devinplombier
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| Hello Audiogon... At the end of it, there’s no substitute to figuring out the sound that you like [...] and then enjoy the music. Yes, absolutely. @thesummit You seem to be unusually frank, so hopefully you won’t mind me being so myself. Your original post i... | |
| Impressions of the 5 types of slugs / sluggos I've experienced However, installing these slugs in place of the stock fuses has made a very significant difference, to the point where I consider them ESSENTIAL. The improvement in sound is easily on the order of magnitude of a next-level component upgrade. ... | |
| Impressions of the 5 types of slugs / sluggos I've experienced Tweakers traffic in and rely on ignorance to peddle their ineffectual amulets. Folks - start at learning how a regulated linear power supply works. But let’s back up for a second. You are inserting expensive fuses made of exotic metals into 10-ce... | |
| DAC experiences? @mahgister is this the French DAC you're talking about? http://audio.starting-point-systems.com/ | |
| The verdict - Burmester 232 is worth MUCH MUCH MUCH more than its price!!! Part of me feels kind of bad actually, because despite his obvious interpersonal challenges @madhusudan_ramaswamy is exactly the kind of guy folks here keep whining we need more of: A young guy, enthusiastic about hifi, drops fifty large at the dr... | |
| Best selling albums of all time I still regularly listen to Abbey Road. I have a copy of Dark side of the moon somewhere but I never listen to it, or to any Pink Floyd for that matter. I feel like their music hasn't aged well. I do re-watch The Wall (the movie) every one in a w... | |
| How can different CAT5/6 cables affect sound. I am planning to build a setup that upsamples all inputs to DSD512 in real time and feeds the signal to a simple DSD-only DAC. I can’t speak to the sonic benefits, if any; it’s just an experiment I am wanting to try. | |
| Single driver full range speakers @ronboco Thanks! They sound fantastic, too. I originally bought them to tide me over while I mulled over "real" speakers, but little by little I feel in love with them and now I’m hooked. At this point I feel no pressing need to "upgrade", and ... | |
| Single driver full range speakers @ronboco Infinity RS-II. Technically they're 3.5.5-way, not 4-way. | |
| Single driver full range speakers @ronboco I'm not sure I would say "zero chance", because a) folks who exclusively listen to acoustic music at sensible volumes may be well served by single-drivers, and b) as @arafiq says, some single-drivers are said to outperform 3-way speakers.... | |
| $500 used power cord for Lumin power supply Save $450 for something that really matters to the sound like power conditioning. Or better yet, two of these! | |
| How can different CAT5/6 cables affect sound. @audphile1 S/PDIF can carry DSD when reencoded as DoP, as you pointed out. However it can only support DSD64, which is carried within a 24/176.4kHz PCM signal, essentially equivalent to 4 times Redbook (since DSD64 is 1-bit resolution at 2.8 MHz... | |
| How can different CAT5/6 cables affect sound. @audphile1 Thank you for pointing out that S/PDIF still works to connect legacy CD transports and many streamers, though it won’t work with SACD transports or for upsampling files beyond 24/192 or DSD with software like HQPlayer. | |
| How can different CAT5/6 cables affect sound. Toslink in my experience is inferior to spdif or USB @audphile1 TOSLink and USB are connection systems, whereas S/PDIF Is a communications protocol. S/PDIF was developed in the early 80s, specifically to support the then-new CD format. It wa... | |
| How can different CAT5/6 cables affect sound. Stereophile_AudioGlossary.pdf This should be a sticky here on the Audiogon forum! @unsound yes indeed it should! Thank you for the link, I hadn’t looked at it in I don’t know how long. Funny, this entry: Tweak: 1) To fine-tune a system or c... |