calvinandhobbes
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| CD or Streaming... am I missing out? @mofojo local files still do sound better to me than Qobuz, but I'm happy to listen via Qobuz for new music and other music that I don't have locally. | |
| Ethernet cables @mesch That’s a sensible approach. That’s what I did with digital cables and power as well over the past year as I was open to WHETHER cables and power make a difference, but wanted to spend as little as possible for a given level of subjective so... | |
| CD or Streaming... am I missing out? My listening notes: My subjective impressions of the musicality and sound quality of the major HD streaming services:QobuzPrimephonicSpotify Premium (320 kbps Ogg Vorbis which is not lossless)IDAGIOAmazon HDTidal Round 1, Spotify Premium vs Qobu... | |
| Best way to hook up Denafrips I'm a skeptic as well about cables generally, but 100% believe that some cables sound better than others. The key is to listen to the cables in your own system and see if you hear a difference. I tested out 5 USB cables recently as I'm sorting out... | |
| CD or Streaming... am I missing out? +1 to what @georgehifi says.Streaming can sound quite enjoyable, it's just not quite as good as playing back local files and definitely not as good as vinyl. However, I find that in this year of COVID and working from home that I'm streaming most ... | |
| Which speakers did you find bright, fatiguing or just disappointing in some way? @mowkewp4 I’ve listened to the B&W 704 S2 in a demo, but ended up getting the Monitor Audio Silver 300. The MA has the defined treble of the B&W and sounds incredibly "fast" for a dynamic speaker. The Silver 300s have a a smoother top end ... | |
| Ethernet cables Haha, of course. I see there's no convincing to be done here.When you say science, you must mean a Flat Earther type of science. | |
| Ethernet cables The cable is NOT a filter. Read what I wrote: " It works better because it lets in less interference." | |
| CD or Streaming... am I missing out? Local files sound better to me than streaming, but streaming can sound enjoyable. The real benefit of streaming is the ability to switch music really easily and to have 100s of thousands of music tracks accessible whenever you want them. It's been... | |
| Ethernet cables @antigrunge2 All good. I do find the comments of the bits-are-bits crowd to be amusing in their absolute conviction in their correctness due to their lack of knowledge. (kind of like the Flat Earther of audio). In all fairness, I don't expect ever... | |
| Ethernet cables The digital data is not changed. It works better because it lets in less interference. Read what I wrote. Sound quality is impacted by "a variety of interferences including data-induced jitter, other process-induced jitter, (and) common- and d... | |
| iPhone/iPad good as a source, or get a streamer? @soix In addition to using an Ethernet cable from a WiFi extender, these are some other things that I did from which I heard a clear improvement. (i.e., so clear that I didn't even need to A/B test the sound quality...I knew right away)I tried bot... | |
| Ethernet cables FWIW, these were my listening notes of the Supra cable vs a AmazonBasics Cat 6 cable: More presence, voices and instruments are more forward in presentation and more distinct. Sounds is tonality richer. Less grain to the sound. - Too Much Alike,... | |
| Ethernet cables @antigrunge I find it so amusing that the people that are least informed think they are the smartest people in the room. You might try looking up ’Dunning-Kruger Effect’ Here’s a commentary from someone that actually designs digital audio equipmen... | |
| Best portable headphones and DAC I have the Dragonfly Red and have listened to the Cobalt and the Chord Mojo. The Cobalt is smoother. My thought is that the added punchiness of the Red might actually work better for mobile usage. One way to increase the smoothness of the Red whil... |