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| Streaming through upconverting DAC - can I even improve audio quality? Well, while I put this project on hold for a while I revisited it when reading about the new Luxman D-07x SACD player. It is similar to the Marantz SA-10 in respect to promoting use of its DAC separately for streaming. Even the "instructions" ab... | |
| Are all streamers the same? The only thing that sounds the same in the audiophile world is the sound of a tree falling in the forest when there's no one there to hear it. | |
| Heavy difficult to move speakers- how do you deal? Try threaded stem mount leveling casters from Footmaster. These will let you roll the speakers around on casters then drop them down on rubber pads built into the caster foot and level your speakers at the same time. What you have to do is match u... | |
| Looking for a CD / SACD player. Also, tell me about Esoteric Not to forget the Marantz SA-10 SACD is an upsampling player and DAC that can be used via coax. The circuitry is unique and does not use an off the shelf chip. The circuitry is so unique it is hard to compare but a did a very deep internet dive ... | |
| Easy Come Easy Go…….BOOM! It's more likely that a home will experience different lengths of electrical spikes from transient to brownouts, etc. or a close lightning strike that goes through the ground and gets into the home than a direct hit. So the most you can do is lay... | |
| Easy Come Easy Go…….BOOM! Always unplug electronics when there's an electrical storm or when you travel. | |
| Anthony (Tony) Cordesman has passed away I thought the article was a joke until the last paragraphs. I remember reading his op-ed's in the newspapers and his name from AS. Trying to evaluate and figure out audio products and world politics surely share the difficulty of simultaneously ... | |
| Speakers - Your "Safest" Choice Just because you have $20k to spend on speakers doesn't mean you should or that any speaker represents value. Yamaha NS-5000 speakers were introduced in 2016 for $15k. They took a while to get to the USA, but are still $15k. That's $19,200 in t... | |
| A little gift for my fellow audiophiles Very well recorded; can't believe I'm just streaming from my Mac laptop and your link. I heard an Usher speaker in about 2008 and was impressed. They have a distributor in the USA and I looked through the Usher website. Clearly a value line. I... | |
| Why "bookshelf" sspeakers? Yamaha describes my NS-5000 speakers as bookshelf speakers although with 12" woofers and their size and weight they are of course floorstanders. I think Yamaha, and others, are just describing a traditional style of speaker, mostly 3-way, that ar... | |
| Streaming through upconverting DAC - can I even improve audio quality? My thoughts exactly. Thanks. | |
| Streaming through upconverting DAC - can I even improve audio quality? Yes, I can use my Macbook Air and did. I wanted to hardwire ethernet but use the computer from across the room so I purchased a 25 or 30 ft. usb a to usb b cable with an inline booster. There was also the need for a uab c to usb a connector sinc... | |
| Streaming through upconverting DAC - can I even improve audio quality? The Marantz SA-10 has two USB inputs but they cannot be used for streaming and both are synchronus. One is a USB -A used strictly for stored music and the other is USB-B which is dedicated to iPod input, and older versions at that. The SA-10 is ... | |
| Streaming through upconverting DAC - can I even improve audio quality? Yes, I'm understanding it now and have been researching. I will do some more listening to the same music I know well on CD, SACD,and streaming via Spotify and Quobuz. Thanks, everyone. | |
| Streaming through upconverting DAC - can I even improve audio quality? The 44.1 redbook quality I am referring to is the sampling frequency of the linear PCM signal input to the Marantz DAC. That's what the Marantz manual says. What I'm hearing sounds as good as CD but of course the Marantz is upsampling. Maybe th... |