Look at you and your neat searches. I always have like 7 variations of each term I want to make sure o hit all posabilities
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Its very nice of you to have the ecp dsha included in there to look on my behalf.
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Haha. Thatâs the right way to do it, but Iâm just window shopping here.
@Souldriver I donât even own a Utopia, but they are so beautiful I just like to oogle the new listings.
Effect Audio launched their new signature line of cables
looks pretty great, I really like the new hardware and itâs impressive that con-x is included out of the box
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Raal will be selling their new circumaural (ca-1a) at canjam chicago
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do you know the assumed price? ~2500???
Also do you know if these will run off a normal hp amp or will these require the jot R or supâd up Raal amp ?
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You will need the jot or an adaptor box. I think pricing should be like 2.5-3
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Yeah it sucks. It was a great into streamer. That covered many until they were ready for a mich bigger step.
The mercury streamer looks very promising though.
I guess with the Lite and Mercury, they really would have had a hard time finding a place for it in the lineup. I should sell mine and capitalize on the rarity 
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HahaâŠwas kinda thinking the same thing. Looking to upgrade soon anyway, and not sure Iâll keep a second setup aside from portable, so might as well.
The mercury, afaik, has very similar functionality and performance as the PI2AES, but is more âplug and play.â The PI2AES required some setup and fiddling that was more than the mainstream wants to deal with. I think the Mercury opens a much broader market.
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Both the light and Mercury are basically the same design as the Pi2AES AFAICS, with the missing outputs on the Light, and no requirement for a 19+V PSU
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The mercury also looks to have a spot for an m.2 drive, so local on device storage as well?
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Iâm a big fan of active monitors for nearfield/midfield listening and owned a bunch including their older models.
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Solo6--focal-solo6-6.5-inch-powered-studio-monitor
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Solo6Be--focal-solo6-be-6.5-inch-powered-studio-monitor
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Checking out Hans âdry toastâ Beekhyzen this week and I learned about the SOtM motherboard/kit⊠Interesting option for the DIYâer.
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Almost got my hands on a pair last year⊠nice to see they found a way to make them look even sexier
Unfortunately only this info, nothing exact about the inner workings of the Dac.
The Gustard makes a good impression on paper.
I didnât know Schumann until now.
It looks a bit like the Ares 2.
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Photos of Schiitâs new 10 tube headphone amp âFolkvangrâ are out. Also it looks like itâs going to be priced at $1,799. Going off of the photos itâs going to be single ended only at inputs and outputs, has a preamp out, and I think a tube passthrough mode so you can run it solid state? Anyways here are the picsâŠ
Only gonna upload the front and back here to keep this post from getting too long, if youâd like to see more you can see them on this post on head-fiâŠ
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Also, there are only 247 (probably less now) units available and they may go on sale next week.
Itâs a (per Jason) Valhalla on steroids but it doesnât sound like a Valhalla.
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