audiofreak32
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| Focus on 24/192 Misguided?..... Kijanki.... put aside the technical and go listen and enjoy your system. But using ALAC (compressed) and a Benchmark DAC1, you could be doing much better. | |
| Focus on 24/192 Misguided?..... A LINN Akurate DS is around $7,500 new. Only other things you need are a NAS and an iPad. So, less than $10k retail, easily. Sure that setup you described was expensive, but you do not need a "dedicated computer" at all. I am using a $350 NAS with... | |
| Focus on 24/192 Misguided?..... All this talk about tests and links to this study and all this technical stuff....REALITY: All that means nothing when you have people that like and dislike things based on their own opinion of what "sounds good". Many feel tubes sound better than... | |
| Focus on 24/192 Misguided?..... OK guys.... here is a link to this study, no wait.... here is a link to this paper, no, i mean, her a link to this test a dude did a while back that says you are wrong... etc. etc..... SO WHAT!!!!!!!! How is all this arguing about studies and tech... | |
| Focus on 24/192 Misguided?..... If you have not heard a properly setup DAC with hi-res files, you owe it to yourself to do so... before you spend any money on a CD player... you will be happy that you did. Not to mention the benefit seeing your entire music collection on an iPad... | |
| The best CD Player for the money None.Try a LINN Akurate DS w/ 24/96 or 24/192 WAV and FLAC - there is not a CD player made on this earth that will compete with it under $15,000. | |
| CD player to compete with my vinyl rig? Try a LINN Akurate DS w/ 24/96 or 24/192 WAV and FLAC - there is not a CD player made on this earth that will compete with it under $15,000. | |
| Focus on 24/192 Misguided?..... Lots of technical info (on paper), but what really matters is how it sounds to each person. If you cannot hear that 24/192 WAV or FLAC sounds better than redbook CD, you may want to start selling off that expensive gear and get a boombox to listen... | |
| Can best optical player rival best computer source David12:"discless" as you call it has better sound than most CD players just due to the nature of CD's moving parts, spinning disc, etc. Any decent DAC fed with hi-res files will trash most any CD player out there. I have heard DAC setups playing ... | |
| LINN Akurate DS vs. ANY CD PLAYER I see what you are saying... if the recording is not very good, the DS will just project that bad recording through the resy of the system. My Akurate DS is the latest version with the Dynamik PS. I only paid around $5,500 for a demo unit, would h... | |
| LINN AKURATE CD vs ESOTERIC X-05 Do not buy either - if you want sound that will trash both of those units, buy a LINN Ajurate DS. Will not even be close with 24/96 and 24/192 WAV or FLAC. | |
| NHT Absolute Tower vs. Paradigm Monitor 7?? IMO - go for the Paradigm. I have heard both. I do not think the NHT is as good overall. | |
| Can best optical player rival best computer source Using a LINN Akurate with WAV and FLAC files (24/192) ripped from dbPoweramp, you will be very, very hard pressed to beat this sound from ANY cd player made. It would be in the 10's of thousands at least in order to even start to compare. | |
| Furman Elite 15 vs Panamax 5100-PM Panamax should not even be considered... not in the same league. | |
| REL subwoofer crossover question I have owned several REL subwoofers and still own a pair of REL Storm III's for my 2-ch setup. There is no situation (IMO) where you would have the setting at "A" "1" for hi-pass, ever. I think mine are set to "B" "4" or so in a 16' x 20' room wit... |