calvinandhobbes
Responses from calvinandhobbes
| 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. | |
| How good does my system have to be to realize an improvement with cables? +1 to what @ghdprentice said about trying before buying. My experience with audio equipment is that it's not so easy to equate price to sound quality improvement. On my $1700 Denafrips Pontus II DAC, I've tried 7 different power cords ranging in p... | |
| Advice for Streaming Newbies - Best Bang for Our Bucks I turned off the WiFi on my Pro-ject Stream Box S2 Ultra streamer. That was a BIG improvement in sound quality. Not too big of a surprise. Switching from an AmazonBasics Cat 6 Ethernet cable to a $64 Supra Cat 8 Ethernet cable yielded an addition... | |
| The State of Streaming Audio +1 on Qobuz. In fact, my perception of the relative sound quality of streaming services.has Tidal sounding worst of all of the streaming services as of Nov 2020. 1. Qobuz 2. Primephonic 3. Spotify Premium (320 kbps Ogg Vorbis which is not lossl... | |
| What was the most impactful addition to your system? Like @ghdprentice, my buying a house that had an unexpectedly good listening room was by far the most impactful addition to my system. And it took me about 8 years of living in our current house to figure that out. Right before COVID, I convinced ... | |
| Denafrips Pontus II vs Venus II The review that you linked has an interesting comment about how the nature of the sound from the Venus is different than that from the Pontus. The review describes the sound from the Venus as being more analytical while the sound from the Pontus ... |