Hello, I just joined, primarily for the audiophile products. Looking at purchasing the NHT C3 speakers for our new living room. Space is about 15 feet wide by 33 long and they will fire long ways. Space is just for general listening, music room with all equipment is downstairs, so hoping they will fill it with sound nicely. Cheers.
Mar 18, 2024
Does anyone know how this would work with the newly released Magni 3 from Schiit? I am hesitating between that and the Massdrop O2 AMP+SDAC combo, or even the Topping D30+A30 combo also found here. I am pretty new to the Mid-fi community and would like some advice based on my sound preferences and my current and upcoming gear. So far I have some portable gear, including the Topping NX1s to run with my Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge, as well as the Cayin C5 (DAC/AMP version) paired with a Cayin N3 DAP. My headphones include a Philips Fidelio L1, Shure SRH750DJ, Beyerdynamic DT1350 80 ohm, AKG K7XX, as well as a Fostex T-X0 (my first planar) and a Sennheiser HD6XX on the way. As for IEMs, it's only worth mentioning the Magaosi K3 Pro (and the VE Monk Plus of course ;) ). I listen to various music styles but tend to be more on the Hip Hop / RnB side, so I do like my bass (although I wouldn't consider myself a basshead). So what would you guys suggest be the best combo out of the 3 I mentioned for me to enter the desktop DAC/AMP world (tight budget around or under 200 dollars, thanks Massdrop for forcing me to get the T-X0 and HD6XX! :D )? Thanks for your suggestions!
= You can buy a sepaerate amp or dac and still use it with the o2+sdac in case you want to either upgrade the dac or amp. For example the magni 3 is a better amp, so you could output the sdac to that amp and that amp has rca outputs so you could passthough the dac through the magni 3 to something else like powered monitors.
If you have powered monitors/speakers I would recommend the sdac and schit magni 3 amp combo.
I you have passive monitors/speakers then you could just buy a all in one like the smsl AD18. I seen massdrop have a few times lately for around $100. Very good deal to me.
Also, if you do want to go down the passive pre amp path with the Schiit Sys, it may be worth looking at the JDS Labs OL Switcher. It has two inputs and two outputs making it a more complete switching pre amp in my opinion.
I hope all of this helps and please correct me if I got anything wrong.