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| Does the streamer effect sound quality tomic601 Only have experience with one Streamer connected to a quality DAC. However, the Streamer offered sound "enhancement" features. Claimed to 1) fix corrupted digital bits and 2) improve overall sound quality ... Hmmm. What streamer... | |
| Relationship between Ethernet Switch and SQ audphile1 Let’s not confuse caching with buffering…I’m asking about caching. If you want to be precise, what a streamer really does is load the file into a buffer. It’s really a difference without a distinction, though. You’re getting a bit pe... | |
| Logical next step from Legacy Signature SEs? Around $15K... mihorn That is the character of your system. In my system, I am satisfied with YT SQ. Oh yes, many people are happy with Youtube sound quality, just as many are happy with Spotify, which like YT is lossy. My system is fairly resolving, so for ... | |
| Relationship between Ethernet Switch and SQ carlsbad2 ... This isn’t fast enough for streaming so error checking goes out the window, replaced by "error correction" meaning that if a bit is dropped, some value between the 2 adjoining bits is chosen (interpolation) ... So streamers, clocks... | |
| Logical next step from Legacy Signature SEs? Around $15K... mihorn YT sounds good enough to understand musicality. YT is lossy audio and whenever I’ve used it as a source in my main system it sounds like it. I think it’s useless as a comparative tool because there are just so many variables involved. I... | |
| 50 ways to leave your lover ellajeanelle You didn't have access to sheet music? It's amazing how many musicians can't read music notation. Paul McCartney! Go figure. | |
| Quality of Sirius XM Sirius/XM uses lossy compression and it will sound that way no matter how you listen. However, it's possible to get better sound from the stream than the satellites. I use an iPad to stream at home and use its digital out into a Bryston BDA-3. If... | |
| What is meant exactly by the description 'more musical'? atmasphere Music is processed in the amygdala. But if the brain detects something wrong ... then there is a tipping point where the processing is transferred to the cerebral cortex. That’s not consistent with the science I’ve seen. Work d... | |
| A great interconnect between Soulution 751 and 725 In my view, your best upgrade is to take advantage of your components' balanced design and connect them using balanced XLR cables. | |
| ARC amplifier with Conrad Johnson Preamp honeybadgertube I thought the same thing but I emailed to ARC and they said should be zero problem with that. Yes, you can make the two work together, but you won’t get the best results from either, imo. | |
| Do I Need a Dedicated Streamer? deep_333 Ad gibbergibberinum.... Baby talk? Is that the best argument you can offer? | |
| ARC amplifier with Conrad Johnson Preamp I think you'd get much better results by using the Ref 75SE with a balanced preamp, such as an ARC Ref 5 or Ref 6. The CJ is single-ended. | |
| Do I Need a Dedicated Streamer? deep_333 If he knew anything, he would know that a kickass audio optimized PC could be built for well under a 1000 bucks in 2023. Hence, he’s thoroughly convinced that as he goes up to 10k, 20k, 30k, etc, magic just descends on him, pours like t... | |
| When to choice XLR over RCA ICs. atmasphere ... The 6dB increase in volume only occurs if the balanced line standard is ignored ... Yes, you’ve pointed that out previously. That’s why I specifically mentioned Audio Research in my example, because that’s the equipment I us... | |
| When to choice XLR over RCA ICs. williewonka ... an extra 6db gain does not result in improved dynamics, clarity and details - it's just louder ... No, it's not just "louder." For the same output level, the differentially balanced connection (such as with ARC) will yield a 6 ... |