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| To Raise or Not to Raise Heresy IV's It’s not an entirely uncommon practice for people to raise them. Trust your ears. | |
| dacs that I have had in my system - a listing @jjss49 decooney i did not... long long story with my efforts over the decades trying to find a high efficiency speaker i can truly live with long term ...but despite my efforts, i continue to strike out after so so many at bats... just too much ... | |
| dacs that I have had in my system - a listing One dac to mention for the $, value, and somewhat in the neutral-clarity camp is the new Schiit Bifrost 2/64, R2R chip (non-tube) with non-oversampling / MegaComboBurrito filter switch. Internally runs two Texas Instruments dac processors chips. ... | |
| Tuneful Cables by High-End Audio "@rlb61 I second the Audio Envy cables. They blew my Cardas GR out of the water." This could be helpful information to others - with a few more supporting details. Audio Envy is on Generation 10 of the Studio Prestige interconnect cable now... | |
| dacs that I have had in my system - a listing Yep! I think all the questions show interest and great admiration of someone truly having a passion for self-learning and validation in ones own system(s) versus taking anyone’s word for it. Just gotta love it. If you can do it, it’s the only way ... | |
| dacs that I have had in my system - a listing @jjss49 I had a similar type of question about the testing process used. It's helpful to learn about the additional cone driver speakers referenced. Thanks for sharing that information. Those are some really nice speakers to test with and compare... | |
| Tuneful Cables by High-End Audio Cardas: Having owned all versions of past Cardas "golden" series (various), and new version hybrid golden/clear series cables, I can share with you all of these sound different from one cable to the next within the Cardas lineup old or new versio... | |
| tube bias conundrum @mazian ..."And yes the amp biases fine with Gold Lion KT88 tubes and Tung Sol KT 120s." Okay so you’ve tried other brand KT88s and it works fine. Perhaps the is why all of us do our best to try and purchase from a reputable tube re-seller, ... | |
| DAC contest: Border Patrol Sei or Chord Qutest? @badgerdms ...But if you actually just let each unit go for about of week of listening and see which one actually lets you enjoy the music more, it’s the Border Patrol. ... The recently new BP SE-I dac model I have with the Jupiter Beeswax c... | |
| DAC contest: Border Patrol Sei or Chord Qutest? @badgerdms "For background, my other stand-alone DAC (in another system) is a Merason DAC1 and I auditioned DACS by Ideon, Matrox, Weiss & Bricasti before going ith the Merason." Nice. Some worthy dac comparison references there. A few c... | |
| dacs that I have had in my system - a listing That’s an amazing list of dacs @jjss49 holy cow! Thanks for sharing. Did you have something close to a control reference system you used to evaluate most of these or did you change speakers and amps too in parallel at times? The reason I ask is ... | |
| DAC contest: Border Patrol Sei or Chord Qutest? @lordrootman "...why do I have to listen to a guy he seems to have knowledge on everything post on here ?" You don't have to. And we all appreciate hands on experience, no argument there. There are responses that agitate each of us at times, no... | |
| DAC contest: Border Patrol Sei or Chord Qutest? @lordrootman "...we can simply takes their words for it". While this might occur for those less familiar, most of the more practiced folks here will ask a few mindful questions to try and help steer someone in a proper direction. A selected DA... | |
| Do I really Need a Digital to Digital Converter? @j_andrews I don’t think I would sell the BP though, hope that helps. Yes, Thanks, it does help. Reconfirms what I hear too, and a bit more - maybe. Also, totally related on a thread titled "Do I really Need a Digital to Digital Converter?" ... | |
| Do I really Need a Digital to Digital Converter? @j_andrews All that said, I sold both the Ares II and the Iris and now I’m just running coax Spdif into a Border Patrol dac from my streamer and I’m happy as a clam. If you could explain a bit more about what you hear and enjoy from the Bord... |