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RE: getting an Ncore




well... that would take too long and deprive me of music HERE & NOW. i'm listening to decent enough JBL 6 1/2" outdoor speakers on way too thick sounding vintage technics power, and want to start building a system one upgrade at a time, starting with cheap gear... a breeze audio (like that name better than nobsound, weiliang, yeeco, K. GuSS or fosi... particularly as "air" and how much better class D delivers it is a top priority), a little dot MkII (to test if tubes are friends or the sludgy foes i've always avoided like the plague), a sabaj DA3 DAC & the miniphilharmonitors i lust after... to keep incrementally improving my system as well as gauging exactly what direction to go for the "final system".

if i wait until i can afford N cores (IF mini phils aren't starving for lushness) i'll be listening to a "barely entry level" system a long time.

i still worry that class D might not mate well with ruthlessly RAAL ribbons. my NHT superzero soft domes were starved for detail even AFTER driving them with my panasonic SA-XR, but the excellent (i'd argue B&W quality) aluminum dome tweeter proved to sound a bit dry & clinical on the same amp and acquired an even more liquid sound than NHT/panasonic driven by an entry level cambridge stack.

i want to familiarize myself with mini phils (and likely hyperdetailed gustard X22) which i'm HOPING will be life mates before committing to ANY amp tech. RAALs, ESS9038, & class D might be "too much clinical" even with a tube preamp. i love speed & detail, but not when it turns into a dry & mechanical sound so that water drums 1 doesn't sound real any more as it did on my NHTs.

besides... as an avid hifi bargain hunter, i want to be able to report on the "cheap gear" which might potentially be satisfying enough with RAAL ribbons and the first "real" DAC i've ever owned.

if only my NHTs had dayton (formerly MB quart) tianium dome tweeters... i think i wouldn't have felt the need to upgrade. heck... i could even have lived with my energy RC10s on any track BUT water drums one if it wasn't for their flimsy cereal box cabinets driving me nuts once the distortion holes were plugged. i despise resonance more than anything.

i'm STILL struggling to find work in one of the worst economies in the country. even little upgrades are a down the road proposition.



Edits: 01/17/18

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