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    How Good a CD Transport is Required to Sound Better than Streaming?

    Serious unit dude, pretty sure you're gonna be rocking with that front end!
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    How Good a CD Transport is Required to Sound Better than Streaming?

    My Jay's Audio CD2-MK3 CD transport -> Lampizator Baltic V4 is equal roughly to local high rez files hosted on my Lumin L2 -> the Lampizator (Lumin U1 transport), streaming is not yet quite at the same level except in very rare anomalous cases.
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    Coda no 16 amplifier

    Wow man, who knew Peachtree would get to the Promised Land first. What mods are done and by whom?
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    Coda no 16 amplifier

    Exactly my experience. BTW just replaced my CODA CSIB with a S5.5 which replaced a #8. The S5.5 is Class A up to 50 watts into 8 ohms, A/B 100/200 into 4/2 ohms. Build quality is off the charts for $6K, will share my impressions of the sound once I've fully run it in. Early evidence is that this...
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    Coda no 16 amplifier

    Should have hit REPLY instead of POST my mistake. @yyzSB and I have been going back and forth on this forum and others for years about CODA gear and are reasonably familiar with our respective systems. I was really intending to query just him about the speaker choice, so no I'm not seeking...
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    Coda no 16 amplifier

    Sold my CODA CSiB and bought the lower power CODA S5.5 paired to a Qualiton C200 tube preamp from Audio Hungary. This combo will be the heart of my vinyl system, just trying to figure out which speakers to get for it. The S5.5 is Class A like the 16 but 50% less output current and wattage, need...
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    Lampizator Baltic 4

    Have had my Baltic 3/4 for awhile now and it just keeps improving - especially after swapping out all the tubes for what Lukasz recommended (listed as front to back): Emission Labs EML274B RCA VT99 6F8G with an adaptor to 6SN7 RCA 12BH7 Since swapping in these tubes the tonal density has...
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    Coda no 16 amplifier

    The #16 has XLR input so why use the Schitt between the X1 and the #16? IMO the Lumin app may not be as slick as Roon but sounds better in my system, so I gave up on Roon last year.
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    Lampizator Baltic 4

    What happened is I had to send my B3 in for warranty repair and it got put in a corner and forgotten for 2 months, then to compensate me they did the upgrade for free. Whether they had to use a different chassis they didn't say, I was just happy to get a B4 in the mail. My understanding is the...
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    Good DAC/Preamp for actives ATC SCM50 ASLT?

    Me too, but even more curious if AMR is going to come back to the hifi market with a high end CD and/or DAC with tubes! IFi is fantastic quality midfi gear - but the old 777 AMR stuff was UBER!
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    Lampizator Baltic 4

    Well i guess 12bh7s are next on my list. Lol i got an urge to pop the hood on the 4 and see the new 'engine' but would that void the warranty? And it wouldn't mean anything unless i had detailed photos of the 3's innards...
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    Lampizator Baltic 4

    Didn't know of the change in the 4 to 12BH7 from ECC82 and went ahead and plugged in the stock ECC82s from my 3 2 weeks ago when I got my 4 upgrade, sounds great to me anyways, is there something as in a voltage mismatch I should be concerned potentially about?
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    Coda no 16 amplifier

    Sorry no, I use Transparent Super speaker cables with my CSiB, but as mentioned I only WISH I had the #16. The P1 is hooked up using Transparent Super XLRs.
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    LampizatOr Baltic 3

    Strange that the Lampizator website says no Baltic 3 upgrade to Engine11 and yet both of us have gotten one
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    Coda no 16 amplifier

    @yyzSB Also some people run two different amps one for the lows and one for the highs, like SS for the lows and tubes for the highs. No I don't have a #16 I have the P1 into a Gryphon Diablo 300 at the moment but had the P1 previously into a BAT VK-225SE using Leedh, sounded great I have a...
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    Coda no 16 amplifier

    Good choice ie #16. BTW I have the P1 and the Leedh digital volume control is VERY good, the P! reviewers all agree too... your family can learn no? lol maybe not?
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    LampizatOr Baltic 3

    @Gjo FYI I sent my Baltic 3 back for warranty repair 2.5 months ago and it accidentally got put away in a corner and forgotten about until 2 weeks ago when I followed up, and in recompense Lampi generously sent it back 3 days ago with the Engine 11 board and labeled "Baltic-4" - look at the...
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    LampizatOr Baltic 3

    Hey guys thanks for the recommendations Hey thanks man, much appreciated!
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    LampizatOr Baltic 3

    Hey I just bought a B3 and was wondering if there is a consensus around the best tube set and where to get the adapters...
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    Gryphon Diablo 300 - 5.5 years of ownership

    Just bought a 300 to pair with a set of new B&W 804 D4s (I upgraded from the D3s) after auditioning them together at my dealer for an 8 hour stretch on Tuesday. The audition was a non-stop pleasure train bordering on orgasmic even though the source files were streamed via Roon, which is not very...
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    Coda no 16 amplifier

    I have the No 8 version 1 and paired it with a Modwright LS 36.5 tube preamp, fantastic results sonically, this pre has transformers and low output impedance around 75 ohms and -120 db S/N ratio, I replaced the stock rectifier tube with a NOS Mullard. Speakers are inefficient B&W 804 D3s and yet...
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    Coda no 16 amplifier

    Bought a CODA No 8 version II about 4 months ago with the 1st 18 watts in Class A, and I gotta say I still cannot believe CODA sells this amp for 6K. I guess they really don't care to compete in NA with Pass or Roland or Levinson etc. It is much better in every category than any amp I have owned...

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