drmuso
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| Is low cost DAC worth it? I have a Bluesound NODE streamer and a Denafrips Are II DAC. Given your budget, I would suggest that a used NODE (which has a built-in DAC) would give you the most bang for the buck. Especially if your hearing or system isn't top-notch, you'll f... | |
| Immersive Audio and How to Achieve It kota1 ... A live performance "immerses" you and frees you up to move around the room, the dance floor and still be immersed ... Your statement reveals you have very limited experience with live music performances. You might be surprised to l... | |
| My recommended QoBuz playlist is Hi-Fi Audio Partners I was able to find this only as "Infigo AudioHigh end playlist." Nothing came up under "Hi-fi Audio Partners." Looks like there might be some good material on the playlist, although half of it is only "CD" quality. With my Node and Ares II DAC ... | |
| Any Thoughts? I had the thought that one way to distinguish an audiophile/high-end audio system from a mid-fi one is that when you're in another room and hear the audiophile system playing a good recording of an acoustic instrument or ensemble, it sounds like t... | |
| Denafrips FPGA Firmware Update I haven't heard a difference from the upgrade on my Ares II. Denafrips confirmed I did the upgrade successfully, and said it may take time to "burn in" (really? firmware? I find that hard to believe, although the fact that the DAC had to be po... | |
| Is soundstage DEPTH a myth? @hypoman Your comments are among the most relevant to the issue. Many pop/rock recordings, and other studio recordings, don't have genuine depth. Well-recorded orchestral recordings are perhaps the best for hearing depth, partly because there ... | |
| Learned something new today and it isn't good. I have an old tube DAC that has de-emphasis circuitry and an indicator light when a CD has pre-emphasis. Only a few classical CDs in my collection made this indicator light go on; maybe I don't listen to those anymore, but I haven't been troubled... | |
| Audiophile sound quality from a more "mainstream" company? I had a JVC FX-1100 AM/FM tuner which performed well until it started having reliability problems. It was a well-designed unit with lots of bells and whistles and jacks for two antennae, which would be useful for those trying to pick up stations ... | |
| David Crosby R.I.P. As a harmony singer and composer I think he held his own with his bandmates, and IICORMN has remained one of my favorite albums since its release (and it has long been included in TAS's recommended LPs, for good reason--Croz noted that the enginee... | |
| Is there anything better than live recordings? @gosta Thanks for suggesting Live at Hull--I didn't even know about this recording! I've been streaming it and enjoying it. Without comparing them directly, from my memory the guitar and drums sound better than Leeds; I think the vocals are mix... | |
| Is there anything better than live recordings? For me, many of the classic rock bands made better studio albums than their live performances--Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Derek and the Dominos, Frank Zappa. This is particularly true with those artists who really used the studio ... | |
| RIP Jeff Beck Beck was one of the main influences on my electric-guitar playing. I was very impressed with the Truth album, and later discovered his Yardbirds work and followed his career from then on. Got to see him live 4 times, from the early '70s into the... | |
| Cables from amp to preamp or longer speaker cables… I ran a pair of 7.5 meter, unbalanced interconnects from preamp to amps, with very short speaker cables, for years with no problems. Recently, I replaced my 30-year-old interconnects with Morrow Audio cables, which are unshielded. This caused so... | |
| Cambridge CXN V2 or Innuos Pulse Mini? A correction to my last post. The video from Vinshine Audio is about an LPS upgrade that apparently is made neither by them/Denafrips or by Bluesound. | |
| Cambridge CXN V2 or Innuos Pulse Mini? @macg19 I’m not familiar with the components you have, so I can’t really judge if the Node is actually the weakest link. But some Audiogoners and pro reviewers have compared the Node’s performance to much pricier streamers (the TAS review of the... |