bryanbhu
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You know, that's something I've been wondering ever since I engaged in a desktop amp/dac search because the feedback tended to be flaky or is an unanswerable rhetoric. The only problem was that the competition doesn't seem to be any more conclusive either, unless you go for the older establishments. This transpired to be the inherent problem I encountered throughout this entire process regardless of my choice.
Then it's a question of what type of risks I want to take: 1- Go for the established old offerings, which is safest. 2- Hardly discussed offerings, which is riskiest. 3- Take the middle way, then take whatever appears to offer a good value.
The way I see it, at under $500 mark something has to give, and an added flavour to the unknowns going the chinese way. The question is whether I can tolerate the weakness to enjoy the upped strength, against the price tag. This is a calculated gamble much like buying a house, while rationalizing what little quantifiable I can find. My heavy-handed questioning in this thread is to gain some understanding of the methodology to deal with the known issues. Plenty of time to wait before it arrives anyway.
So we'll see how it goes, because this is a roll of a dice in the wild end here and curiosity is killing me. Provided that the volume pot is usable, I'll acclimatize myself to C2C for about half a year before looking up to ~$1000 upward mark. Getting to a staggered upgrade between amp and dac is where I'm headed.
userlander:
On a side note - never mind Jade as that's plausible - moving from RM-1 to D10 was obvious to me in clarity even with the stock amp (but it doesn't 'oomph' so you may opine differently). With Denon CDP and 19MK3 on the back end, C2C should have no (or less) excuse to sound similar/same to D10. If the difference isn't obvious after 3 weeks of aging, then naturally I'll be compelled to A-B them through DAC19. If it comes to that. I would've never even contemplated such a scenario previously.
Now, if only these pandora boxes would get shipped and reach me already! I bet it'll get stuck at the customs as well, curse me.
| Originally Posted by SPACEACE /img/forum/go_quote.gif But recently some of the reviews have been getting worse. Pot problems, leds not working, even a doa machine. It' seems to me maybe Audio-Gd might be overworked and the product is slipping? OR! Audio-Gd is a victim of the FOTM that's just lasted alot longer? I don't know but it seems I might be looking for a few other products. I don't want to go down the road of trying to find a better product once again only to find out it's really lacking. $400, S.S no tubes... anymore help??? |
You know, that's something I've been wondering ever since I engaged in a desktop amp/dac search because the feedback tended to be flaky or is an unanswerable rhetoric. The only problem was that the competition doesn't seem to be any more conclusive either, unless you go for the older establishments. This transpired to be the inherent problem I encountered throughout this entire process regardless of my choice.
Then it's a question of what type of risks I want to take: 1- Go for the established old offerings, which is safest. 2- Hardly discussed offerings, which is riskiest. 3- Take the middle way, then take whatever appears to offer a good value.
The way I see it, at under $500 mark something has to give, and an added flavour to the unknowns going the chinese way. The question is whether I can tolerate the weakness to enjoy the upped strength, against the price tag. This is a calculated gamble much like buying a house, while rationalizing what little quantifiable I can find. My heavy-handed questioning in this thread is to gain some understanding of the methodology to deal with the known issues. Plenty of time to wait before it arrives anyway.
So we'll see how it goes, because this is a roll of a dice in the wild end here and curiosity is killing me. Provided that the volume pot is usable, I'll acclimatize myself to C2C for about half a year before looking up to ~$1000 upward mark. Getting to a staggered upgrade between amp and dac is where I'm headed.
userlander:
On a side note - never mind Jade as that's plausible - moving from RM-1 to D10 was obvious to me in clarity even with the stock amp (but it doesn't 'oomph' so you may opine differently). With Denon CDP and 19MK3 on the back end, C2C should have no (or less) excuse to sound similar/same to D10. If the difference isn't obvious after 3 weeks of aging, then naturally I'll be compelled to A-B them through DAC19. If it comes to that. I would've never even contemplated such a scenario previously.
Now, if only these pandora boxes would get shipped and reach me already! I bet it'll get stuck at the customs as well, curse me.
