Impressions Part 2
Dassun T2i .:www.dussun.com_׿Խ¼¼Êõ ÕæʵÑÝÒï
This 42 watt integrated amp with headphone amp and dac was donated by Ping Gong of AAA-Audio.com. I had this in my house for the week leading up to canjam and it is a sweet performer. I wish I could have gotten more ears on it at canjam but hopefully the person that won it will post their thoughts. It is a screaming good performer at AAA-Audio's price of $800. I had it in my speaker system powering my Alon Lotus SE speakers and used the dac section, also compared it to the Apogee Duet as well as cranking out the LPs with my TT. It has a well balanced sound as an integrated amp falling just short of my $2500 retail Eastern Electric tube amp/pre combo. Very detailed and dynamic with no signs of solid state glare, the music just flowed. The dac section was right up there with the apogee duet just slightly softer sounding. You could not go wrong with this unit. The headphone amp sounded great as well, if you were to buy the components separately you'd never come close to this quality build and sound for the $$.
Manley Labs Steelhead, Jumbo Shrimp and monoblocks powering the PSB Montana speakers. These were stunning and did a great job in a tough acoustic environment, they were used for the Harley/Hoffman talks and sounded stunning. I can't thank Manley and PSB enough for putting this rig together I woke my butt up early on Sunday to kick out the jams with some vinyl I brought with this system and it was worth getting out of bed at 7am to do it.
Audio gd reference dac, I had this at home for the week leading up to canjam and used it with my Stacker ll amp. Wow what a nice dac and it lives up to its reference name. I was hoping I would win it in the raffle but came up empty. Sachu won it and I hope in the next few weeks he'll comment on it.
Biggest regret of the meet was not getting to the Smyth Room and not hearing Craig Uthus' production version of the Balancing Act and his new phono pre amp. I'll be making a trip to SoCal just to hear Craig's stuff.
Dassun T2i .:www.dussun.com_׿Խ¼¼Êõ ÕæʵÑÝÒï
This 42 watt integrated amp with headphone amp and dac was donated by Ping Gong of AAA-Audio.com. I had this in my house for the week leading up to canjam and it is a sweet performer. I wish I could have gotten more ears on it at canjam but hopefully the person that won it will post their thoughts. It is a screaming good performer at AAA-Audio's price of $800. I had it in my speaker system powering my Alon Lotus SE speakers and used the dac section, also compared it to the Apogee Duet as well as cranking out the LPs with my TT. It has a well balanced sound as an integrated amp falling just short of my $2500 retail Eastern Electric tube amp/pre combo. Very detailed and dynamic with no signs of solid state glare, the music just flowed. The dac section was right up there with the apogee duet just slightly softer sounding. You could not go wrong with this unit. The headphone amp sounded great as well, if you were to buy the components separately you'd never come close to this quality build and sound for the $$.
Manley Labs Steelhead, Jumbo Shrimp and monoblocks powering the PSB Montana speakers. These were stunning and did a great job in a tough acoustic environment, they were used for the Harley/Hoffman talks and sounded stunning. I can't thank Manley and PSB enough for putting this rig together I woke my butt up early on Sunday to kick out the jams with some vinyl I brought with this system and it was worth getting out of bed at 7am to do it.
Audio gd reference dac, I had this at home for the week leading up to canjam and used it with my Stacker ll amp. Wow what a nice dac and it lives up to its reference name. I was hoping I would win it in the raffle but came up empty. Sachu won it and I hope in the next few weeks he'll comment on it.
Biggest regret of the meet was not getting to the Smyth Room and not hearing Craig Uthus' production version of the Balancing Act and his new phono pre amp. I'll be making a trip to SoCal just to hear Craig's stuff.
