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Re: Pyrate Leaderboard
« Reply #140 on: October 07, 2014, 08:40:30 PM »
Can anyone share some thoughts with the different Geek Out units?

I'm currently finding my GO 720 to have a much better DAC section than amp section.
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Re: Pyrate Leaderboard
« Reply #141 on: October 07, 2014, 08:55:36 PM »
Quote from: Clemmaster on October 07, 2014, 08:26:24 PM
Anybody tried the iFi stuff? The iMicro DSD seems to be all the rage these days...

burn seems to like it.  I tried their stuff at RMAF and thought it was okay, nothing special.

Quote from: No_One411 on October 07, 2014, 08:40:30 PM
Can anyone share some thoughts with the different Geek Out units?

I'm currently finding my GO 720 to have a much better DAC section than amp section.

That's what I've found too with the 450 and 1000.  I've been using the GO exclusively as a DAC.
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Re: Pyrate Leaderboard
« Reply #142 on: October 07, 2014, 09:02:26 PM »
Quote from: Clemmaster on October 07, 2014, 08:26:24 PM
Anybody tried the iFi stuff? The iMicro DSD seems to be all the rage these days...

I have an iCAN amp, but not much experience with which to assess it against anything else.

The ifi marketing-hype game at HF made me want to vomit.  :vomit:

...there, better out than in, as my old mum used to say. In fact, she said it even when she was quite young.

Seriously, it really put me off.  But I hate to think that might stop me buying a decent product at a good price!
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Re: Pyrate Leaderboard
« Reply #143 on: October 07, 2014, 09:05:57 PM »
I put Geek by LH in the same category. Every product they make is the best, period. Hmm, ok.

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Re: Pyrate Leaderboard
« Reply #144 on: October 07, 2014, 09:18:26 PM »
Quote from: Clemmaster on October 07, 2014, 09:05:57 PM
I put Geek by LH in the same category. Every product they make is the best, period. Hmm, ok.



Probably because Light Harmonic has 2 products released on the market: the Da Vinci and the Geek Out, both of which are excellent DACs at their price point.

With regard to Audio-GD, they're hit or miss. I've spent some time with the NFB-7 and it falls behind the X-Sabre and is priced higher to boot.
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Re: Pyrate Leaderboard
« Reply #145 on: October 07, 2014, 09:46:50 PM »
Quote from: Clemmaster on October 07, 2014, 09:05:57 PM
I put Geek by LH in the same category. Every product they make is the best, period. Hmm, ok.



Well, HF get's paid money by sponsors so.....

Moderation invariably shapes narratives on forums just as it does in any form of media.  So just look to who controls the message and how.
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Re: Pyrate Leaderboard
« Reply #146 on: October 07, 2014, 10:00:10 PM »
Quote from: zerodeefex on October 07, 2014, 09:18:26 PM
Probably because Light Harmonic has 2 products released on the market: the Da Vinci and the Geek Out, both of which are excellent DACs at their price point.

With regard to Audio-GD, they're hit or miss. I've spent some time with the NFB-7 and it falls behind the X-Sabre and is priced higher to boot.
WOW, really? You don`t know their best product?!

http://www.lightharmonic.com/lightspeed.html                           
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Re: Pyrate Leaderboard
« Reply #147 on: October 07, 2014, 10:17:38 PM »
Quote from: zerodeefex on October 07, 2014, 09:18:26 PM
With regard to Audio-GD, they're hit or miss. I've spent some time with the NFB-7 and it falls behind the X-Sabre and is priced higher to boot.

Ouch!
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Re: Pyrate Leaderboard
« Reply #148 on: October 07, 2014, 10:40:13 PM »
Quote from: zerodeefex on October 07, 2014, 09:18:26 PM
Quote from: Clemmaster on October 07, 2014, 09:05:57 PM
I put Geek by LH in the same category. Every product they make is the best, period. Hmm, ok.



Probably because Light Harmonic has 2 products released on the market: the Da Vinci and the Geek Out, both of which are excellent DACs at their price point.

With regard to Audio-GD, they're hit or miss. I've spent some time with the NFB-7 and it falls behind the X-Sabre and is priced higher to boot.

Which version? Original or NFB-7.32 / 2014?
From the time I had with the X-Sabre, I would never put it ahead of the NFB-7.32 or NFB-27. No way.

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Re: Pyrate Leaderboard
« Reply #149 on: October 08, 2014, 02:57:30 AM »
Quote from: Clemmaster on October 07, 2014, 10:40:13 PM
Which version? Original or NFB-7.32 / 2014?
From the time I had with the X-Sabre, I would never put it ahead of the NFB-7.32 or NFB-27. No way.

The original (this would have been 2012 when I had a lengthy audition I believe). The X-Sabre suffers from trying to not be a SABRE DAC. Some things are smoothed over a little too much.

The NFB had garbage for a USB implementation. The coax was better from the CDP that was plugged in (XA-5400ES), but it still was not as good as the X-Sabre when I bought it it. Both were driving a fully balanced Dynahi and HD800s. The NFB is grainy as hell in the treble and the bass was dull. It's super hard to differentiate pitch in the bass region. Super obvious when listening to the fairfield four on the DAC.
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