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| Grimm MU1 Streamer - Really "The Best"? @malibu457 I’m envious that you have access to wonderful live music and I’m further impressed by the effort you must make to do so. Kudos to you! Seriously, if you are happy and content with your sound then you are doing it right. If you are c... | |
| Grimm MU1 Streamer - Really "The Best"? @lalitk I hold out hope that if we are patient with one another and just share what has worked for us, the curious will see for themselves….or not. Either way, posts like I just shared with @malibu457 might be applicable to him/her/they or it mi... | |
| Gary Rossington RIP Survive a plane crash and every day thereafter is a gift. RIP | |
| Grimm MU1 Streamer - Really "The Best"? @malibu457 what do you get specifically for the extra $9500? and can a streamed file compete with say a hi-res download from Presto music? Hi Malibu. Let me begin by saying I am not familiar with presto music. My own, likely flawed, methodolo... | |
| Grimm MU1 Streamer - Really "The Best"? @malibu457 but for those still able to hear….there are levels of magnitude more performance available. If you are saying I shouldnt spend more money on an Aurender, Taiko or Grimm because you can’t hear the difference….I guess I would have to di... | |
| Ray Charles - "Rap is not music" I LOVE Ray Charles…well, some of his music except for the shameless, over orchestrated covers but hey, he had to make a living. I don’t take financial advice from Ray Charles. I don’t take marital advice from Ray Charles. I don’t take advice fr... | |
| Grimm MU1 Streamer - Really "The Best"? @nyev A couple of observations and a little cajoling to follow. First of all, the Merason DAC1 can be end game for some but based on this thread, it was likely to never be more than an external dac proof of concept in your system. You needed... | |
| How much does a DAC do the more expensive it is? @kairosman +1 I must also admit that our biases, both positive and negative biases, play a role. For instance, the fact that ASR shills for Topping negatively affects my impression of their products in much the same way if your ex-wife likes s... | |
| Grimm MU1 Streamer - Really "The Best"? @nyev Greetings. I wouldn’t listen too critically to the Merason until you get proper interconnects. Output from the balanced Merason outputs doubles up to 3v. The 1.5v output from the rca outputs combined with your “classic” Audioquest intercon... | |
| Whole reference system was stolen, need budget friendly integrated. Help Please! You must “schedule” or list higher value items above a certain amount. They then charge additional premium for the specific bumps in coverage. Each company and their respective amount limits are different. | |
| Grimm MU1 Streamer - Really "The Best"? @nyev It states AES input at 24/96 on the website. I moved on some time ago and my current dac (Totaldac) is NOS 24/192 on that input, which aligns perfectly with the max of the Grimm. I was all in on DSD, never on MQA. A respected mastering eng... | |
| Grimm MU1 Streamer - Really "The Best"? @nyev Frankly speaking, I hope your jaw drops when you hear your Gryphon dac. It would be really cool if there is a unique synergy between a server/streamer and your Diablo/Diablo dac. That was your original goal and to most of us, it is irrelev... | |
| How much does a DAC do the more expensive it is? @bruce19 He may have been describing the lower cost of ownership due to the purchaser NOT swapping in and out of gear. In other words, you don’t lose money if you don’t sell it. I wish I had never heard better dacs. I’ve spent a ton on the ... | |
| Grimm MU1 Streamer - Really "The Best"? @nyev The Merason is 24/96 at the AES input. When I owned it I had an Innuos Zenith and fed it via USB. Since I never enabled Roon to upsample so I only fed it native resolutions. Regarding how it sounds with the Grimm MU1 at 2fs only, it will sti... | |
| Grimm MU1 Streamer - Really "The Best"? @nyev I presently have a Shunyata Sigma v2 AES/EBU cable. I also have in house a Network Acoustics Muon AES/EBU cable to compare. I can’t reliably tell them apart in A to B and B to A testing. What does that mean for your application? Maybe nothin... |