audioman58
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| What Sonically is the Difference between a $1,500 CD Player and a $10K-$25K One? Night and day difference in sound quality , if you buy from companies that have established and doing digital for a while it is like the difference of a $1k turntable cartridge,and a $5k cartridge, realism on a much higher level. That being said... | |
| Why a separate DAC? There are several factors into building into a quality sounding dac ,it is not just about the dac chipsets. My BurrBrown 1792 chipsets in my Belcanto 2.7 dac sound betterthen many that sell for much more money the powersupplies,and isolation is v... | |
| Power cords can make a tremendous difference in Digital I have a Brickwall brand line conditioner ,surge protector and I customized it better capacitorsand Furutech lead ,and outlets all Copper not cheap brass like on Hubble ,or hospital grade outlets ,mine uses in part a big inductor.class B rated in... | |
| Power cords can make a tremendous difference in Digital What isolation transformer are you referring to Shkong78 ? | |
| Power cords can make a tremendous difference in Digital To miller carbon,what I am referring to is Furutech did 100% of the R&D and engineering , I just buy the ultimate in quality. In that respect ,in my vast experiences I find I get= or better then the vast majority of powercords and cables at 1... | |
| Under $3K streaming dac suggestions, Roon Ready? Hello again I added the Belcanto streamer ,and in the earlier very good review it State no Roon or Tidal ,that is not true maybe in a preproduction model it gives you a ton of options .and can be bought for around $2k ,$2500 retail. Dedicated audi... | |
| Under $3K streaming dac suggestions, Roon Ready? As I mentioned earlier the Belcanto Ref stream got an award or two, and in the fall it will have combined the excellent 2.7 dac together for around $3500 before discounts and will have a Roon as well as Tidal ,plus Spotify. Their digital compares ... | |
| Under $3K streaming dac suggestions, Roon Ready? A must read Class A - Bell canto Streamer $2495, definitive audio delivered for around 2 grand a No brainer !!https://www.audiostream.com/content/bel-canto-refstream-asynchronous-ethernet-renderer | |
| My expert tips on building a sensible world class audio system. How about the $100k in system cabling you don’t want to have a weak link in you audio chain . BTW they actually do exist, just look on the cable ads .That is a bit of Extreme insanity !! | |
| Tekton Ufberts Not my cup of tea lent of soundstaging but resolution is not in the reference class inside the Xover parts are very generic no premium parts whatsoever ever potential but very disappointing . | |
| Under $3K streaming dac suggestions, Roon Ready? If you can wait a few months The Excellent Belcanto 2.7 dacwill have the exact dac player combo with Tidal ,Roon , Spotify,and one or two others,for $3500 retail , definitive Audio you will get it under $3k delivered. They have given me great adv... | |
| High end Cables not important for certain electronics? Not allways true even in a fully balanced system .i owned a audio store for 10 years in Europe and had many top electronics top quality Balanced interconnects trumped the lesser models every time , maybe with what some would call diminishing retur... | |
| Reasonable high end interconnects: without breaking the bank What I have been doing is buying the wire geometries all ready figured out .VH Audio uses the purestSolid Core ,not stranded -0 Crystal Copper,using ultra thin foamed Teflon which is second only to air as a dielectric , then use top WBT ,or Carda... | |
| Thoughts on extending speaker life. Don’t forget about the Most important part of the speakers,the Heart ,the Crossover , Parts Quality is average at best on 90% of all crossovers, upgrade withsame values just much higher quality parts ,including , wiring, and getrid of the cheap g... | |
| The Frankensteining of Amplifiers I just read the upgrades , I know Chris Johnsons work well from Parts Connecxion and the list of parts is very respectable , noticeably better then stock. it would have been nice to see inside but that is pretty respectable and you do have a warra... |