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| The Great DAC Mystery Remember the discussions about amplifiers and THD: the ones that sound better usually were the ones having not so good THD | |
| Streaming, Getting the Signal, Then What? If you have a PS Audio Airlens, you should not be worried about this switch or the other, a least this is what Paul McGowan says about the purpose ion this piece of equipment .... and I trust him. You can test if you get a better listening exper... | |
| Why SACD Disc playback sounds better than its equivalent ripped DSF file / streaming The worst place to store the music file to play is a external hard disk connected (and power supplied) via USB: it is very noisy (several times tested by myself and many, many times read in forums) The other point to consider is that USB connecti... | |
| Why do Wav and Flac Files Sound Different? @bolong I do not know for every case. What I have seen when I have bought music from Qobuz is that they provide an image that you can see in the FOLDER where the music is and when I have retagged every SONG FILE in order to add information importa... | |
| Why do Wav and Flac Files Sound Different? @aldnorab I do not know and it is not important regarding quality of the audio file. A "song" can be transcoded as many time as you want and no "musical" information is gonna be missed (remember we are in digital world and information means 1s an... | |
| Why do Wav and Flac Files Sound Different? @aldnorab You are opening another big and old discussion. On one side, when hard disk space was not such a a commodity as it is today, people tried to reduce the size of the music files as much as possible. That implies the use of algorithms to "... | |
| Why do Wav and Flac Files Sound Different? @bolong You can have the image "embedded" in each track as FLAC allows it, in fact you can put a different image in each track of a "disc". If you try any tagger (I use Tag Editor) you will see that and you can also delete the image for each track... | |
| Why do Wav and Flac Files Sound Different? I think that in order to get a productive discussion, could be good to have some mark of reference. The article goes back to 2016 and many things have changed since then. Can you tell us about your experiencia? Do you feel some difference when p... | |
| Back to the DAC +1 for TVAD (both comments) My experience: I have listened to a Lampizator Atlantic (my own) and Pacific side by side with a Mola-Mola Tambaqui and clearly preferred any of the Lampizator. In facto and generally speaking I have not heard other D... | |
| Does a particular musician’s songwriting and artistry speak to you above all others? Anton Bruckner / Franz Schubert / Carl Maria von Weber Carlo Maria Giulini / Sergiu Celibidache / Daniel Barenboim / Carlos Kleiber Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Christa Ludwig / Jacqueline du Pré / James Ehnes | |
| Antipodes from the Antipodes @cfarrow What is your opinion on the 432EVO? I am precisely considering those two brands to buy a streamer in the next months. | |
| Seeking Schumann 4th that is listenable I consider good renditions with good sound the following ones: - Barenboim, Staatskapelle Berlin (recorded 2021) - Thielemann, Staatskapelle Dresden (2018) - Sawallisch, Staatskapelle Dresden (1973, remastered 2015) - And of course Szell, Clev... | |
| Ripping CD's to SSD? What I use, after ripping CD's for several years, is XLD. I've never tried EAC because as far as I know there is no version for Mac. XLD is a nice and light program that provides you with "accurate ripping" and that you can also use to transcode ... | |
| Integrating speakers into contemporary decor - can WAF ever be overcome? Answering your main question: No, WAF can never be overcome. I am happily married 21 years now and since the moment I wanted to install a medium level audio system, I found the "problem" of the speakers. I bought not my preferred choice and I got... | |
| Ethernet switches the good and bad I feel that we are doing with streaming the same as we did some years ago: to add and add and add tweaks, small devices, big devices, LPS everywhere. I think that as happened with DACs this have to be solved and provided by the streamer manufact... |