erik_squires
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| Why pay so much for super high end? @mb1audio I kind of had this discussion in a thread with Kal Rubenstein of Stereophile. To my ears the biggest benefit to multi-channel sound is the addition of the center channel. It fixes a problem of your head blocking certain frequencies. Have... | |
| Any News on MQA Lately? I take it back, I have a good analogy for the SR filters. The SR Filter on the Brooklyn is like wearing the wrong glasses. Everything sounds like it's in the wrong place and disconnected. That's just me though, make yourself happy! | |
| Any News on MQA Lately? Hi @bradf Why thank you kindly, good sir! Hi @ohlala Interesting. However, I’m afraid my experiences correlate exactly with Paul McGowan at PS Audio as well as most members of the SFAS who went to the local demo. Again, if we have to carefully loo... | |
| Audio with sound off It still sounds like a bad pot. :) Not all dirty pots can be cleaned successfully. | |
| Volume Increase of decrease as system improves Some of the speakers being touted as neutral today are a lot brighter than neutral, so you'll have a tendency to keep the volume lower. Or so I think. :) There's nothing wrong with tailoring a speaker to be played at lower volumes, in fact it can ... | |
| Now it's subs Hi Doug,I believe that 90% of the sound quality of a sub comes from the room acoustics, integration and auto-EQ features (if any). Before going with a sub, make sure your room acoustics are properly dealt with and add bass traps if needed. This wi... | |
| Question about DSD DACs Here is a link from dCS regarding DoPhttp://www.dcsltd.co.uk/support/what-is-dop-dsd-over-pcm/ | |
| Any News on MQA Lately? Well, I know the answer about sound quality already. :) If I have to look for an "improvement" with a microscope and tweezers it's not worth it to me. :) Remember Dolby A, B and C? That was worth paying money for. Differences were clear to anyone.... | |
| Question about DSD DACs There IS DSD over S/PDIF, commonly called DoP, but I dont' know who supports it. It is not a downgrade, as the data is still DSD, but it is bandwidth limited. If you want to play super DSD files (whatever the current term is) you'll need USB. Best... | |
| Is it worth upgrading my power conditioner to Shunyata? I would encourage you to try out a Furman unit with their active noise cancelling technology, LiFT. Before any of that, you should have your room acoustics sorted. :) A better investment. Best,Erik | |
| Question about DSD DACs I do all my DSD via USB. :) I have a dozen or less DSD albums and 10 of them are downloads. Best,Erik | |
| XLR to RCA interconnect. Does mixed connectors provide less noise compared RCA to RCA? There are possible changes either way, but not enough to spend a weekend trying to figure out which is which. :) Your ideal (though not often something you can hear) is XLR to XLR. One reason to go TO an XLR at the amp is when the XLR inputs have ... | |
| DEXA Neutrino ultra low jitter master clock? Also, the Dexa Neutron Star design is aging. There may be a number of modern oscillator upgrades which perform as well or better with less parts. I'm no expert, I've just poked around a little, but for the price I'd keep looking. Having said that,... | |
| DEXA Neutrino ultra low jitter master clock? I am pretty sure it would.... but man, that is an old transport now. Better to sell it to someone who wants to use it with it's matching DAC than to start upgrading it, IMHO. There must be a number of very good and reasonably priced transports to... | |
| Any News on MQA Lately? I’m sorry Tomcy, your mixing up a few things. MQA does in fact require the use the apodizing filter. What MQA adds is decoding of the high resolution data as well as their claims to time domain fixes. MQA attempts to compress 384k data (in a lossy... |