christianb5s4
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| Rockport Atria II or Magico A5 I did see your post about picking up the Atrias, which I why I thought I'd ask about the improvements you've experienced having lived with them a while now. Glad you're enjoying them and appreciate your insight. The K3s were my first jump into hig... | |
| Rockport Atria II or Magico A5 @cantorgale I read through this with great interest as I also have Kanta 3s and rarely see people post about them, despite being very good to my ears. I'm curious about your experience of what improvements were brought with your new speakers v... | |
| Dedicated power circuits Your experience mirrors mine, glad you also experienced an improvement! | |
| How do you find time to enjoy your $$$ speakers and system? I have my mian system in my main living area, because my goal was to have a system I can enjoy as much as possible in as many use cases as possible. And enjoy it when company is around. That has tradeoffs versus a dedicated room of course, mainly ... | |
| Denafrips FPGA Firmware Update I look forward to this (Termi Plus here), will be interested to hear the difference. Also appreciate the continued support for existing products! | |
| Warming up equipment Personally, this is my protocol with an all solid state system. Always on: streamer, DAC, preamp (Pass XP22). Turn on when wanting to listen: amp (JC5). If I want to critically listen, I try to turn the amp on in advance but to me I don't noti... | |
| Name 3 songs where audio quality and song quality completely align @12many @mitch2 Fink has a lot of really good stuff, especially a few of his acoustic session albums "Resurgam Acoustic Session" and "Bloom Innocent - Acoustic." Trouble's What You're In is one of my original reference tracks when first g... | |
| Jazz for aficionados In the Spirit of Ntu - Nduduzo Makhathini Corridors - Kendrick Scott Two very interesting takes on jazz. | |
| Tune of the Day Six blade knife - Dire Straits. | |
| Streaming Services @tcotruvo I think it depends on one's preference, but I find Qobuz is more consistent and natural sounding versus MQA. That said, certain songs on MQA sound fantastic. I have both for that reason and will continue to. For the reasons I mentioned t... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @curiousjim It definitely didn't sound that way to my ears, I made it through most of the album that night as well! | |
| Which type of cable sounds best for Streamer to DAC: AES/EBU or DIGITAL COAX or USB ?? Another vote for AES with my Lumin and DAC setup, after trying USB and Digital Coax. However, when I had a BlueSound Node130, my preference was the Digital Coax. Best approach is to try various outputs and see what works best for you. | |
| Streaming Services I've tried pretty much every individual streaming service there is, and personally have concluded Qobuz is my favorite. Sound quality is best in my experience and the music selection covers everything I could imagine. Tidal isn't bad either bu... | |
| Denafrips Pontus 12th Anniversary I’ve bought two Denafrips DACs new (Venus 2 and Terminator plus) and they definitely settle in after some use, but certainly not a dramatic night and day. They have always sounded good out of the box. I run mine on OS fast filter, very hard to... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Currently listening to the album Balanced by Jan Harbeck Quartet. |