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| Amazon music vs Qobuz @Robshaw I used this method until about a year and a half ago. I did find adding a separate dedicated streamer fed by ethernet via a switch and optical cable lowered the noise noticeably in my set up. I stream Qobuz via Mconnect, but have not fou... | |
| Amazon music vs Qobuz @Robshaw You said "I use a windows based computer to stream through my Meitner DAC hard wired via Ethernet cable." Can you explain in more detail? I assume the ethernet cable goes from your router to your dac which contains a streamer. Can... | |
| LTA microZOTL or Backert Labs Rhumba Extreme 1.3? You can do the two week trial with the Microzotl. I did and found it was not a good match with my power amp. | |
| Preamp with selectable outputs? I would call a pro audio store like Sweetwater and ask if they have a remote controlled out put switcher. | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @americanspirit I have a P30 which I use with a McIntosh MC402. It's very nice, especially with natural timbre. I hear the P30A won't be in the US until November or December. How does the M8sPre sound with the Mac? | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @americanspirit If you're still looking for a preamp, you might want to try a Hegel P20. I use it with the 005 and the McIntosh MC152. I found it was better than the McIntosh C47, more dynamic, detailed, and timbrely accurate. | |
| Schiit v Topping The Pre90 is beautifly transparent, but in my system rendered a portion of my music collection thin, harsh, and fatiguing. I will try a tube buffer, but that might reduce the transparency. We'll see. I am interested in enjoying my music collectio... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @sns " . . . Both [analytical and romantic approachess] made certain recordings intolerable, you know you've hit the mark when pleasurable listening sessions don't require a culling of recordings based on sound quality." Yes. This is my goa... | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @sns I agree it's possible. I just need more information to understand the details of how they achieved it. One question would be: how does does it handle mediocre, harsh, or thin recordings? Would the result still be musical or fatiguing? | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @yyzsantabarbara The Serene review seems impossibly contradictory. More transparent than the Benchmark, but yet more engaging and musical. I would need a lot more information in order to understand what exactly their reporting. | |
| Topping Pre90 Switching op amps? @rrboogie I look forward to hear your impressions of the Yaquin with the Pre90. I did notice that the s/n ratio is listed at greater than 75db for the Yaquin. It seems it may be too noisy for the super quiet Pre90. | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @melm Nice hypothetical. Were you a philosophy major? I was. | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @batvac2 You said: "These [quantitative] characteristics - to me - provide a broad sense of the fitness of the engineering and industrial design." I think what you are saying, if I can restate, is your method of evaluating the quality of a piece... | |
| Topping Pre90 Switching op amps? @rrboogie What model infrared repeater do you use? | |
| Musetec (LKS) MH-DA005 DAC @melm I agree. How good it would be if we could get back to the old Absolute Sound reviewing philosophy. Audiophile terms such as "layered", "seperation", etc. are less useful in the abstract. The baseline ideally should be a real musical event. |