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
- THX AAA 789 footprint and case style
- Topping D90 performance
- Top-of-the-line AKM chip... maybe two
- Fully balanced
- Remote
- Bluetooth 5.0 (AptX, LDAC, all that stuff)
- USB: 32-bit 768kHZ, DSD 512, MQA (I mostly listen to Tidal); SPDIF: 24-bit 192kHz, DoP 256 (I don't need this level of craziness, but increased mass appeal increases likelihood of sales)
- USB-C! PLEASE just go with USB-C. USB-B is a minimum. If I see mini or micro, I'll enter your grandma's house and spill marinara sauce mixed with motor oil on her favorite chair.
- Selectable (forced) sample rate
- Selectable filters
MEH:- Fixed / variable RCA output (better yet, XLR if it will fit)
- Preamp capability (analog volume control is better than digital)
- IIS input (if it will fit, I don't even know what to use it with)
- Crossfeed (only if it's high quality)
- Parametric EQ (5-band or more)
- Analog-to-digital conversion (for digitizing my records, cassettes, etc.)
I've listed a lot of flagship features since the more people attracted to the product, the more people would likely buy it; the more people likely to buy it, the more likely it is to be manufactured in the first place. How about you guys? What do you care about? Do you want a balanced R2R Ladder DAC, do you want a portable? What kind of DAC(s) do you guys want to see?