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
Now I'm itching to get a good receiver or desktop dac-amp to drive these monitors with for a better experience. I'm thinking of saving up money for a Jotunheim and with reasons to tell my commander (the missus) before I drop 500 on that one.
I recently picked up a NuForce uDAC 3 here from massdrop for $60. It has s 3.5mm jack for headphone (IEMs mainly) and Pre-out you can feed to the JBL and control the volume with the volume knob. I tested it and it does a good job with the JBL's.
If your still interested in a DAC/AMP that can run the JBL's and headphone the Audio-GD NFB-11 (I have an older NFB-11 and new R2R 11) is fantastic. I believe the DAC to be superior than the Jotunheim and the single ended 3.5mm jack deliver more power, but the Jotunheim balanced output is considerably more powerful. If you not using balanced headphone/cables it's doesn't matter.
Of course there are cheaper option and DAC only options if the JBL's are all you need to drive.
They now have a distributor in the Netherlands that also sells their gear: https://www.magnahifi.com/en/