cat_doorman
Responses from cat_doorman
| What would you say is THE MOST important factor to good imaging? The weakest link.You can’t answer this absolutely without context. There are multiple conditions that are necessary without being individually sufficient. You have a series of elements aimed at producing a desired outcome. If any of them are inade... | |
| Maybe being discerning isn't that good for us? I’m not sure I see much of an upside. You don’t usually miss what you’ve never had. Every new level of experience is expensive to me.The one who hears the cat has to get up and open the door. | |
| I'm interested in hearing what "the best" systems sound like, where to go? This thread has me imagining a world where people competitively compare audio systems the way hot rodders would race for pink slips.You could just loudly proclaim that your system is the best ever and wait for folks to come out of the woodwork off... | |
| Hitting the Sweet Spot In My System I may not have a lot to add, but I’m very interested in where you end up. Years ago, I bought those same speakers brand new, and have enjoyed them since. I also only recently got into streaming and have neglected my cabling.Last month I finally bo... | |
| Questions on capacitor replacement @tomic601 I’m embarrassed to admit I used to live down the street from Brooks Berdan and never managed to even go in for a look. Of course at the time I don’t think I could have afforded anything there, but still I consider it a missed opportunity... | |
| Unexpectedly low volume with Schiit Saga + Vidar Looking up the specs on the NAD shows 39dB gain compared to the Saga+Vidar total of 27. The tube stage on the Freya+ is 12dB so that should put you back to about the same level.The way I understand it is the gain is an increase in voltage but in o... | |
| Life is too short to buy someone else's favorite stereo gear If it’s their favorite why would they sell it to you? | |
| So I'm up and running with my streamer but.... I’m having intermittent issues with my Node 2i, but when it’s working right it’s pretty good. I was surprised that the internal DAC is as good as it is. Running out to an Oppo105 sounds only slightly better to me, but Firestick to TV to the Oppo w... | |
| pops and ticks from DAC Finally heard from Bluesound support. I know they’re following a script, but it seems like they don’t actually read emails. Their first suggestion was to enable MQA support for external DAC even though I told them the problem occurred on local fil... | |
| pops and ticks from DAC Rearranged my routing last night and it sure looks like the Node2i has the issue. No response from support requests sent over the app yet. It's less than 2 months old. I went to check on Amazon to see when exactly I bought it and they had a tech h... | |
| pops and ticks from DAC I should try that. I didn't think of alternate sources because at first I thought it was just the coax. I only use the TV fed from the Oppo. I totally forgot I can run it the other way around if I plug the FireTV directly into the TV and run optic... | |
| Need under $1500 preamp for my system @213runnin just out of curiosity what other preamps have you tried? And what’s the rest of your system?I see lots of praise for the Freya+ but not many direct comparisons except to the Saga. For the price, features, and options maybe it’s just har... | |
| Upgrade phenomenon @noble100 it could be one of many System Transient Disorders as well. Do I need a blood test or can you diagnose me over the internet? | |
| Upgrade phenomenon @wolf_garcia at last audio advice I can believe in. Lol@douglas_schroeder I stress about EVERYTHING. That’s my major hobby. ;)Since I’ve had the same basic setup for a long time I’m planning on trying to experience a lot of different audio flavors... | |
| Upgrade phenomenon Nothing new has been put in yet. I was doing some critical listening to try to etch the before sound into memory (even though it should already be there). I think what I'm feeling is close to buyer's remorse and anxiety that my tin ears won't hear... |