Hello, I just joined, primarily for the audiophile products. Looking at purchasing the NHT C3 speakers for our new living room. Space is about 15 feet wide by 33 long and they will fire long ways. Space is just for general listening, music room with all equipment is downstairs, so hoping they will fill it with sound nicely. Cheers.
Mar 18, 2024
"GoliathOW With your budget in mind, I would go with the Aune hybrid amp/dac. The newest version will work with DSD files as well, now dropping: https://www.massdrop.com/buy/aune-t1-se-headphone-amp . You will want to upgrade the tube though, and you have room in your budget for that to go with the best, buy this bugle boy: http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-NOS-NIB-Amperex-6922-Rare-Bugle-Boy-Gold-Pin-Tube-England-/201790305179?hash=item2efba3b39b:g:7gYAAOSwLEtYg9XG . You are now set for some real fun. I bought the last version, non-DSD as a gift, along with a USN NOS NIB Sylvania USA USN-CHS-6922 Silver Shield Gold Pin tube and also upgraded the caps (painful work to fit the larger caps- not required unless you are so driven, I fit mine in without a gap in housing, crazy tight; https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B51p4wWH3DnzLV96UUtCM1JydmM/view ). This is a hybrid, dac-tube-opamp, lots 'O' folks will bash, not pure etc. When you have more $$ try a pure tube SE amp with the best DAC you can afford, until then you will love this hybrid, DSD ready, dac/tube/ss amp with your new HD700's. To convert your files to DSD, not needed but try it, free trial: https://www.jriver.com "
reviews: https://www.head-fi.org/f/threads/aune-t1-usb-tube-dac-ss-amp-discussion-thread-see-first-post-for-faq-updated-on-02-14-15.633006/