glen3125

1st post - I am trying to hook up my Devilsound Dac to ultrarendu and am not having any success. Anybody done this? I have JRIVER and a trial copy of ROON and have not had any success with either. At present Roon is configured on the ULTRRENDU and the light is green and Roon has a diagram at the bottom showing Queue - ultrarendu - speakers but no sound. Devilsound is an 'unknown' dac. Also, have been unable to 'Enable' the ultrarendu even though roon can see it.

There is a reference to my speakers in Stereo Review December 1985 that says 'Recommended amplifier power of 40 to 300 watts per channel into 4 ohms'. I don't really know how to interpret these figures but doesn't this mean that a low-powered tube amp (less than 40 wpc) would not work very well?

I have had my Devilsound for a couple of weeks now and am very happy with it. I haven't any experience in audiophile circles so I can't compare with anything else. All I can say is that I am definitely hooked and wondering what I can do to make the sound even better! I'm just using an XP laptop + iTunes and have downloaded a Vivaldi album with Sara Chang on the violin. Even though this is lossy I get a thrill hearing the timbre of the instruments so clearly. I've ripped some other CDs to lossless and some of these are as good as the Sarah Chang recording but nothing so far is better. When I first hooked up the DAC the music sounded good, but my left speaker was weak. I wondered if the DAC was faulty but changing the old speaker wires cleared that up beautifully. I think there was a bad connection. I bought my system in 1985 - a Denon 755 receiver (75 watts per channel) and a pair of dbx Soundfield 10s that are hooked up with a Soundfield Imaging Controller, and I don't think it has sounded so good. I paid good coin for these back then, but don't know what advances have been made since or how this would compare to other equipment. I guess I'll find out! Cheers Glen