheap vintage amp to use for the hp out and a set of bookshelfs.     I'm really wondering what you guys think is the better starting...

It looks awesome!

wow, was looking at one of these, but who wants to pay $250 for a dac that needs 20+ mods and doesn't even come w/ a psu?

here's the reply I got from their forum   The Opus is basically just the DAC by itself and it has balanced output. If you want to get SE output you will need to either get the following: Ballsie Lite Converter Or Line stage with built in Ballsie IVY Even if you're going to go...

Quote: Ebay seems to have the greatest selection of dacs in this price range.  I have been looking at the aune, but it only does 16/48 through usb.  My laptop only has the option of usb or the headphone jack.  I have alot of sacd rips that are 24/192 24/88 etc and don't want to down...

^^ looking at buying one of these, any comments?

This is the most recent thread I could find on the opus dac, I've read a bit here and the diy forum, but I can't really be sure.  I'm currently using a laptop that would either have to be usb out or headjack to rca.  I'd like to be able to use optical or coax in the future.  Would this be a good...

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This was looking like a good combo, but it sounds like the E7 as a portable will be useless for my phone that only has a headphone jack and micro hdmi.

  It's a little more than I'd like to spend but the newer model is **** sexy.   ok, found the new review, sorry to bump an old one   http://www.head-fi.org/t/553325/review-musical-paradise-mp-301-mk2-vacuum-tube-integrated-amp

I can tell if I'm looking at a spectrogram (-:  I have many flac some going as high as 24-192.  I can't tell much difference, but space isn't an issue so I'll take the highest resolution available.

http://www.head-fi.org/products/category/amp-dacs  I'm curious what happened to the first 3 places in ranking?   I currently have MDR-V6 and will probably get AKG-K702 for my next hp's  I listen to a lot of classical, also quite a bit of live music, I have tons of grateful dead, led zep...

MIne is made in Thailand, purchased about a month ago from amazon US site.

I can only compare them to my senn hd280s and the v6 us not fully broken in but I like then better, I will be getting the beyer velour pads today, the senns were a bit more comfy.

lots to consider here, better kiss my wallet goodbye.

Blackswan   8.5/10   I had heard the hoopla from the dancer who felt she wasn't credited during Portmans acceptance speech.  What a bunch of bs, her acting was great, the dancing was barely even part of the movie. Great movie, very intense.

I did some searching here, and the threads are pretty old.  At the under $100 price point is a USB DAC any thing but gimmick?   I'm interested in a headphone tube amp but don't want to throw money away.  I've seen some reasonable looking tube amps under $100 and under $250.  ...

1. Grateful Dead, 1968-86 mainly, some 90s.  Accoustic and electric sets, the wall of sound "wolf" Jerry Garcia Accoustic Band over 1tb of .flac 2. Classical - 90gb of mostly vinyl transfers 24-96 flac, some higher, sacd dvd-a everything from Bach to Wagner. 3. Soundgarden, whitestripes, old...