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
The scratching noise you're talking about is completely normal for an analog pot, and it only happens when you're turning the knob. Third, the CNC machined enclosure of this SMSL headamp is so expensive to produce that it leaves way less money for the internal circuitry. The Magni 3 has a much more cost efficient but still very nice looking bent sheet metal enclosure, a fantastic balance of cost vs. looks from an industrial design standpoint, and leaves way more money on the bill of materials for the actual meat.
I've done a teardown of the Magni 3 myself and can speak to it's high quality internals including an Alps pot and Nichicon capacitors. From the looks of my splatter-free board, they've gotten much better about their production quality than they used to.