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Around a year or so latter, he mentioned to someone in a thread that he had just ordered a Monarchy M24...his latter posts confirmed what I'd hoped.....a toe tapping musical component, and with beautiful tone.For me, components in my system, must also have nearly perfect tone....the Monarchy is one of those components. The component must also be musical....I have not been an audiophile for around 15 years, (I'm well out of "that" audio stage)....the Monarchy is very musical.
Any gut feel for how much better the new NM (2007) version is from the M (2006) version?
Did you compare the tube output vs. SS output?Did Mr. Poon mention if his SS output is just an op-amp output stage or discrete output stage?
I may have missed this, but what is your speaker/sub setup, i.e do you have the speakers running full-range and the sub is augmenting them at some rolloff frequency, or do they talk via an active crossover?
If the SS DAC goes straight into the sub, then is your DACs' music source (cd, transport, whatever) the only source you have, (cuz otherwise the sub is not involved in any other signal path)?
Great find (using both DACs to solve a problem)!
Have you removed the GW Labs DSP to understand what the NM24 sounds like without it, or in other words, what the DSP is doing for this level of DAC? ThxTed
Hi 1000a, I'm just trying to figure out how you are running your system .... there are volume controls on each of the SB3, NM24, TVC and 1000a. I'm guessing you have the SB3 digital output volume at max or disabled and are not using the linestage part of the NM24 (and thus not its volume control). Do you use the TVC as your main attenuator and just have the Jolida's volume set at max to get it out of circuit?If so, that would mean that the sub (Run directly from the NM24 SS DAC) volume would not change with the main speaker volume. Or, do you leave the TVC at a fixed setting, the Jolida at max, and just use the SB3 volume so that sub and main speaker volume remains equal?
If so, that would mean that the sub (Run directly from the NM24 SS DAC) volume would not change with the main speaker volume.
Do you use the TVC as your main attenuator and just have the Jolida's volume set at max to get it out of circuit?
I'm guessing you have the SB3 digital output volume at max or disabled and are not using the linestage part of the NM24 (and thus not its volume control).
Or, do you leave the TVC at a fixed setting, the Jolida at max, and just use the SB3 volume so that sub and main speaker volume remains equal?