djones51
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| Can the digital "signal" be over-laundered, unlike money? Competently designed DACs with asynchronous USB will buffer the input and use their own clock so no matter how many of these devices precede the DAC they won't affect the analog out. | |
| Single Ended DAC vs Dual Differential XLR DAC Great choice, here's some info to help you decide which you need. Pagoda Top Dac | |
| Next best exponential DAC quality level? That’s like saying once amps reach a certain point there’s no difference. Once they do, there isn't. | |
| Next best exponential DAC quality level? I didn't say there's no difference in sound quality. I said once a DAC has reached a certain point they will basically sound the same. For instance a MHTD Pagoda injects enough distortion to have a sound signature. The problem with the DACs all so... | |
| Next best exponential DAC quality level? I’m always amazed how anyone can hear differences in DACS where even lousy ones will have a SINAD of -85db with background noise in most homes around 30db and the distortion from even great speakers can reach 1% . It’s a miracle on par with Stevie... | |
| a remarkably basic question about Roon You can access Roon outside your home network but you need to be able to have a VPN. Some routers will let you run one or something like OpenVPN. | |
| Next best exponential DAC quality level? Once they hit a certain SINAD all DACs do sound basically the same in they don’t contribute to the overall distortion of the system. If in doubt then do a few ABX tests. | |
| Next best exponential DAC quality level? I'd say you learned an important lesson about DACs, price doesn't = performance. You could spend 10x as much and still not hear differences unless the DAC has been purposely built to have a sound signature. | |
| Can the digital "signal" be over-laundered, unlike money? I doubt the devices mentioned here would over launder., consider how many times this signal has been through switches and routers, changed from copper to optical and back before it reaches your house. You can do anything you want with these contra... | |
| Lumin U1 Mini - how to set up Network *without* Ethernet cables? Your bridge or streamer affects SQ very little if at all it just needs to get the stream to the DAC. The Limetree should be fine or even a raspberry pi. I use the Lumin U1 mini as a Roon endpoint and it has AES3 out which I need I don't exect it t... | |
| How do you know when a stereo sounds good? Do you have a suite of measurements that removes all shadow of a doubt that you are getting good sound, sound that you enjoy? Yes. | |
| The Big Misconception About Electricity The video isn't relevant to lumped circuits, speakers wires, interconnects etc.. | |
| Matching streamer/DAC combination to SQ of my system. If you are comfortable streaming from your mac I wouldn't bother with charging it but you might change your DAC. What are you using now as some do a better job filtering from a computer. One I would recommend is the Benchmark DAC 3B if you don't n... | |
| The Big Misconception About Electricity However given human nature there are those who will tell you with conviction that they are immune to biases that affect all humans, they are special golden ear humans. | |
| The Big Misconception About Electricity Current doesn't flow in the fields it flows in the wire pushed by the fields. |