calvinandhobbes
Responses from calvinandhobbes
| FAVORITE POWER CABLE under $100 (1M) I will say that from my experience, synergy between a cable and the equipment that it is being used on should be a consideration. That being said, I will add a third vote for Supra LoRad power cords. I've tried 10 other power cords on my Denafrips... | |
| Why is everyone so down on MQA? Reasons for me: 1. Even Spotify Premium sounds better to my ears. 2. Qobuz definitely sounds better. 3. MQA is a proprietary format that would be a tax on the music industry if its creators had managed to get it established as a standard. 4. I... | |
| What am I missing? Digital music files stored locally are easier to use than CD. Streamed files (from Qobuz, Spotify, etc) are even easier to use, but may not sound as good as local digital files. The only advantage that CDs have is potentially better sound quality... | |
| Amazon music vs Qobuz These were my impressions of Qobuz vs Amazon HD as of Nov 2020: Winner for me is Qobuz for the following reasons. Amazon: Sounds more flat. Less drive than Qobuz so that some music sounds like it is plodding along. Sound is less full. Amazon HD ... | |
| Do You Tell Others How Much You Have Invested in Your System? Also, it might not be good to share your system cost with people that know how to listen either. I remember perhaps 2 good sounding systems costing over $100k that I've heard in the past 25 years. It would be slightly embarrassing to throw out a i... | |
| Do You Tell Others How Much You Have Invested in Your System? 99% of people wouldn't care and would just think you're out of your mind spending outrageous sums of money on some archaic piece of equipment like a turntable.or, even better, power cables. Best to keep those sort of thoughts to yourself. | |
| Qobuz or Tidal? Even Spotify Premium sounds better to me than Tidal even with a proper MQA unfold. My subjective impressions of the musicality and sound quality of the major HD streaming services: (as of November 2020) 1. Qobuz 2. Primephonic 3. Spotify Premium ... | |
| Cost effective power cables recommendations, low and high power Here's my listening impressions for a number of power cables on a Denafrips Pontus II DAC. To cut to the chase, the Supra LoRad is currently what I'm using on the Pontus. These are the power cables that I've tried on the Pontus DAC. Tripp-Lite ... | |
| Power Cables - Stock vs. Budget I've listened to a range of power cords on a Denafrips Pontus II DAC. Of these, the $95 Supra LoRad power cord was the best sounding of all of the cords that I list below. Surprisingly, power cords seem to make a bigger difference to my ear on my ... | |
| Beats By Dre and Graff Diamond $1 million Headphones The need to encrust a headphone with diamonds says something about the target customer for that headphone and what's important to them. | |
| My take on subjective vs. objective Objectively speaking, if you don't subjectively like the sound of your system, you are wasting your time. | |
| Turntables In my experience, the lightweight design of the P10 conveys music with pace and reproduces rhythms well. Compared to high-mass turntables, the P10 perhaps has a tone quality that is not quite as full or as warm. I've heard a P10 with a Hana ML ca... | |
| Advice for Streaming Newbies - Best Bang for Our Bucks @kraftwerkturbo-tt225 Before listening, I would have agreed with you on the relative theoretical opportunity to improve digital vs analog signal paths. My ear, however, tells me that things like interconnects and power cords can yield quite sign... | |
| Advice for Streaming Newbies - Best Bang for Our Bucks One option for not having a long run of Ethernet cable is to create an Ethernet access point with a WiFi extender. I think this sounds better to me than using the WiFi receiver built into my streamer since the source of RFI/EMI is removed from the... | |
| Advice for Streaming Newbies - Best Bang for Our Bucks @larry5729 Check out soundiiz.com for transferring playlists between streaming services. |