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Old 09-06-2021, 01:37 PM
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Today I tried my new little toy in the small pool house system, a pretty old Audionet SAM integrated amp driving a pair of recent 650$ Magnepan LRS speakers.

Streaming from Qobuz on the Apple MacBook Pro with the dongle DAC connected to the amp via 3.5 jack to RCA cable.

I played between the AQ Dragonfly Red and the EarMen Sparrow and again what an impressive improvement the Sparrow is over the AQDR!

Better dynamics, resolution, clarity, stage. Maybe the only caveat would be on bottom frequency where the AQ has more extension... but the Sparrow plays it tighter, so overall I prefer the Sparrow presentation.

Won't need a standalone DAC in there, the Sparrow does the trick
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