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rnrmf1971 07-25-2019 09:41 PM

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Originally Posted by TOGA (Post 974227)
Thanks every one. One thing to do next is to find a good 75ohm coaxial cable to link from Moon MiND2 to Luxman digital input. Previously use Oyaide FTVS910 AESEBU as Ayon CD35 had that balanced input while the Luxman does not. On try now is Transparent XL Digital Link. It was great, except the price. I am looking for something around 900$.
This Japanese SAEC Stratosphere DIG-1 is interesting. It has special copper surrounded by thick silver pipe as a conductor.Attachment 59604

I recently picked up the Snake River Audio Boomslang digital cable based on the Audio Bacon Review. It's a bit below $900

It sounds good and had a return policy that I didn't need to take advantage of.

My experience auditioning digital coaxial cables has typically resulted in me finding little in the way of meaningful differences but that wasn't the case in this instance.

Charles 07-26-2019 03:40 AM

Toga, years ago I owned for probably about 2 years Magnepan 3.3 loudspeakers. I was concerned about the bass when I bought the speaker. My previous speakers were Dalquist DQ 10's with dual DQ1W's and Dalquist electronic crossover. I could neve get a good interface between the 10's and the 1W's. The 1W's were sealed and had 12" woofers. I wish I had never sold this system. As I remember the bass turned out to be excellent and the speaker had excellent dynamic capacity. It is little wonder that Magnepan has survived all these years. The sound was very coherent and it did classical music very well. It was a surprisingly rugged speaker playing the 1812 at high level very easily. I'm not surprised you like the 3.7i. Magnepans are superb speakers for the price and very coherent.

TOGA 07-26-2019 08:03 AM

TOGA 2019 update
 
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Originally Posted by Charles (Post 974252)
Toga, years ago I owned for probably about 2 years Magnepan 3.3 loudspeakers. I was concerned about the bass when I bought the speaker. My previous speakers were Dalquist DQ 10's with dual DQ1W's and Dalquist electronic crossover. I could neve get a good interface between the 10's and the 1W's. The 1W's were sealed and had 12" woofers. I wish I had never sold this system. As I remember the bass turned out to be excellent and the speaker had excellent dynamic capacity. It is little wonder that Magnepan has survived all these years. The sound was very coherent and it did classical music very well. It was a surprisingly rugged speaker playing the 1812 at high level very easily. I'm not surprised you like the 3.7i. Magnepans are superb speakers for the price and very coherent.



And Moon 888 push them hard :)
I like Maggie so much that I purchased the smaller one, 1.7i to use with NAD C338 for bedroom system which I use mostly for Youtube casting, it sounded good most contents I watch contain mostly voice. 50W class D watt from NAD worked quite ok too.

Toga

howiebrou 07-30-2019 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by TOGA (Post 974227)
Thanks every one. One thing to do next is to find a good 75ohm coaxial cable to link from Moon MiND2 to Luxman digital input. Previously use Oyaide FTVS910 AESEBU as Ayon CD35 had that balanced input while the Luxman does not. On try now is Transparent XL Digital Link. It was great, except the price. I am looking for something around 900$.
This Japanese SAEC Stratosphere DIG-1 is interesting. It has special copper surrounded by thick silver pipe as a conductor.Attachment 59604Attachment 59607

Toga, try a Gobel cable. They're fantastic.

howie

TOGA 08-03-2019 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by howiebrou (Post 974630)
Toga, try a Gobel cable. They're fantastic.



howie



Thanks Howie,
Now also looking for new interconnects for Moon 850P>Moon 888
I have in mind the followings.
1. Transparent Opus
2. Transparent XL
3. TARA Labs Muse
4. TARA Evolution Zero

2 and 3 are more affordable.
Toga

Masterlu 08-03-2019 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by TOGA (Post 974900)
Thanks Howie,
Now also looking for new interconnects for Moon 850P>Moon 888
I have in mind the followings.
1. Transparent Opus
2. Transparent XL
3. TARA Labs Muse
4. TARA Evolution Zero

2 and 3 are more affordable.
Toga

FWIW, for analog cables I have found nothing better than WW Platinum Eclipse 8. I even used to sell Transparent, not even close according to my ears.

SCAudiophile 08-03-2019 03:07 PM

+1 on early impressions of Goebel cables as heard in Munich,...promising

These are a cut above IMHO;

Shunyata SIGMA XLR
Elrod Statement Gold XLR
Elrod Master Series Statement Gold XLR

All available single-ended as well.

I live with these and frankly they have beat everything that ever came thru the door over last 25 years by a wide margin to my listening tasted.

FWIW...

TOGA 08-07-2019 04:04 AM

TOGA 2019 update
 
2 Attachment(s)
Comparing Luxman D08u to Esoteric K1 GranAttachment 59645Attachment 59646

TOGA 08-07-2019 05:11 AM

Esoteric K1 sounds incredible .I love it.
Luxman sounded more relax, sweeter, great detail.
Esoteric is bold, confident, dynamic and hyper detailed.
Actually I like both.

SCAudiophile 08-07-2019 07:41 AM

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Originally Posted by TOGA (Post 975252)
Comparing Luxman D08u to Esoteric K1 GranAttachment 59645Attachment 59646

Congratulations on the addition of the K1 to your beautiful system!!!


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