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| Berkeley Audio Design Alpha DAC Series 3 There is actually a new version of this dac called the 3P that has just been released. @spkrplus DSD dac’s that have a PCM stage ( such as the recent the T&A dacs) focus on the DSD. So yes it will be better than PCM. But the BADA stuff is al... | |
| Amps.. Is Odyssey worth it? All these amps were released over 20 years ago. Good amp design does not age, but has there been any updates to the product in this time? | |
| Toslink optical cables: Audioquest Optilink 3 vs Glass? Don’t buy into the x number of strands thing. I found the QED Reference optical to be much better sounding than the Lifatec, despite only having half the amount of strands. | |
| Optical Toslink cable quality? Is there a difference? There is a difference in optical toslinks cables if your downstream system is good enough to reveal it. 15 years ago I went on a toslink merry go round and settled on the Lifatec cables posted above. They sounded best. This was when using them be... | |
| Vinshine X Collaboration with Kinki Studio, TheTai Hang power enhancer Every dc blockers and balanced transformers I ever used suppresses transients and dynamics, particularly with amplifiers. So all the reports saying this device not doing that is exciting. A foil inductor for power conditioning? Very interesting. ... | |
| GaN FET Amps vs. Traditional Class D Amps @phillyb everything you said is what I hear. And it was exactly like that when the popular Nuforce class-d amps appeared 20 years ago. Then you hear traditional amplification that has ‘realism’ and you notice the weakness. However there have rec... | |
| GaN FET Amps vs. Traditional Class D Amps @mitch2 so what what did you go back to after your ncore adventure? I just look at reviewers reference equipment -which is an indication of what they truly like- and barely any of them use class-d on a daily basis. It never satisfies. Although ... | |
| New Fischer & Fischer Audio 670 Speakers : Made Out Of SLATE.. There are a few speaker manufacturers using concrete, steel, marble, granite and other exotic materials for the cabinets, to control resonances. But one thing they all these materials do is ring, at varying frequencies - depending on the material... | |
| GaN FET Amps vs. Traditional Class D Amps That blog post by buckeyeamp is your typical ASR tripe. He whines that the GAN transistor shows little measurable improvement over mosfets used in most class d amps. So what? We are interested in how things sound. Like the OP I too am interest... | |
| New Fischer & Fischer Audio 670 Speakers : Made Out Of SLATE.. The SN70 look like great standmounts for the price. https://the-ear.net/review-hardware/fischer-and-fischer-sn70-hard-speakers/ | |
| EtherREGEN or LHY SW-6? Anyone compare the 2? Thoughts/opinions? I had the LHY SW-6 and it’s really good for the money. It brings a relaxed and calming effect to things. I do not recommend using the isolated port though, the normal ports seem more transparent. But I now have the new Matrix Audio SS-1 Pro switc... | |
| Let's talk about Silver... Pure silver signal cables are not bright. For example the most natural sounding IC's I ever heard were pure silver foil. But silver plated copper cables give an artificial sense of detail. On mid-fi systems this seems to work well and can be posi... | |
| More potential bad news for some big names... The high end has been in a slow motion collapse as evidenced by the explosion of companies exclusively doing 50-100k entry level products. It has fooled people into thinking it’s a sign of health. There actually has been no explosion, it’s just c... | |
| More potential bad news for some big names... Say what you want about Andrew Robinson, but at least he is willing to tell you when he doesn’t like a product, unlike 97% of the audiophile review industry. | |
| Veritas Cables a new brand that I found Interesting that you guys mention Cabledyne. I still have a full set of their copper ribbon power cables with the metal sleeving. They were very good and I think the only weakness was the Wattgate nickel/brass connectors, but they were such good v... |