ddude003
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| Those with DACs, how do you view and select your music? If you like your Oppo DAC you can keep your Oppo DAC... Of course there is always something better... | |
| Liking MQA What part of Lossy don’t you understand??? MQA is Lossy!!! Meaning there is Small Signal Corruption with MQA... Master Quality Authenticated (MQA) is an audio codec using Lossy compression and a form of file fingerprinting, intended for "high fide... | |
| Best DAC for my system? Seems you have about 7.5k to 8k invested in your system so far... You owe it to your self to upgrade your source, streamer/dac... 2k to 2.5k seems about the right balance with your current kit... Benchmark and Chord are good suggestions... You mig... | |
| It isn't the bits, it's the hardware There's Life Above 20 Kilohertz... -ducks and runs away- | |
| does MacBook Pro need a DAC? Depending on your "receiver", you may do better with USB, HDMI or even ethernet/wifi from your MacBook Pro to your "receiver"... I have used all three from my MacBook Pro to my Yamaha AVR, which in my opinion, sounds much better than analogue head... | |
| Hunting Unicorns I agree and having access to streamers thru a web interface is not a bad idea... Have a look at the Lumen U1 or U1 mini... An iPhone, iPad or Android app is needed or Roon... I kind of like my U1 mini... | |
| Any difference in SQ from USB drive storage to NAS playback? Lol read https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/audioquest-jitterbug-usb-filter-review.10... take on the Jitterbug... | |
| To simplify or go old school... Looking at the new Benchmark Dac 3 My guess is that you will miss that tubed sugar... I would keep the tubed preamp and add the Benchmark DAC 3... What did you re-tube your LS8 pre with given your ML Prodigys? I put CIFTEs in my Prima Luna pre and damn my ML ESLs sing...You could ... | |
| Higher End DACs Nice kit so far... You probably owe it to yourself to hear a Chord Dave and the Hugo M scaler... And have a look at the Lumin U1 or U1 Mini as a streamer... | |
| I finally realized wires do matter a LOT. Go ask Maxwell, Tesla and Faraday... | |
| The Modern DAC killed High Resolution Music - has Stereophile proven it? Three things come to mind... First, many DACs do upscaling/upsampling internally... Second, often the provenance of a music file is unknown... Is it just upsampled Redbook or a Studio Master that was really recorded at a higher resolution... La... | |
| Moving up from a Node 2i Noise ingress and egress and jitter are issues with transports/streamers...Amir does an excellent job of covering jitter...https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/digital-audio-jitter-fundamentals.1922/#p | |
| Would this room treatment be worthwhile? @audiozenology is correct... Any diffusion or absorption is better than nothing... I would look at putting a 2 inch thick wideband absorber over the surface of the plasma TV and some diffusion above and to the sides if there is room... I use a GIK... | |
| Streamer and DAC for Mcintosh MC462 and C22 I would look at:Chord DaveMScalerLumin U1 or U1 MiniGood luck in your choices... | |
| Tidal problems Reread what @steakster said... The short version is, MQA _breaks_ small signal quality... |