erik_squires
Responses from erik_squires
| Opinions on Parasound A21 & A21+ I really like the Arcam sound, @larry5729 I think you did fine. Erik | |
| Digital, Low Mass, ClassD, Less expensive, Let it happen! What’s HEA?@geoffkait,High End Audio | |
| Devialet Expert 220 Pro Power Cable - 220v vs 120v not same power output!? Hey,Make sure your amp is designed to auto-sense incoming voltage. It's quite possible it is set for 220V internally and there's a jumper you must adjust. Best,E | |
| Digital, Low Mass, ClassD, Less expensive, Let it happen! Also the sky is falling, the aliens are coming and the world is ending soon so now is the time to repent! Trust ClearThink to misrepresent an entire thread. No one is saying this either. I think what we are saying is that we've been in a bubble, ... | |
| Digital, Low Mass, ClassD, Less expensive, Let it happen! Trust me though when I say HEA is in free fall. I believe you. I just got off the phone with a secret source who makes speakers, and his sources are saying the same thing. I’m just wondering how specific a number you are getting from Parts Expres... | |
| Opinions on Parasound A21 & A21+ It sounds like you already know the sonic characteristics. I hope by now you have listened to them.They are a great value, and very good sounding. I like them better than a lot of Pass amps. Of course, Audiogon is Pass country, but that's my opini... | |
| MQA is Legit! And let's not forget MQA's biggest fail: It is a pretty lossy compression scheme. https://benchmarkmedia.com/blogs/application_notes/163302855-is-mqa-doaJust thought you should all know when I write stuff I usually have the receipts to back it. :-... | |
| Value of upgrading only 1 set of interconnects? Don't be silly. If that were true, the Internet wouldn't work. The internet works because the losses in the cables are manageable. Nowhere in any computer network does a cable add. No one measures cable amplification. They measure signal loss. B... | |
| SimAudio*Hegel*Mcintosh*Ayre*Others*How Good Is Today's SS??? This question as posed is kind of set up to fail. If you love the sound of tubes, then that's' what you should listen to. If you declare a particular characteristic about tubes to be ideal, then nothing that isn't tubes is going to satisfy you. It... | |
| No IP over WireWorld Platinum Starlight Cat8 Ethernet is very straight forward, either it works or it does not. Quite possibly you have a bad run. | |
| Seeking a Dac to bypass my computer DAC OOps, sorry, I guess the latest Fiio is the K3, not the Q1https://amzn.to/2CKtGuq | |
| Seeking a Dac to bypass my computer DAC One of the current darlings of the headphone / PC crowd is the Topping DX3. Since I plan to use it with headphones, I really appreciate the external power supply it uses, and it's ability to drive just about any headphone or IEM: https://amzn.to/2... | |
| Proper DAC Upgrade for my modest system. Used Mytek Brooklyn? | |
| Trouble with 20-bit HDCD Did you actually DECODE the HDCD or just take the 16 bits to 24? I wrote a Perl script to scan all my FLAC files for evidence of HDCD encoding, and those that appeared to be encoded I decoded using open source tools. All this was on a Linux/Ubunt... | |
| Do I have to use a streamer/renderer to play music from an NAS? Why do you advise against *lossless* formats like FLAC/ALAC? There are a couple of claims made, without evidence. 1 - The decompression time, which is variable, can cause audible effects. 2 - The extra CPU time involved in decompression adds noise... |