61falcon
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| Bluesound Node 2021 DAC - I sold my Denafrips Ares II I've done A/B comparisons with internal DAC on Bluesound with Bryston BDA2 and Topping D30 pro and am unable to hear any difference. When I run the DAC's into various preamps I am able to hear some subtle differences, so I'm not completely tone d... | |
| How many systems do you have? Living room = 2 systems (share one set of speakers that are switchable) Dining room = 1 sytem Basement = 1 system Garage/Outdoor = 1 system Bedroom = 1 system Office = 1 system Enough idle components to make another system or two. Oh my God... | |
| Don’t want to freak you out… My hearing is not great so when I'm in a crowded restaurant trying to hear someone across the table, I cup my ears. It works really good. And, yes, I've done it with music with excellent results as well. | |
| In the beginning The heart beating is a kind of drum heard or felt by the fetus in the womb. | |
| Products you added to your system in 2021 that made most impact to your music enjoyment I'm going to cheat a little bit and go back two years since that particular upgrade was my best ever. In 2020 I bought Harbeth 40.2 speakers and realized, for me, focusing on the transducers is the most important part of the audio link. I am no lo... | |
| Do speaker wires have to be the same length for each speaker? Maybe it makes a difference if one line is 250' and the other is 4'. I like to have them at the same length for the superficial symmetry thing. | |
| Your Favorite Christmas Song-One only Please- So many good Christmas songs...I guess I'll go with "We need a little Christmas" Johnny Mathis. Ask me in an hour and I'll probably have different favorite. | |
| What were the radio stations of your youth that helped you on your music/audio journey? When I was very young it was WCFL AM Chicago I could pull it in on a tube radio from Chicago about 200 miles South--clear as a bell. WLS AM ChicagoTeenage years:WIXX album rock, no commercials--Green... | |
| Science that explains why we hear differences in cables? This may be a little off-topic but when my Bryston amplifier had an intermittent issue with not powering up the first question Bryston technical support asked me was something to the effect of: Do you have some sort of aftermarket power cord?Bryst... | |
| Supply chain affecting anyone? FWIW: I ordered a Topping D30pro DAC and got it in a week. | |
| Which DAC is better? I have a Bluesound player and have swapped back and forth from the internal DAC to an external Bryston BDA-2, also a Topping D30 pro and cannot discern any difference. For simplification I went back to the blue sound players internal DAC. I know a... | |
| Best way to spend $1000 on used bookshelf speakers? Meant to say Focal Aria 906 | |
| Best way to spend $1000 on used bookshelf speakers? I have Focal Arias powered by an Audio Research VSI60 tube amp and in my opinion the sound is pretty nice. | |
| replace Mcintosh with Luxman I question how much of a difference you'll get with replacing a nice pair of mono blocks with another pair of nice mono blocks? Maybe the preamp would be worth a second look? | |
| New-ish to Audiogon Forums... Is it always like this? It's funny how the various websites for audio have different cultures. I really like Audiogon, but lately I've been reading a lot on Audio Science Review and enjoy the different perspective. Those folks aren't likely to tout high end speaker cable... |