blackstonejd
Responses from blackstonejd
| Were you naughty or nice? What did Santa bring you! Audio related only please! A pair of Bowers and Wilkins 802D3. | |
| Led Zeppelin in Hi-rez I agree the high rez files sound great. | |
| What's the greatest bargain in DAC's these days? I think the QB-9 DSD has great price/performance. | |
| Biggest Baddest Audio Cables Transparent. | |
| Transparent High Performance Power Link So, a few years later...I did end up putting Premium Power Links on both my Bryston headphone amplifier and Ayre QB-9 DSD DAC and it made a huge improvement. There is a lot more slam and punch but at the same time everything sounds smoother and le... | |
| Does hard drive noise in your PC color affect SQ? First, based on reports from a friend of mine with decades of high end experience at the reference level, the sotm sata filters do provide a nice improvement for the money.Based on personal experience, a SSD for the operating system is preferable ... | |
| Power Cords - Just Say Yes Been down this road with my dad's system. High end dCS digital stuff, B&W 802 speakers, Transparent Reference level interconnect, power conditioners, the works. One of the more recent changes me made was add a Transparent PLMM with MM1 technol... | |
| USB Length, jitter and Volume Control Questions I use a 3 meter USB cable with my Ayre QB-9 and the results are great.As for volume control, you absolutely want your volume control at 100 or 0db. Otherwise, the computer is doing math that compromises the sound. | |
| Seeking adv for pc audio set up for Passlabs amps I just bought the USB Ayre QB-9. This is the DAC you want unless you can afford dCS gear. | |
| Anything like the Ayre CX-7e but with digital in? There is a new Ayre universal player coming out that will have a USB input. | |
| Ayre QB-9 USB DAC I just had this in my house for two days and it was incredible. You really need 4GB ram on your computer though or it glitches. | |
| Been listening to The Beatles ... The Stereo set is actually worthy of a true audiophile rig. | |
| WAV vs. AIFF In my experience, FLAC is the one that sounds just like Wav/AIFF. Apple Lossless has "a sound" that I can detect. I think FLAC is the best lossless format but, of course, iTunes doesn't recognize it. AIFF is the best overall choice because it has ... | |
| Would an external DAC be of any benefit to me? Yes. Use RCA SPDIF if possible. Most of mankind would benefit from a better DAC. | |
| B&W Speakers It is just a question of whether you can accommodate the larger footprint of the 804 or 803. The 805 is a fantastic speaker, but lets face it, it is a monitor/bookshelf dweller that is seriously lacking in bass. It is a small speaker, and it just ... |