Modest system - great sound

Modest system - great sound

Dynaudio emit 30 with Arcam SA 20 and Bluesound n132.

Incredible pairing for alternative rock and metal music. Listening also plenty of movie soundtracks, some jazz and classic rock and it sounds great also on all.

I auditioned simaudio moon i3.3, musical fidelity m5si, rega elex-r and power amps rotel and parasound.

This ARCAM with musicality, dynamics and DAC implemented with G-class was no.1.
150watts on 4ohms seems sweet spot.
Incredible amp and I thought nothing can’t beat Rega in level of musicality.

Dynaudio are neutral, little on warmer side with great tight bass and open airy highs. Midrange is detail and also warmer.
Incredible control and power on this emit’s.

This amp was on major discount as new Radia series was coming to market and one of best purchases.

I knew this combo is fire when i listened for 10hours music without any ear fatigue. Pure joy!

u/7e7en87 — 6 days ago
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3210-S havana green lenses - reflection in corners

I wanna ask about this model when wearing it I see reflection in the edge corners inside of sunglasses wings and mine ears.
I always worn polarized sunglasses and never had this problems.
Now like my eyes are too focused on corners.

Is this normal as they have AR coating?

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u/7e7en87 — 10 days ago

Na-RALA question

I’m curious if anybody here has taken longterm NA-RALA or optimALA.

I had as a kid like 4 amalgam fillings for almost 30years. Replaced them before 7years with composites.

Can I take R-lipoic acid without worrying about redistribution of mercury or better not to take it at all.?

It’s seems it will be extra benefitial for my gilberts syndrome and hemochromatosis.

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u/7e7en87 — 1 month ago

New amp for alt. rock/metal

Arcam sa 20 driving dynaudio emit 30. Streaming on wiim pro plus.
I tried dozens of amps for alt. rock like tool, a perfect circle, deftones etc. and death metal like suffocation, gorguts, immolation etc…
I like also some albums of Gojira.

This arcam shines here with 150w on 4ohms. Dynaudio needs power for punchiness and this delivers.

Another amps that were also very good for this genres with dynaudio were MF m3 and m5si and rega elex-r(very musical also).

I didn’t like cambridge cxa 81 and Nad c3050. Cambridge had too upfront highs and NAD excessive midrange.
Not close to above mentioned in terms of dynamics and fluidity.

My reference speaker cables used in systems are VDH jade hybrid silver-copper cables with rhodium dynavox plugs.

This arcam is keeper. It really makes me listens to this kind of music for many hours. Non fatiguing and engaging sound.
Arcam has also that note of organic warm sound.

I didn’t listen new series but this really got me.

u/7e7en87 — 2 months ago

NAD+Dynaudio combo

I’m very happy with this combo of Dynaudio Emit 30 and NAD C3050 with bluOS module.
The sound is organic and very dynamic. NAD has no issue driving Emit’s drivers which are fast and punchy. The bass is outstanding with velvet no fatiguing highs and detail but balanced midrange. Soft dome tweeter is really one of the best in this price rang.

BluOS is great and I plan to buy Dirac licence soon.

u/7e7en87 — 2 months ago

Copper

I got some of my lab results and iron is border high with higher ferritin around 550.

Copper is on low border. But have low copper symptoms for 2 decades like cold hands/feet, poor wound healing, histamine issues,tingling in extremities and neck stability problems like EDS.

Also have high b6 without supplementation so this can also atribute to neurological symptoms.

Question is about supplementation.
I plan to take 2mg copper bisglycinate in morning with 1mg sublingual hydroxocobalamin and after dinner 15mg zinc bisglycinate.
Do I need also to take cod liver oil for active vitamin A??

Dont wanna push higher number on ferritin stores.
Don’t have yet result for ceruloplasmin.

As i figure out I must avoid obviously iron, vit.C, high doses of zinc and molybdenum(to not lower Copper).

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u/7e7en87 — 2 months ago
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Any longterm HydroxoCobalamin user?

Does anybody here takes 1mg hydroxo sublingual for extended period of time?

Hydroxo seems for my slow comt/slow MAOA most benefitial supplement for histamine clearence and detox and seems not causing overmethylation.

My folate levels are on higher level and folinic always makes ne wired and spaced out at it seems it’s making glutamate higher.

I’m concerned about dehydration and potassium depletion from daily Hydroxo.??

It says that the sublingual route absorbs gradually compared to injections, preventing a sudden, drastic shift of potassium out of your bloodstream.

Probably can get away with eating two bananas daily for some potassium.

Other supplements I take daily are Jarrow Zinc Balance after dinner and before sleep low dose agmatine.
Riboflavin anything above 100%RDA is like making me again B6 toxic(same symptoms of tingling and muscle twitching).Weird..

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u/7e7en87 — 2 months ago
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Sublingual riboflavin

Slow comt, slow MAOA

Before taking this 18mg sublingual Riboflavin tablet I was taking Thorne 36mg Riboflavin and that was not as good as sublingual for me.
Probably it was about dose as Thorne has double the dose.

To the point this sublingual is great for me.
I also tested high in B6 without taking b6 in any form of supplement.
B2 should help with B6toxicity.

Benefits are clear headed, perfect blood pressure and better breathing(like it clears histamine faster).

Other supplements I take for this snaps are cod liver oil, zinc balance and agmatine sulfate.

I dont take any form of thiamine as it makes me tired as hell in the middle of day and any form of magnesium like it helps get me overmethylated quickly. Glycine is poison for me as nmda agonist. Folinic acid seems also gave me the same feeling as glycine as it was producing more glutamate and not active folate.

From minerals I opted for zinc, copper and selenium as main ones and most benefitial.

Sleep was always problem for me and it seems when started taking riboflavin in morning and zinc balance after dinner sleep is much improved. Also if I wake up around 3 only thing that makes me go again to sleep is 250-500mg agmatine.

I take also twice a month 100mg nicotinic acid(niacin flush) and one hour later 3capsules of activated charcoal for detox.

This is mine regime that seems to work for me. Tried all other supplements mentioned here and only this worked for me.

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u/7e7en87 — 2 months ago

Agmatine side effect

Anybody else is having stuffed nose from any dose of agmatine?
I get congested nose that I barely can breathe.
Too bad because agmatine is by far the most benefitial supplement for neurological and psychological symptoms that I ever tried.

This is probably main cause:
vasodilation causes a stuffy nose because the blood vessels inside your nasal passages widen and swell. This extra blood flow engorges the tissues, narrowing your airways and making you feel blocked up.

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u/7e7en87 — 3 months ago

Favourite metal music productions and speaker/amps combos

There are really some great mixes/productions in metal music.

One of my favourites are:
- Dying Fetus - Make them beg for death
- Gojira - The way of all flesh
- Anata - The conductors departure
- Suffocation - Pierced from within
- Dimmu Borgir - In sorte diaboli

I tried dozens of speakers/amps through the years and best combos for extreme metal were:
- Dynaudio/Accuphase
- Dynaudio/Simaudio/NAD

From active speakers I only liked the Genelecs.

Which are Your favourite metal album productions and speakers/amps combos for that genre of music?

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u/7e7en87 — 3 months ago
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L-theanine?

What is real status of L-theanine for slow COMT?
Some says is methyl donor, some says is one of best supps for either slow and fast COMT, that it really balances neurotransmitters and not boosting them.

So many informations online.

200mg alphawave it seems to calm me down, also I found better breathing(histamine down) and heart rate drops from 85 to 75. Tried and measured like 7times while taking 200mg theanine.

Other ones with slow comt/maoa that seems to helps me are agmatine, zinc/copper and hydroxocobalamin.

Surprisingly B2 makes me irritate after few days and benfotiamine made me sleep way less especially if taken even with magnesium malate. Glycine in any form makes me miserable. Lithium orotate makes me depressed after few days even 1mg doses.

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u/7e7en87 — 3 months ago

Jarrow Zinc Balance on empty stomach before sleep

This is best sleep supplement I ever experienced by far, but the problem is if I take it right after dinner than around 9PM i’m fully asleep. Is it wise to take it like 30minutes before bed on empty stomach or with banana??

Why is so benefitial?, GABA-GLUTAMATE Balance probably.

Only supp I also take daily is 600mg LE NAC.

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u/7e7en87 — 4 months ago

Upgrade of Dynaudio speakers

I upgraded from dynaudio emit 20 to emit 30. Emit 20 was great bookshelf but emit 30 are another level for great price. Of course separation of instruments is better, wider soundstage and precise stereo image.

Rel subwoofer gives me that lowest bass extension but emit 30 have really precise bass and good extension by itself.

They are 4ohms and 88db sensitivity. No problem for NAD c 3050 and amazing synergy.

In summary couldn’t be happier with system at the moment.

u/7e7en87 — 4 months ago

NAD, Dynaudio and Rel

Anybody else also have NAD+Dynaudio combination and what are impressions.?
I tried few amps and NAD was good for dynaudio bringing warm sound and musicality.

Overall, I’m happy with current setup of c3050 and emit 20 with Rel t5x.

u/7e7en87 — 4 months ago

New amp and IMO perfect combo for rock/metal music in my space

I was auditioning amps to drive Dynaudio emit 20 for rock/metal music.

MF m3si, Arcam a15+ and Cambridge cxa81mkII.

All three were very good but Cambridge got me with soundstage and immersive low bass extension and being neutral with small touch od warmth that goes perfect with Dynaudio sound.

I was also heavily than playing with speaker cables.
Chord’s, Atlas, Audioquest and finally my winner old VDH royal Jade hybrid that perfectly balanced high frequency while also improving soundstage and dynamics making it more musical almost like Rega amps.

Finally I wanted neutral interconnect that will not push me into more warm sound that I got from VDH and old Audioquest topaz x2 was perfect match after also trying bunch of them.

Cambridge drive them without any problems sounding also authorative on low volumes.

The biggest sound improve came with placing them 50cm from back wall.

Combo is immersive, detail while not too much midrange pronounced like other british amps. It’s all very balanced even on high volumes on extreme metal music like oldschool/ technical death metal with few layers of guitars and double bass kick drums.

My reference rock album is Dire Straits - Communique and that sound incredible!

u/7e7en87 — 5 months ago

Wiim ultra settings

I’m wondering if anybody else have better tonal balance with wiim ultra when setting power output from 2 vrms to 1 vrms and setting DAC filter to minimum phase slow roll off filter.
I have cambridge cxa 81 and dynaudio emit 20’s.

Changing this options gave me perfect balanced sound and dynamics. On 2vrms even on low volume midrange and treble was way upfront.

Anybody else experience this?

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u/7e7en87 — 5 months ago

Rega elex-R question

The thing is that unpacked ELEX-R after two days went into protected mode. That happened not when Rega was playing but another day when I turned it on and not getting sound from speakers.

Allegidly with this model needs CODE to unlock Rega, that’s what in local service guy told me.

Is this true? Amp is out of warranty as for 4years it was unpacked new stored in garage.

I loved the sound of it on dynaudio speakers but this is ridicilous that it went into protected mode and it was not even hot.

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u/7e7en87 — 5 months ago

Any cambridge cxa81 Mk II experiences

I wonder what are experiences with this amp as it’s on my top list for driving dynaudio emit 20 speakers so any insights would be helpful.

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u/7e7en87 — 5 months ago

Question about Rega amp malfunction

The thing is that amp was almost 4 years in original package stored in house and now after 4 years it was working perfectly for 2 days and on third day i hear the click upon turning on, logo is red and I can change inputs but it has no sound from any channel. Dead silence.

I tried everything, nothing worked.

I packed the amp and sent to local service but I’m curious what happened?

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u/7e7en87 — 5 months ago

New amp and speaker cable

Rega elex-R and VDH speaker cables.
This combo is making dyn shines and open more bass and midrange with fuller sound.

Rega is very musical and plenty of dinamics with warmer sound.

Very happy and can’t stop listening to various genres all day. It slays the all from classical, ost, jazz, rock and death metal.

Can’t get enough how enganging and full is now the sound.

u/7e7en87 — 5 months ago