ejr1953
Responses from ejr1953
| 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... | |
| New or Old CD Player? Of all the things in audio that are improving at a fast rate now, it's probably the DACs. Your older CD players will have an older DAC chipset in them, so in my opinion, I'd go for "new" in finding a new CD player. | |
| Oppo Ceasing production Wow! Didn't see that one coming!I have a PS Audio memory player. I think they use an Oppo disk unit in that product. I wonder if their parts are used in lots of other name brand products? | |
| ESOTERIC K-07X VS Mcintosh MCD 550 Which is better ? I have a McIntosh preamp and power amp, love their equipment, but feel that "digital" is not their strong point.I have had a PS Audio DirectStream DAC since it was first on the market, and have paired it with their DirectStream memory player, inte... | |
| MQA and the "Pre Ring - Post Ring" Hoax Very interesting post and very interesting responses as well, thank you all for that.Lots of people who have posted here seem to have a LOT of knowledge about this technology. So, I'd like to ask, could the reason those people who like vinyl and ... | |
| Norah Jones - Tidal vs. Hi Res ? I'm not sure the dates or sampling rates from the spreadsheet I received are accurate, it seems that the dates are not. Sorry for that.I do have the "Come Away With Me" SACD and have compared that to the MQA version streamed from Tidal...and the ... | |
| Tube and SS pairs I used to have a McIntosh C50 solid state preamp paired with an MC452 solid state power amp.One of my buddies implored me to try a tube preamp, so I snagged a McIntosh C2500 and immediately noticed that vocals, acoustic guitars, pianos, violins, e... | |
| Norah Jones - Tidal vs. Hi Res ? Someone sent me a spreadsheet of the MQA titles available on Tidal, it's probably at least a month old, but has the Norah Jones albums on it. There are two "Not Too Late" entries on the spreadsheet, both added to Tidal on 10/3/17, both with relea... |