brianlucey
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| Does altitude change the sound of speakers?? Humidity also a factor. | |
| is it possible to make digital audio sound like vintage vinyl Sound "like"? Yes. Sound exactly like? NoCan top top solid state sound "like" a great tube amp? Yes. Sound exactly like? NoBrian Lucey - Mastering Engineerwww.magicgardenmastering.com | |
| Ayre VX-5 vs. darTZeel NHB-108 It's a very cool amp, not better than my tube amps in my system however as I had hoped. It has a very unique combo sound, partly tube and partly SS. It made everything sound great, yet a little more so than what I have now ... Cary 211FE with a ... | |
| Do we really need anything greater than 24/96? Opinions? I’m happy to read so many come to the truth 1. Mastering and production are most of it. You’re playing in the margins for subjective enjoyment NOT for better quality with SRC 2. Modest to high end DAs are all very good. Flavors of good to great.... | |
| MQA is Legit! This is all such a lie. Meridian is dead and they need $. "MQA reveals every detail of the original recording." (actually it is blurry)"MQA captures 100% of the original studio performance. It then cleverly adapts to deliver the highest quality pl... | |
| How many of you believe in MQA? The narcissism in many listeners here is disappointing I’m a full time, credential, music Mastering Engineer. MQA is an intrusion on artist approved work to make ex Meridan DVD staff money and it’s running a 50 million GBP debt per the last publi... | |
| MQA? As a professional, credentialed, full time mastering engineer ... MQA has no credibility, no honor, as they have bulk processed thousands of titles to create a market, where audiophiles can get their 2 cents in to vote and to buy or not. MQA adds ... | |
| Tidal vs Hi Res Files vs CD vs “Netflix”. My test. Incredible! Nicely done. Please keep in mind there is absolutely and unequivocally nothing that can actually improve on digital audio source material ... if we are talking about higher sample rates, or MQA, etc. The BEST quality is the NATIVE sample rate of t... | |
| I woke up with cold ears As a mastering engineer full time, meaning almost 7 days a week, this is a topic I know well ! When we sleep, out hearing recovers and in the morning things will sound different than they did at night. I think of my hearing like an hourglass full ... | |
| DartZeel NHB-108 Model One B (+SCNP) vs. anything from Pass Labs Nice reply, thanks. Beaututiful room there, I see why you sold the 2 x 108s :)Speakers are Sonics by Joachim Gerhard with all new crossovers, externally mounted, top quality caps in the same design as stock.I don’t need much power, modest room, ... | |
| One Amp To ‘Rule’ Them All.... POWER+cable+PRE AMP+cable+AMP+cable+SPEAKER (set up)+cable+ROOM (temperature, pressure, acoustics)+LISTENER (skill, taste, etc)These are the elements, more or less, with BOLD more important ... and I ask you op... How could anything be standard in... | |
| Best song for immediate impact when presenting or testing? Best to have a minimum of 3 ref tracks for your listening tests. I use 12. You are not looking for a target song, but a fence collection. You want to hear the edges. | |
| High resolution digital is dead. The best DAC's killed it. Someone said the Mytek is "not bad" ... if you are referring to the Manhattan, that's selling it way short. It's a great DAC. Same for the Bricasti M1SE. Lesser DAs are surely coming up as the OP says but it's not my expertise.Bottom line with... | |
| Are high sample rates making your music sound worse? The objectively BEST sample rate for playback ... drum roll please ...Is the one used in the mastering room On the approved recording.There is no gain to moving from there, and with something like MQA that adds distortion, there is a loss in quali... | |
| Thinking about upgrading, but wondering about diminishing returns "Upgrade" ... is a subjective thing ... and EVERYTHING has diminishing returns. So you are correct to be concerned about them! You should never buy ANYTHING unless you are :1. Unhappy with your system, for a good long while. 2. Able to pin down w... |