arhgef
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| Combination streamer and music server…without DAC Not much discussion here of a computer plus Audirvāna or other software, with an outboard dac. This is very flexible and I have found the DAC makes a big difference. Chord Qutest has galvanic isolation on the usb. This sounds markedly better than ... | |
| What Gear Has Disappointed You? Schiit Gungnir. Just did not have the sound quality for the price. In my comparisons, Chord Qutest and RME ADI2 both better, for different reasons. Surprisingly, KEF LS50 Meta. Lots of hype, but for classical music the timbres were just not repr... | |
| Best vibration isolation for speakers on carpet? I had really bad coupling to the floor, producing boomy bass. It was unlistenable. Did careful comparison of isoacoustic Gaia and the Herbie’s gliders. The isoacoustic was a tad more effective but both were fine. On hardwood the Gaia was good beca... | |
| Best qobuz records to compare dac upgrades Check out Geminiani Concrti Grossi. Academy of ancient music. Harmonia Mundi. | |
| Two amps into one pair of speakers Accidentally having them both on at the same time is a great way to create memories. You can build a switch pretty cheaply, but need to use a different approach for tube versus solid state amps. Be sure the switch is rated for the current at or ab... | |
| STREAMING - QOBUZ VS TIDAL AND ROON'S PREFERENCES A bit off topic, but after months of using Quobuz to Roon (which sounds better than Tidal to me) I finally compared to my old setup, Audirvāna into DAC via usb. Audirvāna was substantially better. All going into Chord Qutest, Roon via Ethernet wit... | |
| test crossovers or capacitors with frequency sweep Thanks to you all for your advice. I will try this simply for the fun of it, as a mic is not that expensive. I guess an important conclusion from what you are saying is that capacitor changes that can be heard and matter will not make a big differ... | |
| test crossovers or capacitors with frequency sweep thanks- my main issue is that it is really hard to get to the crossover for one of the speakers that I also want to work on (B and W 803 matrix series 2). |