The thing I would say to the people that are put off by lessthan immediate response from Tim. There prices are certainly lower than competive products for companies with full service. You can’t have it both ways. Would you be willing to pay an extra 10% to get faster reponse? In my case I have owned the SU-1 and the Spring 3 KTE with Preamp. In both cases I never suffered unduly from having to wait for a response.
Once you get the unit installed and broken in it is quite rare that you would ever have to communicate with Tim again.
When I sold my Spring 3 Tim responded in a reasonable time frame to my request to transfer the warranty to a fellow in Toronto.
Lol I’m still here. Just haven’t logged in a while, working way too much. Looks like I have some catching up to do on this thread but yes I worked with Kitsune support. They were great, even though I wasn’t really having an issue with the May
Tom @twablt : any news about your Serene? You are the only owner of this new preamp active on this forum, so please give us an update when you listen to it.
No I haven’t. It should be a really simple test I just need to either look for somewhere in those boxes of cables or buy an rca splitter, so that I can use the same output from my streamer. The auralic will only allow you to use usb or any of the other digital outputs but not both simultaneously. Switching between both DACs at the preamp is easy since the Trinnov has multiple balanced inputs and it allows me to individually set the volume on each one so that I can level match them.
In other news, I just brought back home a loaner Innuos Phœnix Net, to compare to the Melco S100.
I plugged it in a couple of hours ago.
Same price here for both of them.
I’m eventually looking at upgrading my streamer going into my May KTE. I’m currently using a Roon Nucleus with a Teddy Pardo power supply, but am considering a Lumin U1 or Auralic Aries G2.1.
I’m curious if anyone else has experience with either of these, particularly when paired with they May DAC? Any other streamer considerations around this price range is also appreciated.
! Probably on loan, but still very impressive. Even some audio developers don’t have one.
