stvjfp1;500582 Wrote: > Thank you for your suggestion. Looks like XM4 amp could be what I am > looking for, even thou the portable aspect is not important for me. > > But I was wondering if I should try one with a dac. > Found at least to that looks interesting: > > http://www.mavaudio.com/base/ > and > http://www.beresford-dac.com/ > > Any thoughts?
When I got the XM4, I wasn't looking for something portable. However, I couldn't find a non-portable device that fit my budget. As it turned out, I get some portable use out of it too when traveling. These look like very interesting devices. My only concern would be that they aren't dedicated headphone amp devices, so you have to wonder how much attention was paid to the headphone amp circuitry. Hopefully there are some folks that have used either of these devices that can comment. You might want to do a search over at head-fi.org for these units for comments. Be forwarned though - they are a die-hard bunch that would drop $500 on a portable amp for their iPod at the drop of a hat :-). If they have 30 day trials, you might take advantage of that and judge for yourself. -- maggior Rich --------- Setup: 2 SB3s, 4 Booms, 1 duet, 1 receiver. SuSE 11.0 Server running SqueezeCenter 7.3.3, MusicIP, and SqueezeSlave. Current library stats: 30,015 songs, 2,448 albums, 451 artists. http://www.last.fm/user/maggior ------------------------------------------------------------------------ maggior's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9080 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73217 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
