ejr1953
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| PS Audio DirectStream DAC or Aqua Formula xHD I am not familiar with the Aqua DAC, but have enjoyed my PS Audio DirectStream DAC, purchasing mine just after it was released.One thing I very much enjoy about the DAC is that, because it's designed around an FPGA and not an "off the shelf" DAC c... | |
| Is this MQA news a big deal? Craigl59,I find that my SACDs typically play a little "quieter" than "regular" CDs, though I usually don't have the same music on both formats (only when I have previously purchased an SACD and get one of the multi-CD boxed sets).I presume it's th... | |
| Am i missing something without a power conditioner? My system has all digital source components (stream Tidal on a Windows10 Pro machine, music server and CD/SACD transport) and external DACs. When I upgraded from a Furman power conditioner to a PS Audio P10 power regenerator (which removes most o... | |
| Is this MQA news a big deal? OK, put those rotten tomatoes down........When I first heard MQA streaming on Tidal, I was smitten, so smitten that I purchased a Mytek Brooklyn DAC just for MQA (I also have a PS Audio DirectStream DAC).I find that many of the MQA remasters to me... | |
| Does anyone leave their amp and preamp on all the time? I do not leave my equipment on, as my amp and preamp shut themselves down after so many minutes of idle time and with a power unit, DAC and transport, consumes quite a bit of electricity.It does take 10-15 minutes of play time for my equipment to ... | |
| Nuraphones? Yes, I was one of their Kickstarter startup investors.I am not a big headphone user, but for my main system have a pair of Sennheiser HD800's, about four times the cost of the Nuraphones, but was interested in supporting their work to tailor the r... | |
| Amplifier for my new Focal Sopra no2 I was lucky enough to get a pair from one of the first shipments of Sopra No2's to the U.S., now enjoying them for over 2 1/2 years.I drive them with a McIntosh tube preamp and McIntosh MC452 power amp. I have them in a 24x26' room and when I'm r... | |
| Holo Audio Spring Dac, At last a Stereophile review and tests One thing I think is important for a quality DAC is the quality of the AC power it runs off of. People who know much more about digital audio than I do frequently talk about having an excellent quality power supply and how that effects the perfor... | |
| What are the best entry level integrated amps and speakers? +NAD and PSB | |
| Roon on laptop to dac to preamp ? Yes, that should work, as I have a similar setup.In my case I have the Roon "core" running on a high-end Dell, USB to a Mytek Brooklyn and PS Audio DirectStream DAC (two "zones" in Roon), controlled by my Android phone...and iPad. Works great!I k... | |
| Moving from Analog to Digital Over the years I've owned several systems anchored by NAD electronics. The last NAD equipment was their "Masters Series" components. Though I loved the sound of their equipment, most of the pieces I've owned needed to be repaired.I always lusted... | |
| Thoughts on the most difficult instruments for speakers to reproduce? I would chose voices and acoustic instruments, especially piano, violin and trumpets.Back eons ago I was a rock and roll drummer and with some (but not all) well-recorded ride cymbals, you can "hear" the ping of the stick against the brass and "fe... | |
| Y No YG ? I attended last Fall's Capital Audiofest and visited a room with what I think was the Carmel 2 smaller floor standing YG Acoustics models.So many of the demos at that show featured systems that (IMO) were playing too loud and (IMO) sounded "grainy... | |
| PS Audio Direct Stream Memory Player Recently I checked the forums on the PS Audio website and find that the guy who wrote the code for the DirectStream memory player left, and as they were working to fix bugs in the code, found it to be such "spaghetti" that they are (apparently) re... | |
| PS Audio Direct Stream Memory Player I had been using the cable supplied with the transport to connect the DirectStream memory player with the DirectStream DAC with a Wireworld Silver Starlight HDMI cable, and to my pleasant surprise, it improved the sound quality a bit. The sound s... |