deep_333
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| How cheap can you go and still be happy with the sound? @deep_333 So sorry you can’t enjoy music in you car anymore. When I’m mowing the lawn, music through the earbuds does make the time go by. Or when I’m in my car, I still tap my toe and slap my thigh to the beat, but I definitely prefer listen... | |
| Warm relaxed digital coax A stock Forte 4 and AR i50 is not resolving enough to easily reveal differences in digital coaxes. But, you could try an Ansuz cable, which could sound a bit more detailed (after pulling teeth) and maybe offer a slightly different tonal balance i... | |
| How cheap can you go and still be happy with the sound? Don't get me too wrong, I can sometimes kind of enjoy listening to iphone when I have nothing better at the moment. Yes, this is audiophile forum and standards should be high enough. $10k is not much really. @inna ...This is more along the lin... | |
| How cheap can you go and still be happy with the sound? Let us presume that this is an enthusiast forum and a lot of us have some ’over the top’ gear. On the topic of speakers, my observation has been that one needs a huge room and has to be listening at rocketship level spls to truly "get their money... | |
| How cheap can you go and still be happy with the sound? Let’s not be ridiculous. Good sound has a cost and it should. I don’t think there is anything under $10k-$15k that would qualify. Assuming one source. @inna I totally understand that..., but, frankly or somehow, i either managed to lower my exp... | |
| Best upgrade path from Borresen X3s Dayglow......You will have to excuse our good member,,He owns the X3 Borresen speakers so take his comments with a grain of salt and lack of knowledge. Correction...I own a X6 and i also own many other speakers. I have also owned speakers that ... | |
| Digital Path to Complete my System After hearing a Visitors brought along recently released to the Market CDT > DAC in their own system, as well as the CDT > System owners DAC, has now as good as abandoned the Streaming Source as the main Source and replaced it with CD as th... | |
| Problem: DAC or streamer San Francisco east bay help - Install dac's driver on PC/laptop. Plug dac into PC with a USB cable.. - IF dac works with PC, the dac is good (which is most probably the case) - Try a factory reset on Innuos. If that doesn't work, return Innuos and get your money back....I... | |
| Digital Path to Complete my System I am a little bit into the weeds here... My digital knowledge/background is - how do you say ...less than zero. Speak to me as you "would a young child ...or a Golden Retriever". Digital path...ethernet - streamer - Dac/clock - to my preamp...is ... | |
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| Digital Path to Complete my System Would appreciate experienced feedback for those with a complete digital chain ( streamer, DAC, clock?, & cables/interconnects) - total package under $18K... Aavik S-180 streamer: $7200 Aavik D-180 DAC: $7200 Total = $ 14,400 Balance: $36... | |
| Best upgrade path from Borresen X3s Well, i suppose you could get yourself a pair of ....say Wilson Alexia Vs for about 70k. Set it next to your X3 and start comparing. Determine what beat out what after equalizing the caliber of electronics used for both speakers. Later on/an year... | |
| Is the idea of audiophile listening a dying concept as boomers die off? So the market for superior audio quality has declined in the face of enhanced reproduction coupled to degraded material. Declined, but not gone away. A couple decades ago, who would have thought that young people would start clamoring for vinyl p... | |
| The joys of mid-fi - Good and bad recordings sound better on hifi rigs than midfi rigs. One will need some peq, etc to salvage the poor recordings just a bit. These type of threads typically originate from guys who’ve deprived themselves of all necessary tools (whil... | |
| Denafrips Pontus *15th* ? The Terminator 15th is listed on the Denafrips site at $6,099.00 - a 24% increase. They should have given it a new name this time..the Penetrator dac, new and improved....Costs 24%more, but comes with more girth and length...the Penetrator...th... |