gbmcleod
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| 2018 exactly what is ‘High End’ audio? High End, at one time, meant the components that came closest to mimicking the sound of live, UNAMPLIFIED, acoustic music heard in a defined space.The problem is, too many people on forums do not go to live, unamplified music events, so there’s no... | |
| Best used or new DAC under $3500 Without actually HEARING each of the three in a high-resolution system in a room whose acoustics we ourselves are familiar with, we are merely guessing which one is "better." I owned a Benchmark many years ago, but certainly not within the past 10... | |
| How good are Shunyata power cords?? I’ve had every generation of Shunyata power cords, as well as several of Nordost, several of MIT and ESP. I have several "systems" (meaning preamps, amps, speaker cables, speakers). I have 2 digital front ends, and 2 analogue front ends. The Shuny... | |
| Why does all new pop music sound the same? And there you go Kennovak-head.It seems not to have occurred to YOU that we, the "OLD" ones (yes, I’m closing in on 70) have heard 5 or 6 decades more music than you. So we heard Ella Fitzgerald, Ben Johnson, Muddy Waters, The Platters, Chubby Che... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil -- 21 bit? Incidentally, my Yggy has hit its 8th day. Last night, I walked OUT of the room, dissatisfied with Marianne Faithfull’s voice on Kurt Weill’s "Seven Deadly Sins." It sounded "fractionalized," as though some of the notes in her singing (particularl... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil -- 21 bit? What I’m saying is that, if turned in one direction, the dimensionality (and general sonics) sound "off," or, as others put it, "flattened," as though you folded an accordion in to its smallest size. If you turn the fuse the other way (whichever i... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil -- 21 bit? Ok, thanks dhal.George, I have yet to have a fuse blow ANY of my components, and I have every good one on the market. I use the exact fuse rating specified, so I’m unclear what others are doing wrong. As far as the Yggy, I have no desire, given th... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil or Bryston BDA-2 opinions to help me choose! Thanks, Bill. I used to wonder - before I became part of the "underground press - why people come to such different conclusions about equipment. Then I realized it was the materials of the walls. The Brits have mostly plaster-type rooms, I hear. A... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil -- 21 bit? Really?!? Schiit said it would void the warranty if someone used a different fuse???By the way, I’m one of those people who’s used "boutique brands" since 2011 (I know you meant no harm by your statement). And they do change the sound for the bett... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil or Bryston BDA-2 opinions to help me choose! Sorry, Bill, I have to disagree. I had a Genesis Digital Lens back in 1995, before that, a DAC whose name i forget, then Bryston, ARC of recent vintage, Oppo 105, and now Yggdrasil. I think the room acoustics can swamp the differences, but my room... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil or Bryston BDA-2 opinions to help me choose! Yes. The BDA-2 is great, but slightly "clinical-sounding). The Yggdrasil is akin to sitting 6th row center in Carnegie Hall (close up, so the imaging is quite good, and the stage is quite wide (I saw a review that said the Yggdrasil had a 'narrow ... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil -- 21 bit? Thanks, David. I just saw your response, but answered my own question earlier, right after I posed the question on here, by putting in an old ESP cord, circa 1995. I only wanted to change one thing at a time, or I’d have put the Shunyata Zitron Py... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil -- 21 bit? A question for Yggdrasil owners: do you still use the stock power cord provided with the unit or have you substituted another cord? | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil -- 21 bit? David, I agree. Anecdotally, last night, I had friend over who ONLY LISTENS to the Chicago Orchestra’s Scheherazade. ONLY. He replied, upon prompting, "I think it sounds pretty good." I said, "We’ll listen tomorrow morning and we went to sleep.We ... | |
| Musician vs. audiophile Czarivey, To answer your question of "name me one musician who likes Wilson speakers, Peter Poltun of the Vienna, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, violinist Wilfried Hedenborg and numerous others. Don't comment on things you know nothing about. Wils... |