Astell&Kern new flagship A&Ultima SP2000
Sep 9, 2021 at 2:05 PM Post #5,237 of 5,830
Has anyone tried sp2000 with a speaker amp or power amp to power planars. Any advice welcome
I tried Hifiman HE1000V2 (90db sensitivity) with Macintosh MHA-150 and Chord TT2. To me Macintosh gave stronger bass.
 
Sep 9, 2021 at 3:42 PM Post #5,238 of 5,830
I tried Hifiman HE1000V2 (90db sensitivity) with Macintosh MHA-150 and Chord TT2. To me Macintosh gave stronger bass.
Not surprising -- Mac could be called 'warm' where TT2 is definitely not.

Were you using the MHA as a all-in-one or feeding it from an external DAC?

I have HEKse and I prefer:

mScaler==>TT2==>LP==>HEKse
vs
mScaler==>TT2==>HEKse
 
Sep 9, 2021 at 4:19 PM Post #5,239 of 5,830
Not surprising -- Mac could be called 'warm' where TT2 is definitely not.

Were you using the MHA as a all-in-one or feeding it from an external DAC?

I have HEKse and I prefer:

mScaler==>TT2==>LP==>HEKse
vs
mScaler==>TT2==>HEKse
Feeding from SP2k. SP2K Vegas Gold --> MHA-150 - - > HE2000V2 is more to my liking than Chord TT2 in the middle. I hear more bass from the planars on Macintosh.
 
Sep 9, 2021 at 5:58 PM Post #5,240 of 5,830
I like the sp2000 dac but I want a pair of susvaras or focal utopias but just don’t have money to go down the Dave mscaler benchmark speaker amp at this time. So any experience using the sp2000 dac with a speaker amp would be great
 
Sep 13, 2021 at 12:05 AM Post #5,242 of 5,830
Would like to get some advice on the SP2000 Cu edition.
Recently experienced a situation that there is no sound from both the 2.5 and 3.5 mm ports.
Tried everything I can think of, e.g. reboot, reset setting & factory settings but still the same.
The unit is obviously working as I can play remotely to e.g. Sonos but there is no sound from both ports.
Tested the IEM on another device and it's working...

My question is:

1. Any idea what else can be done other than sending it back to AK
2. Any further suggestion ?

Thanks in advance
 
Sep 16, 2021 at 6:01 AM Post #5,250 of 5,830
Does anyone know how to transfer files to the AK from an M1 MacBook Pro?
Good luck doing this 😂 been trying to use my SE200 as a USB DAC and to transfer files on my M1 MacBook for months. No fix has been given by AK yet but @JasonNYC has been requesting it routinely. Apparently it’s due to the tight tolerances of the usb c slots on the M1 MacBooks but it worked absolutely fine on my 2017 MacBook Pro. I’ve tried 6 cables with no luck….
 

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